Did a 3000+km roadtrip a while ago;<br>navigated with FR to my destination (navit)<br>searched for lakes or woods nearby to camp in (tangogps)<br>checked out the constellations (orrery)<br>converted different currencies (mokoconv)<br>
listened to music in the car by connecting the FR to the car-radio (intone and canola)<br>charged the car by usb in the car<br>captured thousands of cell ID's with openBmap logger<br>used the FR as a flashlight (orrery)<br>
played a game (acceleroids, mokomaze)<br>used the calculator (pCalc I think)<br>sent sms'es<br>made calls<br><br><br>not everything works as it should, but some things do :)<br>y<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Timo Jyrinki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:timo.jyrinki@gmail.com">timo.jyrinki@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Because July is so boring month, joining the latest complains thread.<br>
Btw, I just came back from a week's trip where FreeRunner was<br>
absolutely a gem to have. GPS was trustworthy, I was able to backup<br>
photos from camera to Neo via USB host mode (and onwards to USB stick<br>
or over WLAN/SSH to home computer 1000km away). While using GPS I<br>
played back music from Neo via rented car's AUX input, and charged Neo<br>
as needed with a car USB charger. Oh, and used Neo as a phone as well<br>
(the obligatory postscriptum).<br>
<br>
2009/7/14 Joerg Lippmann <<a href="mailto:jl_lists@donalbain.de">jl_lists@donalbain.de</a>>:<br>
> When will that be? When the device is completely obsolete?<br>
<br>
When it's ready, and capable developers willing to spend time found.<br>
Anyone with time and skills can try the latest dev branches of<br>
DRI-aware driver, kernel drm driver etc. and start testing or<br>
developing.<br>
<br>
As for obsolete, I don't currently see any competing product on the<br>
market, and I expect it will be at least two years we have something<br>
comparable from some other vendor. And even still, I expect to be<br>
using FreeRunner if it works for me as well as it does now.<br>
<br>
> as a proper phone (speaker still WAY to low, too unstable, too<br>
> slow, too battery-hungry) nor as a PDA (no usable software available).<br>
<br>
Cannot reproduce those, but sorry for you. It all depends on software,<br>
which as it happens is completely replaceable.<br>
<br>
> without good software. I cannot help it. I haven't found a single distro that<br>
> works well out of the box. The best ones so far were QTopia/QTe and Android.<br>
<br>
I use Debian myself, but I find the latest Om2009 snapshot I use as a<br>
backup dual-boot option to function pretty cool for GSM, GPS, GPRS and<br>
WLAN usage although at least I still needed to tweak two settings<br>
(speaker volume and mono playback volume) in gsmhandset.state.<br>
<br>
-Timo<br>
<br>
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