First impressions of Neo1973

[openmoko at mauve.plus.com]

> On Friday 25 May 2007 13:37, Sven Neuhaus wrote:
>> The software seems a lot worse than the hardware at the moment. Every
>> reaction to user input is slow. The GUI is quite pretty but the speed is
>> worrysome. What CPU is going to be in the upcoming faster version?
>
> I would not be surprised to hear the emphasis is on the hardware, as
> sofware
> can be field-upgraded and customized, the hardware cannot. Perhaps not the
> best example, but a similar thing happened/is happening to the GP2X linux
> mobile gaming console, the hardware differences among production runs were
> not that much different, software OTOH improved quite a bit compared to
> the
> not really impressive first releases. As I said, not really surprising in

There is a small core team at the moment that's working on the 'vital'
phone applications.
The problems with speed are not inherent - simply that very little work
has gone in to optimising the existing software, most work is going into
adding essential features, and moving on to new broken bits as soon as it
works, even though it may not be as fast as would be liked.