First impressions of Neo1973

[Sean Moss-Pultz]

On May 25, 2007, at 9:01 PM, openmoko at mauve.plus.com wrote:

>> 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.

Let me also add that the reason the hardware is getting better faster  
now is because the coreteam is working on the hardware. At the  
expense, of the software ;-)

Once we get this hardware shipping we can finally all concentrate  
more time again on software.

-Sean