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I really welcome the 'back to basics' focus by OM.
However, I'd echo what other people have said - for me, the 'basics', are
ensuring that the phone works as a phone. My FR is sitting in my backpack,
with my SIM in another phone - I missed several calls and wasn't able to
make calls on several occasions because the FR got into a strange state and
refused to make or answer calls. I missed other calls because the phone
was suspended and didn't wake up quickly enough for me to answer the call
before it went to voice mail. Then I stopped suspending the phone, and
missed calls because my battery had died.
I would *love* to go back to using my FR as my phone - but I can't do it
until I'm confident that I'm not going to miss calls, and that I'll be able
to make calls when I need to.
For me, there are 2 'basics' that need to be met before addressing any other
issues:
1: rock solid phone performance - making / receiving calls
2: enough battery life that I can make it through a working day without
having to plug in the FR - this can be either through increasing the battery
life, or by fixing suspend mode so that it's reliable and doesn't break #1.
Until I'm convinced those items are addressed, my $400 FR is going to remain
turned off in my backpack, and my friends who bought iPhones will continue
to laugh at me for 'wasting' my money on such a 'phone'. *please* give me
some ammunition to use against them!
Warren
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:47 AM, John Lee <john_lee@openmoko.com> wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">I really welcome the 'back to basics' focus by OM. <br><br>However, I'd echo what other people have said - for me, the 'basics', are ensuring that the phone works as a phone. My FR is sitting in my backpack, with my SIM in another phone - I missed several calls and wasn't able to make calls on several occasions because the FR got into a strange state and refused to make or answer calls. I missed other calls because the phone was suspended and didn't wake up quickly enough for me to answer the call before it went to voice mail. Then I stopped suspending the phone, and missed calls because my battery had died.<br>
<br>I would *love* to go back to using my FR as my phone - but I can't do it until I'm confident that I'm not going to miss calls, and that I'll be able to make calls when I need to.<br><br>For me, there are 2 'basics' that need to be met before addressing any other issues:<br>
<br>1: rock solid phone performance - making / receiving calls<br>2: enough battery life that I can make it through a working day without having to plug in the FR - this can be either through increasing the battery life, or by fixing suspend mode so that it's reliable and doesn't break #1.<br>
<br>Until I'm convinced those items are addressed, my $400 FR is going to remain turned off in my backpack, and my friends who bought iPhones will continue to laugh at me for 'wasting' my money on such a 'phone'. *please* give me some ammunition to use against them!<br>
<br>Warren<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:47 AM, John Lee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john_lee@openmoko.com">john_lee@openmoko.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;">
Hi,<br>
<br>
Like Wolfgang said in<br>
<a href="http://n2.nabble.com/Weekly-Engineering-News-41-2008-td1336450.html" target="_blank">http://n2.nabble.com/Weekly-Engineering-News-41-2008-td1336450.html</a><br>
<br>
We assembled a team to focus on improving the user experience. Here<br>
is our todo list at the moment:<br>
<br>
* Reduce boot time.<br>
<br>
* Optimize the touch screen driver on freerunner for finger usage.<br>
<br>
* A generic python loader to enhance the start up time of python<br>
scripts.<br>
<br>
* Work with system team to improve suspend/resume user experience.<br>
<br>
<br>
I would like to ask the community:<br>
<br>
What do you want us to work on?<br>
<br>
<br>
The idea is<br>
<br>
* We improve the current stack, not creating new features.<br>
<br>
* Prefer stuffs which could be brought over to gta03 instead of<br>
gta02/om2008 specific.<br>
<br>
* won't work on om2007 stack.<br>
<br>
<br>
So, tell us what you want, then the coding monkeys will start working!<br>
:)<br>
<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
John<br>
<br>
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