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With my Freerunner, I am able to control a telescope 5000 miles away, and analyse the data, while I sit in a pizza parlor. It's the high resolution display and the X11 server that lets me do this. There's no way I could do it with my Android G1 phone. Ken Young _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Ken, this is ... this is.... only a word comes to my mind, beautiful. there will be awesome to haves some pictures, screenshots, and if -- David Reyes Samblas Martinez http://www.tuxbrain.com Open ultraportable & embedded solutions Openmoko, Openpandora, Arduino Hey, watch out!!! There's a linux in your pocket!!! _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Second that! We really need a gallery of cool applications! Since a picture is worth a thousand words, if we'd like to show the world there really is something to all this we don't need lists and lists of applications, we need a gallery. David (currently astroparticle physics PhD student, looking for some time to implement a nice cool app for monitoring our experiment on my N800 and FR) _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
i know this isn't really impressive, but i use mine as a phone. every
day. it's been my main phone since i got it last august, and while it's
not been trouble-free, fully-updated OM2009t5 is perfectly usable for me.
however, my great moments have all come from having this device that can
do lots of *other* things. gprs+tango to make some emergency navigation
decisions out in the cambridgeshire fens; various web browsers when i was
out and about and desperately needed to check some random fact; using the
thing as an ssh client, to access a remote server to run whois when i
needed to check domain name availability there and then; impressing my
11-year-old niece, who has high standards for device coolness, by running
mokomaze - even though the phone doesn't come in pink or mirror-finish.
i wouldn't have carried devices around to do any of these things, but with
the moko, i get them all thrown in for free. and the sense of community
at mokomeets has been pretty good fun, as well.
--
Tom Yates - http://www.teaparty.net
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Hi just an hour ago, I had to leave the building while a webserver that I was working on had a load of 20% and rising. While walking to the train, I enabled GPRS, started a terminal and logged back in. .. and the load went down. Well, it wasn't the FR bringing the load down. But I could sit in the train in peace. $2c, *-pike PS. GPRS died, never to return, once I forgot to tap the screen for 5 seconds. Had to reboot. Still dont know how to turn sleep off in om2009. But for once, it was all forgiven. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
>But I could sit in the train in peace. And while on that train, did you see the light at the end of the tunnel? md _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
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My 2 Cents: My goal is to have the FR with me on a one week outdoor holiday without power plants, without battery shops etc. (Mainly is GPS tracking, and some GPRS/UMTS connects). So I was trying different ways to keep the phone charged 24/24 + 7/7 by alternative resources: solar power, bycicle dynamo, even a hand crank. See some funny pictures on my site: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:Blutsauger It is surprising, how difficult and even hard it is, to produce electricity this way. By using the hand crank, I could even 'feel' the power consumption of the phone! So this gave me an impression, how important a power-saving software development is (this is something that can/should also be done on the application level), and second: It is sursprising how resistent the FR is against strange power input! I now really have feed the phone with almost everything between 1.0 and 12 Volt, real DC and some badly smoothed DC, and it is still alive! Also playing with the different options of charging currents is pretty much fun and I learned a lot about USB power specs etc. and I must say that FR really does everything right, in contrast to many different other USB power leeching devices. A. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Alexander ok, i think you get the biggest geek award thus far. that setup is most impressive _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community