Philipp Kern

I got my Freerunner on Saturday and my first impressions are somewhat divided. It works, basically, sometimes. It suspends correctly, but when I leave the phone on over night, it won't wake up again. It is still logged into GSM, but neither USB networking nor the buttons on the side work. Problem no. 2 is that pulseaudio goes into lock-up mode (i.e. wasting a load of CPU cycles, doing nothing), which basically means that you cannot call anymore (and of course, you don't get a ringtone neither, but it still vibrates).

At least you can get to this point flashing newer software images. It is shipped with a very minimalistic software set, and even with the newest daily openmoko-devel image (less of the two evils, with qtopia being half-baked) one misses a utility to set (basic) preferences. Well, but SSH works and some things could just be hacked around.

If you don't want to invest time into getting your phone to work get something else. ;-)