<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br>
<br>Four months later... Responding to myself :)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 13:05, Arie Skliarouk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skliarie@gmail.com" target="_blank">skliarie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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For a long time I find myself looking for an open smartphone, with
Linux and GPS.<br>
<br>
Initially I had high hopes for OpenMoko's platform, but now I think it
is dying for several reasons:<br>
* their's latests phone model Freerunner has audio issues<br></blockquote><div><br>The bug affects only 2% of users:<br><a href="http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Buzz_Fix" target="_blank">http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Buzz_Fix</a><br>
Is it the case in Israel as well?<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
* It has weak connectivity (GPRS)<br></blockquote><div><br>It should not matter much as I am not going to use the internet much because of the outrageous cellular internet prices that are in use in Israel. It is somewhat an advantage, as you can't break the internet limit easily.<br>
The GPRS speed (64Kbit/s) should be enough for SIP call. Can someone confirm that?<br>And how fast is battery drained when GPRS is constanly on (For chats, incoming SIP calls, updates)?<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
* There is no quality applications for it (like GPS turn-by-turn<br>
navigation) due to chicken-egg problem and lack of DRM.<br></blockquote><div><br>Someone reported using freerunner with android and andnav2 (albeit slow and requires internet access)<br><a href="http://android.koolu.org/pipermail/android-freerunner-koolu.org/2009-August/001260.html" target="_blank">http://android.koolu.org/pipermail/android-freerunner-koolu.org/2009-August/001260.html</a><br>
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This makes me look into direction of Android G1. It is too young to
have elaborated applications support, but it already has<br>
<a href="http://www.andnav.org/" target="_blank">http://www.andnav.org/</a> that uses OpenStreetMap data.<br></blockquote><div><br>The android-freerunner is pretty active lately:<br><a href="http://android.koolu.org/pipermail/android-freerunner-koolu.org/2009-September/thread.html" target="_blank">http://android.koolu.org/pipermail/android-freerunner-koolu.org/2009-September/thread.html</a><br>
So it can be viewed as a cheap version of the real Android, albeit without the Android Market. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Currently there is no coverage for Israel though:<br>
<a href="http://www.andnav.org/images/stories/news/coverage/" target="_blank">http://www.andnav.org/images/stories/news/coverage/</a></blockquote><div><br>The andnav page does not say that Israel is supported, but there already is MapTilePack for Israel:<br>
<a href="http://wiki.andnav.org/index.php/List_Of_MapTilePacks/">http://wiki.andnav.org/index.php/List_Of_MapTilePacks/</a><br><br>
Has anyone checked andnav with that?<br>
<br>--<br>Arie<br><br></div></div></div>