Re: Linux based OpenMoko - "embarrassing awful, slow, unusable,lethargic and unresponsive"

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:28:32 -0700, Tim Smith wrote:


> At openmoko.com, they are presenting the phone the same way any other
> company would present a consumer phone. They have talked to the press,
> so there are articles about the phone, which do not mention that it
> isn't yet a consumer phone, out where consumers will find them. Hence,
> it is the openmoko people who should be taking the initiative and saying
> on their main site that consumers should not yet order the phone.

Yeah

I think they felt pressured by their mailing list to release something;
just guessing. They aren't totally consistent, but then I don't think
they're really marketing folks, which might be the problem! It might
just be a marketing problem. Probably in right market people would drool
over it for the price.



-Thufir

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:13:12 -0400, Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote:

> The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
>
>>> At openmoko.com, they are presenting the phone the same way any other
>>> company would present a consumer phone. They have talked to the press,
>>
>> They do and they don't. The openmoko website has no
>> mention of standby time, for example; they only mention
>
> Look, if you walk into a ham radio store and you see a box labeled "radio",
> you have one expectation. If you walk into Sears and you see a box labeled
> "radio", you have a very different expectation.
>
> openmoko.com is clearly the ham radio store.

Yea....
And it's about obsolete and dead as Ham Radio is these days....

Heathkit
Lafayette
Radio Shack (hint "Shack").
EICO
Collins
etc...

Mostly all gone or out of the amateur radio business.....

BTW I'm a ham as well..
General Class from the mid 1970's.....

I still have some of my Heathkit stuff as well as an old Hallicrafters
SX-100 (I think, the one with dual dials)..

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