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I still use a Freerunner (the successor to the Neo1973) as my only 'phone. The GTK-based om2007 it came with was a joke, and had already been ditched for EFL (
by chriswarbo 9y ago
I still use a Freerunner (the successor to the Neo1973) as my only 'phone.
The GTK-based om2007 it came with was a joke, and had already been ditched for EFL (Enlightenment) in om2008 when it arrived. The EFL UI got the job done, but all of the actual 'phone applications (contacts, SMS, calls, etc.) came from QtMobile (QtExtended), so I ended up installing QtMoko (Debian + QtMobile) and have been using it like that for years.
Some annoyances I've had:
- The mic volume inexplicably getting set really low; I seem to remember fixing it via alsa.conf
- WPA WiFi doesn't seem to work in the GUI; running wicd-curses in a console is fine
- Can't manage to get audio out of a bluetooth headset
- The excellent predictive keyboard was ditched in an OS update in favour of a clunky non-predictive one. Apparently this was due to prediction only working well for English; as an Englishman, I was fine with that, but haven't been able to reinstate the old one :(