[SATLUG] [OT] Cell phone rant / open source idea

[twistedpickles]

Wow I don't really fe3l that way about the phone. I chose this phone because of the slide out keyboard and wifi. The phone goes to 'sleep' after sometime to save battery, which does a great job off. I normally don't stick this phone in my pocket I prefer to slide in the case but I usually push the sleep button so that buttons don't get accidentally pressed. I have however forgotten to sleep my phone and accidentally placed calls. Argh! Don't ya just hate that.

Like with every other phone it has it's quarks but I think the design was well thought out. The problems really were the limitations I was confronted with on the OS after coming from a linux phone. 



::twistedpickles :: :
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Sean Carolan" <scarolan at gmail.com>
To: "The San Antonio Linux User's Group Mailing List" <satlug at satlug.org>
Sent: 07/17/07 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: [SATLUG] [OT] Cell phone rant / open source idea

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>
> @Sean I also use the 8125 it did take some time to get use to but after
> several hacks and reassigning the shortcut keys on the face and sides I've
> come to terms with it.


If I'm shelling out $500 for a phone I don't want to "come to terms with
it", I just want it to work.  Every feature on the Blackberry can be
accessed with one hand, without fiddling with a stylus or pop-out keyboard.
The pearl has a little trackball (hence the name) that allows you to do all
navigation with one thumb.

Personally I felt the design of the 8125 was a bit half-baked.  There are at
least four or five buttons around the edges and sides of the thing, which
invariably get pressed if you leave the thing in your pocket or holster.  I
would often pull the phone out of my pocket or holster to find that the
camera  had been on for two hours draining the battery.  I ended up just
disabling all the special buttons.

I also got the 8125 to the point where I could deal with it, but finally
gave up after the cheap touchscreen started to get misaligned every day.  I
couldn't even get into the settings to fix the misaligned screen, so I gave
up and switched to the crackberry.
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