how is it network support and price wise though? i dont think the networks in the UK support it. And Ł200 plus i doubt if anyone wants to buy it specially if free-er versions that do the same thing are available! <div>On 05/08/2008, Tim Dobson <<a href="mailto:personalwebsite@army.com">personalwebsite@army.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">James Tait wrote: > Tim Dobson wrote: >> I have a freerunner which I bought from <a href="http://www.truebox.co.uk">www.truebox.co.uk</a> > > So what are your impressions?  I certainly take Popey's point about a > phone that "works and works well", but just how much work/grief can one > expect with the Freerunner?  The two biggest drawbacks for me are the > lack of a built-in camera and the massive start-up time, though I have > to admit I don't expect to have to cold boot it that often.  I've read > numerous reviews, tech articles and so on and I'm still not really sure > how close to "end-user ready" it is -- I've read some somewhat worrying > stuff. I quite like it. It's an awesome piece of kit. The hardware is really god in my opinion though I take your point in reference to camera. The startup time shouldn't affect you really. It depends what you are wanting to use it for... if you want to use it as a phone(!) everything works fine. Rumours about stuff crashing on incoming calls etc seem to be a thing of the past, no more command line calls(!), the gui works fine and seems stable. Regarding SMS they are easy to send recieve.. no stability problems etc. Contacts and are automatically imported from your SIM if you have them there and more contacts can be imported in vcard format. I was extremely surprised at how polished the GPS stuff was Tango gps - <a href="http://www.tangogps.org">http://www.tangogps.org</a> is an awesome program a *bit* like the google maps bit of the iphone (i think). Anyway it does stuff like overlays your position on maps and allows you to record your track and stuff. The wifi stack is stable and functional, currently two beta GUIs exist for it, but development is so fast that 5 days ago, neither existed in their current form. By the time anything has been shipped to you, you will be wondering why i am mentioning anything there. GPRS is a bit ugly at the moment (functional but impractical) but I'm going to investigate that in more detail in the next few days with a view to making it awesome. There are 2 webrowsers, (the minifirefox one is best imho) an image gallery and file manager, pidgin IM client, and a media player. I would really recommend it, in places it is rough around the edges, but i can not give comparison at the speed development is going - if you think how the gnu/linux desktop changes in a year then you will probably be able to imagine how much the gnu/linux phone changes in a month... I intend to get round to in depth blog post at some point. I'll remember drop a link to here when i do. Tim -- <a href="http://www.tdobson.net">www.tdobson.net</a> ---- If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of us still has one object. If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, then each of us now has two ideas.   -  George Bernard Shaw -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote></div>