Wile E Reality catches up to FreeRunner

Sweetness. Looks like the FreeRunner is finally dead.

I’d just like to take a moment, and lament about all the top notch features we could have had with a truly open source phone like the FreeRunner.

• grep’ing through your address book using extended regular expressions
• finger’ing your Fav Five
• Having 10 different competing UI’s packaged by dozens of different distributions
• Being able to ssh to your phone so that you can check it’s uptime
• Using PGP to sign your SMS messages. Beware though, after the signature, you’ll only have 5 characters left to work with.
• Sending people videos in ogg theora format
• Losing data randomly with ext4
• Unloading the kernel module for the asterisk button because I never use it
• Changing your keypad to dvorak layout, where the most commonly used numbers are in the middle row
• Using gkrellm to monitor your battery power, as it is slowly sucked away by gkrellm
• More efficiently using your tiny screen with a tiling window manager
• Running only free and open javascript
• Warning users that their keypad lock password is not strong enough
• E17, some day. No, really, someday.