From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com   
      
   Thanks for the review of the phone!   
      
   > As I said, it works.  It has some bugs and/or quirks, but so far, they   
   > are tolerable.  I'm still hoping to get it working with Slackware.   
   > There are 21 choices for operating systems, and Slackware *is* one of   
   > them. I'm still working on getting Slackware to boot, however.  The   
   > documentation is sketchy, but there are wikis and forums available.  And   
   > I've been consulting duck.ai.   
      
   If Slackware would be installed, would it be possible to in Slackware   
   install hardware specific applications like to make phone calls, use the   
   camera, GPS and so on? Does it run an X server and X applications? Or   
   does it, more like Android, require that all applications are written   
   specifically as "phone applications"?   
      
   > and -browse the Internet by connecting to my home WiFi.  It has a bunch   
   > of apps.   
      
   Does this mean that you are unable to connect to internet by cellular   
   networks?   
      
   Year 2009 I made the step into the smartphone era by ordering a HTC   
   Dream, the Android developer phone, from Google. I thought that it was   
   pretty cool to have internet in your pocket and being capable of writing   
   your own applications for the phone. Unfortunately, after only a few   
   months, the phone stopped receiving updates and is since then stuck on   
   Android 1.6. I also quickly found that I did not like the java way of   
   writing applications.   
      
   I realize that transitioning away from Android is going to be painful as   
   I have been used of having my contact book in their cloud and enjoying   
   the integration between the  contact book, google maps and GPS   
   navigation. On the other hand, I would really like a free/libre system   
   where you know that you easily can customize your own Linux kernel and it   
   would be nice if it could run standard Linux applications like xterm and   
   gimp.   
      
   Some years ago I wrote some rants about my experiences as an Android   
   developer at http://poolhem.se/android_developer/   
      
   regards Henrik   
      
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