[LUGSB] Ars.Technica OpenMoko review

[Chris Wright]

2008/7/11 Ilya Sukhanov (dotCOMmie) <lugsb at sukhanov.net>:
>> One of the more pressing issues is battery life. Since suspend is not
>> working very well, the Freerunner's CPU is always active, which
>> reduces the battery life to roughly 20 hours idle. However, there has
>> been progress on this front, and the Freerunner should have similar
>> battery life to other smartphones eventually.
>
> I recall reading a while back that in suspend mode its supposed (according
> to
> design) to halt pretty much everything but the GSM chip -- which sends
> interrupts on incoming calls. So the issues they are having now are purely
> software?

Correct.