[Gllug] OpenMoko Neo Freerunner

[Matthew King]

Dylan <dylan at dylan.me.uk> writes:

> On Wednesday 06 May 2009, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
>> Don't any hardware developers actually test these devices for basic
>> features, like "Can it make a simple voice call and can one hear it?"
>> "Does its RF capabilities at least equal or better the previous model?"
>
> I don't think they actually realise peoplr might want to use the 'basic' 
> functions [1] - I recently had great problems explaining, in several mobile 
> phone shops, that what I wanted in a phone was to make calls and exchange sms 
> and *nothing else, thanks*. Such a concept seems alien to them. It has to be 
> said, I'm no luddite, but highly resistant to the "roll everything into one 
> device" philosophy - that just leads to having a single point of failure 
> taking out everything in one go. Phones are for calls, PDAs are for diary 
> stuff, MP3 players for music, and for that matter TVs are for TV and 
> computers are for computering...

Ah but what is computering?

Matthew

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