On Sep 21, 9:08 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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> Forget iPhone, the Gphone is here
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> | Google, the nearly $13.5 billion search engine major, is believed to be a
> | fortnight away from the worldwide launch of its much-awaited Google Phone
> | (Gphone) and has started talks with service providers in India for an
> | exclusive launch on one of their networks.
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> http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/aug/24gphone.htm
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> Closed iPhone opens road for Linux phones
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> ,----[ Summary ]
> | With iPhone a closed platform, Linux gets an wide-open road for phones and
> | other smart devices
> `----
>
> http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/archives/2007/08/apple_gives_lin.ht...
There's definitely a market for mobile devices - with a certain kind
of user. For isnstance, I currently use a Sony Ericsson mobile phone
to browse the web (via Mini Opera), log into my freeshell.org shell
account (via MidpSSH), listen to mp3s and watch the occasional video -
I should point out that the only videos I can watch on the phone are .
3gp format files. All the above activities (with the exception of
listening to music) I do only only when I'm, for instance, on a train
journey, or I'm on a bus in a traffic jam. The ability to browse the
web is especially good, I can read the papers without having to buy
one. Same with some books. Then there's stuff like Google Groups,
which allows connection to Usenet.
Mini Opera is a good little browser for use on a cellphone - by
comparison, Sony Ericsson's built-in browser is [expletive deleted]
[expletive deleted]. But there's very little interaction between the
various apps I've installed on the phone (though I can use it to
delete mp3s off the internet).
So, a device that includes by default the kind of apps I've listed,
and allows full and proper interaction between those apps, would be
cool. And I'm sure there are a fair few folk who /would/ buy such a
thing. I wouldn't though, unless I won the Lottery or my income
increased ridiculously in some other way - or if said phones were sold
for next to nothing. Such a device would be great, but it wouldn't be
a "must-have". And I don't think there are that many people who get
the amount of use out of their phones that I do.
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