____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 01 January 2008 15:15 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Cloudy visions of the future
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>>| The iPhone has accelerated the process begun by Symbian, and the rollout of
>>| Google's Android and open source phones like OpenMoko may help, but it will
>>| be a few years before the devices are completely freed from reliance on the
>>| network.
>> `----
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>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7161260.stm
>>
>
> You can't do real-time streaming through ad-hoc networks... connections
> are an absolutely necessity. Still, it appears we'll need to go through
> yet another round of fantasy on this before someone actually does the
> technical work yet again.
Maybe we'll move over from speech to telepathy (j/k), which can be relayed with
delays.
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~~ Best of wishes
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