Helloooooooooooooooo MOKO!!!
Ooookaay, now that that bad joke is done.
Let have more =) Howabout...
Neo is the first. Now its your turn. Free your mind.
heh heh
Okay, now that we are truly done with the bad jokes, check out this phone Ne01973
Oki its a tat ugly (to me, yes beauty is in the eye of the beholder, yes I find it ugly). But it runs on Linux and it does not tie to a particular phone brand, i.e. the software on it is not tied to any hardware.
For awhile I thought it was an IP phone... but I think this phone is a good step in the right direction. Yours for 300USD.
Its too high to be of interest to me, but maybe if you are mista money baggs, this one may the The One.
Gawd... another bad matrix joke....
Did I mention it has a developer's kit?
I think this is a good example of using software to built your business, note that he is selling the phone, not the software. A phone is a good barrier to entry. But one wonders how long that will last, and whether the software built would be open source.
No doubt if geek power is enough to propel this phone to The One status, the software would come. And you will see the advent of the next wave of software development on handphones.
This is not pure conjecture. In fact I am so unoriginal I am ashamed of myself haha. Using the history of computing as an example. Or rather operating systems. In the beginning there was a ribena berry ... damn! (at least it was a bad ribena berry joke) I swear it is the smell that drives me nuts... (oki bad matrix joke AGAIN lol). Seriously now, in the beginning, the operating systems available were disparaged and scattered. This meant that hardware also was scattered. Overtime, we know what happened. The PC became open sourced. IBM released the specs and the PC was "commoditised". This is why you and me can build cheaper PCs. Note that at the time PCs were not well known and the knowledge for building one might be as exclusive as say .. ermm building your own aircraft??? So IBM started the ball rolling, and Linus made the first *86 compatible kernel and PCs boomed, open source baamed and the rest was history. (Vista is trying to bring us back to the dark ages, but may the hardware NEVER follow Vista, else my dears, say good bye to your currently still quite affordable and CONFIGURABLE PC, don't buy into all that DRM bull, they are trying to tie it to hardware now, a definite admission of theirs that software, by its nature cannot be locked, now they have done it to DVDs and MP3s, would you like them to do it to your PC? That is the question. Answer the call! =P dang.. Live Earth joke now lol)
Oki enough of that drivel (yes people really have no idea about the politics in software and are too caught up by marketing. That always riles me.)
Microsoft and Sun (among others in the telco biz) have been looking at the smart phone/PDA as the next frontier for sometime now. But I have always stated that commercial means are like a lunatic strap on creativity. This phone if it gains momentum will free that strap. Ermm for a cool 300USD. The question now is can the barrier to entry (the hardware technology), keep it from becoming 'gratis' rather than 'libre', because face it the dude who started this wants to feed his kids.. or cat or goldfish. whatever. So there must be some incentive. Or is it that easy to put together a phone? If so this brand will do well before going down in flames. But not before possibly giving a very precious gem to the open source world which is it's platform (I am assuming it is open source here). Already there are hacks that allow a person to use a palm using Linux. So the concept is not new. But hardware, people, we are lookin' at portable handphone software. The One Ring to rule them all. Ermm okay enough with the bad jokes. Get on with your life and I've got an exam to study for.
Debate or find out more here ;)
Let have more =) Howabout...
Neo is the first. Now its your turn. Free your mind.
heh heh
Okay, now that we are truly done with the bad jokes, check out this phone Ne01973
Oki its a tat ugly (to me, yes beauty is in the eye of the beholder, yes I find it ugly). But it runs on Linux and it does not tie to a particular phone brand, i.e. the software on it is not tied to any hardware.
For awhile I thought it was an IP phone... but I think this phone is a good step in the right direction. Yours for 300USD.
Its too high to be of interest to me, but maybe if you are mista money baggs, this one may the The One.
Gawd... another bad matrix joke....
Did I mention it has a developer's kit?
I think this is a good example of using software to built your business, note that he is selling the phone, not the software. A phone is a good barrier to entry. But one wonders how long that will last, and whether the software built would be open source.
No doubt if geek power is enough to propel this phone to The One status, the software would come. And you will see the advent of the next wave of software development on handphones.
This is not pure conjecture. In fact I am so unoriginal I am ashamed of myself haha. Using the history of computing as an example. Or rather operating systems. In the beginning there was a ribena berry ... damn! (at least it was a bad ribena berry joke) I swear it is the smell that drives me nuts... (oki bad matrix joke AGAIN lol). Seriously now, in the beginning, the operating systems available were disparaged and scattered. This meant that hardware also was scattered. Overtime, we know what happened. The PC became open sourced. IBM released the specs and the PC was "commoditised". This is why you and me can build cheaper PCs. Note that at the time PCs were not well known and the knowledge for building one might be as exclusive as say .. ermm building your own aircraft??? So IBM started the ball rolling, and Linus made the first *86 compatible kernel and PCs boomed, open source baamed and the rest was history. (Vista is trying to bring us back to the dark ages, but may the hardware NEVER follow Vista, else my dears, say good bye to your currently still quite affordable and CONFIGURABLE PC, don't buy into all that DRM bull, they are trying to tie it to hardware now, a definite admission of theirs that software, by its nature cannot be locked, now they have done it to DVDs and MP3s, would you like them to do it to your PC? That is the question. Answer the call! =P dang.. Live Earth joke now lol)
Oki enough of that drivel (yes people really have no idea about the politics in software and are too caught up by marketing. That always riles me.)
Microsoft and Sun (among others in the telco biz) have been looking at the smart phone/PDA as the next frontier for sometime now. But I have always stated that commercial means are like a lunatic strap on creativity. This phone if it gains momentum will free that strap. Ermm for a cool 300USD. The question now is can the barrier to entry (the hardware technology), keep it from becoming 'gratis' rather than 'libre', because face it the dude who started this wants to feed his kids.. or cat or goldfish. whatever. So there must be some incentive. Or is it that easy to put together a phone? If so this brand will do well before going down in flames. But not before possibly giving a very precious gem to the open source world which is it's platform (I am assuming it is open source here). Already there are hacks that allow a person to use a palm using Linux. So the concept is not new. But hardware, people, we are lookin' at portable handphone software. The One Ring to rule them all. Ermm okay enough with the bad jokes. Get on with your life and I've got an exam to study for.
Debate or find out more here ;)
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