Today I had an 'epiphany. Entered as every day in the reading room of the library, I put the books, I pulled out his notepad, calendar, notebook, coats three pencils, a pen whose ink is spread over almost all my clothes, two post -it with glue and some dusty notes on the back of the flyer, and suddenly everything seemed to me naively comic. When I was asked, via SMS, to check out some train schedules, I remembered not to have the laptop with me (too much weight with all the rest, and less temptation) but to have wireless everywhere. For the first time I thought that somehow a PDA could significantly improve the life and example of that last phone without a camera, who kept all of a sudden has lost charm, making the potential at least consider holding a small versatile and truly portable device.
addition to the irrational defense of simplicity and disregard for the fever of technological, there are some reasons of land that I have always made it undesirable a so-called smartphones (or its predecessors) as the acclaimed last Apple machine.
The very idea of \u200b\u200bowning a small computer that presents itself ideally as a handyman and adaptable device to its owner (a characteristic that is made explicit at least by his own name), and at the same time significantly limits its use, making it inaccessible channels make it possible to make it truly fits all (or most) images used, is a thought that is neither comfortable nor symptomatic of confidence. At the same time, the compromise which would result in the purchase, it would be far to justify its cost, given that its rigidity does not increase for sure life expectancy nor the ability to displace a number of other devices already in use.
But the reasoning in question did not have the time needed to reach the issue, seeing that even small amounts of lucidity which can boast of this decade has suddenly materialized in OpenMoko, the mobile open source.
Despite being almost totally on fast computers, can I still see that this new machine is designed using a certain amount of wisdom that allows us to consider at least the possibility that it is really useful.
Using Linux, OpenMoko allows the installation of any (or almost) the application, which obviously the most geeks can also build ad hoc. It also makes it possible to use any GSM provider, with also the possibility of using two SIM cards simultaneously, he has an expandable memory, a replaceable battery, and a justifiable cost.
[picture Ross Burton]
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