Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 2nd Apr 2005 20:44 UTC
The future is mobile. That much we know for sure. But it seems that the operating system world in this market is being rapidly taken over by --again-- Microsoft. The new smart phones are are using WinCE, Symbian or Palm. Linux has barely 1% of this new, smartphone market.
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My phone...the LG6000 camera phone.
I paid $75 for it with a 2year Verizon contract. It does everything that I need, including dialing someone's phone number, allowing me to talk to them via vocal communications and allowing me to answer incoming phone calls. It even doubles as a pager so I can recieve pages when systems at work have issues.
It's great!
It also comes with a shitload of stuff that i never use, camera phone, addressbook, games, text messaging, etc. Also, it comes with a nice bright colored LCD that i would never use if I didn't have to.
Now why do I want to run outlook? IE? Word? Anything but basic phone functionality? Why does my phone need 64MB+ of RAM? Flash storage over 1MB? What's the point?
I'm a huge fan of many simple devices doing what they do well. I don't want a PDA in my phone, nor do i want a phone in my PDA. I don't want to browse the web on either of them. I have a laptop for that.
My mobile office has 3 components and they all fit in a courier bag, a small courier bag. It's not convenient, it's not even heavy. I'm sorry, I just don't understand this desire to have EVERYTHING on one device. One device that could get lost, stolen, dropped, broken, wet, batteries could die, service could get lost, etc...