* Renaissance Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070118 23:06]: > On 18 Jan 2007, at 9:42 pm, Sencer wrote: > > >Everbody gets what you are saying. It is you who does not understand that it > >is largely irrelevant, because everybody already is in favour of having wifi > >at some point. The question > >is not about the "plus" side of having wifi, but the question is with > >dealing with the costs of adding wifi to 1st generation device, which > >completely flies past you. > > No, that was just the argument some were projecting onto me; my argument > isn't that "you must include wifi" in the Neo v1 no matter what the cost. My > argument is that the GSM+WiFi/VoIP > combination is a revolution waiting to happen and that OpenMoko clearly won't > be player in this until it gets WiFi. The point is, it's not a revolution. It might be a local revolution, but e.g. in Germany/Austria there is NO flatfee WiFi provider. So the local chapters of the revolution died, because all members went broke on WiFi hotspot access charges *g*
> By the time it does get WiFi, however, the revolution may already have > happened, and OpenMoko will simply be joining the bandwagon, which is a shame > because of the potential mindshare > in being a pioneer of such a device. Technically speaking, the WiFi/VoIP has already happened in the Nokia E/N series. Just that nobody really cares ;) Andreas _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
