On 12-Mar-07, at 11:53 AM, Ian Stirling wrote:
Dean Collins wrote:
Hey guys, you're missing the point. You need to stop thinking of the
openmoko device being a standalone unit, you are always connected to
your pc when in mobile phone coverage. Just use your gprs data link.
Start thinking of the Neo as a portable 'viewer' to applications
running
on standalone servers then you'll start seeing location is
irrelevant.
No, it's not.
Absolutely not.
No way.
With most UK contracts and pay to talk deals, I get a whole
megabyte a month free!
I need to pay around $80(US) per month or so for unlimited GPRS data.
The cheapest 'pay as you go' sort of data tarrifs are around $6/
meg, and that requires a contract.
And in many buildings, I don't get a signal.
If it possibly can be done, applications should live on the phone,
perhaps 'growing' if they can get connectivity.
Connectivity can be anything from GPRS, to SMS, to walking by a
wifi access point that you have access to, to USB-net.
Having just looked up rates by Canadian providers, I can say that the
situation here is not any better. Rates are ludicrous at best. So
having all the applications reliant on a constantly available net
connection will make them unusable by a lot of people.
Igor
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