[TriLUG] Dear Palm, I wanted a Linux Treo and not a Foleo.

[Tim Jowers]

   Does anyone have processor and RAM specs on this new Palm? 10 in screen
is small.  The thing looks about the size of a normal textbook. DELL starts
at about $649. Palm has to define why this is better than a $499 Everex from
WMT. Maybe the cheap laptop market is arriving. BTW, all of these computers
might be useful. The little Palm laptop for elementary school, a cell
phone/PDA for phone calls and contact list, a laptop for working while
traveling, and a workstation for intense work. Maybe Palm can do a better
job of integrating all of these than everyone else. I was really impressed
with Ubuntu's integration of the calendar into the clock.

My $.02,
TimJowers


On 5/31/07, Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Greg Brown wrote:
> > No, no no... don't you listen to Bill Gates?  He said that the One
> Laptop
> > Per Child program was worthless because people will use their phones
> running
> > Microsoft software as a computer.  Sheesh.
> >
> >
> http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/30/gates-proposes-cellphones-as-alternative-to-olpc/
>
> It's important to realize the value of cell phones to those in
> communities that OLPC is intended for.  I've done some mission work in
> El Salvador, and the cell phones are invaluable assets; those who can
> afford them are instantly connected with work, with markets, etc.,
> hugely enhancing productivity.  They are much more important than
> computers.  Many developing nations never had strong wired telephone
> networks, but are now able to build quite usable - and reasonably
> inexpensive - cell phone networks.
>
> Maybe OLPC for the kids and a smartphone for the adults or something - I
> dunno.  But I think giving away cell phones to these communities would
> have a lot of merit.  I don't think they should run Microsoft products
> but don't dismiss the whole cell phone idea out of hand, just because
> Bill Gates brought it up.
>
> --Jeremy
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