Comments on: Bruce Sterling On OLPC, Mobile Phones

By: Google Knows the Mobile Web Isn’t Only About Phones | tech.shaundunne.com

Google Knows the Mobile Web Isn’t Only About Phones | tech.shaundunne.com — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:11:11 +0000

[...] Vint Cerf, who now works for Google, speaking at a conference in Madrid today. In an earlier post, Om made a similar point, saying that instead of a one-laptop-per-child initiative, we should be thinking along the lines of [...]

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Google Knows the Mobile Web Isn’t Only About Phones — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:11:07 +0000

By: MobilePhoneReviews

MobilePhoneReviews — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:49:32 +0000

The once portable laptop is now more portable netbook.

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Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:28:27 +0000

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By: And GSM Shall Rule Them All

And GSM Shall Rule Them All — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:20:16 +0000

[...] that by 2010 there will be 5 billion mobile phone subscribers, connecting the world far more easily than efforts to give each child or person a PC. The world added the last 1 billion subscribers between the third quarter of 2007 and the end of [...]

By: Jim Forster

Jim Forster — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:21:28 +0000

How many people would choose to a) read this article on a phone, b) make a comment on a phone, c) write a blog such as this on a phone. My guess is that the among readers of this blog the answer to all three is close to zero.

Notwithstanding, phones are the preferred device for many things. Especially if you can only afford a phone.

— Jim

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:39:33 +0000

@simmons

There is absolutely nothing in these being really cheap laptops. Too bad they are going to destroy the PC industry margins further. Still it is all good for the consumer. It is just same old wine in really small bottle :-)

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:38:19 +0000

@Netbook Fan

I am not surprised that you are loving netbooks – you are accustomed to using laptops and now finally the laptop is portable and more usable for folks who are laptop addicts. I think for folks who are going straight to mobiles, netbooks seems like a step back.

By: Bruce Sterling on The Cloud and the Transition Web. | stuart henshall

Bruce Sterling on The Cloud and the Transition Web. | stuart henshall — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:28:06 +0000

[...] Gigaom Bruce Sterling talking in New Zealand about “The cloud as a platform” and “The [...]

By: replace laptop screens

replace laptop screens — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:47:12 +0000

First time I’ve heard about netbooks. I will have to do some research, it sounds like it could be the way to go.

By: vardaan21

vardaan21 — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:12:35 +0000

Is there any connection b/w Mobile phones and Computing devices such as netbooks or whatever?? atleast I dont understand …lets put the future technology away than both of these technologies are way different to each other and coming to poor people do they really need computing devices (a joke), when they hardly seen the school why they prefer the later ones.

By: Qasim Virjee

Qasim Virjee — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:01:51 +0000

OOPS – Looks like you got it right in the first hyperlink, the one in the last paragraph is missing it though…

q./

By: Qasim Virjee

Qasim Virjee — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:00:27 +0000

Om,

The Wired.com link is missing in this post, tried searching Bruce’s (Sterling right?) posts to find it but couldn’t…

q./

By: simmons

simmons — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:06:07 +0000

Netbooks *are* “nothing but really really cheap laptops”. That’s what’s so great about them. I much prefer these little laptops costing $300 instead of >$1K like they used to. :)

With the ever-increasing transistor density of microprocessors and the recent improvements in power consumption, phones probably are destined to be the standard unit of personal computing.

By: Nitin

Nitin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:04:30 +0000

Om,

you should check out what VNL is doing at http://www.vnl.in

They launched zero-opex WorldGSM Base Station at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month.

By: Netbook Fan

Netbook Fan — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:25:54 +0000

I have to say I was skeptical at first, but now I’m a fan of the netbooks. Particularly for travel, it’s great to be able to toss a very lightweight netbook in the travel bag and not be lugging around a standard laptop. Very handy at conferences and meetings where you want to take notes for an extended period of time and there is no table to place a laptop on.

The netbook definitely has a future, especially as battery life goes up and the graphics get a bit better in future models.