I keep thinking that there are a lot of cell phones out there, and a lot 
of untapped potential.

The one in my pocket (Palm Pre) is running some variant of the ARM 
processor at something like 600 MHz, which is a nontrivial amount of CPU.

Palm goofed on the battery (I can go two days, tops), but the rest of 
the phone, including WebOS, is pretty cool.

Cell phones as a group are probably second only to smart cards in the 
total number of available clock cycles.

-- Lynn

Carl Christensen wrote:
> I don't quite understand the bashing of this guy's mobile project; there was 
> that "boincoid" a year or two ago which was in vogue, and IMHO the same ones 
> bashing the "usefulness" of mobiles are the ones crowing about how great 
> GPU's & CUDA & Sony Playstations etc are (completely ignoring the fact that 
> 99.99999% of real-world science apps won't run on it).  Not to mention that 
> there's all sorts of dubious-benefit computer sciencey stuff out there trying 
> to turn boinc into some god-awful grid mess.  so I'm willing to keep an open 
> mind about it (and GPU's & grids ;-).
> 
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