-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/15/AR2006041500125.html > > > Interesting article. The slashdot feedback was just as interesting. > http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/04/17/1221247.shtml > > The one thing I disagree with is he criticizes it for not having a > cellphone built in, coming from Nokia. I heard someone from Nokia speak > about the 770 at LinuxWorld, and they had a very good answer to that. > Cell phone devices are *VERY* heavily regulated, and the manufacturer must > ensure that the device cannot be modded once home to do illegal things > (not that they always succeed in this). If they put a cellphone in the > 770, they would have had to limit its flexibility, and certainly would not > have allowed users to flash whatever software they want on it.
Don't forget people who like a small phone to make phonecalls and leave other funky tasks to other devices (like taking photos or webbrowsing). I would never buy a phone as big as the 770. regards, Koen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEQ9e1MkyGM64RGpERAnhgAJoC+yY0bQa7tlTMrtPn2x3aasTsJgCgk2H2 BxnOMl527r6nMo1VXbnZZag= =pFbp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list [email protected] https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
