Neither iPhone or OpenMoko are revolutionary

Renaissance Man renaissanceman at macmail.com
Thu Jan 18 03:12:12 CET 2007


On 18 Jan 2007, at 2:00 am, David Schlesinger wrote:

> You can go out and buy a Nokia 800 or a Sony Mylo today for the  
> price of a NEO and do VoIP right this instant. If it's changed the  
> world, I guess I must not have been paying attention.

No you don't appear to be reading correctly what I'm writing. It's GSM 
+VoIP via WiFi. i.e. cheap mobile phones that people can communicate  
cheaply with.

>> I couldn't think of a better example of a killer app than sticking a
>> piece of software on a device that lets people speak to each other  
>> around the world effectively for free.
>
> Ditto.

Good, now understand that VoIP via WiFi + GSM is that killer app. See  
previous email for more detail.

Renaissance Man





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