On the other hand, via email you load everything while on a forum you choose what to view.<br>The screen size argument also doesn't work too well as the Neo has 640*480 which is plenty and an official forum would obviously make sure to fit well into that resolution.
<br><br>How about continuing the discussion in the forum? :P<br><br>Ortwin<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sebastian Krause</b> <<a href="mailto:sebastian@realpath.org">sebastian@realpath.org
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><a href="mailto:kent@songbird.com">kent@songbird.com</a> wrote:<br>> Not trying to "prove" something -- trying to give benefit of long experience
<br>> in similar situations. Email is substantially more efficient, because it is<br>> intrinsically more powerful. For example:<br><br>8) Staying in touch directly with the community from my OpenMoko<br>phone in a year using an expensive GPRS connection:
<br><br>- E-Mail: Loading everything via POP3 or even better compressed UUCP<br> on my phone, reading with my favorite mail client that suits the<br> display. Uses minimum bandwidth and I can cut the connection after<br>
loading mail. Cheap.<br>- Web forum: Suffer with the web browser on a forum design not<br> suitable to the small display. Using tons of bandwidth for every<br> request, staying online all the time. Really expensive.<br>
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