with bluesky promises of
price/performance breakthrus
for the generator
the wireless
and the screen
promises that were inevitably
quietly downsized
until now they appear to have
production models
but still no public stats at all
on price/performance
and hints that the wireless
and the generator
only work with an expensive
infrastructure assist
which we should have expected all along
because price/performance in the cellphone industry
with its billion dollar r&d
is nowhere close to nNeg's magic beans
but there's a much more modest
downsized model that ought to be do-able
using the pre-www
netnews paradigm
village servers with satellite internet
and stationary-bike battery chargers
children (and adults) with $5 pdas
with alphanumeric keyboards
with one- or two-line displays
and flash memory modules
that can easily hold a weeksworth download
of text-only reading
browsable at leisure on the pda
where offline followups
public and private
can be composed
along with a list of promising
blog-links to be downloaded next time
.
