<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Ramnarayan.K <<a href="mailto:ramnarayan.k@gmail.com">ramnarayan.k@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 2010/3/24 Mallikarjun <<a href="mailto:mallik.v.arjun@gmail.com">mallik.v.arjun@gmail.com</a>>: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Ramnarayan.K <<a href="mailto:ramnarayan.k@gmail.com">ramnarayan.k@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >> Imagine if Opensource folks had control over the device and the >> software - it would be wow. And i thing in the phone segment that is >> what is happening >> >> openmoko is an example, as there are others. > > (off topic) > I dint like the example, the reason being, I had owned Openmoko, > Operating system (2009 feb version I had used, I guess) not even > usable, most important features like wifi, GPS dont work most of the > times. OS Suspends and never resume. In around 2 months of esteemed > ownership, atleast 60 times I have reinstalled OS. lol > What value does it add by have total control over hardware? > Found this on Google buzz posted by Mehul and think that this is an interesting development Nanonote looks like a nice device. Best thing is that hardware, software both are copylefted! - <a href="http://www.idasystems.net/nanonote" target="_blank">http://www.idasystems.net/nanonote</a> </blockquote><div>Seems nice to me too. Cost is 9000 with 2500 introductory offer till March 31. So you have to pay 6500. Hurry if you like it. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> ram -- ubuntu-in mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in</a> </blockquote></div>