Oh this is going to be tempting not to pass up if it goes from concept to reality
http://www.dump.com/2010/11/28/conce...e-phone-video/
Oh this is going to be tempting not to pass up if it goes from concept to reality
http://www.dump.com/2010/11/28/conce...e-phone-video/
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That is all!
That video is going to be nostalgic for someone I see, in about 10 years.
It's groovy; however:
- It's easy to come up with ideas and make a cool CGI movie about them. It's an entirely different thing to produce the hardware.
- Mozilla has zero experience when it comes to building hardware and not a huge amount of money to spend on R&D
- They can't even produce a browser that will function without memory leaks any more. How do they expect to develop the firmware for a mobile phone, which has to be much more reliable?
This is mostly an exercise in wanking. In any case, by the time they actually get the thing to market--assuming they actually do get the thing to market--Apple, Motorola, Nokia etc, who have years of experience with building hardware, will have already surpassed them.
Last edited by NQ6U; 11-29-2010 at 08:45 PM.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Well, if Apple is so damned smart, why in hell did they ever choose AT&T?
Hello.
There is no intent to build this or any other hardware, this is just a concept.
Mozilla and Google have introduced something that they hope will catch on, very much like car companies introduce concept cars that they hope will someday make it into the showrooms.
And, Apple and Motorola, do not produce mobile phones, foxconn does that for them. ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn
Because they wanted to build a GSM phone and AT&T was the only GSM carrier in the U.S. who's network uses the international standards. T-Mobile is GSM, but their 3G frequencies differ from those of the rest of the world; also, their coverage was even worse than AT&T's. All other U.S. mobile carriers use Qualcomm's CDMA protocols, which are not much used elsewhere.Originally Posted by W3MIV
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Odd... Mozilla Firefox doesn't have memory leaks on my computer... I leave it running for days on end, and nary an issue.
Oh, and I think someone said the same about Google:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...591075444.html
You are the rare exception, then. I had to stop using Firefox myself. As for Google, well, they have a lot more money that Mozilla does. Also, just because they're set to market a phone doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be a success in the market.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
same here, FF w/ LINUX no mem leaks
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