* Noah Birnel <nbir...@gmail.com> [2010-02-03 05:46]: > On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 04:49:52PM +0100, sta...@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote: > > >... a mobile phone with integrated camera, > > touch screen, 'apps' for learning languages, etc. is as much suckless as an > > axe with a door bell, toilet paper and nuclear power generator. > > > At this point a mobile phone is a general purpose portable computer. The > camera is no more out of line than the speakers hooked up to your home > box.
The over-equiped mobile phone fails at being general purpose portable *mobile* computer due to the battery life for example. Having acceptable battery life with the same equipment would result in other weight/dimensions which would not fit in peoples' understanding for mobile or portable ... -- stanio_
