[ NNSquad ] Archos 5 Internet Tablet

[Ben Kamen <bkamen@benjammin.net>]

If you're like me, you consider your cellphone a more disposable item than your PDA.

Makes sense (to me anyway) that the Cellphone will get use and abused and dropped and sat on.
All the kinds of use that cellphones endure favor it's breaking sooner than later.

My PDA on the other hand (a lovely Palm T|X which I love) is cared for, rides in a padded case while being used with a little
bit more care than my phone.

I've gone through several phones and still have the same Palm T|X that I've had for years.

Unfortunately, the Palm line of PDA's are dinosaurs in the making. Palm has moved their biz to make
phone/pda's while access (who bought the PalmOS) seems to be more interested in embedded Linux.

So I'm just counting the days.

Today though, I got an ad from Newegg (I love newegg!) for the Archos 5 Internet tablet which appears to
be a Google Android platform without the phone!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16855501044

So it's nice to see that someone might be offering a device that I, the fan of separate phone & PDA, can
move to that enjoys all the open-platform-ness of Google's Android without being tethered to some undesirable phone
carrier. (Which is why I thought I would mention it here.)

An Android device without the insane cellular packages that come with them.

To me, that's nice and net-neutral. Telecom-Net that is. ;)

 -Ben


  [ It appears that a plethora of tablets will be hitting the market
    soon, and it is certain that many or most will run Android,
    for a range of fairly obvious reasons.  However, I still
    haven't figured out exactly how you're supposed to carry
    one of those things conveniently if you're a male sans
    a briefcase (or purse!)

       -- Lauren Weinstein
          NNSquad Moderator ]
    

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