I guess this is important. I’m a big fan of pay-as-you-go which I’d call ‘pre-pay’. It’s good for the consumer, good for startups and bad for Fat Telcos. What more could you want.
Very interesting to see Huawei in this space.
T-Mobile introduces first pay-as-you-go Android smartphone, dubbed Pulse: “”
(Via TechChump.)
Om Malik observes that WiFi remains omniscient (pun?) but he is in San Francisco, home of Meraki and their freenet.
I’m in Bangkok and writing this on a finally-stable access platform based around ‘Spider Wifi’ which isn’t great, is hard to procure and needs a bit of constant attention but nevertheless at AUS100 for the year with only a 3 hourly disconnect to content with – is pretty convenient.
It only works the way it does thanks to a Linksys WRT54GL with OpenWRT installed. My Meraki’s are lying around awaiting a similar hack.
‘Hack’ also brings to mind another issue with Wifi which is the inability to control competition for the spectrum and this suggests to me that WiFi will always equal ‘hack’ and ‘control’, being the defining attribure of a telco, suggests that the telcos aren’t going to make any significant switch to Wifi at any time.
With recent comments bemoaning the lack of momentum with things Android, Om’s comments about Apple’s rising dominance as a WiFi consumer device suggests to me the use of an Android device as a smartphone/mesh-repeater which would be ideal in the developing world with it’s phone-centric internet access model.
(Via Om’s Writings.)
Here they are side-by-side, the only three known specimens of useable Smartphone.
(Via Palm Goon.)
BillShrink.com Puts Palm Pre Way Out There As Cheapest Smart Phone: “
Thinking about getting the iPhone 3GS. Why not get the Palm Pre and take the 1,200 bucks you’ll save and buy two non-contract. You know, as backups.
