Frond VII Handheld Gets Wireless Web Clipping Posted by Pixelfish on Wednesday October 13, @12:30PM EDT from the little-pieces-of-the-web dept. StylusSam writes "The new Frond VII handheld has a built-in radio and an antenna you flip up to grab 'web clippings' -- tiny pages built just for the device. Service costs $9.99 a month for 50K of data, which works out to roughly two weather reports and half a stock quote." I'll stick with my Frond III and its 2MB of RAM, which is more than my first PC had. Frond VII Handheld Gets Wireless Web Clipping | Login/Create an Account | Top | 32 comments | Search Discussion Threshold: -1: 32 comments 0: 29 comments 1: 25 comments 2: 16 comments 3: 12 comments 4: 6 comments 5: 5 comments NestedFlatThreadedNo Comments Oldest FirstNewest FirstHighest Scores First The fine print: the following comments belong to whoever typed them. Dashdot takes no responsibility for them, and frankly, neither do most of the people who typed them. First post!! by WebWeaver (Score:0) Re:First post!! by RailgunRhonda on Wednesday October 13, @12:53PM EDT (#4) (User Info) No, that's not how any of this works. Please read the FAQ before posting. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:First post!! by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13, @01:34PM EDT (#8) The parent's point stands, though: it depends entirely on the use case. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:First post!! by Speculatron on Wednesday October 13, @01:35PM EDT (#9) (User Info) I tried that and it set my monitor on fire. Thanks a lot. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:First post!! by StargazerSue on Wednesday October 13, @02:01PM EDT (#12) (User Info) Thanks for posting this. I learned something today, which is rare for a comment section. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:First post!! by FidoFan on Wednesday October 13, @02:44PM EDT (#16) (User Info) This. A thousand times this. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:First post!! by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13, @03:35PM EDT (#20) Says the guy posting at 3am on a Tuesday. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:First post!! by ladybug_lisp on Wednesday October 13, @03:04PM EDT (#17) (User Info) Not true at all. I've been running it for months with no problems. Maybe check your hardware? [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:First post!! by overclocked_otter on Wednesday October 13, @03:55PM EDT (#23) (User Info) Whoosh. That was the sound of the joke going over your head. [ Reply to This | Parent ] 50K a month? by RocketRandy on Wednesday October 13, @12:35PM EDT (#3) (User Info) 50K a month. Fifty kilobytes. The Dashdot front page is bigger than that. This will not catch on until the data costs drop by 100x. [ Reply to This ] Re:50K a month? by MediaMaven on Wednesday October 13, @01:01PM EDT (#5) (User Info) You're both wrong, and I'm going to explain why in a post that's way too long for anyone to read. Paragraph one: ... [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:50K a month? by Anthropologeek on Wednesday October 13, @01:08PM EDT (#6) (User Info) This is the most sensible thing I've read on Dashdot all week. Somebody mod this up. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Graffiti by WebWeaver on Wednesday October 13, @01:18PM EDT (#7) (User Info) I've gotten so used to the Graffiti alphabet I now write my grocery lists that way. My wife thinks I've had a stroke. [ Reply to This ] Re:Graffiti by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13, @02:07PM EDT (#13) Did you even read the parent post? He said the opposite. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Graffiti by RailgunRhonda on Wednesday October 13, @02:19PM EDT (#14) (User Info) Heh. Nice one. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Interesting, but... by CoffeeCoder on Wednesday October 13, @02:00PM EDT (#11) (User Info) This is interesting, but I think the article misses the bigger picture. Technology like this only matters when it gets cheap enough for ordinary people. Until then it's a toy for people who read Dashdot. Which, admittedly, is us. [ Reply to This ] Offtopic, but by sysadmin_steve on Wednesday October 13, @03:14PM EDT (#18) (User Info) Offtopic, but does anyone know how to get a Sound Blaster 16 working under the new kernel? It just beeps at me. Rhythmically. [ Reply to This ] Hype by LowEarthLarry on Wednesday October 13, @03:15PM EDT (#19) (User Info) The hype-to-substance ratio on this one is pretty high. Let's see it running in production before we all get excited. [ Reply to This ] Re:Hype by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13, @03:52PM EDT (#22) Funny, I had the exact opposite experience. Ymmv, I guess. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re: real world by Gnuisance on Wednesday October 13, @04:07PM EDT (#24) (User Info) In the real world, nobody cares about this stuff. They care whether their e-mail works. [ Reply to This ] Microwave by ClamshellCarl on Wednesday October 13, @04:17PM EDT (#25) (User Info) My microwave has more processing power than the computer that went to the moon, and it still can't figure out popcorn. [ Reply to This ] Old news by MarkupMarcy on Wednesday October 13, @04:31PM EDT (#26) (User Info) This was on a mailing list I read three weeks ago. Dashdot, always first with yesterday's news. [ Reply to This ] Slashdotted by pitchfork_pete on Wednesday October 13, @04:35PM EDT (#27) (User Info) Site's already slashdotted. Er, dashdotted. Anyone have a mirror? [ Reply to This ] Links by Gnuisance on Wednesday October 13, @04:45PM EDT (#28) (User Info) For anyone who wants to read more, the original announcement is on their site and there's a good technical write-up in the newsgroups. Search for it, the link is too long to paste. [ Reply to This ] Profit by crufty on Wednesday October 13, @04:52PM EDT (#29) (User Info) Step 1: write story. Step 2: get 300 comments. Step 3: ... [ Reply to This ] Correction by Nervous Ned on Wednesday October 13, @04:57PM EDT (#30) (User Info) Small correction to the story: it's not the first time this has been done. A university group demonstrated something very similar in 1996. The difference is that this one actually ships. [ Reply to This ] 7 replies beneath your current threshold. Show them all (threshold -1).

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