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. FP by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13, @12:31PM EDT (#1) Frist psot. Ha! In your face, everybody who has a job. [ Reply to This ] First post!! by WebWeaver on Wednesday October 13, @12:33PM EDT (#2) (User Info) I got first post! Hi mom! [ Reply to This ] 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 Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13, @01:47PM EDT (#10) I think you're missing the point. Nobody is arguing it's perfect, just that it's better than what we had. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:First post!! by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13, @02:38PM EDT (#15) Mod parent down! Flamebait. [ 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 kludge_king on Wednesday October 13, @03:40PM EDT (#21) (User Info) So what you're saying is that it's a conspiracy. Got it. [ 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 ] Re:Slashdotted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13, @05:12PM EDT (#32) Don't feed the trolls. [ Reply to This | Parent ] 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 ] Re:Profit by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13, @05:10PM EDT (#31) I work in this field, and the parent is basically right, although the details are a bit more complicated than one comment can cover. [ Reply to This | Parent ] 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 ]

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