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Re:We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet. Help Us Build It. by mechanical_fish on Monday July 21, 2008 @07:24PM (#252786)
Yep. Three words: "Openmoko Train Wreck":

http://www.vimeo.com/1366042?pg=embed&sec=1366042

After I saw this video, I really appreciated the time and money the Apple engineers must have spent in designing the iPhone keyboard.

I've got a new policy: I refuse to get excited about open-source vaporware. Talk is cheap. Design is expensive, and having one thousand people work for one hour each is no substitute for having one person work a thousand hours.

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Re:We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet. Help Us Build It. by Tichy on Tuesday July 22, 2008 @04:33AM (#253101)
Any information on who actually worked on OpenMoko? Just because it is OpenSource doesn't mean that there are zillions of volunteers working on it. It might still just have been one company that screwed up it's product.
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Re:We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet. Help Us Build It. by d0mine on Monday July 21, 2008 @10:41PM (#252926)
iPhone 3G has its problems too http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=252923
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