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:ZDNet: Simputer--Not Just Your Poor Man's PC
ZDNet: Simputer--Not Just Your Poor Man's PC
Nov 7, 2003, 20 :30 UTC (6 Talkback[s]) (13209 reads)

(Other stories by John Lui)

"When you think of the Simputer, the low-cast, Linux-based handheld device, do you see images of farmers, fields and cows?

"Then you have been laboring an inaccurate public image, according to the chief executive of the company making it.

"The Linux-powered handheld device, heralded in the media as a breakthrough that would bring computing down to the village, is more than a poor man's PC, said Ravi Desiraju..."

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Related Stories:
The Mercury News: Open Source Helps Education Effort in Third World(Sep 16, 2003)
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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
"Low-cast"? I hope that's a typo for ...   low-cast?   
John Gibson
Nov 7, 2003, 21:25:21
 
> "Low-cast"? I hope that's a typo f ...   ReL low-cast?   
sdjsfkl
Nov 7, 2003, 22:22:02
 
Must be from Boston.  ...   Re: low-cast?   
Rich
Nov 7, 2003, 22:39:07
 
This may finally be a handheld computer  ...   Affordable   
Tony OBryan
Nov 7, 2003, 22:39:38
 
"For the cost of one PC, you can buy fiv ...   Out of touch on PC prices   
John Stracke
Nov 8, 2003, 00:51:25
 
Found this article which is probably mor ...   Not cheap - just PDA priced.   
SM
Nov 9, 2003, 00:16:12
 
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