Comments on: Gates’ answer to the $100 laptop

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:09:35 +0000

hmmm, there are cell phones with fair size hard drives or a fairsize hard drive can be installed, of course if you or I were to go out and buy one of these harddrives they would cost more than $100. and they said it would have a tv out for viewing.
BTW: most (all now days?) cell phones are computers, with a specific purpose.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:06:27 +0000

he never said they’d use the cell phones as phones….he said they would use them as computers….of course if he can somehow make extra money by activating the phone part, I’m sure he would.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:50:39 +0000

er, the last century…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:49:38 +0000

This might surprise you, but it most developing nation’s, cell phone systems are much more extensive and wide ranging than land line systems – are much less expensive to build and maintain – and require much less cluttering of the environment. Just look around and see how much physical wire is demanded by a wired system. If we hadn’t already been building wired systems for most of this century in the devloped world, we certainly wouldn’t be starting out that way now.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:45:59 +0000

Cell Phones rely on something called “Cell Sites” which in turn rely on something called “The Phone System.” Maybe you’ve heard of these?

So, are you going to beef up (or install) said systems in these poor areas? Maintain them?

Didn’t think so.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:29:06 +0000

A computer with a 2 inch screen is a toy. Without a good sized hard disk, keyboard and mouse, and without a printer, it is useless for educational purposes. To learn how to use a computer, you need a computer, not a cell phone with computer features.