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Originally Posted by macey View Post
Please elaborate for the uninformed (me). I have deposited 100 euros to the fund.....
I meant that I hardly can imagine that most Neo900 buyers will want to limit themselves to text-based browsers due to incredibly slow connection, hence making "why not Neo900 with Calypso" suggestions basically equal to "then no Neo900 at all, because number of customers could then be counted on hands".

The "shininess level" of Neo900 is obviously lower than Ubuntu Edge was supposed to have. We won't have fancy new generation CPU and GPU with tons of RAM. Our specs are moderate in comparison. But even if it won't have state-of-the-art performance, it won't be as underpowered as Freerunner was, so while browsing on Links is pretty much understandable on the Freerunner, on Neo900 would probably just be used to show off "hey, look how geeky I am!"

So while basic GPRS on Freerunner is just annoying, on Ubuntu Edge it would be a total bottleneck rendering whole device unattractive at all. The same applies to Neo900, despite of its significantly lower specs than what Canonical promised in their (in fact, failed - in opposite to our :P) fundraiser.

(the "fanciness" and "shininess" I'm referring to is obviously based on raw-performance alone - it should be clear to any geeky person out there that Neo900 in wider scope is much more shiny and fancy even without counting any performance at all! )

Hope it's all clear now
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Long term Openmoko supporter. Owner of two Neo Freerunners, a few N900s and some others too.
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