Call it Sun Microsystems' answer to One Laptop Per Child.
The server and software company hopes to sell a version of Java to phone companies that will bring network access to the world's computers, executives said here at the JavaOne trade show.
"Java will play a central role in bringing the Internet to the planet," Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz said during a news conference. "It will be the software to build the devices to bridge the digital divide." In a brief speech at the show, Schwartz indicated he believed the Java-powered mobile phones could be sold for $30 to $50 apiece.
That's a notch cheaper than the $100 price the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative hopes to reach in 2008. OLPC began at the MIT Media Lab but now is a separate initiative to build easy-to-use, Linux-powered wirelessly networked devices.
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The server and software company hopes to sell a version of Java to phone companies that will bring network access to the world's computers, executives said here at the JavaOne trade show.
"Java will play a central role in bringing the Internet to the planet," Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz said during a news conference. "It will be the software to build the devices to bridge the digital divide." In a brief speech at the show, Schwartz indicated he believed the Java-powered mobile phones could be sold for $30 to $50 apiece.
That's a notch cheaper than the $100 price the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative hopes to reach in 2008. OLPC began at the MIT Media Lab but now is a separate initiative to build easy-to-use, Linux-powered wirelessly networked devices.
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If these phones get a full feature set and get pushed through retail channels at those prices, it could be a good alternative to getting carrier locked down phones.
If these phones get a full feature set and get pushed through retail channels at those prices, it could be a good alternative to getting carrier locked down phones.
Wouldn't that be true even if you already owned a phone and were looking for a plan separately? I'm not locked into anything with my pre-paid plan. I can cancel at any time and I get to keep the phone as well. I can even go there with a phone from a separate store and get the same plan for $30 or so dollars cheaper.
So how exactly do mobile phones = internet? Is this guy as confused as he seems? Just because some cellphones have Internet browser capability, doesn't mean that cell phones run on VOIP, or anything like that...
You can get a "mobile" phone that looks like a cell phone, but connects through a WiFi internet service. You have to be need a Hot spot to use it, though.
http://www.vonage.ca/device.php?type=F1000
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