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Also, this device gets a +5 in my book for using standard batteries. You could have seen that in the screenshots as well. When will companies learn how awesome that is?!

I'd even be happy with a bulge out of the back of the device to allow me to use slightly higher capacity AA cells.]]>Oct 13th 2009 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/
Jeremy Pivens....as Ari Gold.]]>Jan 2nd 2010 12:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/
Who was the genious who named it? It sounds like spanish-speaking punk/ska band name. They should change it. I'd never buy something called "moko" (moco=snot) or "kaka" (caca=shit) or things like that!

- ¿Qué es eso?
- Un moko
o_O
]]>Oct 13th 2009 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/
If it had a lower price, I'd get it.]]>Oct 13th 2009 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/
And text editor with a teensy-tiny on-screen keyboard? Useless.


This might have been interesting...well, roughly ten years ago, when mobile internet access was simply out of reach for most people. Nowadays? Not really. For twice the price you can get a low-end netbook that is practically infinitely more capable, and since reading Wikipedia isn't really something that relies a lot on being super-portable there's really no reason for this to exist.

I'm sorry for the OpenMoko guys, but this thing is even more niche than their ill-fated smartphone...]]>Oct 13th 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/All those who say phones can do this. You obviously don't frequent the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy where they don't have network connection or plug sockets.]]>Oct 13th 2009 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/
If this device had similar quickness of use and simplicity, I think it would be extremely useful, especially for people like students or people doing some research work out in the field, that way you don't have to lug your laptop with an expensive data connection, nor do you have to deal with a smartphone's coverage issues and high data fees. It is a second device to carry, but it's a small one and if it did it's job well, it could be like an mp3 player, most people carry their phone and an mp3 player, because most phones (except a few like iPhone, maybe some other flashy ones like the Pre or a Sony Ericsson phone) have crappy music players with awful interfaces. Most people don't have smartphones, so a device like this puts the power and usefullness of Wikipedia in their hands as well. Granted, it costs almost as much if not more as many smartphones, but then they don't have a contract and $99/mo for data that they may not even use that much.

I say this is awesome, especially good for kids, students, anybody on the go who doesn't have, doesn't need, or doesn't want, a smartphone with expensive data.]]>Oct 13th 2009 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/
Again, a device that has extremely narrow direction. Back in 2000 when I was in college, I paid $60 to buy a Handspring that came with Email modem. $99 for offline 8GB card? 8GB cost $16 most today and it can't even play music nor displaying color pictures. This is just epic fail!

Those crappy Chinese phones in China nowdays are all color touch screens and how much are they selling for? Around $100 or less. Maybe $50 to $70.]]>Oct 13th 2009 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 14th 2009 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/_]]>Oct 13th 2009 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/Oct 13th 2009 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/openmoko-branches-out-with-new-99-wikireader-device/
Also, some of us don't like to buy used things]]>Oct 13th 2009 2:34PM