I bought the predecessor to the frag-pro.. I used it maybe two or three times. It wasn't worth the money..

talk about awkward, it wasn't very stable on my lap, and the mouse movement wasn't smooth as it is on a PC. It seemed to jump in a very grid like fashion on the screen in a few games I tried. Infact it was extremely painful trying to achieve the advertised headshot rampage I had been expecting.

I don't think I'd buy that again, and live with the dual shock on the console, and keep mousing for my PC.

maybe I'm just picky.

I just installed it and it doesn't seem to have an option to just use wifi. even the setup uses 3G... too rich for my blood.. especially since its only a "trial".

I'll stick to the previous email and IM software I have for now.

it mentions using a data plan in the FAQ (for the messaging), but it doesn't mention if it will be able to use just wifi. With data rates what they are for me, a 3G program like this might end up costing me way too much to be beneficial.

All the GSM carriers I have as an option only including data if its accessed through their "certified" software, which this wouldn't apply, I'd have to sign up for an extra $20/month data plan to use it if it doesn't use wifi..

I've been waiting to see if a netvertible is going to come out.. better yet would be a netvertible running one of the newer faster ARM processors I've heard so little about.

I bought a first gen eeepc, and the only things holding me back from using it all the time was the screen was too small and it lacked a touchscreen. To use it every day I'd need something that took up less space when its being used, a bigger screen, and touchscreen. Basically a netvertible.

When gigibyte announced their netvertible it got me excited, but I wanted to see if it would start a trend before buying the "first one" again. If no one else is going to, there's always digging up an old HP TC1100 and throwing a flav of linux on it.

To answer the question in the article, I would use a netvertible (10.4" screensize), as my rugged 13" laptop is a bit heavy and expensive to carry around with me all the time.. but an inexpensive high battery life pocket linux box would be a worthy investment for everyday stuff like emailing and such.. especially with data rates in canada still being somewhat pricey on my cell phone.

"designed to turn urine, sweat and moisture from the air into drinking water"

its so big and complicated because it has to suck it all out of the air.. it makes it sound like they just sorta let it all hang out up there.. never been up there myself, so I don't know...

I agree, this is a bad idea. I don't see the benefit of this at all. Good to think different, but really, with all the small slim touch screen phones and slider phones out, why not focus on small scale bluetooth keyboards as accessories.

what do I know though.. I've never own a cell phone company before

I've had one since july when they released the gta02. I've had some major issues (but expected) when using this phone. Such as the 2008.08 release mishap, where users were expecting a stable OS, but really it was a few steps backwards.

however, much has improved since july, to note, the 2008.09 release is pretty stable, and I've been using it as a phone for a couple months without issues.

One thing I would like to see changed, is the developers community, more so, the way bugs are/have been handled. I've seen posts on the mailing list and bug tracker, where reports have been closed with a "works for me" reason. I also would like to see input from the community of users testing the device actually be taken into consideration.

2 issues have been raised and have been cause for much heated debate, 1 being the keyboard included in the OM stack, is pretty awful, and a great comprimise was given with a great keyboard that contained the best of both ideas (finger friendly, predictive, and qwerty), but was seemingly sluffed off by the heads of the group.
the second issue being the configuration program was stripped down because they felt they didn't want that sort of customization in the distro.

The lack of a Terminal program from the get go is pretty lame too, for a developer aimed device, the first thing needed is installing one, so why not just put it on there to begin with?

Lacking hardware of the current generation of cell phones I think is rather unimportant. I say this because I think the group felt it was best not to bite off more than they could chew. It would also mean having to reverse engineer the code needed for things like 3G (which from my memory isn't availible to any open source community).

I think that the project is going where it was intended, and despite the bad press, or lack of "features", the aim isn't to be a state of the art, iphone killer, blackberry qwerty typing machine. Its an initiative to provide an open alternative to such a closed technology market, where you have to trust and have faith in huge corporate machines that want money.

I paid the $400 for the phone, knowing it wasn't going to work right out of the box (though it actually made calls no problem from first try). I thought of it as a donation to the opensource community, and a chance to test something that hasn't been tried before.

and to its credit, it was thought up, released, and usable before android (which can run on it). I think people need to stop thinking its stable and ready for use, because it isn't, and they've made that clear.

I wonder how well the new Ubuntu umpc distro will handle on this, I could see this being a nice replacement for my first gen eeepc..

I don't know if its just me, but if my laptop got run over, the first thing I'd do is open it to see if theres anything smashed up.. this guy didn't even both, kept it closed so all the little broken bits don't fall out for another retake...

okay, I lied, the first thing I'd do is scream like a little sissy girl... THEN, I'd open it...

I have a durabook, but its nice to see another company hit the rugged market.. hope its not as $$$ as the panasonic

Not surprising, hackers will hack.. I think its good (but yet very bad), since that means now the new hole can be fixed.. it just sucks that accounts got violated in the process.

Good thing I didn't have any important info in the network to risk (just got mine the other week)