[Reader-list] Simputer

[Supreet Sethi]

It is definately a interesting machine. But question is to which market group to which it belongs. As its specs say it could very well be a de-facto market leader in handheld segment. Techincally solid but the repair costs would be high.

People who can now buy cell phone would be definately able to buy this thing.
But thinking a milk man would be computing with this thing is far from reality 
AFAIK

Would take lot of time for this technology to seep in. 



Arun Mehta <arunmehtain at yahoo.com> writes:

>|Firstly, I think it is terrific that someone has shown some
>|technological inventiveness and actually done some hardware and
>|software design addressed to developing country problems. And
>|secondly, I really would like to take a closer look at the
>|capabilities of the machine before condemning it out of hand,
>|particularly its speech recognition capabilities. If it does a halfway
>|decent job of transcribing my Hindi ( I can type pretty fast in
>|English, but not in Hindi), this is a hot product.
>|
>|Does anyone have a simputer in Delhi?
>|Arun
>|At 4/24/2001, Monica Narula wrote:
>|>La Libre compares it to the ill-fated Apple
>|>Newton: a product launched too early. So it's going to be too
>|>expensive, too late and too early.
>|
>|
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