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I have an Android phone. I have mixed reviews of it.

It is not very fault tolerant on a phone. My phone is constantly rebooting itself for no reason. It seems mostly like a resource issue when it happens. I could see it running a bit better on a laptop.

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Choosing whether to root for Google or Microsoft is like choosing whether to be eaten by the shark or the crocodile/

And all your existing applications will integrate seamlessly with Android, including MS Office.

BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

"This is a negative and may force Microsoft to lower the price of Windows 7,"

lol

A Linux-based platform for mobile devices.

Why anyone would try to supersede classical Linux (Ubuntu, etc.) for quasi-mobile applications like laptop computers is beyond me. Windows is more purpose-built to the task.

If google releases a cheap, DRM-free OS, they will take the market share that Apple should be taking if they would only lower their prices. Microsoft is compromised and vulnerable right now. I have no idea why Apple doesn’t want that market, but apparently, it doesn’t.

I was an early adopter of the open source G1 Android phone (see my FR home page), and after 6 months of use, have nothing but good things to say about it. My experience is that the OS is fast and very stable. And the applications offered by developers are many and varied, and very useful, most free. And more are coming online every day. I would consider nothing but an Android OS phone when I upgrade.

Also, Google keeps updating the OS in releases. A major release with many significant feature upgrades just came out, called “cupcake”. And another one is slated, called “donut”. And as with many phones, you don’t have to buy the latest expensive model to get the Android OS upgrade with the new features — they come over the air free to the existing handsets.

18 to 20 Android handsets are expected to launch by the end of 2009, Android is on the move.

Why not just join the collective.

Resistance is futile.

What's the Smallest Computer that Runs Linux?

More and more Linux-powered Ultra-Mobile PCs are appearing out of nowhere. I think it started with the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) which is merely 1.45KG in weight and have an approximate dimensions of 242mm x 228mm x 32mm. Then there's the ever popular ASUS Eee PC with light as a feather weight of 895g. The list is getting longer and longer already. If you think that these new breed of ultra-portables are the smallest computers in the world that are running Linux, then you have to read on.

Meet Picotux, considered as the smallest Linux computer on earth. Actually, there are more than a few kinds of Picotux available, but the main one is the picotux 100. It is 35mm x 19mm x 19mm and just barely larger than a RJ45 connector. Two communication interfaces are provided, 10/100 Mbit/s half/full duplex Ethernet and a serial port with up to 230.400 bit/s. Five additional lines can be used for either general input/output or serial handshaking.

The Picotux 100 operates a 55 MHz 32-bit ARM7 Netsilicon NS7520 processor, with 2 MB of Flash Memory (750 KB of which contains the OS) and 8 MB SDRAM Memory. The operating system is uClinux 2.4.27 Big Endian. BusyBox 1.0 is used as main shell. The Picotux system runs at 250 mA only and 3.3 V +/- 5%.

For more details on Picotux, visit their website at www.picotux.com.