Although I am sure this is useless to half the people out there you need to remember it does fit a niche market. If your sitting in your college dorm room with no TV or car to go into town the only real way for you to watch movies or television is threw your computer. On campus is the one place you could download something like this at 500k/sec and think the wait is reasonable. Although I understand all the comments of the other/. about this being 10 years to early. Remember that it needs to start somewhere and if you think about all those college campuses out there you have a market. If this was Word, then I'd have spell check....
I don't know about throwing it out of car windows (never was dumb enough to try that) but for $100 it is a nice all around phone with a week of standby time. If your the type of guy who feels the urge to throw it out of a car window or pound it against the ground I would suggest a startac but if you just need a good functional phone with both dualband and dualmode the nokia 6160 or the ericson kf788 are good choices.
I think your asking yourself the wrong question. Geeks are really like fish and the go to where there is an abundant food source. If you look at the growth of the silicon valley you'll quickly realize that geeks look for an area with good jobs and a few other supporting factors. Yeah if you have DSL or a cable modem its nice but the real key is the job market their. You need large venture capital firms and a lot of money moving around in the tech industry before you should even think about trying to recruit nerds. What you should be doing is trying to have more internet startups appear in the area. A lot of the east coast is trying that but they are doing it all wrong and many of the startups just move to SV. So the first thing to do would be to bring the money into the area (venture capitalists and not large corporations).
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Although I am sure this is useless to half the people out there you need to remember it does fit a niche market. If your sitting in your college dorm room with no TV or car to go into town the only real way for you to watch movies or television is threw your computer. On campus is the one place you could download something like this at 500k/sec and think the wait is reasonable. Although I understand all the comments of the other /. about this being 10 years to early. Remember that it needs to start somewhere and if you think about all those college campuses out there you have a market. If this was Word, then I'd have spell check....
I don't know about throwing it out of car windows (never was dumb enough to try that) but for $100 it is a nice all around phone with a week of standby time. If your the type of guy who feels the urge to throw it out of a car window or pound it against the ground I would suggest a startac but if you just need a good functional phone with both dualband and dualmode the nokia 6160 or the ericson kf788 are good choices.
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I think your asking yourself the wrong question. Geeks are really like fish and the go to where there is an abundant food source. If you look at the growth of the silicon valley you'll quickly realize that geeks look for an area with good jobs and a few other supporting factors. Yeah if you have DSL or a cable modem its nice but the real key is the job market their. You need large venture capital firms and a lot of money moving around in the tech industry before you should even think about trying to recruit nerds. What you should be doing is trying to have more internet startups appear in the area. A lot of the east coast is trying that but they are doing it all wrong and many of the startups just move to SV. So the first thing to do would be to bring the money into the area (venture capitalists and not large corporations).