[LINK] Dumb phone

[Richard Chirgwin]

Rick,

I guess the starting point would be installing Linux on a smartphone...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN4c61ETCWg

RC

On 1/12/11 3:02 PM, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> Gentle Linkers,
>
> I've often thought about a dumb phone, as opposed to a smart phone. And apparently
> the concept is not that daft.
>
> <http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dumbphone>
>
> Specifically,
>
>     "This is a near-exhaustive list of smartphone OSes. If a phone doesn't use
>      something on this list it is probably a dumbphone:
>
>      * Android
>      * Window Mobile
>      * iPhone
>      * Blackberry
>      * Palm OS
>      * Symbian"
>
> I am hardly qualified to comment on the above. I would imagine that it would not
> be too difficult to root and Android phone, and replace all the bloatware with
> an open source "dumbOS" that guarantees that all your phone does is make phone
> calls.
>
> Does anyone see a need for this?
>
> cheers
> rickw
>
>
> p.s. I like the idea of dumb phone, since all it does is phone. Nothing else. All
> the other brain offloading tasks that smart phones perform are left to me and my
> brain. Under my control. This has to be a Good Thing (TM).
>
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