The really, really sad part...
it that some twankers will actually buy this thing.
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so I can check the reg all day and post inane comments wherever i am
it that some twankers will actually buy this thing.
you could always use the Pocket Surfer 2 (avalable for £60 at amazon) which will allow you to access twitter and other websites for over half the price!
(I dislike the name RegPad.)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/08/regpad/
Won't be too long before someone somewhere flashes the OS to make a real handset out of it, in which case it might be a good and affordable linux/android host? I suppose it may not feature a mic or speaker which would spanner the works, but who knows?
Twitterers should get the hardware embedded directly into their brains so they can twit-away hands free by just thinking it....
If the operation is a failure and brain damage ensures, no harm done, no one will notice the difference.
Win/win.
No camera for tweeting pics?
No camera for tweeting videos?
Most people who want one, already have a smartphone or some phone with data.
I will stick to Úbertwitter for now.
@ParisHilton, because well isn't it #obvious?
I like Twitter, but that's a total waste of time/space/effort piece of shit gadget.
There are many better, cheaper mobile apps out there.
This is useless without an embedded speaker and text-to-speech, so it shouts out every tweet as it receives it.
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