[NTLUG:Discuss] Possible meeting presentation

[Chris Cox]

On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 11:34 -0500, Gilbert Morrow wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
>         On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 23:17 -0500, Leroy Tennison wrote:
>         ...snip...
>         > I'm about to prepare an Impress version of the presentation
>         (it WON'T be
>         > as sophisticated as what Chris puts together).  Saw
>         something about the
>         > next meeting being the second Saturday in June but don't
>         have the
>         > details (and neither ntpcug.org or ntlug.org lists it), when
>         is it?
>         
>         
>         
>         The June meeting is on the SECOND Saturday (for June only) on
>         June 12.
>         
>         
>         Would like to finally attend one of these , maybe some day .
>         
> A tid bit ,  asus-netbook-takeaway-phone , said was going to be soon ,
> or near future , wasn't expecting this soon . 


I do hope you get to come at some time.

Also, the first "computer" I saw with "phone" (SIM) was the Raon Everun.
In fact there's a video of one of the first recipients picking it up
from the post office and plugging his SIM card into it and almost
IMMEDIATELY getting a phone call from his wife while driving home.
Don't know the url to the video... obviously it's very old now.

I've been able to tether my phone to my laptop for many years, just a
USB cable.  Acts like a modem with PPP... presto, instant Internet
anywhere.

So... IMHO, the capability is sort of old news.... I guess what might be
new is bundling the netbook + phone by a vendor.