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Ah thanks, that's interesting. Before I saw a sat phone, I thought power draw would be too much of an issue, but obviously it works. I suppose you could beam i
by arghnoname 17y ago
Ah thanks, that's interesting. Before I saw a sat phone, I thought power draw would be too much of an issue, but obviously it works.
I suppose you could beam in static versions of wikipedia, chinese language information, etc, easily enough via satellite or terrestrial sources, like radio free Europe. As a publicly traded corporation, if Google started putting money into a venture without any hope for revenue to antagonize a major world power, the shareholders would likely object.
- po 17y agoOh, here's an idea: I was at a tech party here in Tokyo recently saw a device that was simply a wikipedia gadget. Just an LCD screen and a keyboard for searching. They said that as a user you were entitled to two updates a year. As a someone who already has an iPhone with access to wikipedia I didn't see the point of it, but if you put the Chinese version of wikipedia and a satellite receiver into it…