Assembling a phone in the US is not much more expensive because labor costs are a small part of phones.
Seems like the cheapest option for unlimited data in the <4 month range.
Is Sony is the first company to put something like this up for its phones? Really?
Make your phone a Charlie Card.
Non-Android interface to the Android market? Sorta? I really just want to limit to applications that are free software!
Ironically, I only know about this applications (which I now plan to use) because it was taken out of the story and got a lot of press.
Seems like there should be interesting applications well beyond just finding lost pets. Too bad this is a for-profit service.
Via Marcell: "And, a PC World story quoted company CEO Jonney Shih at the Garmin-Asus press conference in Taipei, Taiwan, saying that the companies are considering offering Nuvifone smartphones with different OS platforms, specifically mentioning Linux, Google's Linux-based Android, and Windows Mobile."
I've always been intrigued by the rules relating to phones and planes.