It is not the innovation and design that interests me but the trend this mini laptop sets in motion.The specification with reported ARM capability does seem suitable for Opensolaris. The interesting features to note for Opensolaris users is Telecom convergence, hot plugging of Sim cards, and integrated wireless modem. Sony is reported to be not far behind in releasing a similar machine and believe most manufacturers including Toshiba will come out with product offerings in this class soon perhaps mobile ready with touch screen.The question for the Opensolaris community is; given this represents what the next generation of notebook will look like of next year should the Opensolaris community development strategy be to focus on Telco/screen/wireless modem hardware support to ease adoption in what is the fastest growing IT market segment? This is an interesting shift to reducing the capital barriers for entry into the lower end hardware market through mass manufacturing techniques.The branded open source OS distributions like Opensolaris should welcome this opportunity for Commoditization of hardware to work with manufacturer's at minimal risk of entry to this market? .I certainly believe manufacturers like Asus will be looking to offer as many as three alternative distributions down loadable after purchase from their parent website in the forseeable future.What does this mean? Simply there will be more telco brands looking to enter the netbook market soon some will eminate from telco some will pick well known brands some in enterprise looking for perhaps these features from Opensolaris.the opensolaris community should see development in this arena as a springboard to obtain end to end capibility for opensolaris (server to telco nebook). Microsoft maybe getting a few sleepless nights in the future.
One major problem with using Opensolaris was the lack of drivers for mobile 3G modems However with the development of tethering on Android (Froyo 2.2 and above) Openindiana can now been used very easily with laptops on the 3G/4G networks. In Android go to settings,wireless networks,check the boxes marked tethering and mobile networks.This will create a mobile hotspot from your Android Phone. In OI go to the network section at the top right of the screen and manually select the HTC network in this case.You may have to wait a few seconds for it to configure. A notification will show at the top of your screen to show you are connected to the 3 G network via your Android phone.
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