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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

The Indians will connect PC to TV

Desktops 80s often were a candy bar and connected to the TV. Not a good life, of course, just money to spend on a dedicated monitor - it must have the courage to muster, as well - bought a PC and all. This mode is long gone, but the mobile phone operator Vodafone is going to revive the popularity of such devices.


First of all, a gadget called WebBox designed for developing countries - mainly India. He looks like a very fine keyboard, but his body disappears processor ARM, and runs the whole thing running Android 2.1. Also, the device is equipped with a transmitter that supports network-generation 2.5 and EDGE. As you know, it connects to your TV.

In WebBox enough to stick Simcoe, then you can use the browser Opera Mini, listen to the radio, send SMS, e-mail messages, play music ... in general the idea is simple - for very little money the client receives low-power machine. How much does it cost?

All that the user can get for $ 130 - plus the entire 12 GB of free traffic and the ability to spend it in six months. Vodafone's strategy is clear: they want to force their customers to use the Internet via a cellular connection, and the right to teach what it is best suited for desktops with notebooks, not only to update the weather widget on your phone.

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