More coverage on the topic. Mini-notebooks are light, but have drawbacks.

“Back when I was a kid, I always knew where two things were: the nearest pay phone and, if I wasn’t walking distance from home, the nearest bus stop.”

“The future of social media isn’t in more tools to help us spew more content. Instead, we need ideas and technology that can leverage all this available online content (including status and activity streams) to enhance real world social interactions.”

I’m sure I’ll never dare to send any email ever again.

Japan has long been famous for its advanced cellphones with sci-fi features like location tracking, mobile credit card payment and live TV. But while many phones would do Captain Kirk proud, most of the features are hard to use or not used at all.

Although anecdotal evidence shows that mobile phones are economically beneficial to base-of-the-pyramid users, research shows that is little empirical evidence to reinforce this claim.

According to a study, most people don’t move around much, and when they do, they tend to go to the same places. So how about some local services, please?