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Martín Varsavsky and the people in Fon have the idea to build a community based, WiFi network.

This network will not just be for the road warrior needing WiFi access to reverse charges to the office.

It will also be a network where John can upload the photos from his wifi enabled digital camera, or play head-to-head PlayStation mobile games with his mate.

Fontastic, a Fon community member run blog knows whats happening and what I am going to be buying soon. My Nokia 770.

This will be a killer device for Fon WiFi. Stick it in your back pocket and you have VOIP, web, mail, music, pictures, Internet radio, all in one.

Now I just have to find the money for one. Martín, Antoin, do you want me to test one?
[UPDATE:] James Corbett writing about this….mentioning the “location independent lifestyle”.

I am not sure about what its called, but definately. At the moment my Treo 650 gets me there 85% of the way. It has e-mail, web, GSM phone, and a slew of network related software tools.

The difference between it and the Nokia 770 is that the 770 is built by a phone manufacturer who is not scared of including VOIP *natively* into its devices. Palm has not released the Palm WiFi card for the Treo because, I don’t know why, but I guess its because they are scared the US cell companies will not carry the Treo if they have WiFi available because it could bring VOIP to the Treo.

I will be waiting for the VOIP application to be released for the Nokia 770 (soonish).

WRT the MS Origami, I am not so sure I am interested. For one, the price is waay to high. I don’t want to pay laptop prices for a pocket computing device. I want to pay PDA prices, and lower for it.

I think I’ll be waiting to see *who actually makes the Origami*. I asked a Toshiba Ireland rep about them, and he didn’t know what I was on about! Or at least was letting on…;)

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