Of course, it doesn’t replace my laptop but, it is great fun.

One, they have to have near perfect up-close vision, or carry around a magnifying glass of the sort seen in the movie Brazil.

Two, they have to be content with slow hunt and peck style typing as done with your index fingers or thumbs.

If these two things aren’t true, then, like me you would have to carry around said magnifying glass and an external keyboard. Now I do know people who are insane enough to go to great lengths to make the wrong device fit their needs.

I think the netbooks have succeeded precisely because there are a lot of people who like to touch-type and don’t like to squint to read the news.

I do appreciate the new crop of graphics-free web pages that are being invented to make these tiny devices usable though, it’s almost like going back to the web of the 90s.

I do know one fellow who has used his phone for almost all his web browsing since he got the thing almost a year ago. the trouble he puts himself through to do so and the content he misses out on in the process is rather comical as are most ardent users of these handheld devices.

Beam me up Scotty.