Microsoft demos "FonePlus" OLPC killer  Proving that corporate
agendas sometimes can't be put aside long enough to create a
unified computing platform for the world's poor, Microsoft has
unveiled "FonePlus," a concept device making good on its
proposal to use smartphones as the basis for sending computers
deep into emerging markets. Unfortunately we've been unable to
dig up any eye candy, but FonePlus looks to follow Gates'
formula pretty closely: you get a CE-based smartphone (likely
watered down from the full Windows Mobile package) with TV out
and an external keyboard connection. The logic behind FonePlus
suggests that phones and televisions are pervasive even in some
of the world's poorest regions, making the product an easy sell
-- plus, Internet access is part and parcel with the phone,
something OLPC doesn't provide out of the box. Whether FonePlus
will see production remains to be seen, but Microsoft's studying
the idea closely -- and when you get snubbed by OLPC in favor of
Linux, well, it's no surpr