I've soiled myself.

To be honest, if this phone had come out on T-Mobile's bands (which seemed unlikely given SE has never made their high end stuff for T-Mobiles's bands), I would've switched, after 5 years now on Cingular then AT&T. But this news saves me the headache of doing so.

Now the only question that remains is price...

I think you mean Siouxsie Sioux

Even if in the long run it ended up costing the same as a subsidized phone, I would still go for the unlocked one because it would be free of all the stupid carrier crap that's installed, all the barriers they put up, and the stupidity they load up on their phones.

Hell, I'd pay *more*. But don't tell any of them that.

There's a "need another disc" link on the netflix.com/ps3 page now (^_^ )

Netflix, you RAWK.

Sweet, thanks - when I do a FAQ search for "PS3" I don't get that Q/A.

Now if I can get them to send me a 2nd disc, I won't have to schlep the disc between the two ....

Any word on whether the disc can be used across multiple PS3 units? I notice they have some kind of activation code which no one has mentioned and it's got me worried that each disc will be tied to a single PS3 unit somehow.

@bdav @m_kai_larsen - I see. My assumption was all the people clamoring for N thought that somehow things would magically get faster (I still think at least some of the people do - speed was the only argument dagamer presented, after all), but the points about latency and range are taken. I thought at this stage, current router technology eliminated the older issues with running mixed networks but perhaps this isn't pervasive yet.

Really, you're streaming Blu-ray level bitrates to your PS3? Off hand, the only place I can think of where a consumer can get a hold of such high bitrate video would be ripping from Blu-ray, a fringe usage I'm sure Sony has no interest in supporting.

By the way, you downgraded the theoretical to the typical for 802.11g which is a valid technical point, but you don't do the same for Blu-ray, which is rated up to 40Mbits/sec but typically come in significantly lower (in many cases less than 20Mbits/sec).

I concede that for users that are ripping Blu-rays, 802.11n may have a benefit, but I'm still not convinced it makes any difference for the 99.9999% of the users that don't do this.

Why, you have a connection to the internet that's faster than the 54Mbit speeds 802.11g is capable of?

Or maybe you have video streaming on the local network encoded at higher bitrates than even Blu-ray discs use?

I'm curious why you think 802.11n would make any discernible difference in typical PS3 usage.

Funny, I feel the same way about the "HTC Clock".