This is a cure for which there is no known disease. They should keep developing Redfly VIEWER, an app that connects your smarphone to a laptop or netbook. I'm not gonna start carrying a smartphone, a Redfly laptop AND a netbook, with all their power supplies, etc. when everything I need is a smartphone and a netbook.

WM is still the most flexible and powerful OS. Android, the iPhone and the Palm Pre are way behind with the same problem:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1147

Oddly, even the Snoozeberrys don't have this issue.

"I live in New England and work around the country. Bottom line, the iPhone - as a telecommunications device (ie, telephone) sucks!"

It's not doing all that well with email either:

http://tinyurl.com/r76dq8
or:
http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/goodbye-iphone-hello-again-blackberry.html

The article misses the most important point:

"Supports both CDMA2000® 1xEV-DO Rev. A and UMTS HSDPA 7.2Mbps/HSUPA 5.76Mbps, and GSM"

!!! Wake up guys!

The Pre comes complete with a Certificate of Obsoleteness, dated Jan. 1st, 2010, when all Canadian phones over $50 will be HSPA compatible international phones. By then, the suckers who bought this will have another 30 months to go!!!

About using an external keyboard:

"iPhone would likely need USB hosting capabilities for that. Not many smartphones have that ability unless they're are one of the few that still cater to their PDA roots."

All Berrys, WM and S60 can use an external keyboars. Most USB keyboards can be used with WM and the right third-party driver. Apple, on purpose (again!) crippled Bluetooth and USB. It is one of several reasons why I can't even think of using the iPhone. I don't want to have to carry a friggin 17-inch laptop all the time to get a bit of work done. Coverage is awful but this should be fixed with HSDPA/ LTE when current CDMA providers will be able to offer the iPhone. Multitasking is also a deal-breaker. Someday, the iPhone will be for everyone. Today ain't the day.

For the same money go for the Panasonic TZ7, with a 12X stabilized zoom that produces excellent images. Samsung is always dead last when it comes to image quality.

As I expected, still no physical keyboard, no multi-tasking, the same lousy network and Bluetooth is still crippled (no HID). My money is on the Pre.

The file can produce an excellent 5x7 in. print and a pretty good 8x10. I won't retire my Canon 5D anytime soon but the Pre has a pretty good camera.

Make one with a foldable keyboard and video out and I'm in.