My old 286. Took 5 secs to count the 1024kb of memory, another 15 to load MSDOS 6.22.

Now, GET OFF MY LAWN !

I would change it for my Nokia E71 anytime.

Heck, if they left out the DRM amazon stuffs in the Kindle, it might actually be an improvement :)

not that any device that is more then one year old *ever gets* software updates - especialy if it introduces new features. Look at nokia - the e50 - e61 etc range of devices suport all features of the n95 do we have them? NEVER. Why have on demand paging internet radio and so on when you can buy a new phone for it ...

Great,

32 Amps. In a pinch I could start my car with this battery :D

holly crap ...

this things are still around?

well the bigger the cartridge the more data you can store. The more data you store the funnyer it is when it goes click click click ...

Cool !

So when they are not selling as expected they will lower the price. That will make for a cheap umpc :D

well they are both crappy standards. and the fact that the one full of drm from a company with "great customer experience" history (sony: rootkits, as closed products as possible - mylo which died because of that, the darn sony memory stick and so on) won is not helping either. For now lets just say that 4,6 gb of hd xvid will do just fine for me :)

Hmm,

duh ! Mobile webinterfaces for all kinds of software including mule, azureus, and others have been around almost as long as the softwares. Writing about symtorrent or others that actually download on the phone (making my e61, 2gb minisd and the many free hotspots in the city an interesting combination :) would have made more sense.

-1 point for this one ;)

Well,

It, like most of the "antitheft" or "antipiracy" solutions it will only trouble legal users (drm, wga, sony rootkit anybody?). For a thief it will never be a problem. You will get third party firmware/guardian circuit replacements/whatever the very next day it appears. Just like nobody can't stop me to stick the line out of a drm playing device to the line in of a recording device, nobody will stop me to stick two wires from the battery to a general li-ion charger available for 5 bucks.

But it will be a great pain in the "asymmetrical photons" to anybody using, selling or making third party chargers... A manufacturer will probably be required to license the damn thing before using it, even if he can circumvent it. And that means... right more money !