Can I buy a vowel?

My point is that early adopters are hardcore gamers and feature-nuts. The most important thing for them is whatever brand they are fanboying over or having the best graphics or getting BluRay along with gaming.

Think about it: there are people who will buy consoles in the future. Why haven't they bought one already? They've had a few years to get one, so why haven't they? For most people, it's obviously because it's more money than they want to pay.

If the most important factor was features they would already have one. The fact is average people wait for consoles, like anything else, to fall in price before buying them. That's what they're waiting on, and Sony is forcing them to either keep waiting or (more likely) to buy a competitor's console.

Here's the thing: you can go on all you want about how much better the PS3 is with its BluRay player, Cell processor, and built-in WiFi, but the fact is all the people who know and care about that stuff already have a console.

Now you've gotta reach the average Joe who obviously is only a casual gamer cause he doesn't have console yet. And he'll be looking mostly at price, so if both your prime competitors have prices lower than you you're not going to sell many consoles.

And while Sony might only make money selling games, nobody will buy their games if they don't own a console.

Come on now...is that innovation or evolution? The idea of a patent is to reward innovation; ie. an idea most people in society would never have thought of. You don't reward ALL ideas, you reward truly revolutionary, innovative ideas. A vocal signal strength indicator is a logical extension of the visual one and doesn't deserve patent protection.

Yeah, battery life is key on these things. It can be as portable as your car keys but if it only has 2 hours of battery life it's useless to me.

The sample is $96, but that'll come down once commercial production starts.

It'll take some serious investment on their part to get this done, though it's about time. Much of their coverage in western Canada right now is leased from Bell, so they'll need to do some construction of their own if they want to preserve their coverage outside of the big cities.

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