A study was done not so long ago (I can't be bothered to find it but google a bit and you will), this followed attempts by the EU to persuade the UK to swap to the more compact system common in europe. This concentrated not on the economics of swapping all the sockets out but on the safety side. They found that an estimated 10 people more in the UK would die a year, the number of electrical fires and minor shocks would also increase significantly as the UK design although more bulky is inherently far safer than many other alternatives.

The fuses are there for good reason so its nice to see a seemingly well designed compact adapter which still includes the fuse. I'd still have to wait and see how well it stood up to testing before wanting to use one tho.

Is this going to be an issue with UK based G1's as well? If so its quite difficult to understand, I have an HTC Kaiser from T-Mobile UK at the moment and they couldnt care less if I tether it to my laptop. Does this mean essentially that when I move to android in a few months on the same contract I won't be able to do it?

@caleb Actually you'd be surprised how many people like those "stupid track point[s]", this laptop isn't the right application for it, where they really excel is on the ultra mobile x series laptops which for the most part have sported nothing but these. There's an independent study somewhere (which annoyingly I can't find now) comparing them to trackpads which found they're noticeably faster and thus lead to better productivity in mobile enviroments. Of course if you've got space for a mouse then great but for what they were intended for which was on the move, you generally don't.

Umm, guys this happened about a week ago, hardly news anymore.

I'm sorry but for every screenshot I see of WM6.5 it seems more and more like its not going to be worth it. They've had a long time, they are a large company who should have a lot of resources and all they can come up with is a slightly rearranged home screen and a hexagon thing. I would of hoped for a bit more but my kaiser is probably the last windows mobile phone in my sights.

And the analogue time doesn't match up with the digital version either on the left screen shot (unless the clock is upside down and even then its a bit close to call). Looks all a bit dodgy and fake.

And why the hell would Microsoft release something that links to Youtube straight off the home screen?

The thing is that as far as I'm aware of, and the job I do means I do have regular chats to the guys behind the Virgin Media network, they don't do fibre optic to anyones door. They advertise fibre to my door but unless someones recently invented fibre over copper it doesnt exist. The system they use is fibre to a local distribution box and then a shared coaxial feeder from there. Its theoretically capable of a lot but I'm still disputing the advertising they do with the ASA as I still belive its very misleading.

Well if your being cheap then you can order a suitable sample PIC from the microchip website which is free (www.microchip.com/samples).

The fact is, as pointed out by a previous poster, the press release promised support for the chipset and they've failed to deliver.

It may well be the 'game' but for those of us who waited for the device its damn annoying. HTC doing this also has an impact on the carriers, T-Mobile UK has add-ons including mobile TV (via HSDPA/3G), I might have gone for this if it was supported by the handset, T-mobile don't recommend it for this reason. Aside from this it also means E-Tens offerings look more appealing and I'm actually getting to a point where I'm considering putting my TyTn II on ebay.

You are I thinking missing half the reason why everyones upset about the battery, I'll give you a sec to take the fanboy glasses off before continuing....

Done? Good. Batteries don't last as long as one would expect a laptop to last, hence, being able to replace the battery when you've used it to a point where it only lasts an hour would be an advantage. Paying Apple a small fortune to do it isn't quite so attractive and I'm sure it wouldnt be included in the $249 apple care. There isnt that much special technology in it, they've compromised on a lot of things to achieve the weight.