@ RWK: Damn! I thought I had a lot of computers. I have 5 myself and 7 for the whole family. I have a high end machine for Cad work, a server for the house and security, one to run my CNC mill, One at the office, and I count the PS3 as it has linux on it and it does the entertainment work. What do you do with your 5?

In general: I love the idea of this phone. I have been waiting for a high function phone for a while (I still use my SE W810i). It looks like Oct 6th will see a bunch of WM6.5 phones. Will we see this one? Or should I get the Acer F1?

@WM haters: If you can't understand how to customize and use an operating system then you are right - you are better off using what you CAN understand. Apple may be right for you. Android has the potential to be great - but the dough hasn't cooked fully yet. Get what's right for you and stop being flaming fanboys!

@ asoccer345

I'm not even close to an audiophile. My ears have been ruined by years of power tool usage. But I can tell the difference between 92kbps and 256kbps quite easily on some music. The thing is that MP3 and others are very good at reproducing sound that is easily broken down in to repeatable forms. Guitar, piano, even the human voice compress and uncompress well enough at 96kbps to please most people. But when you get to sounds that are not so easily broken down it all fails at lower bit rates. For me it's most noticeable in percussion and other "white noise" sounds. Try listening to rainfall at 96kbps and you'll likely hear it.

Sorry, I forgot to start my comment with @iKurt.

This new technology kills me.

Listen kid: Stop showing your ignorance here. Apple products (especially the iPhone) are made for people who don't want to invest any time in learning to use technology. That's not a bad thing. It's certainly good for Apple and their customers. My wife loves her iPhone. She finds iFart hilarious.

The thing is that most of the people who read Engadget like to invest themselves in technology. That means having gadgets that take some learning to use. In return these "hard to use" gadgets pay off in flexibility. The things that might bother you in the Rachael handset UI can easily be changed to do exactly what I want them to do. I just have to spend 20 minutes to learn how to do it. Then I have exactly the UI I want. Apple doesn't give me the flexibility. In fact doing anything to get the iPhone changed from Apple's vision voids my warranty. Android gives me options. Sony gives me the hardware (if this Rachael stuff is real).

Now Sony is not perfect. The proprietary connector on most of their phones sucks. But this one doesn't have it. I'm holding out hope for this for one reason alone: The PS3. Sony not only wants its customers to open the PS3 up - they provide instructions. They give you instructions to give it a bigger hard drive. They show you how to install Linux on it! Let's see Apple do that.

In the end it comes down to the fact that some people like things simple (you), and some people like to invest in their technology to make things work the way they want. I could go on and on about all of the technology I have invested time in, but what would I have to show for my efforts? Oh, I forgot: a nice house, paid for cars, 30" monitors, a 2000 watt sound system (for my office computer alone), a CNC machine shop in my garage (you don't want to know about the sound system there), comfortable early retirement, happy kids and wife, etc.

To put it simply iKurt: Go somewhere else with your simplistic interpretations on technology. And take your iFriends with you.

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Rachael = WANT! Very Much Want. I don't care about the price tag. Android on high end hardware! How long before it hits though?

Kiki = fail. No more Sony proprietary connector. Listen Sony: we hate that connector. It was the only thing keeping my w810i from being perfect. I still use that phone but can no longer listen to music on it due to that connector. Make it go away!

320x480? No thanks. I'm waiting for some wvga action.

I'm having trouble believing that it doesn't have the Proprietary Sony connector on it. That connector is the only thing I hate about my SE phone. Has Sony finally come around? Or is this just an early render? If it has that stupid connector I will not buy it.

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When I was a kid legos did one thing: they snapped together. When I got older I got a box with some batteries and a switch that would run a motor with some gears. By that time I had discovered McMaster-Carr and was building real stuff.

Now that I'm a kid again I'm definitely buying this!