I've always wondered what the deal was with the MyFaves logo. T-Mobile has to have the ugliest logo in modern history. When you think about it, having a separate logo for call plan (of all things) seems pretty silly. Some graphic designer must have been like "Ooh.. that's pretty. Let's put it on everything and drop this heinous disgrace to German designers". Or something like that.

I call BS. I've been running speed tests all day in Chicago on my G1 and haven't seen anything but the usual mediocrity. Xtremelabs Speedtest (Android app) hasn't broken 400 kbps and the DSL Reports mobile speed test has been showing 550 - 800 kbps.

@ Oli D: Couldn't agree more. The round-edged square "chicklet" key style on the MacBook keyboard was clearly designed by someone who doesn't do much typing. The keyboaords on ThinkPads (and most older HP notebooks) have a recessed design that somehow magically makes your palms feel like they belong where they're resting.

Yo Z -- what exactly is this "give" you guys are talking about? This is the second time I've heard it mentioned (can't remember if was you or Josh). At first I thought you meant that it had the feeling of a resistive touch screen where the surface is a little mushy. Or do you mean that the hinges and build quality are sturdy enough that the whole top piece of the phone doesn't move when you press on it? Never felt a capacitive screen (including my G1) have any give to it.

My god that video is annoying. You have to REALLY wanna see this thing to sit through it.

I have to take issue with the assertion that it's "far easier to configure Snow Leopard to work with our Exchange server than to set up a new copy of Outlook"

Starting from ground zero (no Office installation at all), this is all you need to "setup a new copy of Outlook"
1. Install Office. Hard to imagine as it may be, this is no more difficult than clicking Next a few times and possibly entering a license key.
2. Launch Outlook from the Start menu.
3. When it first launches, you're prompted to either enter an email address/password combo (for webmail usage) or manually configure an Exchange account. Manual configuration involves entering THREE PIECES OF INFORMATION: Exchange server name, user name, password.

[And in a typical Windows/Active Directory environment, you're already logged on to a domain so you don't even need to know the user name or password. You just type a few letters of the last name, click Check Name, and it finds you in the LDAP database.]

That's it. You're done. A few seconds later, Outlook has your calendar, contacts, email, and whatever the fuck else you have on the server.

I do this every day at work. It's not hard.

Well clearly the app is broken. That Pompei went out of business a few months ago and is now a middle eastern/mediterranean place called Mezza where I just had the worst falafel of my life.

I have the U300 modem and it seems like Chicago is all set, they just need to enable it. When you launch the SmartView connection app, it says "Ready to connect to 4G". You can even see the signal strength change as you move around. Obviously it fails if you try to connect but it sure seems like the infrastructure is there.

This morning, a woman at my company asked for a recommendation on a new Blackberry. I just setup an 8900 for someone else last week and it seemed pretty solid so I suggested she go with it. Among other things, I told her it had 3G since I honestly thought it did. After taking my advice and bringing it to me for setup, I quickly realized that it in fact did NOT have 3G and I felt a little embarassed. But after seeing this post, I was about to recommend that she take it back and wait until this one is released. And then I read the whole thing...

WHAT is the friggin deal?

I'm with ya. I'm too busy to keep my eyes glued to my phone while texting. I could send entire messages blind with T9... almost there with my G1 keyboard. Only brief glances are necessary. No need for me to downgrade that experience.