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@(Unverified) I got one via phone from my local VZW store last week. Just called them and they had it overnighted from their warehouse.
How could the FCC allow this to go through after Comcast tried to screw with the public trust via the FCC here: http://bit.ly/6AhQpp I mean, if they do that just about net neutrality, what evil can they do with an entire television network?
@Chefgon I'm getting the same error, but I'm not running Cyanogen. I'm running the standard HTC image on an Android developer phone (ADP1).
The new design is pretty nice, but I find the default font of the news text much harder to read than the older font. It appears much smaller (I know I can make it bigger) at least on Linux/X11/Firefox.
Presumably that's not a picture of the actual Cosworth F1 engine or else the FIA started allowing turbocharging in F1 without telling me.
My TC died after 18 months. Had it replaced for free buy buying applecare for a recently purchased MacBook. Actually, the old one was a 500GB model, the replacement was a 1TB model, it will be covered under applecare for the next 3 years.
Purple! Very bold - good on you. Given that you drive a Polo and that it's purple, I'd venture to say you are not in the USA. Here in the states, the color palettes of euro automakers are far more restrained that what I've seen in Europe.

Picking a car model at random, the VW CC Luxury, here is the entire choice of colors on the VW USA web site:

moca brown metallic
shadow blue metallic (very dark)
deep black
island grey metallic
light brown metallic
iron grey metallic
reflex silver metallic
white gold metallic
candy white

Is that pathetic or what? No reds. No greens. Only one blue, and it is pretty dark. In fact, the one blue color is the only "color" that I would actually consider a color.

Pathetic.

http://www.vw.com/vwfeatures/cc/en/us/
Apparently we are in violent agreement. My Boxster is Guards red with black interior and my S4 is Sprint Blue. I know about Tequiment paint-to-order option, which is great. I was just speaking to the "standard" colors that you find in the brochure and what the dealers choose to order and put on their lot. Porsche isn't the worst offender -- also look at VW, Audi, BMW. They all have lousy color selections. I guess as long as 80% of the car buyers are happy with white/black/grey/silver, that's what they'll keep making. Sorry for ranting, but it's a pet peeve of mine.
Is silver really a color? Ditto for black, white and grey.

I get really pissed off when I go to (say) the Porsche dealer and they have eight cars out front in the following colors: black, silver, a different silver, white, black, grey, a different grey, guards red.

Well at least they had one in color.

Please take me back to the 70s when Porsche really had colors: lime green, bright blue, orange, yellow, red....
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I'm in the market for a new phone and money isn't a limitation. I'm also not partial to any particular US carrier, but here are some of the features I'd like to have: WiFi, GPS, good coverage in lots of places, push Gmail (a must!), physical keyboard (a must!), a touchscreen, decent battery life and a relatively slim body. And please, nothing that has a fruit logo on it. No offense to the fruit fans, though. Thanks!"

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