I don't get it... I really don't The X10 is announced and shown around, and despite running Android it looks like ass. The Kurara is announced, looks like Angelina Jolies pantyhose, has some amazing features... and yet is running Symbian 60, the dinosaur of modern touch OS's.

For Gods sake SE, make this the X10 and put Android on it.

HTC's Sense UI is the best thing to happen to smartphones since capacitive screens came into play. If they really can hide WMO behind a multi-layered UI shield then who cares if it's WMO or not... it should give you almost all of the benefits without of the traditional drawbacks. Well done HTC, well done.

Well, nthn, as a great man once said... "stupid is as stupid does". ;)

Do it on the Samsung i8910, then i'll get excited. :D

Yes, it's on the official website http://www.htc.com/www/product/hero/product-tour.html

It's basically because outside of the UK, cal and data prices are inflated so much that it's basically legal theft. For example in the UK ou can get a SIM-only deal form a carrier called o2 which ranges between £15 and £30 a month and provides you with an obscene amount of stuff on an uber-convenient monthl rolling contract. For example, £25 a month gets you:

*1200 minutes (10 hours) to any network
*1000 texts
*Unlimited data
*International call saver plan

And added to this for around £7.50 a month you can add on additional bolt-ons that get you anthing from unlimited calls to landlines to unlimited texts.

Compare that to Swisscom in Switzerland where £25 a month gets you a measly free 100 minutes and 50 texts, and data is extra (and expensive, you can add another £20 for 1GB), and you see just how screwed up the mobile market really is everywhere else.

As I said, legal theft, and the UK tariffs show exactl how much it costs carriers to maintain a cutting edge 3.5G network and still provide good value for money.

Can anyone please tell me what the average IQ of an engadget commenter is in an iPhone thread... 12 and 50 you think?

Well lets just see if Samsung manage to release a verison of the i890 with hardware keyboard... because that would be sick. M onl worry would be the physical size of te device as it's already quite an "odd" shape, but there's no doubt that it would rock the mobile world. Capacitive and hardware keyboard... *drools*

Banned for no good reason? Calling someone a shit writer and trolling isn't a good reason? Clearly your IQ is of a rather low grade, as is evident by your "5-year old" grade writing skills.

Reading these comments it makes me cry when i dare to think what the age and IQ of the average Engadget reader is.