Great, so now instead of pulling the SIM out to change from T-Mobile to AT&T you'll have to replace the whole device.

If you're a manufacturer building this into things like power meters you'd better hope you negotiated a VERY long term bulletproof contract.

Why would apple throw the name "iChat Mobile" on the side of the phone that's visible when someone's using the phone? Plus I second the "if it's for chat why is the camera lens on the other side of the screen?" comment.

Fake.

Next?

Re #1 and Nokia used to make heavy machinery, (IIRC) mostly used in Forestry. What's your point?

I don't know... T-Mobile probably has an exclusive because nobody else wants the Sidekick (which Danger actually calls the HipTop). The other likely reason that T-Mobile got it is that T-Mobile's parent company (Deutsch Telekom) is also an investor in Danger.

Actually the investor list for Danger is a erqlly interesting read (see http://www.danger.com/about/invest.php)...

Softbank - who just bought Vodafone's Japanese operations

Motorola - who has a crappy crappy crappy OS and UI on their handsets

Orange - which is France Telecom's mobile phone subsidiary

Given those investors I would have expected the HipTop to pop up on Orange before showing up on Cingular. I bet Duluth Resident is right - Danger had an opportunity to snag a bunch of developers that really know mobile phone and took it.

"1.8-inch TFT-LCD display, 1.3-megapixel camera, RS-MMC slot, and an FM tuner." and "101 x 43 x 18 mm"

The SLVR has the same sized screen, a crappy VGA camera and uses Transflash. The SLVR does not have an FM tuner and is almost the same dimensions (114 x 49 x 11 mm). The SLVR L7 (available from Cingular) also has iTunes.

In the interest of full disclosure I have a SLVR and think it's pretty good. The selling point for me was the small size and iTunes.

If I ask nice can I have one?

Have one, but i already sratched the heck out of it. A new one certainly would be nice.

please

gimme

Please!