This is where the Sprint WiMax / N800 could really clean up. Finally you have the connection speed and the screen to handle things. Prior to the N800 I found no issue with using a Palm Life Drive to view video on the go. The main thing is if you are trying to drop below a 320x240 rez, give it up.

I'm using T-Mo's 6103 (which looks better IMHO BTW) Great for people that don't want to carry the bulk of a smartphone all the time. I lit up the GPRS on it and using it as a Bluetooth modem is quite nice. Even tested to see if it would ring while surfing via bluetooth through my LifeDrive, it works! At near free from Cingular (6101i) or ~$53 at T-Mo (w/ plan but no mail in rebate crap) you could do a lot worse. I still think the radio is a nice perk myself as well. :)

Kind odd. I though that the pic looked a lot like my Palm LifeDrive sans the buttons/five way. Now that they say it's 4 inches, I pulled out my ruler... 4inches on the dot. Odd that. Anyway. A nice vision, but having watch 20+ hours of video on my LifeDrive (with TCPMP), I assure you that while a cute touch screen *looks* cool. Ya don't really want to keep smudging your screen. I like my hard buttons. Oh well. If Apple can make a solid state (no HD) flat as a Nano device with full face video, I'll be impressed. If it's as thick as the LifeDrive I have, it's a yawner. I've had it for over a year now and wouldn't recommend it.

Finally! I've been waiting for Nokia to get on the BlueTooth bandwagon. I went from a 6800 to a 6101 for the sole reason that having an FM radio is a must have for me. The only thing I've been missing is the BlueTooth headphones (so I can go seemlessly from NPR on the FM to tunes on the laptop.) The sweet thing about FM is that you can slap an FM transmitter on your MP3 device of choice (iTrip, etc) and get the best of all worlds. (Though FM *in* the BlueTooth headset would probably beat everything, like a universal wireless connector)

Now if they release the 6132 with the BlueTooth built in (or what ever the T-Mo flavor is, I'll be in business (although a bit lighter in the wallet) I could live with the pop-port stub though.

Speaking as someone with a blind relative I'd have to say, bravo. While the square layout may not be visually striking, it lends itself better to tactile navigation of the buttons. It's not something I really gave thought to until we needed to help buy a new phone. There are not very many phones out there being offered with nice, raised, even buttons. For T-Mobile, the stock freebee Nokia (3595 I believe at the time) had *shared* buttons (the 5 and 8 where on the same button) and flush at that! This design looks like I could hand it to a blind person, and explain the grid in all of a minute (not that they would be texting mind you, but I can see other applications like extra one button marco options)

There's a need that phones could fill. With GPS and data capabilities, a phone could tell someone where they are. I've been toying with the idea of trying this with say a Treo 650, but again, not the ideal interface. (And a touch screen PDA is really not helpful when you're blind.)

To be more precise, it's Palm(One) that has beat Garnet to death. PalmSource has been working on first Colbalt (based, in part, on the BeOS (with the same release success BTW)), and now (after identifying *some* of the issues with lack of adoption) a Linux based version.

I think then main thing that needs to be answered is Palm(One)'s reluctance to move to Cobalt (I'm guessing pricing but after deploying Windows Mobile, who knows) If it's a technical issue, why the hell weren't they more involved in the process (and if they were, what happened) I find it hard to believe that PalmSource wouldn't have ported Cobalt to the Treo *for* Palm, just for the chance to sell it. I know I would buy it. (But then, I would have bought a copy *and* a T3 to run it on two years ago at PalmSource) I say get it out there and let the customer decide.

I'm still BTW holding my breath on *any* new version of PalmOS (or Access Linux or whatever) until I can BUY A DEVICE. Without a commited hardware vendor, it's all for not. Sadly I fear I'll be running linux on my 650 using an open source solution long before I 'm even offered the choice to PAY someone to do so.