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You're correct Iain. It should be each cell phone user sends 2 texts per day.

This is still really low. I would hardly say "Americans are finally warming up en masse to text messaging as a totally valid means of communicating." The breakdown of figures was to show that while 95.4 billion is very large in volume, when shown how low in volume it is per user, it still shows there is along way to go before text messaging en masse is used for having conversations.
95.4 billion texts / 250 million cell phone users = 382 texts per user in 6 months = 64 texts per user per month, or ~2 per day. 2 texts per day is hardly anything. I send a message, I get a reply, done texting for the day. Will someone think of the kids and the hundreds of texts they send per day.

Think of IM and how many hundreds of messages sent and received in a single conversation. Move this to a phone and you can see that it isn't all that much.
@ #13,

"How come my FOUR-year-old Samsung i700 has a bigger and better screen than the XV6700 and XV6800 do AND has a longer battery life?"

i700 bigger screen? No. i700 better screen? No idea since I've never seen an i700. Read your own link and you'll see the screens are the same. i700 longer battery life? No. Talk time is longer on the 6700. And when you're getting into the 8+ days for standby I think I can find some time in there to plug it in.

"And is it just me or does anyone else think it's stupid to have a slide out keyboard adding bulk when you have a touchscreen?"

Not stupid at all. If I need to type a word doc or anything requirin a lot of text, the onscreen keyboard is unpratical and takes up valuable screen space. Even typing a URL is quicker using the slideout keybaord.
So is this available only on new pocket pc devices, or can current devices with windows mobile 5.0 on them be upgarded to the new os?
preferred method of HD delivery is Cox HD service becasue I don't have HD and that would be the easiest to get if I was awarded the TV.
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my old samsung uproar doesn't have email. otherwise i wouldn't need a blackberry
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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