What crappy browser are you complaining about? The HD2 ships with Opera 9.7, one of the best mobile browsers available.

It's like complaining that a nice graphics card is worthless on a Windows machine because it ships with MS Paint.

I'll give you a very easy example of multitasking.

"Say you're on a road trip. You want to stream internet radio, or maybe music from your massive home collection. But you want your GPS software running. Can YOUR phone do that?"

I do this ALL THE TIME on my phone. Streaming with the Last.fm client and running GPS.

I stand corrected. My browser was caching data. My bad! Learning is fun, even if it comes after I post a foolish comment.

I can still turn on Wifi and surf and talk at the same time.

I take issue with that "data and talk at the same time" one. I don't know about Verizon phones, but whenever I talk on my Sprint phone, it drops down to 1X, it doesn't kill the data connection entirely. Anyone with a Verizon phone wanna give this one a shot? Call someone, then pull up a webpage. I bet it'll still work, even if at the slower AT&T-esque speeds.

I think Verizon could hit back pretty hard against "Fastest network" too. They could have a guy stand in one little spot, saying "Look, I've got the fastest network", then take a step to the side and say "Wait, never mind", while Verizon phones are dancing around at nice stable speeds.

Plus, Sprint has launched WiMax, at least in a few locations, which is worlds faster than AT&T's "3G". Sure, it isn't available everywhere, but neither is AT&T's "fastest" 3G network. In most places, even their 3G is much slower.

Hah! You think you get an opinion on what your bride wears at the wedding.

Good luck.

Read the article next time. Someone didn't hack the store and replace everything with a pirate flag, they found a way around the encryption on purchased apps, so that once purchased someone can extract the .CAB file and distribute it freely.

You. Fail.

@Alan

Agreed. The whole thing just looks like how my old Windows Mobile 2003 device did handwriting recognition. You could set it to "auto recognize", and when you wrote for a bit then paused, it would process the "ink" (even called it that) and try to convert to words.

How or why this is patentable is beyond me. Then again, it's only an application, so who knows.

HTC: Just give me USB Host functionality on any of the snapdragon platforms and we'll call it close enough.

Proof not shared isn't proof. That's how proof works.

Yeah, I just don't want to go back to Verizon. Aside from personal reasons (I used to work for them, got charged an ETF on my employee plan when I quit), I just don't like their pricing model. $60 for data w/ tethering? $15 for Exchange support? I'm on Sprint now, and unlimited EVERYTHING is $100, and the data connection in California on Sprint is solid everywhere I go.