The people here busting balls against this guy are clearly as catty as it gets. Don't you girls have to go paint your nails or something?

This guy kicks ass, he has the rig, the brains, and the knack for doing it. The people ripping on him are forgetting that 5 well-syncronized players can take him down. This isn't like playing a round of golf with Tiger Woods. This is like you playing five Tiger Woods. One handed.

He's doing 20-man raids with 5 toons. This means more for the rest of you than him -- more groups should be *owning* Naxx right now --- he's clearly shown us that if we can drop our egos and greed and focus on the needs of each other any five people (not to mention 25) can do better.

%s/general public/general pubic/g

Oh, you must use Cingular. If you use T-Mobile you will not have any problems.

Just use CTA (Call To Arms), which is an amazing add-on. It can still let you interface with the traditional looking-for-group traffic to boot.

But it has much nicer group features for setting up a new group. Its amazing.

I'm not remotely interested in CDMA network operators in the United States.

Having said that, there are two possibilities.

There is no chance that DT wants to give away T-Mobile USA to Cingular. If it sold to anyone it would be Vodafone, who would then ditch their interest in Verizon and use an honest-to-God GSM/EDGE/UMTS presence in the United States.

I don't buy DT selling to Cingular -- it doesn't make any sense, and Voda would be fools to give up global roaming on GSM.

Until Danger stops forcing me to store personal information on servers at Danger or T-Mobile, I see no reason why I would ever want to have one of these devices anywhere near me.

Re: "What consumer wouldn't pick a phone that has the same interface as their computer at home and at work?"

Is it possible that the reason nobody carries a Windows smartphone isn't because they're expensive, but because nobody wants to carry a heavily branded, awkward micro-Windows PC in their pocket?

Does anyone really like the Windows interface? Is it really the best fit for a mobile device?

Oh come ON now.

The mobile industry already HAS a push for mobile IM and presence, IMPS / WV!

It even has the heavy hitters SE and Nokia rocking it.

Why they just didn't do it with Jabber is beyond me. Though it goes without saying that Orange (a France Telecom company) was hedging on Jabber/XMPP for mobile presence and messaging but never delivered anything worth using.

You don't need broadband for IM. That is one of the reasons that IM is so ideal for mobile devices. You're not moving large amounts of data around.

T-Mobile offers a flat rate of $19/month for their internet service.

Most operators botch their deployment of IMPS/WV for some reason. The real draw is using the /prescence/ parts of IMPS, which nobody really uses! Most of the vendors who use IMPS tightly weave it into the Contacts application, which is amazing when you can use it. The real problem is that not many people do, or can!

Yeah seriously, does anyone think that Real is even a player anymore?

Why in holy hell would Google align themselves with that platform?