What the hell? This sounds pretty magical to me! If it really works as advertised (acts as a virtual USB drive, bridging network shares???) then my mind is boggling at potential uses...

I don't mean to pick on you specifically, but I have to say I don't understand this line thinking, and I see it a lot in real life, too. Leaving AT&T (or any another carrier) and breaking the contract doesn't mean you go to jail or anything. At most, it's what, $175*? And since they prorate the ETF, it could be significantly less.

If I hated AT&T, seems like $100 to leave (or whatever) would hardly hold me back. Hell, I could even sell the phone, perhaps, to offset that. And who knows, maybe I'll end up with a cheaper plan on another carrier (probably not the case with VZW, but maybe Tmob or Sprint), so in the long run, I save money.

Anyways, just sayin'

*Verizon's current hoohah with the SuperETF notwithstanding

@hellfroze Oops, nevermind, I misread the sentence.

> 850 / 1900 plus WCDMA Band IV (that'd be T-Mobile's and WIND's spectrum, by the bye)

Huh? Those are AT&T's 3G bands. T-Mobile uses 1700/2100 in the U.S. (which, I assume is the relevant market since we're talking FCC here).

Yeah, forget about the other details, the idea of a phone that can use either AT&T or T-Mobile's 3G's band is the most intriguing tidbit here, in my opinion.

I'm not aware of any such phone currently available - does such a thing exist?

I've always wondered why they weren't more common - is it strictly a cost thing, or is there an additional space requirement for having a 2nd radio there that would make dual-system phones prohibitively bulky?

What are the technical reasons that the radio couldn't be "tuned" to specific frequencies like many other types of radios?

I'm completely ignorant on the technical/engineering aspects of this stuff but I've always wondered (especially lately as all the GSM Android phones have gone T-Mobile's bands in the U.S.).

@skaterdude "bada" means "ocean" in Korean (Samsung, is of course, a Korean company). Hence the pun about "an ocean of endless enjoyment."

@talam - don't feel bad: I have the following video in my youtube favorites >.>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcsqfu50Q2Y

I've broken 3 so far - I could use another!

I'm with lautaro - I don't see how this would make a huge difference on a traditional web server. It'll boot, fire up httpd and then from that point, it's not really hitting the system disk that much - just reading/writing from/to the network and processing stuff (PHP scripts, etc) in CPU. The large storage (where I presume the web content is) is on an separate disk so that's not in play. I'm assuming that's also where a database would be - running a database on SSD sounds like a bad idea since it's probably a lot like swap - lots of small changes that will really reduce the life of a SSD drive.

@SpuddPotatto

Dude, no. I have the 3rd gen, worst ipod ever. May seem like a cool idea in theory, but all-touch means accidental presses all the time, unresponsive presses at others, and not being able to use it without looking at it. To name some of the major faults.