kickstand, i got a saddle made of leather

These things look pretty sweet.
I'm interested to see what the real-world performance is like.

Stylus = fail.

As a peripheral they're fine. But to drive a mobile UI, it's pure fail.

WiMax's rollout headstart doesn't matter. ClearWire can't afford to expand as fast as VZW.
By the end of next year, LTE will be in every major market and WiMax will still just be here and there.

Frankly, I think the profitable future of WiMax is in the municipal wireless networks that every other city was so intent on rolling out.
WiMax is a far better technology than wifi for that purpose and the lack of a strong nationwide network wouldn't be an issue.

For the last three years I've thought bluetooth watches with caller ID and ignore buttons were right around the corner.
Somehow they just never show up.

It's made to have a phone docked into it. So why not just sync the clock to the phone's time? No extra hardware on their end. No special buttons. DST-compatible, travel-compatible -- magic!

Similarly, shouldn't this thing just kick off the alarm according to the phone's schedule? Sure, sure - they should -support- old-school alarms. But it should kick off for any additional alarm events generated by the attached pod.

you couldn't imagine playing a racing game on a device that can behave exactly like a steering wheel? /boggle
tilt forward back for gas/brake reverse, tilt left right to steer. throw in a button for handbrake, maybe a couple more for shifting. done.

Sports is a little more challenging - but not insurmountable if you drop your preconceived notions of how they look and behave. You probably won't get NBA Live right away, but there's no reason you couldn't reasonably recreate old-school Bird vs Dr J, mature the controls and grow from that.

Maybe MS should wait to see if developers actually figure out how to properly design games around the wiimote?

Because unless things change, the Wii still has a good chance of winding up as a gimmick. There are a handful of games that respond to intuitive motion of the wiimote. The rest is arbitrary waggle in place of simple button presses and that is -not- the experience that Wii Sports promised. Ask those non-gamers that bought a Wii more than a few months ago what they're playing. All the ones that I know have been collecting dust. I'm starting to wonder if Nintendo hasn't allowed the supply issue to linger simply to minimize the 'ok, now what?' effect. (the effect visible in the Wii's Japan sales tanking for a good chunk of late last year - until the Wii Fit hit)

Shame Nokia still can't seem to really commit to the platform.

I used to think i was waiting for 3G and 802.11n.

But the more I look at my actual data use, the more I think all they really need is a functional SDK. The 3G coverage in my area is crap anyway, and the iPhone can't do anything so useful over wifi that I need more bandwidth. (doesn't stream video/audio. doesn't share. etc)

About the only hardware bump I'd really care about, is a better camera. Maybe GPS.
The rest? I'll take it. But 3G and n are not going to make the sale without an SDK.