The biggest disappointment is that the OS on the Palm 600 was faster and more responsive than the 680's OS. Sad, really.

The latency in the UI response on the 680 makes entries an entirely futile process. Whereas the CPU should be waiting for you, you find yourself outperforming the ability of the CPU to cache your entries. You end up having to start all over again because the CPU can't keep up.

Sad, really friggin' sad. It's funny, because the day I saw the iPhone demo I started really, really despising my 680, and now cannot wait to unload it.

WTF are they doing over in Mountain View, anyway?

This is the corporate equivalent of cybersquatting. Companies trademark curious names that reek of hi-tech, with no corresponding technology behind the name. Then when some company actually releases a product of the same name that is actually accompanied by something that actually works and exists, the initial company that simply owns the name cries foul, and receives a large wad of cash for doing jack shit, except having some newbie advertising execs 20 years ago who came up with some nifty names while drinking lattes and snorting coke in their Fifth Avenue offices.

So long Treo 680, you took too long to materialize...hello Blackjack!

any word on the colored versions direct from Palm? you'd think Palm would take a page out of Apple's book and have something available within 10 years of making an announcement. not only can they not keep a lid on new products--they leak the stuff all over the media--the time between announcement and delivery is so long that I bet a lot of people move on. Like me...it's taken so long that I bought a Motorola Q. F Palm.

Here we go again with announcements that never materialize (Palm 680).

Or, why don't these companies take a page out of Apple's book and announce products within 12 years of them actually being available?

I said FU to Palm and their 680 because I couldn't wait the 12 years it's been since they announced it. I got a Q instead due to their stupidity and inability to keep a lid on new product announcements.

Customers can only keep ogling at a COMING SOON page for so long before they move on...

I think TiVo's arms were tied since they probably had something ready to go for CableCARD 1.0. But then the playing field changed...and it was back to the drawing board for them.

Also, remember that it was recently that the FCC mandated CableCARD acceptance, and that was for 2.0, which wasn't even standardized yet at the time of the announcement.

So essentially, TiVo had to wait out for a lot of other "stars to align" to get the ball rolling on their S3 box.

I'm sure they wanted to be a STB replacement, and not an enhancement.

Now, I've read that you won't be able to do VOD with the S3? I thought the CableCARD spec supported everything a STB does, albeit in the space of a card.

That doesn't sound right. I want a S3 to REPLACE my crappy DCT6412; I don't want that thing anywhere in sight when I bring my S3 home. AND I want VOD.

okay, so i get this thing. i currently have Comcast cable and the world's worst electronic device, the Motorola DCT6412. so if i get this S3, who do i have to kill at Comcast HQ for them to give me a CableCard 2.0 to stick in this thing?

i doubt very much it's going to be something they have available at all, much less if i were to pick up an S3 on 9/18/06.

i bet money the thing would sit around for months while Comcast straightened up their act.

Get rid of the refs and call your own fouls, like the ol' skool days at the park. If the refs are so bad, do it yourselves. I'll be glad to attend an NBA game if that was the case. I am sick of the NBA because can lose on their own accord anymore. Hockey, with more contact and more gray-area calls, is way more respectful to its fans and officials. They don't whine after losing; when you look at all the opportunities a team has to win a game (like making shots or free throws) during the course of a game, then to throw the monkey on one call or two is classic whining. Then again, Americans have never taken responsibility for their own actions. We are the most lawyer-happy nation on Earth. Why? Because it's never OUR fault, but someone else's. I wouldn't be surprised if someone filed a lawsuit against refs because they don't like their calls. That would be so American.

The Comcast DCT6412 HD Dual Tuner DVR cablebox is quite possibly the worst device ever developed by humans. When you think about all the QA processes companies put in place, the money spent on personnel to check for errors, the people that go to school solely to become inteface designers, the myriad levels of managers that have to sign off on a project in order for it to advance (my friend used to work at GAP and they would literally spend weeks arguing the nuances of a .1mm change in the diameter of a jeans button), the amount of blood, sweat and tears that hundreds of people must endure to make the shifter handle on your sports car feel just right, and so on...and then you have the DCT64XX.

Just ask yourself this: Someone at Motorola actually wasted their breath when they uttered this about the DCT64XX, "Ship it."

as Gary C pointed out, why do they always revert back to version 0.1 looks when rolling out new technology? All the progress made in aesthetics and they go right back to zero. Looks like my two-piece circa-1981 RCA VCR. Then again, it is RCA (Thomson).