@liv

It's Sunday. Not really the day for hard tech news.

Where's Dick Dastardly and Mutley when you need them?

Come on, folks.

Doing this at a state border is pretty commie. An international border is a whole different thing.

I fully expect a sovereign nation to do stuff like this, as annoying as it is, with anything crossing their borders.

Screw the Netbook.

Is that version of Ubuntu available for download anywhere?

"I'm not an Apple cult-member, I've owned a Mac, but I currently run Windows, I'm pretty indifferent. What counts to me is functionality. I'm curious - when people shout out the standard quo complaint that there are "better alternatives to insert iProduct here", what and where are they? When it comes to the iPhone, and competing devices that are TRULY in the same product class, I don't think there are any yet - at least none that are worth the attached headaches, unless you're buying them just to make an anti-Apple statement (which is stupid)."

I dont understand. So people that use this phone must not have a "legitimate" reason for wanting it?

I'm curious as to why we are assumed that we should buy only one particular phone from one particular company? People use many types of devices from Toasters, TV, bikes, ect. ut we cant have a use for a touch screen phone that isnt from Apple? In your opinion you may not think anything is better than the iPhone, but your opinion does not translate into universal truth.

It isnt about saying there are "better alternatives to insert iProduct here", it's about saying that people do and should have choices and not be shoehorned into buying iProduct just because it the iProduct.


Not everything fits everyone.

Didn't this guy get the memo from Engadget?

After one month, it is TOO LITTLE TOO LATE!!!!! GAWD!

/sarcasm

@Brad

"Engadget authors seem to really despise this phone"

I suppose it is mostly because Sprint made such a big ad push with it, part of which involved going directly against that other phone which Engadget is so fond of. They seem to take companies efforts to make a name for their devices that compete against an Apple one very personally to the point where they actively try to smear it at every opportunity.

Likely it ticked off the same folks that lost their $hit over the Mojave video yesterday.

Apple isnt held to the same standard. So it's ok for them.

iPhone problems are understood and reported in sympathetic and hopeful terms.

That is why when it takes Apple time to fix issues, you will NEVER hear "too little, too late" from these guys. They would rather drink antifreeze than hold Apple to the same standard. Engadget is in the business of protecting their favorite company from competitors not treating them the same as others.

Just wait until Apple fixes the problems with MobileMe and see the treatment that story gets. I can almost 10000% guarantee you it wont be like this.

Was there some sort of time requirement to make a touch screen phone where if you didn't, you were to be officially ignored?