The data is stored locally AND remotely and it syncs every few minutes.
The nice thing about it is if you lose your phone, you buy a new phone and all your data comes back in.
The bad thing (and I never thought it would happen) is that if the remote copy says you have 0 data then it overwites your local data.
I used to have and love Sidekick.

Now I have a G1 phone
The G1 syncs remotely with Google.
One time I tried to do an import of 2,000 records into Gmail's contacts.
The fields got mapped all wrong and I deleted all the contacts to try again.
Then to my dismay I realized that all my contacts in the phone were ALSO deleted. There is no UNDO, or RECOVER FROM TRASH.
Lesson to be learned: Make sure your phone or data plan has some kind of export function to backup your data in your own hardware if something ugly occurs.

I still miss the Sidekick. It was the most intuitive phone I have ever used.

I'm a devoted Mac user and advocate but I don't buy the whole iLifestyle.
I use Apple laptops, the MaOS and an iPod and I stop right there.
No iPhone, no .mac account, no iLife, no iPhoto.
It gives me the creeps.

I've been a Mac fanboy for 10+ years.
I like the hardware and the OS.
But I've stayed out of the iPhone, iLife, dotMe crap for exactly this reason.
I use a G1.

This was the only GPS device that had lifetime traffic conditions built in at no extra cost. Sad.

Go me!

I read: "Dexim's Shu-Lip turns your new iPod shuffle into the dumb drive it's dying to be."

The problem with in camera panoramas is that sometimes you have cars, people cross the frame while you are panning. If you do post processing you can reshoot some frames while panning and discard the ones you don't want.
For stitching panoramas on a Mac I use doubletake. http://echoone.com/doubletake/ You drop your image files on the application icon and they are stitched. It's that easy.

So these e-mails that said "help us transfer 27 million from the Bank of Ethiopia to your account" were true after all?????

I've been a T-mobile customer for years. I also have a $60/mo unlimited mobile broadband data card from Verizon.
I don't see the reason to use T-Mobile's mobile broadband if it costs more than $30/mo.

Any comment will do?