Smallest, lightest and it still takes CompactFlash. that should show the other manufacturers that there's no need to use inferior, slower proprietary SD cards to make a small DSLR. I'd buy one but I'm happy with my E-500

1.2GB per second has to be the total bandwidth of the satellite. and why are they measuring in gigabytes, not gigabits like most people do? japan is a freakin crazy place, I wonder how long they would last in a black out, without interwebs for more than a few milliseconds that whole country would just turn to chaos.

You know in ~10-20 years time all the nerds / collectors will want one of those old-skool HD-DVD things. much like laserdisc and that. so grab them while you can

will the death of HD-DVD affect HD DVD-RAM at all? like a lot of blu-ray drives will write ordinary DVD-RAMs so maybe they can be upgraded

Great news! I never liked windows mobile, but i'm no fan of touch screens either.. well maybe its nice to have the touch screen if you can operate the phone without using it. so it would be like just an extra input method unlike windoze mobile where for some things you just have to touch the screen

What a terrible shame none of these things are actually on the market yet

the last thing we need is another satellite phone company. i just don't see it happening, todays modern "too busy to shift gears so I buy an automatic" office-going urbanites don't have time for satellite phones, satellite lag and big handsets. and the people who do dig satphones already have one from one of the 3 companies that cover the US.

if they do launch this site it will probably get used for anonymous telemetry and 'data solutions'. the kind of products where you need to phone up some Rep and organise a meeting before you get anything from them. much like Orbcomm is now.

Thuraya launched a new satellite a few weeks ago, but unfortunately because of some stupid protectionism law they will probably never be allowed to operate in the US.

Damn. Soon its going to be just.. Intel and Intel. who as we all know have at least 30 years worth of tech boxed up and ready to be put into mass production, over the past few years AMD have forced them to occasionally skip one or two cycles of 'filler' technology which is basically a crippled version of something they invented in the early 90's.

Most of intel's R&D spending probably goes to finding ways of crippling more advanced technology and presenting it in such a way so that it doesn't appear crippled. yea Intel probably has a few quantum processors lined up but first they are going to bore us with the Core 3 Duo and Core 2 Trio and the likes so they can spread it out over as much time as possible

If this happens I'm never buying another Nokia again. if nokia stops making symbian phones whats left? android? linux? android will probably have an oversimplified touch-screen based UI that I won't like.

I would keep buying nokias just to stay away from Windoze mobile and this is why I have bought nokias all along. I don't like WM's user interface, how its written and how it is just part of the whole microsoft ecosystem.

but its good for the ozone layer.

its called the megapixel war. people know what megapixels are, not too many non-photography people know what noise is unless a picture is *very* noisy.

an old olympus 1.3MP camera takes better pics than some of the crap on the market now.