want the phone

iPAD sounds like apple's foray into the world of feminine hygiene...

EB, you must've missed the part of the article that informed the readers that trying to keep things like this quiet are normal and commonplace with such events. Furthermore, we can't even begin to know how many times this thing has been dropped or under what circumstances. For all we know it's been dropped 137 times and the battery finally broke, or the father could've been griping at his daughter (with ipod in hand) with his hands flailing wildly around when the ipod slipped out of his hands and hit a concrete wall going 35 mph.

Of course, the consumer won't admit to any mistreatment of the device and will say in either event that it was simply "dropped, began smoking, and exploded."

the most important part of this story is that the dad DROPPED THE IPOD BEFORE IT BLEW UP!!! is it possible that the impact had something to do with the failure of the device? i think so!

i can always ebay it...

notice, the only feature i would care to borrow from the n97 would be the hinge that allows the screen to fold up and reveal a keyboard

once Snow Leopard is released, all programs running on Mac OS X will be able to take advantage of multi-core processors thanks to Grand Central Dispatch.

how about a ipod touch-like slate with a hinge similar to the nokia n97 that folds up to reveal a keyboard?

keep in mind that the imacs also use mobile processors. once apple finds a processor that is suitable for the imac or the macbook pro, it will most likely turn up in both machines.

perhaps an external hard drive for me!