First, the price is crazy for a pro-sumer camera and clearly adding video that is what this camera is. So given the choice between a top of the line Plasma and this camera, I'm going to chose the Plasma and the price of the top of the line Plasma is still to high for me to consider that. Get into the $1599-1799 range even with the current specs and we're talking and I can ditch my DV camera and older digital camera. But double the price I quoted and you might as well say this is a pro camera or one for the rich and stop shoving it in my face as though I can really afford it. As for specs, increase the video size limit, lower the size and weight. I don't get the whole 24P thing, I'm not making movies.

Yeah I'm waiting to and its getting tiring. Now I'm hearing $1k figures for this phone!!!! I mean WTF! Likely it will take ATT a whole year to get this phone to get a discount and unlocked from Sony it may cost between $800 and $1k considering their latest 905 unlocked release, I might as well give up waiting for something better and get a iPhone. We've been waiting and waiting and likely will be dissapointed. Other phones like the Black Berry Storm, HTC HD, Garmin phone, others are just myth in the US and who knows when you can get a hold of one. Gizmondo and others keep showing all these phones we can't have for months on end. The whole thing is tiring.

What the frack???? I've been waiting and waiting for this thing. Yeah it has 800x480 screen but all this waiting and seening that the OS is buggy makes me want to re-consider just getting a iPhone 3G or whatever else will be out before Sony. Sony you out there, send me one please at get me out of my misery of my old Moto V600!

I thought this thing was comming June of 08 and now I'm hearing limited September of 08 and likely means January of 09 when most people can get their hands on it without paying almost $1k. Then for service providers to pick it up means and provide it at a contract discount June of 09! What the frack.

I'll take it!

I agree but some servers for example are 640x480 and others are smaller when your talking about only for ftp or tenet, you don't use the full screen anyway. When your talking about a PC or laptop, no way would I use VNC or any other remote client at 1600x1200 on such a small screen unless I had to. I agree the zoom makes it "ok" but even today when I have to use 640x480 computer to remote to a 800x600 can even be annoying.

This might change things for me then. VNC on a phone! I'll have to see if Windows Mobile can do this as well before I get all excited. If you could add programs to the iPhone like telnet, ftp, in addition to VNC, this would be a tech dream phone for me. I would like to see more widget's on the iPhone like Yahoo widgets and GPS is key for me.

I want to win! But where's the GPS and widget apps? 2megapixels only? Where's 3 or 5 megapixels? What happened to recording video? What happened to games? Oh well, If I don't win I hope by September when I'm ready to buy at least they add GPS and widget apps I might get one.

NO most LCD in fact do not upconvert. I notice a lot of people using upconvert and upscale interchangably which I believe they are not the same. All LCDs do upscale. Upconvert means taking a image and enhancing it frame by frame to make it into a 1920x1080 image. Upscaling means the image is just enlarged. In the end a low resolution 640x480 image upconverted will never be a true HD image but will look better than one simple blown up in size by upscaling.

I'm debating whether ALL Sony products are over-priced. They do offer quality products but they are very slow to make changes to keep them up to date these days with the competition. Now the question of cost? Is $500-600 reasonable for BlueRay? Look at their new Sony AR laptop with BlueRay with a starting price of $3499!!!!! The model without it is supposed to cost $2500, that's a $1000 difference. The real question is....is BlueRay worth the price????, it is yet to be seen. What movies will there be, will there only be Sony movies on BlueRay? Will they be 1080 quality movies or lower defeating the point of BlueRay? I would say that the PS3 is future proof MAYBE which is some benefit since it will output the coveted 1080P resolution but BlueRay is not the standard. It won't do a darn bit of good for you unless you have a 1080P TV! Sony has a answer for that to, they want you to plunk down another $5k to buy their Sony "X" series 1080P LCD TV!!!! Come on are we all rich? Things are just going overboard these days. For the price of a 1080P TV, PS3, and some games you can buy a nice small used car.