The iPhone still has a couple of very nagging problems:
1) No hands-free calling. This is an especially big deal in places like California, where touching your phone while driving gets you a tidy ticket.
2) Photo viewer is really bad. Even when you load on large pictures, the phone seems to downsample them so that they are the same resolution as the screen - so that when you zoom in they get really blurry and "pixelated" even though the original image was much higher resolution than what you get to see.

The first point is major, the second just a nuisance. Both are pretty ridiculous oversights that should have been corrected long before the 3G was announced, let alone released.

The problem is that I don't know any cigar smokers who are trying to quit. The biggest cigar smoker I know smokes exactly one cigar a day (or occasionally none at all). I smoke exactly one cigar a week. I don't know a single person that you could call addicted to cigar smoke. Not to say they don't exist, but that kind of person has problems that probably aren't the fault of tobacco or nicotine at all. Smoking generally gets a bad rap because of cigarette smokers, which I consider a filthy habit - but then cigarettes are infused with artificial chemicals and tobacco blends specifically engineered to create chemical dependence. For that matter, every cigar smoker I've ever met despises cigarettes. I can understand someone wanted to break a cigarette habit - but I really don't see the use, or the market for someone trying to quit cigars. As just an FYI, you do NOT inhale cigar smoke. If you do, you're an idiot. Smoking a cigar is like tasting wine. You sip it, enjoy and evaluate the flavors, then spit it out.

Unfortunately, it's just too late for Sprint to save me as a customer even if they announced the Diamond this afternoon. I dumped my $30/month [virtually] unlimited everything Sero plan and Samsung A900 for a $100/month AT&T plan an iPhone 3G. Sprint, I'd tell you to screw yourselves, but you've already done such a great job of it. When the sluggish, vanilla Mogul is the best you can manage - no wonder customers are leaving in droves, cheap or not.

I would be good to know exactly what that mysterious HTC handset is going to be as it could very well influence whether I'm using Sprint or AT&T come this Friday. Hopefully someone digs up the truth in the next couple days, because Sero or no Sero, I'm out of contract and done using Sprint's current half-assed phone selection.

Nvidia is just plain better than ATI/AMD. They always have been. Every time I give an ATI product a shot (usually on the advice of critic reviews by Anandtech, Toms Hardware, and the like) I wind up horribly disappointed. Here's their chance to show the world that they really do care about the end user. Having a single cross-hardware physics standard would be the best thing the happen to gaming since 3DFX released the first Monster 3D video add-on card. Competing standards will only ensure that developers ignore physics acceleration altogether. Good job on not being complete dicks, Nvidia. My hat is sincerely off to you. ATI, will you please just get with the program or die.

Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro Joystick ftw.

Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro Joystick ftw.

My favorite MS product continues to be the Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro joystick. Ah, to have games that actually support joysticks again!

The Sidewinder Force Feedback joystick. Remember those? Ah, the memories.

Fat chance of that. Sony went out of their way to kill any and all independent development on the platform. Even if they did decide to release a public SDK, it'd be too little to late.