Pick me!

Shiny...

I believe DVDs average out to about 5 megabits per second so anything higher is pointless. UnixSystemsEngineer has it right, 1500 is the sweetspot and anything greater is just a waste with Xvid. BTW, who still uses Xvid inside AVI? Get with it people, H.264 is where it's at.

*natively, not mildly... I don't even see how I did that...

The Media player in 4.6/4.7 was done really well, I still think it needs a bit of polishing but I love the amount of video content it supports mildly. I think they need to add some more features to the media player (like ID3 tag editing), but my Storm has replaced my iPod Touch as my media player. BlackBerry Premium headset is a great buy for all of you BB media users and can be found on amazon for about 20-30 bucks.

@Ian

Go for the 8900, it's such a great phone in every category. UMA on T-Mobile is a beautiful thing, either that or the new 9630 from VZW/Sprint.

Thank god you said this, I was 1/3 a ways down the page and rapidly loosing faith in humanity. As far as I'm concerned everything else is done well. Manufacturing issues will be fixed as time goes on and software is software. The only thing holding this phone down is the lack of an SD card slot.

Me please.

As an audiophile who happily uses the built-in audio on his custom box, I can say it all depends on the chip and the board. The realtek chipset on my gigabyte mobo gives me nearly no noise over the analog inputs (unless I jack the volume on the computer and the receiver it's running through up quite a bit) and, should I wish to use it, has both a toslink in and out for digital use which leaves decoding to other end anyways.

Honestly, if you have a motherboard, and you don't have an explicit qualm with your audio chipset, I see no reason for you to drop 100 bucks on (or any money for that matter) on dedicated audio. Hell if you're asking the question, you have the answer. You go out buy the card, only to find that the albums you torrented or w/e are nice lossy mp3s and the quality bottleneck is there, or perhaps your headphones aren't up to snuff. Point is, well...there's really no point in buying a sound card if you don't need one.

On the topic of M-Audio I will say read reviews. Some M-Audio stuff is of good quality, but some of it is really cheap (and not the good kind of cheap).

If this thing actually has WiFi than maybe I should be trading my Storm in, haha.