Why is this post so highly ranked? If you don't know the purpose for a remote start system then I'm not going to explain it again. I love how you guys automatically hate something because it's related to the iPhone. This is just a regular old remote start but it works with an iPhone instead of an extra fob (plus the whole unlimited range thing).

Go to any car forum and show them your brilliant argument against remote starting. See how well it goes.

Shadyman - Wrong. The $300 unit is for people who already have a Viper system installed. The $500 unit is for people who have nothing installed and want to add remote starting/unlocking to their car. The end cost (minus installing, which is cheap for a system like this) for our friend here is $500.

Why did you think there was two different systems with a $200 difference? For kicks?

Shawn - What the HELL are you talking about!? Door handles??? Viper doesn't make freaking door handles. Was your post a joke that I'm just not getting? The car they showed is a Corvette that just happens to use those kinds of door handles. This is just like any other unlocking/starting device on the market but it works on your iPhone. It unlocks and starts your car but you still need your key to do anything.

You guys obviously have no grasp on why people use remote starting systems. This is for people that live in climates where their car gets too warm or cold to comfortably drive in when it's been parked outside for a period of time (basically everyone). With this you would be able to start the car when you knew you were about to finish up (it remains locked so no one can get inside when it's out of range) and go back out to it and by the time you got there it would be the exact temperature that you like and your engine is warmed up and ready to go. The one shortfall with these devices is that most systems don't have that good of range and you have to be so close that you really don't have that much time between when you use it and when you get to your car. By using cell towers and eliminating range issues, this totally eliminates that problem and makes it truly useful.

If your car was so deeply parked in a garage that cell tower signal couldn't reach it, I'm sure it's not going to be very hot or cold so it wouldn't really matter anyways.

I feel like I'm explaining this to complete idiots. How do you no know this? How is the logic behind it not painfully obvious?

I'm now thoroughly convinced that Microsoft pays you trolls to come on here and comment on every Apple, specifically iPhone related, story. These comments are the definition of asinine.

Mjayhunt - Where does $2000 come from? If you already have a Viper remote start system it costs $299 and if you have nothing pre installed and want this in your car it'll cost you $499. Period. And the $5 per month savings on your insurance easily covers the measly $2.40 a month the service costs. Considering the cost of a good remote start system, 500 bucks for a system that works with unlimited range and makes you money every month is more than worth it for most people in the market.

Xeno - I'm guessing you've never used a remote start system before. This simply starts the car and unlocks it. Your key is still required to make the car go anywhere. You would never have this and not have your key so it wouldn't matter if your phone died.

Mark - Like was already pointed out, yeah it would suck if someone stole your phone. Just like it would suck if someone stole your keys, wallet, or possibly worst of all for me, my laptop which holds information about every aspect of my life and client's information. They might be able to unlock your car but they couldn't go anywhere without your keys and I'm sure the system can be turned off with a phone call to Viper if that happened.

It's pathetic how some of you are so emotionally invested into your favorite phone that you can't even appreciate cool tech when it comes out on a competing model, or at least have an intelligent conversation about it. Engadget comments are starting to look like the crap posted below every video on YouTube.

Actually they specifically confirmed that it's NOT coming to the iPhone if things remain as they are now. The way I see it, if this becomes a big deal and people start vocally complaining about it's absence, or even worse (for Apple), start moving back to other platforms, Apple will be forced to make it possible. Adobe made it clear that it was only because of Apple's own restrictions that they couldn't make it work. Can someone (who actually knows what they're talking about) explain this a little better? I was under the impression that 3.0 made it possible for devs to access all the hardware and make it far easier to develop for. What's unique about the iPhone's platform and it's restrictions that makes it impossible for Flash to be ported over to it?

http://gizmodo.com/5374115/flash-101-full-flash-for-everyone-but-iphone-actually-playable-hd-vids

Whether you hate the iPhone or not, you can't argue with it's 40%+ market share in mobile web use. I know most of you are completely out of touch with reality and have deeply seeded emotional connections with your favorite mobile OS, so much so that you can't even have a rational conversation about the subject, but I hope you have enough synapses left to understand why it would benefit every mobile web user if a standard was available that every OS was compatible with so devs could focus on features and usability instead of worrying about, and wasting time and resources, on compatibility. Until that standard arrives, we're all going to suffer.

@App4That - I'm with everyone else here, this update is in a word, disappointing, but I must say I'm glad you're not heading up any R7D departments. A feature that lets you connect it to a phone to use instead of the phone you're already carrying? Haha.. uhh.. no thanks.

Glad someone pointed this out. Extending USB further than ~16 feet = trouble. I'm never one to support the i-told-you-so geek but come on Engadget, knowing something like that should be required info if we're supposed to take your tech advice seriously.

Maybe they were referring to the 50' CAT5 cable we all have collecting dust in some corner?

Haha.. Good find. Read through the entire site and found this little gem:

"If all goes according to plan it won’t be long until you can take your new iPhone to the pool and drop it in just to witness the reaction of onlookers."

Viral marketing for a soon to be released protective coating? I think so.

This product looks pretty cool. I remember reading about it a good while ago and it still looks like it isn't available. From reading the site it looks like they're trying to sell the process to manufactures, (for an insanely huge sum I assume - which must be what's taking so long) but if that doesn't work out they plan on offering the protection at a retail level. I assume the problem with the "retail level" idea is that the coating must require some pretty heavy duty equipment that wouldn't exactly fit in a mall kiosk, and until it's available in every major city in the country, you're going to have to mail your device in. 3-5 days without my phone? Ha.. That's funny...

That must suck to have a product you know will make you millions but not have a way to sell it.

Haven't used Opera since.. well YEARS ago.. but I gotta say I love this concept. I think the implementation needs some work, and considering it's still in beta I can't take off too many points for that, but overall this is a fantastic idea. I've had broadband for years and always thought it was far too complicated to use the connection how I really wanted. I mean I have the bandwidth, why can't I use it? Why do I have to set up a complex server just to host a website or some files? Why do I have to wait and go through the trouble of uploading my files if my own connection (I'm already paying good money for) has a decent upload rate?

I've gone from not caring at all, to being a huge fan of Opera. Good job guys, keep it up. If you can make this big (by simply focusing on the product itself, not wasting money on advertising like Micro$oft) I really do believe it will change the way we use the internet.

It took you an hour and a half to download porn on the internet? I don't care if you're using your cell phone's browser, anything over 30 seconds is pathetic.