@Titor: That is just plain ignorant, at least some of the iPhone fanboys do their research. HTC has, for sale right now, a half dozen phones 10x more powerful than the pitiful iPhone and 4x more powerful than the 3GS.

Go here: http://pdadb.net/. Do a search for HTC and compare the recent results feature for feature to any iPhone model and loose your ignorant fanboyism.

Not sure why they puled back on the Android lines, maybe because they targeted them at the current weak US and European markets or the crippled carrier dominated mobile market in the US? I don't know. But do your research.

Can I win just once?

Lets all agree to not buy any phones without a universal connector.

Agreed, and with mass storage capacity so no iTunes or Zune software garbage required to use it. I'd buy this over either a Zune or iPod any day.

Hook me up Endgadget, please?

I see this argument a lot, yet I wonder are there really many people carrying around a device that is bigger than even a high end phone (in addition to their phone BTW)? I personally don't think so unless they are a chick with a big purse.

Come on, you don't buy new lighting or lamps? Where do you live in a cave? Anyway, don't be so narrow in your view. There is a world market of 6 billion people. I think that is enough sales.

I was just thinking the same thing. My dead mobo 8TB array can now become a 16TB array!

Its not fun to be healthy?

Its sad that it has come to this kind of statement. He probably shouldn't have said it? Yeah bad PR is the worst thing. Heck maybe that is even true, that its better to treat your customers with contempt and lie about it than suffer bad PR. If so, that is a terrible thing, no?

The fact is, we pay for devices that should work as advertised. The iPhone 3G couldn't even make complete calls when it came out. That week that I had one was a nightmare. OEMs changing the paradigm from "devices that work as advertised" to "devices that work as advertised at some point" is a big change. It demonstrates how powerless informed consumers are these days. Sure you can vote with your wallet, you can also pee in a monsoon. Both seem to have the same impact today, as there are countless numbers of the unwashed masses that don't. Sony rootkited us. Endgadget was mad, everyone was mad. Yet Sony's album/electronic sales are no different that the rest of the industry.

Heck, maybe I am just whining and I should just join the unwashed masses and be an unthinking cash machine for corporate profits. Its easier to swim downstream than upstream, right?