I have been to China and I have to agree with some of the posters here -- this won't present any more danger to Chinese pedestrians than a lot of the existing drivers. There are some good, responsible drivers over there, but there are also lots of complete nutcases. Within an hour of arriving in Beijing for the first time, for example, I found myself in a cab doing about 50MPH down a narrow back alley filled with pedestrians who were scrambling to get out of the way. That was more extreme than most Chinese driving, but not by as much as you'd think.

It is not about race. My girlfriend is Asian and she has never been in an accident. It is about experience. Mass ownership of cars is a new phenonemon in China and therefore cars are being driven by people who not only have no prior driving experience (think teenagers on learner's permits) but, more importantly, don't even have experience as car PASSENGERS on crowded roads. The average westerner knows quite a lot about road etiquette long before they're old enough to drive.

Gimme!

Gimme!

A Treosket, a trasket...

Come to papa, Treo!

"The Palm OS is pretty stable." Are you crazy? The Palm OS is a bugridden long-past-obsolete pile of horse manure as far as I'm concerned. Every Palm device I've owned over the years has crashed constantly, even when I haven't installed software like background music-playing apps (which wouldn't have to play dirty tricks if the stupid OS supported multitasking in the first place.)

What's more, when any third-party app crashes, it takes the whole device with it -- there's no notion of a single process dying but the system as a whole recovering. In the middle of a phone call on your Treo while you're running that buggy notepad program? Kiss your phone conversation goodbye.

I like the UI better than Windows Mobile, but stable? Not even close. A Palm-compatible device with a modern OS underneath it can't come soon enough for me.

Why not? I could use another Treo.

Actually, I won't pay extra for the tuner. I get my TV via satellite dish; a tuner is completely useless to me, and I certainly don't want to pay extra for one.

Yeah, well, the difference is that TomTom's products are actually *good*. I switched from the latest in a series of Garmin GPSes to TomTom's Palm-based Navigator 5 software last year and I don't miss a single thing about the Garmin units. The TomTom feature set is great, the configurability is great, the Internet connectivity (auto-routing around traffic jams) is great. Garmin's stuff is slow, clunky, and awkward in comparison.

I don't care who came up with this stuff first, but I know who's done a better job of it. If TomTom has to stop selling in the US, I'm glad I bought mine already.

Wake me up when they come out with one that's not a step down in screen resolution from last year's model. I already have a 650 -- I'd buy a 700w if it had the same resolution (Windows Mobile is much more stable and feature-rich than PalmOS) but I'm not going to pay that kind of money for 44% fewer pixels on the screen!