What makes this $2,000 better than, say, the Nokia E71i? Who in their right mind would pay $2,000 for a cell-phone, pre-production, at that?

Ok, someone who claims to use this, enlighten me -- WHY do you need to watch TV in the car? And why do you need to watch remote TV over FIOS?

Bill Gates was never brilliant. Shrewd, yes, but far from brilliant. And lucky... oh boy, was he lucky. Right place, right time, and not scruples, that's how he turned a lousy OS into a $billion empire.

And your definition of "magnanimous" seems a bit flawed. Say you got $100,000 in the bank. Would you expect a standing ovation each time you give someone a dollar? Each time you donate $100 to a charity? If you do, you're a selfish little prick.

Bill has close to $100 BILLION. That's 1,000,000 times more than $100,000. Getting the math? A friend of mine is making $35K working assembly line 60 hours a week. He donated over $8K to charitable causes last year. THAT is generous.

Wow, I can't wait to see a Samsung laptop -- I just hope they make them just like their mobile phones. They'd be cheaply made, have low battery life, blurry webcams, nearly unusable wifi, crippled bluetooth and run something like Windows Vista. Oh yea, and instead of "ding", they play the sesame street song, or the best of the Jackson Five.

Be thee damned!

Hey Chris, nice try.

"Pound" is a weight, just like grams are. Just a different unit. You meant lbf (pound-force), right? It's ok, beginning physics students are always a bit confused on that.

So glad you remembered Symbian, or I would have b*tchslapped you with a large trout. Been shopping PDA phones lately. I was playing with a T-Mo Wing (Windows Mobile) for a few days, and the thing is positively useless as a phone. Or a PDA. They took all the worst features of Win 98, shrunk them down to make them entirely unreadable, haphazardly added a phone and text-messaging application and called it a "phone".
Then I got to experience a Symbian S60 device... holy frick, what a beautiful thing. It's lightning fast, intuitive, instantly usable as a phone, and easy to use the PDA functions.

Anything fits in an envelope. They make envelope in different sizes, you know.

Wow, I almost began to care.

And I still don't care. DVDs look fine on my 2001 Sony TV; which set me back over $2200 for a 42" 1080i display. I'm watching broadcast HDTV through my mythTV box and HDHomeRun -- and yes, the pic is sharper than a DVD, but when you're 10ft away from the screen, it doesn't really matter.

I can also archive DVD movies on DVD+Rs, or even on XVid (0.7GB/hr) or h.264 (0.5GB/hr).

I've seen BD first-hand, on a very nice TV set. I still fail to see how a small increase in detail and resolution is worth all that extra money and 5x the storage space.

Ask me again in five years, when BD players are $40 at walmart, burners cost $80, and BD blanks are less than $0.50. Until then... pfffft.