i just got a silver one - it looks nice. it's NOT glossy like the other 2. our office black ps3 looked lame with fingerprints all over it. the matte silver is a nice finish. but, i really would have preferred matte black. to each his own.

i think by 2009 ALL japanese mobiles must have GPS.... hmm..... the government says so. however, more and more, there seems to be wifi based alternatives cropping up (that i don't understand - sony's placeengine). considering how generally not that impressive and imprecise gps in a phone is, that could be interesting.

ipod touch already has it (from what i've seen in ads anyway) - it's just romaji input with dictionary suggestions above the keyboard that you can touch to select. maybe there's a 5-tap alternative? don't know... i do know... i wants!

actually, i disagree. i use both k100d and k10d, and often when i'm out with the k10d, i miss that extra stop of speed. the k100d grain is as good or better then 3200 speed film, for sure. if the color noise gets in the way, then it usually makes for a good black and white shot (and, the grain looks more natural that way to boot). but, i agree, for the cost k100d is excellent.

um - how much is it? that would be pretty basic info to get. unless they're not saying.

1-seg is standard portable digital tv in japan. i guess it's not impressive cause it's just a necessary thing. people in japan take trains all the time. many play psp's. now they can also watch digital tv. do you really expect ever product always to be revolutionary or ground breaking?

I've see renderings of this phone. I don't think it looks like the iphone. This video shows no detailing of this product. it is NOT a high end phone. and, thus, shouldn't command the high-end pricetag associated with the iphone. Imagine s60 with touch, and that's what this phone will basically be (with a new image viewer app shown here - and, I'm not sure that's a real app yet, even - I guess it will now have to be).

um.... like how? like, if i want the next picture, i flick to the opposite direction i want it to go? i think these touch based actions will become standardized, just like the mouse. the iphone does what the perceptive pixel board does, just on small finger sized scale, rather then a two handed wall sized scale.

i think you hit the nail on the head. apple seems to excel at exploiting the 80/20 rule. they make excellent and easy to use the 20% of the mass of functions people use 80% of the time, and forget the rest. suits me just right. so, i am an apple user. i think they apply the same thinking to the iPhone. i work for a mobile phone company that doesn't get this and continues to pile in feature after feature that most people don't care about, all the while making these 'multimedia computers' more difficult to use because of this overabundance of fairly needless features. oh well...

P.A.T. that's a pretty standard acronym, is it not?

i concur. and even with the missing emotional and quality of design/materials factor, there's still quite a few missing stats - memory storage is the obvious one. how much memory does this helio have, anyway? i'm assuming not 4 or 8 gb, since that line is missing.