Let's see, you can get a 17 inch monitor for a hundred bucks and an Ergotron triple screen mount for a few hundred last I checked - so for less than the price of this thing and a few moments of work to mount the screens you can get a more attractive and more useful multi-monitor setup going. I'm not feeling the urge to run out and by Evga, for some reason...

- Upgradeable flash memory slot (microsdhc would work fine)
- User replaceable battery (with greater capacity if at all possible)
- Much higher resolution screen, 800x480 minimum, preferrably more
- True multitasking, anything else is like a flashback to the early Mac operating system that did cooperative multitasking... back in the 80s.

Not fond of the idea of it being useless in sunlight, definitely not liking the very low screen resolution (compared to, say, the HTC Touch HD) and the Symbian OS looks pretty darn ugly and has the typical slowdowns that you so often see on Symbian (and on Windows Mobile too, of course, but that's another story.)

HD video capture is the only attractive thing with it, and the novelty of AMOLED.

If you need HD video capture it makes a lot more sense to buy a proper HD video camera and some other phone to do all the other stuff better, imho. Blah phone.

I use a HTC Touch HD which has WinMo 6.1 on it and I agree, it is not finger friendly in many respects and it is slow to do certain things. The iPhone OS is superior to it in many ways.

However, the HD has 800x480 resolution which makes a huge difference for what I do with it, and I'm not tied to any extortionate contract either, and there is a lot of really cool third party software available that isn't on the iPhone - like real turn-by-turn GPS from TomTom or WMWifiRouter to use the phone as a 3G-to-Wifi device to name just a few you won't get on the iPhone anytime soon.

It's all about what you can do with the device. While the iPhone is very impressive in many respects, it also has huge glaring faults still.

So nobody has hard data and nobody knows if this will ever exist and it is a total fabrication by some super nerd with more time than sense... so let's post it on Engadget just cause there is, like, a pretty picture. Whee.

Well, here's 3 minutes of my life I'll never get back.

Just having the Tesla engine and drivetrain doesn't necessarily make it rocket-powered. When it comes to electrical vehicles, it is far more important to know what kind of power levels the batteries can deliver. I would guess (with admittedly very little hard fact to go on) that the batterypack for the Smart would be far less potent than what they put in the actual Teslas and geared towards smaller size and getting more mileage with less brute power.

But of course, I may be way off on this one. Just speculating.

The GPS just sets up a habit of listening to it and doing what it says. I use a GPS a fair bit and while I haven't yet actually driven off a cliff, I have found myself driving into weird places trusting that the GPS map actually was going to take me to where I was going. It does happen that sometimes the GPS chooses a way that is off the beaten path but turns out to be marginally shorter than going via the main roads only.

Obviously driving off a cliff because the GPS said so is extreme, but after months of listening to the box telling you to go left, go right, take the exit etc you begin to trust that it will get you where you are going and get complacent about checking for yourself. So, going off a cliff is an extreme case but I've seen similar tendencies from time to time in myself (giving the GPS the benefit of the doubt while it leads me down a road that doesn't really seem to make sense. In some cases it didn't make sense... so I turned instead of going over the cliff. ;)

That looks like an excellent phone for people who actually mostly use their phones to call with, not do other things. You can certainly say what you want about Nokia phones but one thing they do supremely well and that is phone calls.

For many people there is no substitute for the good old hardware phone keys, the out-of-the-box voice dialing with actual voice recognition that my previous Nokia N-series did was uniformly excellent and this thing apparently adds some really nice touches like the 3.5 mm earphone plug and built in GPS too.

Sure, personally I now use a HTC Touch HD, but that's mainly because I am one of those who do use their phone heavily for computing tasks rather than calling - but I wouldn't hesitate to call a Nokia like the one pictured here the better phone. Not the better all-round pocket computing device, not by a long shot, but for pure voice applications it still is a great design and form factor.

However, I absolutely agree that Nokia needs to create a truly compelling high-end device sooner rather than later.

The keyboard is in fact so bad that it is barely a step up from an onscreen keyboard done right, which sort of defeats the purpose of having a hardware keyboard. It is quite awful, truly - a HTC Touch Pro is miles better.

Also, the WVGA resolution is fantastic, but on such a tiny screen some of the utility is lost since the OS doesn't scale quite properly (a completely resolution-independent OS that could make use of the resolution intelligently would mean the higher the resolution the better, as all that would happen was that sharpness went up. Here everything gets tiny.)

And finally, TouchFlo is really quite a revolution for finger-based use of a WinMo device. It's not quite iPhone level, but it does improve things immensely compared to the stock WinMo - and Xperia is essentially stock WinMo with Panels on top, which is another strike against the X1. All these things are a shame, I wanted to like the X1 but just can't.

Fortunately, there is my next phone instead... the HTC Touch HD. Same resolution, usable screen size and TouchFlo with a good on-screen keyboard instead.

This has always been one of the biggest issues with DRM, especially DRM where you have to contact the mothership and beg for the right to use the media you paid for.

Just one reason why DRM is such a consumer-hostile piece of crud. But of course, seeing how laws keep getting more and more insane with regards to copyrights, I don't see a light at the end of the tunnel for quite a while. I mean since when is bypassing some copyright laws supposed to be treated more harshly in courts than violent crimes against actual people? Sheesh.