I'd love one of these!!!

For what it's worth, when I was working for Nokia we were told to assume that only 30% of bugs found would be fixed - ever. Despite repeated requests for corrections, we would see the same errors in phone after phone, year after year.

Terveisin,
- an ex-Nokia

Glad you like your E62. It was design in the US, but don't expect any more from there. Nokia layed off that group almost 2 years ago.

Disposable income should be what you have left over after paying the bills, saving, etc. But here it seems that it's whatever you can get by with your minimum payment on your credit card. I seem to remember that the US had negative savings last year.

Despite all of the comments from the rest of the world, Nokia should be concerned about the US market. They have gone from 78% market share to being 4th, maybe 5th by now. But since the US has higher disposable income than most countries AND (foolishly) the US consumer tends to spend more than they should, the US is very lucrative. Nokia can keep increasing market share with $20 phones in India and other countries, but their profit would go up considerably if they would sell something here that people want.

My ex-coworkers from Nokia (R&D here was shuttered last year) have tried many of the newer phones on the market. Many have moved to the iPhone and some have even vowed never to go to anything else again. It's highly regarded, relative to Nokia & Series whatever.

And all of you espousing MMS are showing your age. Very few here over 20 use it and only a little more are using SMS. I only send a couple per year. So it matters little that iPhone is not as good for texting.

First - these types of cameras do make your average person slow down which does save lives AND makes the real speeders stand out of the crowd so they can be more easily nabbed by live police.
Second - when are they going to give up on radar or lidar based speed detection? All they have to do is watch your car at one intersection and time stamp it with a GPS clock, then time stamp you at another intersection. This is extremely accurate. If your time between intersections is shorter than the time it would take if you were driving the speed limit, you were speeding. End of story.

Yes this is true. There is also the problem of the network and handsets having to deal with the doppler shift of the transmissions due to the high speed of the plane. One of the original specifications for mobile phones put the max. speed at around 60 MPH.

Also, while some above have noted that the frequencies that cellphones use are not the same as the aviation frequencies all transmissions can heterodyne (mix) with each other. Thus you get the sum of two frequencies and the difference of the frequencies. With handsets operating on up to 10 or more bands, the chance of a bad output frequency goes up inside the plane. Of course this also implies correctly working phones. A damaged phone or electronic device may be outputting other frequencies that have not been tested. The phones in the seat backs transmit outside the plane on still other frequencies which would reduce the chance of a problem.

One other thing, while the Europeans and the rest of the world seem to have said it's ok to use phones on planes, they only have to contend with implementing GSM. Since the US uses competing standards, GSM & CDMA, any inflight basestation would have to implement both to make passengers happy. I don't think this is likely to happen.

Here's my 2 cents:

First, Sony has missed a huge opportunity marketing this product as a 'game' machine. It does so much more than that and they do not promote the other features. I realize that the MD movies have been a flop, but the movies and games are really all that Sony has featured. It is a shame that they've kept adding features, but they neither advertise them or even list them on the box. When I got my unit a year ago, the PSP still had version 1.0 software and I had no idea that when I upgraded the system, I would get a web browser. A year later, they've now added streaming audio (my favorite), numerous browser plug-ins, support for more sound formats, a visual player, and numerous other features. It's sad that most of my friends don't upgrade since they are clueless about what new features are available.

Second, why is no one mentioning video. When you can get a 2GB card these days for $30, why would anyone drag a DVD player around? And why would anyone put up with the small screen on other video devices like the iPod? This is the player of choice for my family. I don't get to watch much actual TV so I watch all of my favorite shows on my PSP. We even keep a 1GB card ready with Baby Einstein videos for our two-year-old. And every time we use this at a restaurant to keep her quiet, people come over and ask us what it is. Obviously Sony has not gotten the word out. Once again, this is probably poor marketing since kids know about these, but not anyone over 25.

Third, as always, if they drop the price they will sell more. However, if they would actually do some real marketing they could continue to get the full price. In my estimation, it's worth it.

And yes, in case you're wondering, I do play games on my PSP.

Does anyone know if these adapters will work with recorders, either VCR or DVD? I can't use the output of my Panasonic HDTV converter with my DVD recorder now. Does this mean no one will be able to record shows?