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@zman
yup, if you buy an apple product, you're giving them your soul!

sorry, I couldn't help but build on your typo homonym.
so, we're not allowed to use hand-held mobile/cell phones, or to SMS on the move, so they're going to use handwriting control.

d'oh!!
@Arc007
it's also available at brando, for US$60 (about GB£36), which means just for once Maplin in the UK are a reasonable price with their £10 off deal.

http://usb.brando.com/usb-wireless-handheld-keyboard-and-touchpad_p01297c034d15.html

I wish there was a bluetooth version, then I could use it with my PS3 and Nokia Tablet.
hulu claim that the poor ps3 browser was why they blocked it. you can overcome that using a proxy which will rewrite user agent, which I tried, and discovered that the hulu site will crash the ps3 browser.

the youtubeXL site also kills the browser also kills the PS3 browser, thus rendering is useless - it can crash very soon after starting so you can't even navigate to the normal page!

hopefully this means hulu won't have any excuses, or at least, their excuses will seem very fragile!

the ps3 browser is only really useful for the BBC iplayer "application". I would guess the Beeb had to work quite hard to ensure their HTML was clean and didn't kill the PS3!!

IIRC, the ps3 browser is netfront, which is pretty dated.
it is a real GPS receiver, the "A" in assisted means you can "seed" the receiver, with almanac data downloaded over the internet to get a faster fix. if you're offline (no wifi or 3g or gsm) then it will get a fix only a little slower.
the nokia tablets make a v good reader, the v high res screen mean rendering fonts is very smooth.

the only downside is that portrait mode isn't supported by default, you have to jump through a few hoops.

I still use my old Palm T3 for ebooks, 'cos of the DRM, but in general I avoid buying/downloading such things unless the book is hard to get hold of (at least with paper books you can sell or give them away).
the stanza app on iphone/ipod touch is a very neat program for reading and downloading free books.
http://szboeye.manufacturer.globalsources.com/si/6008834669585/pdtl/Mobile-internet/1023336221/Mobile-Internet-Device.htm

* 5-inch 16:9 TFT 16 million colors touch screen
* Resolution: 800 x 480
* CPU: Samsung 6410 and frequency upto 667MHZ
* Operation systerm: Windows CE 5.0
* 3.5mm earphone port and 2.0 mini USB port
* External SD/MMC card up to 8GB
* Supports Bluetooth 2.0 and wifi
* Supports 3G (EVDO module)
* Support Microphone in and audio out
* Built-in dual stereo speakers
* Built-in NandFlash 128MB
* Built-in GPS and DVB-T
* Builit-in 1.3 Million camera
* Built-in RJ-45 port and USB port
* Built-in LED backlight and lightness is adjustable
* Supports Txt, PDF, DOC, XLS, PPT, CHM and HTML files
* Supports image formats: JPG, BMP, PNG and GIF
* Supports Mp3 formats: WMA, MP3, WAV and AAC
* Supports video formats: MP4, WMV, AVI, 3GP and ASF
* Supports QQ, MSN, Skype chatting tool
* Supports opening animation and password input
* Supports E-mail receive and send
* Supports JAVA application and simple game play
* Calendar/clock/calculator
* Supports multi-language
* supports PC mouse and keyboard input
* Font size is adjustable
* Supports music background play
* Supports input Chinese, English, digit and symbol
* 2,100mAh lithurm battery supports continuous uses upto 5 hours

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I think you mean "loss leader".

Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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