I would question the decision to classify much of Japan's smartphones as such, they are more like the most extreme dumbphones ever. Not that there is anything wrong with that. (After all that was pretty much the iphone until the SDK, and one could even argue after, though jailbreaking makes that... more complex)

Ummm yeah, you have probably never seen 4:4:4 video, even on a blu-ray player. Also I am pretty sure you don't know what it really means. In addition you have no clue how a three chip camera works.

I mean it is nice to be a troll and all, but you can't just post random stuff. I mean a relatively sensible post would have gone on about how you should save your money for lighting, and the need for 18k condors, with some kinoflos.

Right Right, but once iPhone FW 2.0 comes out for real the iPhone will finally have native activesync push, Which the Centro has ... now, oh and custom applications which the Centro also has ... now.

Then they will be in the same ballpark, kinda... except for text heavy, email heavy users of course.

In all honesty I got the Centro as a kinda tide me over phone, and have been very very impressed with it. It has honestly asked very little of me, has a fast net connection, and is just pretty handy for keeping up with email and work calender on the go. The centro is a massively under appreciated phone, that is ungodly fast and responsive, go hate on the numerous phones that deserve it.

They are required to have composite to be coupon eligible.

They can not have component so the TR-50 is not a coupon eligible box.

Damn that both makes a lot of sense and sucks balls. Oh well maybe next version.

I imagine those camera makers would like this. Instead of a useless tiny card (or onboard store) they can bundle in a one way card. Well actually I imagine camera retailers would like this. I could totally see this becoming a requirement to sell a camera in a big box store. Kind of like how printers don't have usb cables so the stores can sell you them (at massive markup).

Ummm, speaking as someone skilled in the art (or at least semi skilled), that "android" has all the technological prowess of a fancy light switch, mixed with some very primitive Voice rec.

Imagine if there were a bank of switches in a cockpit, and pressing them would cause a pre recorded announcment to play, and servo to move, say "Rudder left 2", and the rudder to move left. It would be neat but not that impresive. Well that is pretty much what is going on here.

A series of switches touch sensitive switches (one at least multi state) causes blind actions to be replayed. When the creepy guy touched the breast, it wasn't an aimed punch, just a blind sequence of motor commands followed by a canned phrase (that is almost guaranteed to be always the same, or at best minimally varying). A true android would integrate sensor data and make an attempt at hitting something, at the very least.

Don't be fulled by the "robotic" voice, there is very little cleverness here.

The 20gig is solid unobtanium for most practical purposes and has been since like just after launch.

WindowsCE was launched in 96 and while you can kind of shake some trees to get it to be called since 1992, it is rather like claiming OS X goes back to the AppleDos.

While it was a rocky start (MS pushed the HW harder and further then 1996 was ready for) it always had open and well documented APIs. Granted development wasn't easy way back when, but it was doable (and the problems were more of some key missing API calls), certainly easier then the backhacking to get apps to run on the iPhone. The past 7 years have seen development for windows CE devices become very very easy.

Ummm offline builds of remote located machines in hostile network environments. True nothing beats a good local update server for a corp, but when you have a remote office on some co-located site lousy with viruses it is nice to bring up a system already patched.