Mark

Listen, everybody likes to pounce on Verizon for gimping features (and I know they do on their flip phones and candy bars), but I'm currently using their Centro (waiting for pre), and this is my third palm contract with them (Treo 600, 700p), and they have not touched the phones, other than a logo and the (sometimes useful) VZW mail icon. Verizon has been, in my experience, extremely hands off with their Palm smartphones. I don't know how they have been on their blackberries or other ones, but I am optimistic that they will keep their crapware off of their smartphone lineup (maybe they will just stick to killing off wifi).

I can't think of a better time to catch up on episodes of LOST than when out on a nice relaxing bike ride....

Screenshot on the left looks like Microsoft Bob. FAIL.

Great. He turned the Wall Street Journal into USA Today with extra-nasty anti-Obama editiorials; wonder what dumbed-down right-wingery he can insert into the ebook business? Maybe he can bring ebooks to his Fox News demographic-- oh yeah, 60 plus-year olds in trailer parks don't read books or newspapers, much less ebooks... back to the drawing board, Smithers.....

As someone who grew up in the seventies, this UI makes me feel like I'm back at the "Honeycomb Hideout."

I yield to no one in my hatred of the buggy 700p, but the Centro is the real deal-- no hitches, no problems, no bugs. Yeah the tech is old but it works well and is small. I'm willing to tread water a little while longer, Palm.....

It won't take Verizon long at all to recoup the loss with their $50 unlimited data plan-- about 3 months, I'd say. They already nixed the wi-fi for insurance.

1.Hello.. the 70s called... they want their projector back.

2. It looks like part of the set from 2001: A Space Odyssey is on ebay!

3. Remember the Ferrari Acer Notebook? Well here's the AMC Gremlin Projector!

Rather than wait for this I went ahead and bought a roku box last week (I love it). One big reason is that the roku box is wireless; my understanding is that the LG player requires a wired internet connection. If you watch old movies, the selection is pretty decent, and the addition of the starz movies brought some much needed recent hits.

This may well be it for me. I have an itchy finger for a Roku (but still waiting to see if content improves), I have an HDTV, and I have too great a fear of my wife to get a PS3. Plus I'll be getting the Neil Young archive, if he actually releases it this year on blu ray.