Don

THIS IS SPARTA!!!

Everyone says Sony is the one that is so proprietary, but with the PS3, you can use:

any SATA hard drive
any CF/MS/SD card
any bluetooth headset
any camera
any USB or wireless controller (no forced licensing)

whereas with the Xbox 360, you have to use MS's ultra-expenive accesories that really add up in the long run. A 512MB SD card can be bought for $5.25 on Newegg which is 90% less than this memory unit.

It seems pretty idiotic to force people to buy 2-year contracts with the iPhone if they're going to release new models every 6 months.

This is just stupid. There's no reason I should have to get rid of my $2000 PC just because I want to change my phone network. They should have made it unlocked HSDPA that way you can change carriers easily by swapping the SIM card.

Have you seen Rogers' data rates?

http://www.shoprogers.com/business/wireless/plans_services/business_plans.asp?plan=dataservice&cat=2&typ=2

$100 PER MONTH FOR 200MB!

With Google maps, and a full featured web browser, 200MB can be used in a matter of days.

Just a single page on Engadget takes up half a megabyte!

I can't believe that people in Canada are willing to pay these exorbitant fees.

I don't see what's so special about this visual voicemail. I have an unlocked phone, the Samsung D900, and it has an "answering machine" feature. If someone calls you, and you don't answer within 20 seconds, the phone will automatically pick up the call, and play a message. The caller will then leave their message, and it's recorded as a file on the phone's memory. Afterwards you're able to choose the individual recordings from a list and play them in whatever order you choose.

I don't see why Blu-Ray is being hated on so much. It seems to me that it's because the players are a bit more expensive, even though HD DVD is just as good as Blu-Ray for video.

What's also important is that these high capacity disc formats will be used in a PC for data just like DVD is today, which is used on a daily basis.

Blu-Ray is very much ahead of HD DVD in terms of PC recorders. The first PC Blu-Ray burner came out about a year ago and now the recorders are at 4x speed, and support single and dual layer recordable and rewritable discs.

There is no HD DVD recorder yet released, and the only one announced is at 1x speed and doesn't support rewritables.

Why did they have to go with EV-DO and force people to use Sprint? If they just included HSDPA instead, you could get the same speeds but it would be possible to use with any provider worldwide.

Honestly, how much extra does it cost them to add the GSM 850 band to a phone? Under a dollar? Even if no US carrier is willing to sell the phone, and even ignoring the unlocked market, GSM 850 would at least be a benefit to Europeans who travel to North America to get optimal reception. It just baffles me that even high-end, $700+ phones like the Nokia N93 don't include this frequency.

Is the SE530 superior to the currently available E500PTH?