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You know, It always hurts my head when I see people ignorantly blurt out that Nobody is buying the PSP, or saying in any way that it's a flop.

People, it was funny 3 years ago, but it's lasted and has stayed relevant longer than ANY non-Nintendo made hand held gaming system IN HISTORY. The PSP is consistently in the top sales brackets for NPD in both Japan and UK, and 67 Million isn't "nobody". No, it's not as much as the DS, but under that logic, Nobody buys an iPhone compared to Nokia Dumbphones, or Nobody buys Macs... and if that was true, then this site wouldn't exist.

That being said, I looked pretty hard and the phone Kinda looks like an iPhone, but could really be any black touch screen only touch phone. Including a Nexus S.

Yeah, that's why you Donate it, and it's not a Buy Back program.

Instead of offering like.. We'll buy it for $150 and donate it..

I know, Lack of competition is a bad thing, and Zune has deffinatly enough competition that it pushed apple to improve their products.

Because it's the App FaceTime, not Skype, witch is a different application and name and trademark owned by a different company who is even Worse than apple at innovating.

If you have an iOS Device, FaceTime is superior in almost every way. There is next to no setup, the person doesn't have to join the network and get a screen name. It uses you Phone number or email address. The video quality is better and cleaner and has less annoying sound effects.

Right now we have 3 major solutions for Video Calling, FaceTime, Google Talk, and Skype.

Skype was the first to do it right, but the company is run by morons. The iOS clients are slow to upgrade, stability is questionable, and the app itself is a Battery hog. They also should not be signing exclusivitivy agreements with Carriers, so It's only on iOS, Mac and PC, no Android version yet. Skype, COULD step their game up and make the biggest impact the fastest, but they won't.

FaceTime has alot of things right, as far as making the video call process as intuitive as making a voice call. But, being owned by Apple, Apple is in it for Apple's own growth, so it's only on Apple platforms. So No PC or Android versions.

Google Talk is a nice alternative to Skype, and available for PC, Mac, and Android 3.0 and ChromeOS (Video enabled versions). Seeing as there is a non video enabled client for almost every platform, Google COULD put the video ability into them, and it could be the prime utility as it would be first to multi-platform. Out of the 3, I see this as doing MP First, as Google seems more intrested in getting tech out there and used than keeping their stuff to their platforms.

First one sucked, 2nd one was slightly better, but Conan wins by a long shot! Awesome!

Why does it seem like, most iPhone fanboys, Apple Employees, and Apple focused websites.. spent years bitching about AT&T, and begging for the Verizon iPhone 4, and now that it's out.. they are trying to do all they can to sabotage the Verizon iPhone.

I got the VZW iPhone, and couldn't be happier. I did not like AT&T... I always said I'd get an iPhone if it wasn't on AT&T, and I did. Never needed Simultanious data and voice on 3G, and while the Data isn't as fast.. it's still damn fast. If We were stuck on EDGE speeds, then I'd be all "Grrr" and stuff.. but, We averaged 1.5 Mbit, and that's good.

As others keep saying, Why would they pull the optical drive, it's still very much in use these days. And by Apple no less. I just had to install Final Cut studio, and the bandwidth to download that would be a nightmare. That's what the MBA, and to a lesser extent the MacBook is for.

For one though, I'm glad the resolution isn't any higher on the 13inch MBP. Not everyone has 20/10 vision, and it would suck for everything to be that super tiny on screen.

As a new Verizon iPhone customer who spent 3.7 years as a hold out.. The first benefit is that it's not on AT&T. All my dealings with AT&T have been negative. From Terrible customer support, ridiculous international rates, high prices w/o better service. When I was selling AT&T phones, there was the stupidity of forcing customers into a $20 unlimited texting plan, just because the only phone we had that didn't have a touch screen, or QWERTY keyboard sucked (and there was only 1 choice), and the removal of the unlimited data or 5GB of data option. OH and on top of all that, AT&T wants me to pay a deposit of... get this.. $700 just to get a phone i could buy flat out for $600, but can't use because I'd still have to get the contract. Also can't unlock the iPhone.. yadda yadda yadda...

Yeah I can't do data while on a call.. and rudely ignore the person I'm talking to because I'm poking at the internet.. and I can't do 2 calls (Which I will admit is a useful feature) But.. to not have to deal with AT&T, it's worth it.

This article is badly written... How does Verizon changing the plan for renewing after a 2 year contract, have ANYTHING to do with AT&T switchers?

Secondly, does this mean that.. If you sign a 2 year contract.. and after 2 years, you want any new phone, you will be expected to pay Full price for any and all phones?

Does that include 2nd Gen, iPod touches? AKA 3rd Gen 8GB iPod touches?

THe reason Apple probabbly still supports the iPhone 3G is because they were still selling them as of May of this year.