Like you, I need a place to get some writing done (aspiring novelist and even more aspiring sreenwriter), but I get cabin fever hanging around my small studio apartment, and also just need to get away when I'm not at my real job, that gives me a paycheck.

I get your point, but honestly, the price difference for a self built computer isn't that large.

Although it'll stick around, it IS inherently a media platform, yes, like Yahoo and AOL, and will undergo an inevitable downscale in popularity.

I'm not a pro, more like a pro-sumer, but still, with FCPX, you buy it for what it is now.

Love the Rocketeer film, for it's beautiful score, swashbuckling sense of adventure, charm, and the very busty Jennifer Connelly.

Maybe so, but that points to a future with RIM becoming a much, much smaller company, a shadow of what they are now.

There is also a similar feature piece about this topic in this weekend's Financial Times.

Nuke it from orbit! That's the only way to be sure!

Ah, come on, Kat: this is clearly meant for display advertising purposes (banners, ads wrapped around columns, even grocery store products—-imagine animated soda bottles and cereal boxes.)

Maybe I'm mistaken, and somebody correct me if I am, but from what I know, you can *purchase* ring tones outside of Microsoft's application store, but you can't create your own. I have an older Nokia where you can go into the Music folder on the microSD card, choose an mp3 file, then choose from one of the following:…

Well, that still leaves out everything else.

I'd like to be BFFs with you Windows Phone, but until you get tethering ability, handsets sold unlocked, carrier free, and add some more customizations (ringtones! wallpapers!), then don't keep calling me and hanging up.

Well said.

That's super and I'm glad you enjoy it, but that stuff doesn't appeal to me.

I know you can, I own a Zune, but I'm resistant to doing that on a smart phone.

I get the appeal of cloud services, but just seems like too much of a hard sell/con-job to me.

It's nice that there's a user fix, but I frequently Skype with my retired folks who live in Europe.

It has a great UI, but for me, it's still missing a few key features that I can still do on a four year old Nokia phone.

64 gb SD cards for devices is the reason why stand alone mp3 players are a dead end market, except for players like the tiny but impressive Sansa Clip (for music, podcasts and audiobooks only) or the iPod Touch (which is more of a PDA minus the phone part).

Despite a feature that I'm interested in, I don't think mass storage or hot swappable sd card support will ever be a part of WP7, as, like iTunes, Windows Phone is all about their Zune platform and software.