I think this was actually heralded when Apple didn't say a single word about Mac OS X at ADC. They should have been previewing Mac OS X 10.7, as has been the custom for nearly a decade. But they didn't say a word about it. Really peeved me, personally, as I'm not an iPhone fan, but I use a Mac.

I have a feeling, judging by the "NO REFUNDS(15 or so exclamation points)," that this is a scam.

@Aaron Crabtree: Also, can we now use this same technology to create an Earth-based levitation technology? It would only work on Earth or other worlds with magnetospheres, of course, but it would still be cool.

@Aaron Crabtree: Sorry, micrometeoroid.

Eeeeee! That's exciting. Now what about micrometeors?

@wildfire359: My point was that the mechanisms are of nearly identical quality. And in my experience (which, I'm sorry, is a much greater sampling than yours, as I deal with these watches every day, and have since I was 18), they don't constantly break. Especially not men's watches. The ladies' watches will…

@Mark Wilson: What? That is insanely strange. Unless they actually meant four weeks or something, as I've never heard of a repair taking than that. And that's including shipping time. I actually work at a Fossil store, and sold them at a different store before I worked for them; we quote people 2-4 weeks including…

Wait…extra 20mm? That's 2cm thicker, or almost an inch. Uh…I don't think that can be right.

@The_Game21x: If you think THAT is Indiana Jones, check out the Jackson backpack: [www.fossil.com]

@wildfire359: Being someone who works for Fossil, and who sold Fossil watches before I worked for them, I can tell you that your personal experience (and that of your friends) is atypical. They have an 11-year warranty, PS. So if they do go bad, it's free to fix them.

Just so you know, they have an 11-year warranty. So if your watches break, you can easily get them fixed. Or if it's the band or something that breaks, that's a cheap fix. Or if it's something on the bezel, which technically isn't under warranty, take it to your Fossil store, they'll almost alway swap it out for you.

@PoG: Except for the fact that those are all just modified official ROMs. They've hacked into the source of the official ROM and changed things they don't like. As I said to someone else, the best ROMs are based on the source code, such as CyanogenMod, Sapphire, and Bugless Beast. Which, as they are not signed by…

@4phun: You're completely mistaken as to what that website was. They were offering ROMs that were illegally acquired from HTC. The best ROMs out there (CyanogenMod, Sapphire, Bugless Beast) are built from the source code; they are completely free to be used and modified by anyone, barring certain concerns which you…

@ctthoqqua: True. But as Moto said in a press release, it's actually in use in this phone. It won't brick your phone (permanently). All it will do is send you to recovery mode until you load a signed ROM. Which means, yes, the eFuse chip is there to prevent the loading of custom ROMs. Trust me, I've been having a…

Root =/= ability to load custom ROMs. To do that, you need to modify the bootloader, which is what the eFuse chip stops you from doing. That, and the fact that it's a signed/encrypted bootloader. Most hackers thought they'd be able to root the X, but still, very few are very optimistic about modifying the bootloader.

@elvisml2: Like I said, the problem IS in fact worse than other phones. My point was that having an easily visible point of contact that causes a problem will "blow it out of proportion" like Apple claims this has been.

10,000 was just above average for me in high school. For one of my friends, that was a low number. I now am lucky to break a thousand, and have no clue how I sent so many texts back then. But I did. And most of my friends texted at least as much as I did.

This is why they have psychologists help with the design of consumer products. Because, even if the iPhone weren't any worse at signal attenuation than any other phone (which it is), people would notice it more - simply because of the immediate visible connection between contact and signal loss. You see a point on…

@LordPants: Not completely locked down, but it does have the locked bootloader, which makes it much more difficult to install custom ROMs, and the ones you can install have to be based on an official signed ROM. I emailed Motorola about my displeasure with it, and am trying to rally more people to do it as well, so if…

So I've heard mixed reviews of the camera, but from what I've read elsewhere, the camera is much better if you're running the latest build of the software. Moto really needs to get their act together with software-related camera problems.