Personally, I find this idea of "cinemagraphs as art" to ridiculously pretentious. Especially given the situations and sentiments in which .GIFs are generally employed. I don't mean any disrespect to the author, I understand this line of thinking is a "thing" now; it just rubs me the wrong way.

Spotify, given it's handling of local files, has allowed me to ditch iTunes entirely. That, and the superb mobile app, are enough for me to continue to happily shell out the $10/mo.

Make that display a widget, and take my $5.

I just want to see it on the "big"existing phones (One series / SIII) by Thanksgiving.

I haven't pirated a single album since I became a Spotify Premium subscriber in December. I don't have any sort of moral objections; it's just not worth my time and effort to track down an album, download it, and then transfer it to my mobile device of choice. As a Premium subscriber, I can store a number albums…

What will kill this phone is apps. Either it's an Android l, like say "FACEBLUR" or "FACEWIZ", or it's own mobile OS. And if it is its own mobile OS, what's the motivation for developers to come to the platform, and what's FB's motivation for allowing apps that push/consume content away from FB? Much like Apple's…

So 4" displays have become inexpensive enough for Apple to maintain their massive margins?

The jaded part of me suspects that this is phase one of Verizon "pulling a Comcast". They'll make data itself more expensive, but exclude *their* pay services from counting against your data. It wasn't too long ago that they were charging a monthly premium for VZW Navigator.

For the life of me, I don't understand the logic of putting out a range of phones, only to have each phone exclusive to a particular carrier. It's as if a clothing store only had Ls at one location, Ms at another, etc etc. Looking at you, HTC.

It annoys my (not-live-in) girlfriend to no end, but I love my antenna. ION is the best free channel, ever.

Requiring cable to use Hulu is a lot like requiring sugar for aspartame to taste sweet; the whole point is that it's a cable alternative.

In the event that that happens, I'll fashion Hulk Hands out of the contract-price currency and punch my way into the TMO store on launch day.

While I applaud HTC for focusing on a specific range of devices, it's beyond frustrating that the whole range isn't available on each carrier. I'm on TMO, my contract is coming to an end, and I want a One. Thing is, I want the One X. I'm not signing a new contract and dropping $200 for a second-place phone.

I'd pay $10 for BBM for Android. I'd probably pay $25 for a suite of integrated BB apps. For all of their failures, nobody handles the sundry of messaging options better than RIM.

Two reasons: battery concerns, and the wide availability of car adapters/docks for i-products. I prefer Android, and there just aren't a lot of accessory options. I'm still satisfied with my decision, and Spotify access is enough to make up for the negatives.

Same here. I was going to refresh my iPod, but decided that $300 bought one hell of a nice pair of headphones and a 32GB SD card for my phone.

I'm running the Swiftkey3 beta. There's some mild bugs (it insists on auto-caps when I've turned them off), the predictive text is a step above X's excellence. The multiple word correction is really good, and I use it a lot more than I thought I would. I'm excited for it to go final.

This phone is so "exactly what I want", my contract isn't up until August, and I still might get it then, despite better future phones being available.

Instagram itself is essentially a social network, and one that required an iPhone to join. People are psyched to be able to join the community & use the platform to share their pics: simple filters aren't he draw.

It's possible that I'm incredibly cynical, but I see Gatekeeper monitoring applications as a trial ballon, where the *real* endgame is to apply it to media. Your song/movie/book doesn't work unless it's signed by the content producers, a certified seller of said goods (Amazon), or (ideally, for Apple) the iTunes…