i do have more Facebook friends, but the signal to noise ratio is much lower. Part of that is my fault, but it's also the way Facebook has proliferated to cover the internet. If Google+ never becomes dominant, fine. I'll use it as long as I draw value from it. Currently, the value I draw from Google+ is higher than…

That wasn't in response to you, but boobox who had made it sound like I was making an Android fanboy statement. For the record, I do use an Android phone. The reason I used Android as the example is because it's relavant as Amazon has already built into Android. They don't have a tablet or marketplace for iOS.

"There's something like 8,142* different Android Tablets on sale right now yet it seems like no one is really using them."

Whatever. There doesn't have to be only one. I use Google+ for my posts, and they get discussed and debated in a way that no one has time for in the deluge of information on your average Facebook feed. I use Facebook to keep up with family and organizations, which Google+ doesn't have. I don't necessarily like having…

Yes, and where is the support for Audible, or Evernote, or Dropbox on WebOS? Where's Popcap? All of these companies cross-platform between iOS and Android, but don't touch WebOS. You're trying to turn this into an fanboy fight, but my point is still valid. WebOS doesn't have the major apps it needs to compete with…

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Not buying it, but it appears no one else is either. I can't wait to get a bigger screen. My Droid 1 feels very cramped. Admittedly, there is such a thing as too big, but i don't think 4.3 is quite at that line.

Where do all these people keep coming from? Every time I see numbers from any cell phone market, Android or iPhone, and the numbers are massive, I think, "Gee, I would have thought we were already close to the market saturation point." I guess not. Welcome to the party people, smartphones are cool.

Oh well, the investment of $20-30 dollars is not bad considering the amount you are actually paying for that phone when you include 2 years of service fees. Buy a new case, if that's your thing. I don't use them, but I don't begrudge anyone for being smarter than me.

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"That's why their prices are lower than the rest of the industry and their margins higher"

This may have been what Don McLean was talking about.

You can use those three words in the same sentence?

Geez, we keep hitting that "sweet spot" over and over and over, and yet, they keep itterating. Personally I'm holding out for the 8.7463728912" tablet from Samsung. I think that will be the sweet spot.

OKay,

Um, yeah. Unless they are willing to offer channels outside of cable subscriptions ala-carte, I won't have the least interest in this. I dropped cable. I miss access to Discovery, History, and SyFy. That's about it. I won't go back to paying too much for three the three channels I want.

It's not a metric, it's an observation. I have many tech savvy friends. They don't buy Nokia dumb phones or blackberries. They buy iPhones and Androids. If the entire dumbphone market dumped their phones and jumped to WP7, then yes, that would be formidable. However, I have yet to see that happen, in real life, to…

Microsoft would actually have to sell some phones, though. I have yet to see someone using one. Everyone I know has Android or iOS. That's it. The brand recognition for those phones is way too permeated into the current marketplace. It's great that Microsoft made a working OS on a mobile device for once, but that's…

That'd be it.

This was always (theoretically) true. HSPA+ is faster than CDMA. CDMA has better building penetration and call quality. It's the trade-off we've all been living with for years. They should have gone 4G.