@ddhboy: You do know you can put a shortcut to frequently used applications on the home screen, do you?

@JakeMG: ♂ Man: And can you tell me precisely what would need to be changed in S^3 to make it on par with Android?

No; we don't need Android on Nokia phones. Symbian works just fine, and MeeGo looks to be more than fine.

@geolemon: Two problems: existing preconceptions and Nokia doesn't want to grovel to carriers.

@mno.net: Yup, but only if his phone is unlocked.

Well, while I'm not THAT worried of the big bad Google myself, I have to say that this is missing a rather important aspect of the issue.

@Hangten: I would deactivate these, except I anticipate it would have the opposite effect on me; I would be constantly checking if I had new emails because I wouldn't be able to rely on my phone to do it for me.

No, I don't. I've tried it, but I just fail to see any incentive for me to do it. Discounts or free stuff for checking in or mayorship is not a sustainable model and will die down in the near future.

@Nick: Indeed; it's a lifestyle!

But I still do have a Datasette, from Ye Olde Vic20. Will it be compatible with this?

@Kuroyume: But the icons and transitions aren't as pretty as on the iPhone! And the screen resolution is lower, never mind the fact that it's irrelevant to actual use, as the only text it makes readable is far too small to read in the first place!

@skahammer: No, I mean Screamers. The low-budget 1995 adaptation of PKD's "Second Variety".

Ok, now, a pat to the back of whoever creates a device that does the opposite.

@Shai_Hulud: Awww, haters gonna hate...

News of portable consumer electronics catching on fire scare me.

This is lacking Screamers.

@Charlie Jane Anders: And you would be very right, in my opinion. The first one was a rather bad movie with a good idea at its core and some rather bad acting featuring a famous bodybuilder.

@Mark 2000: I would agree about the movie; it just revels in its own contemplativeness and gratuitous scenery shots without actually telling much. That's an issue that crippled the first Star Trek movie, that 2001 had to struggle with and that Alien and Blade Runner had to watch out for.

@FriedPeeps: You would be surprised about what urbanite hipsters can get excited about. It's all about showing other urbanite hipsters that they were urbanite hipsters before being urbanite hipsters was hip.