US Cellular is often ranked high in survey's and reviews, all without the iPhone, so they must be doing something right.

It's over much more than a year. The oldest photos date back to 2006.

He said "switching over to an HTC", since he already is using an HTC it wouldn't be switching over to an HTC, it would be sticking with an HTC.

Your Nexus One is an HTC phone.

Good thing it's not mandatory to use, they have 6 options of locking the phone. It states in the settings menu, when you go to enable it, that it is "low security, experimental." Features and technology are best made more robust and usable when they are "thrown to the wolves" for testing and proving out.

The Nexus line is usually the phone devs use to, well, develop on. I doubt we'll see it on any other phone right away.

Most carriers have multiple methods to connect their COW's to their networks (or various "flavors" of COW's), most would obviously prefer a wire connection when possible.

When they don't depend on the power in the house to keep hot/cold or make food, then they are much safer. If the traffic tests are controlled enough to where they are realistic as possible but still safe then that is obviously safer than real world. Especially because these people participating in the tests know…

Globalstar's voice coverage is very unimpressive currently. The majority of their satellite coverage is still simplex as well. If you are mainly needing that "peace of mind" in the Caribbean you should check out Inmarsat. They are geostationary so they have great coverage there, haven't looked at their latest…

Right, new experimental traffic systems and power systems would be much better tested out in real towns where they could harm people in uncontrolled environments.

Bad assumption. Companies like to have offices or even headquarters in the DC area for many purposes besides being direct government contractors. Perhaps for lobbying, doing some of their business with companies that are government contractors (sub-contracting), and the big one is because it is a big tech area in…

People come to the town to run the tests, and then leave.

How could we possibly bring people there to simulate traffic if they can't live there? Oh, yeah, they can bring people there for tests, and then leave.

The linked article indicates just pack is going, not necessarily the software in it. I think Giz dropped the ball.

The fourth image in makes me think of the Austin Powers cart scene...

Except it has a better processor, more standard memory, more video memory, thinner form factor, secondary LCD that is touchscreen...

He covered that in his report.

Yes you can make one. I can't imagine anything is being done with the data pins when you connect up a wall or car charger. To utilize them when not connected to a computer you would need some additional electronics in the charger. So even if the phone needs to sense some kind of resistance on those pins that could…

None of those replies were worth promoting.

So the cool thing these days is to call anything you do that involves changing something in some way "hacking"? It use to be "modifying", "tweaking", "improving", "re-engineering", etc. (or even "Macqyver'd it")