fair enough. i think some of the nightly builds have gotten 4G, if you check cyanogen's website every few days you can stay more well informed than i am. and sense is nice, but i'll guarantee you see better battery life and a generally quicker phone if you try a mod without sense.

hopefully this follows angry birds' lead, and goes free on android.

@qbrad: step one: root.

i've looked online for batteries, and haven't found a replacement for less than $70. either way, the macbook works pretty well on AC power, and either runs out of juice too quickly or just offs itself on battery power, and i just ordered a slightly used nokia booklet, without contract and unlocked, at the…

i get 2 to 2.5 hours of life out of my december 2008 macbook. it also decides to randomly shut off in boot camp when there's half a charge left.

@Dys: cyanogenmod. you give up HTC sense and a warranty, and in exchange get gingerbread on your hero. and, from what i've seen on my evo, the absence of HTC sense means better battery life.

i'd want something that can take a beating and still keep running, a low-maintenance survival machine. i wouldn't mind something that looks near indistinguishable from a civilian vehicle, either. a hilux or g-wagen with a supercharged diesel 6 would do just fine. even a niva might suffice.

now i can't rub it in my buddy's face that his N1 is still running froyo, a week after i got gingerbread on my evo. aww shucks.

i certainly won't, because they'll devour the nonbelievers first.

google's already reached skynet proportions. if they don't arm the machines with any method of mobility or any physical weapons, and if my emails are only being scanned to make targeted advertisements, i'm not gonna throw a fit.

as long as no human beings are looking at the data, and the ads are funding the expansion of google's empire, i'm willing to be tracked by computers.

i'm not sure i believe that statement 100%. if you look at iTunes and the iPod over the course of the past 10 years, you'll notice that hardware prices are more reasonable now than they were a decade ago, but control over how and from whom you get your content is becoming more and more core to apple's business plan. …

the irony is that the lexus was almost definitely made in canada and the SUVs might or might not have been, therefore more than 50% of the cars they damaged were built on this continent. and the UAW is pure unbridled evil, and is as anti-patriotic as any american company has ever been, so severing business ties with…

@whitehatspecial: if only they hadn't shamelessly diluted that brand. i saw the new mini uglyman on the street today, it's striking in all the wrong ways.

@wanderingrabbi: clearwire can suck a fat one, because nothing gets between my rooted evo and its wireless tether app. the wifi in my house wasn't working when i was setting up my ps3, so it was wireless tether to the rescue that day.

so just like that, the evo's going to be obsolete?

i have a phone with 4G videoconferencing and...i don't use it. i have a macbook with a camera and...i don't use it. audi, if you're going to put mobile broadband in your cars, use it as a mobile hotspot.

unless they rip off google, apple will never have a perfect notification system. i can truthfully say i love the way android does notifications.

CDMA carriers don't block out-of-market access, so i highly doubt they'd mess with in-market access, where google already has quality controls in place.

hey facebook,