@hfm: Right. When I'm out on short trips i can pick up where I left off on my iPhone, and on longer ones, I just take the iPad.

@CaptainJack: I started my iTunes library at the age of 11 when I didn't know any better, and by the time I did, it was too late. And while I haven't yet been inconvenienced, the surge of amazing Android phones and the Apple's nauseatingly cavalier attitude about their ridiculous design errors on the iPhone 4 makes me…

RIM is still going down. They don't have the long term capital to compete with Apple, Google, and Microsoft. They'll be another Palm, if they're lucky. This OS makes Blackberries tolerable again, not desirable. No one will buy a Blackberry that wouldn't have bought one without this new OS.

@CaptainJack: This DRM issue is always present, and unpleasant. Much of my music library is tied into iTunes, and while I find that uncomfortable, it has yet to be an inconvenience. Since Amazon encourages reading their books across platforms, I'm less worried about their DRM restrictions. I would much rather invest…

@CaptainJack: This DRM issue is always present, and unpleasant. Much of my music library is tied into iTunes, and while I find that uncomfortable, it has yet to be an inconvenience. Since Amazon encourages reading their books across platforms, I'm less worried about their DRM restrictions. I would much rather invest…

@Platypus Man: I can't speak for you, but my reading shot through the roof when I got an actual ebook reader (an iPad). I suspect the effect would be the same with a Kindle.

Just snapped one up. This is a great deal no matter what the Kindle 3 looks like or does. I personally can't think of a single feature I would add to the current Kindle, since adding any more would creep into the iPad's territory. Frequently named features for K3 include a color screen, an app store, a better browser,…

If that thing pictured is a "smartphone" I don't have high hopes for anything new coming out of Fujitsu.

@franco1975 [Troll ]: I'd guess Germany, based on the Iron Cross on the side. If this is an American built contraption, we might be dealing with some serious skinheads.

@Lord_Data: The Kindle piggybacks off of AT&T, and Sprint is actually an MVNO on Clearwire's 4G network. To find out if theres 4G in your area, check the site, where theres a list of supported cities and planned rollouts.

@Randal T Scandal: Ugh, I can't stand Orange County. It's the stuffiest effing place I've ever been. San Diego (La Jolla) or bust.

iPad. I always have it around cause it's so flexible, which is why it distracts some readers. But I find that the convenience of having it almost always at my side means that I can cram my reading into previously unused chunks of my day. Since I picked mine up on launch day, I've read at about double my prior rate.…

When I was a kid flat screens were still obscenely expensive. So my parents lost it when I accidentally melted ours by putting a lit candle under it.

Yeah, mine starts with an "R", so I'm innocent.

@FritzLaurel: The first comissioned American boat with the teardrop hull was the Albacore, I'm almost sure.

Why would a Taiwanese prototype show up in Croatia?

wonder what their signals like underwater.

@kylecpcs: Knowing Microsoft, They're probably just gonna screw this up. Again. But I do hope that someone gets into the smartphone space, if only to keep Google and Apple honest. HP/Plam, maybe?

@beatledud: Fujitsu. And in all three instances, the owners of the trademarks sold them to Apple. That said, I agree that Apple uses legal bullying tactics to get whatever it wants, and that such tactics are a perversion of justice and the law.

@FritzLaurel: I agree.