If they made an iPod Touch with mobile broadband in it and no phone, I would have gone that route. But nothing like that exists. I was hoping someone would come up with a Verizon Wireless cradle you snap the touch into, but sadly, that's not going to happen.

You don't need it, but it sits in there at a nice angle for easy viewing, charges the Droid and puts up a nice info screen with the time, the local weather, and some other goodies.

I just thought it would be nice to have and would look good in my bedroom, that's all.

1. I use the physical keyboard and love it. I have an iPod touch and I'll take the Droid physical keyboard over the iTouch virtual. The Droid virtual is pretty good too. It fixes most common typing errors, which the iTouch does not do.

2. There is no lag whatsoever when scrolling the home screen.

3. I don't miss multi-touch. The only thing I used it in was the browser. I installed the Dolphin Browser and now have a multi-touch browser. And the European version of the Droid has multitouch, just not here in the US, probably due to Apple patents.

4. The average app isn't even a 1 MB in size. I don't see myself putting 256 apps on my phone, EVER. Even on the iTouch, I only have 3 1/2 screens of apps.

5. My battery door is fine. At least, in a years time, I can actually change my battery myself. Or go out today and buy a higher capacity battery and slap it in there.

6. The media player on the Droid is not as nice as the iTouch/iPhone. But unlike the App Store, if someone writes a better music player, it will actually become available to me via the Android store.

Plus things I can do that you can't:

1. Run email, a twitter client, and an IM client all in the background.

2. Listen to Pandora and do other things at the same time.

3. Have a camera with a flash

4. Have a higher resolution screen (848x480)

5. Charge and sync with a standard MicroUSB cable.

6. Download large podcasts over 3G.

7. Get turn by turn directions FOR FREE.

8. On a network that doesn't drop calls all the time (I have a work Blackberry on AT&T and I get dropped calls all the time)

9. Change my battery

And I would have to say GET OVER YOUR DAMN SELF. I'm an Apple fanboy too. But damn, don't go bashing the Droid until you actually use one. You can't bash a device you haven't even seen, which is obvious from your comments.

More secure? I don't see any Android viruses, but I do see iPhone ones. Don't get me wrong, the iPhone is a nice piece of innovation, but having used an iPod touch since September now, I felt that lack of background apps was a tad too limiting. Plus the fact that I can install stuff OUTSIDE the store was a huge plus also.

I have a Macbook, Mac Mini and an iPod Touch, and I opted for a Droid. I think the #1 reason I went with the Droid was because it wasn't AT&T. But a close second was the fact that music was drag and drop and that it could run background apps. Overall, I am really please with the purchase. Ordered the multimedia dock today, so I can use it as an alarm clock.

Wow, talk about a sleazy way to make more money. AT&T stops offering traditional landline service. To fill the gap, you need to get either a cell phone or VOIP. Well, Cell Phone service costs WAY MORE than landline service. And to get VOIP, you need high speed Internet. For poeple like you and me, it probably wouldn't make a difference. But think of the elderly, that probably have old traditional landline service and pay for long distance by the minute. Their montly phone bill would go up from $19.99 a month to at least double that, possibly more. Andy

If you're going to use GTD to manage your commitments (which I am a big fan of), there are a number of free tools you can use do the GTD methodology. Some of the tools I looked at are:

• ThinkingRock (http://www.trgtd.com.au/)
• MoneyGTD(http://monkeygtd.tiddlyspot.com/#MonkeyGTD)
• GTD Free (http://gtd-free.sourceforge.net/)

Plus there is the ever present use of hosted online solutions, such as:

• Remember The Milk (http://www.rememberthemilk.com)
• Toodledo (http://www.toodledo.com)

And the ever popular pen and paper method

If you're willing to pay, you could use Dropbox. If you keep it under 2 GB, it's free. Anything you drag into your dropbox gets synced to their servers and then synced back down to your other PCs you have linked to your dropbox account.

If you would prefer a roll your own solution, and are willing to build a server, then go look at Novell's iFolder http://www.ifolder.com./

Andy

But 2 nights ago I decided to take the plunge and installed openSUSE 11.2 with KDE 4.3.1. So far, I'm really liking KDE. I never really liked KDE 3.x, and 4.0 left a bad taste in my mouth. I tried 4.2 out and it was OK, but I left it for Gnome.

But I think I'm going to stay with 4.3 for quite a while now.

What people really want it on-demand television. No more channels, just menus of shows to pick from. Haven't DVRs proven that. The only people that seem to get that are the fine folks at Apple, that are working on a subscription service for the TV portion of the iTunes Music Store.

Heck, Hulu was awesome for that. And it took off. Now they want to charge for it. Entertainment execs still don't get it.

As you raise prices and gouge consumers, people starting downloading illegally. When you make things more reasonable, like Amazon and Apple did with music, then people come flocking and making money.

Any belief that people are ignoring copyright now, when they didn't before is folly. If people could have copied LPs back in the 50s, they would have done so. Technology has finally caught up with desire. That's all.

There's nothing wrong with that. A man has to eat.

It does. Unless the PST file hits 2 Gigs. Then your only choice is to lose email....

So now we can write open source tools to fix corrupt PST files!

Don't even think about doing anything open source with PST files, until you have a tool to fix the files when they go corrupt.

Then why couldn't you sell the m4a files on iTunes, and just make an itlp file available on your website. DRM is gone now from iTunes. There is nothing to stop you from doing that.