Non-volatile? Like all the other "non-volatile RAM, instant-on" technologies that have gone before? MRAM, SRAM, Holographic storage... and now phase-change memory.

I've heard this marketing bullshit before. Call me when it's not vapourware.

There's also predominantly 3G networks in Australia - one of the national mobile carriers has bigger coverage on UMTS/HSPA than on GSM. For a rural example, the 300km stretch from Mildura to Broken Hill has absolutely no GSM or 3G coverage after leaving Mildura, but UMTS works for 2/3 of the way.

Cell density is required to be high in densely-populated areas with the current public appetite for data, but it doesn't mean that UMTS won't service large cells. People simply don't put the same demands on GSM cells because data throughput is awfully slow.

RIM seems to be particularly odd in chosing an architecture that gives a single point of failure.

Then again, given most crackberry users.. nothing of value was lost.