I got what I wanted for Christmas, early - proof that we can still have a flamewar about News for Nerds!

HARDWARE keyloggers (someone mentioned replacement keyboards with them built in, too)

Given some of the other comments in the thread, I'd be worried about keyloggers, unless (maybe "even if") you've got two-factor authentication going for your VPN.

For some reason, on some machines the ATH.exe (wifi sync) will take up 100% of one CPU. Happened on the old iTunes, happens on the new iTunes. https://discussions.apple.com/message/20463456?ac_cid=tw123456#20463456

Seriously - microwaves at a particular frequency... this is irradiation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irradiation), isn't it?

Honestly curious: how do you have multiple profiles ( I have one when on-call, one when I'm in the movies, one when off-call...and just using the 'silent' switch isn't enough), and device-level email filters? That's been the dealbreaker for me (plus the fact that the iphone mail tone wasn't enough to wake me), but if there's options, I'd love to know.

Yes to skip the trolling, but "multiple aspect ratios" only really came with ICS.

How about just a app that makes a phone call, but encrypts the transmission between the two phones? I'm sure it would have to be a jailbreak app because it's messing with the phone dialer, but it'd be nice.

Or the fact that Top Gear has successfully won lawsuits because people expect it to be entertainment and not real. It was jimmied. No idea how, no idea if he knew, but if _I_ were Top Gear I would've done whatever to make it more entertaining.

Ditto. I climbed in a Prius V expecting to have to cram in - and came out astonished. My 50-pound daughter "fell" off the seat onto the floor - and had more than enough room to sit cross-legged and then stand up. It had more room in the back seat than most of the SUVs (and, it turns out the EU version actually seats 6 because it uses a different battery pack).

Didn't buy it (wife didn't like acceleration), but damn if it wasn't in the final 3 (out of 20+ tested).

Tell people where it counts - driving 20k miles a year (which we do - we live in a large state) would have cost me $100 a month less to drive the Prius than the SUVs getting 24.

but I did see a creeper in the mines. There's also (of course) a site that has it in zoomable form.

My one major complaint about the 9900 is the battery life. Even with wifi turned on (which, if you're in range of wifi all the time, lengthens battery life), I'm lucky if mine lasts 24 hours. Granted I get a crapload of mail, but it was really nice to charge 2-3 times a week.

That being said, the 9900 is pretty nice. The keyboard is big enough, screen resolution is nice, touchscreen is pretty nice, my only other complaint was they got rid of the "Reader" function in the web browser (but I guess that's what Readability/Instapaper is for). For work, with the nice keyboard, profiles, filters and the ability to set different rings for different events or different subjects/people depending on the situation, it's a lifesaver. I wouldn't mind a work iPhone - but without profiles, it's not worth it.

You'll have to make one - this was a Woot shirt a couple years ago, and I haven't seen it resurface. Designed by Cory Doctorow!

However, if you search for it, I believe there's a high-res version of the image, you could probably get that made into a shirt online.

If it becomes available in time. I own a bold, a 9900. Released in August, it took 3 additional months before AT&T (in my experience, a frequented-by-business carrier) had it. It doesn't sound like much, but there was pretty much no reason for it to be delayed. Free money left on the table; we had at least 3 people migrate to iPhones in that time.

Everybody is basically trying to come up with something that meets/beats/comes-close-to the iPad, and figure a way to charge the same as the iPad. Hardly rocket science. DESIGNING something comparable is hard, yes, but it's pretty much known what everyone's plans are.

Then again, I think Cringely's right - the Surface is pure vaporware (at this point, at least), and the only reason it was shown was to avoid being a has-been after the Google tablet gets announced.

But hey, the keyboard's interesting, at least. But does it fold? (And if not, where's it sit when you have the tablet open for media consumption? I'm honestly curious, since it did look promising.