This. Precisely what they did when they bought Cingular. Att is generally ok, except where they fucking suck. Which is pretty much customer service, phone selection/crippling, and definitely their fucking data price gouging. Assholes. That being said, I cannot fathom going to CDMA of either flavor (Sprint/VZW). So I am stuck. I was hoping T-mobile would have gotten their shit together and actually competed, but no, ATT has found a way to fuck everyone again. Hopefully Verizon's LTE roll out cranks up and I can say good bye to those fucking asshole jackasses at ATT forever.

Skill at gaming might actually be equal, but the interface is not. I believe someone from MS said at one time they had Xbox and PC FPS shooters(i forget the game) sharing servers and found that PC gamers always smoked the console gamers. KB/M > gamepad for FPS or RPG or RTS with hotkeys/macros/accuracy via mouse vs toggling a stick to move your reticle around and limited buttons. I thought this was common knowledge..

Even if they coated it in diamond? But wait, people would complain because no one told them that rubbing it against another diamond might scratch it..never mind.. You're right..there is simply no good durable coating they could use... Better to just give up..

Simply garbage, which is not surprising considering the source. That is all.

Is there no end to the usefulness of these 'carbon nanotubes'? And, umm...how many decades before we actually see something commercially viable that uses them?

Sure..probably in 2018 when vzw/AT&T might have LTE coverage over most of their footprint and they are selling LTE only devices.

I have been pretty lucky with the banks I use. Years ago, I suddenly had some transactions from Ireland show up on my card. I went to a local branch and talked to someone. I simply filled out a form, they gave me a new card and refunded the money right there. More recently, I went on vacation and made one transaction with my debit card. About an 30 minutes later I got a call from a strange number, so I let it go to VM. The next time I tried to use the card it was declined. Annoyed I listened to my Vm and it was the bank (TD bank) asking me to call them back. I did and they asked me to confirm the area I was at and what my recent transactions were, once I confirmed them, they reactivated the card. Actually pretty nice of them.

bzzzzt. Sorry, that's incorrect. I turn off the network connection and still could not play either COD or AC2. This is a disgrace. F Sony.

+1!! God damn it annoys me when people start whining about the second "page flip". 99% of people don't read fast enough for this to be an issue anyway.

No. It depends on the business. I work for a financial services company and our LOB is about 130 bodies with ~50 dedicated to IT. That includes DBAs/INF/Devs/Arch/PMs. We don't even provide help desk services. And we are drinking through a fire hose with the workload from the business. The LOB, of course, is a web based financial management service with a lot of demanding clients. But our parent company (a bank) has about 25K employees with 4K that are considered IT which isn't nearly the ratio we are but is much higher than 60/1.

Sure, and in "fairness" if you buy a phone at full price, your bill would be less the cost of the ETF each month..right? Oh, sorry, you do not get a discount for paying the "retail" price of any device. So, i guess if the monthly charge is the same either way I'll take the discount.

I'm not trying to be a nudge here, but I'm confused about the two screens thing....When you are reading a typical novel, you are probably reading one page at a time. So why exactly is only seeing one page at a time such an issue? You get the same view without all the awkward shape and pages flapping about. Granted, if your consuming pages quicker than the reader can refresh it might be an issue, but few people read that quickly, especially for pleasure.

They want to push some color, flashy, embedded video having, online capable version of a magazine? Hmmm.. I think I've seen that somewhere..oh, yeah, like a fucking website? WTF? This already exists, its called the web and no, it will not "threaten" the kindle, whatever that means. The kindle is pretty good at one thing, books and the eInk is great for extended reading. Not text books or big picture books, but regular ol books, you know, the majority of books. If you want some type of hybrid web enabled, color/video-ized,futuristic media delivery medium then I suggest you wait until apple releases its tablet next year. Oh, and let them help you design it, dummies.

Sort of.. lifetime access is rolled into the cost of the device(and probably a sliver of each paid d/l). But you would never call sprint(kindle) or Att(nook) for any reason whatsoever about the device. You can even crudely browse the web with the kindle with no additional charge. So there is no "lock", the data provider is black box to you, the ebook delivery is simply magic and really, its not a cell phone. I was actually hoping the Kindle would be the start of the Wireless cartel becoming what they should be, dumb pipes.

They(Sprint/Clearwire) have been trying to push Wimax for 4g mobile networks forever now and a lot of dummies have bought into it. LTE is going to be the 4g wireless standard. About the only thing Wimax is good for is last mile fixed position connectivity. Which is probably not a bad niche to service. But even Clearwire just said recently that they could easily flip to LTE with just a software push, so even they are hedging their bets.