I would like to have a neural network map in a Sim "game" that displays on my laptop. When the brain jams occur I can then build highways and bypasses for the more important traffic. Either that, or a firmware upgrade. Oh wait, the firmware is down in a sub neural net!

I kind of see Droid as a viral takedown of Microsoft and Apple. Sure, Google loses on the front end of it, but then they have a shot on the backside, after the disease becomes mainstream (as it has virtually become). A few years back, the rave was this new Blackberry! It let you get *e-mail* from work on your cell phone...ooh. Now if you want a phone that does not have work email following you to the toilet in your own house you have to pay extra to remove the feature!

Who *didn't* get that from the start? Oh, that's right, you didn't. Sorry. Yeah, remember BBSs? How about CompuServe, Prodigy, Geocites, MySpace, Facebook, and the next social experience (probably when 3DTV merges with online multiversing games or something along that line, so you can actually appear different, and as they want you to, to each individual "friend"). Yeah, AOL is evil, just like everyone else who allows you to communicate with your buddies.

I had to call 911 *this morning* and could not get through. My kid was choking on vomit (sorry for the graphical detail there). I had just told a caller that I was not able to stay on the phone because my son was sick and I wanted to be more attentive (before he was choking, btw). I was behind the wheel on a Bluetooth headset, so really I was just politely trying to get off the phone so I could drive him to the doctor. Then he started choking. I hit 911 while running to his side (had to get out of car and run around it due to large bench seat in way). I HAD NO SERVICE! The call didn't go through. I was trying to tend to my son, but I couldn't get him to breathe. He would stop choking briefly and as soon as I got in the car's driver seat and took off it would happen again. THANK GOODNESS we were close (right next to) to a country shop and the hours in the day were right that they were JUST OPENING. I asked them to call and we got him to the hospital, but out in this part of the country that could have been his life had things been just five minutes prior. When we were in the ambulance (before it moved) I looked at my phone to try and call the wife. I had no call bars, but full SMS, email, web browsing, etc! All that communication and none where I needed it. I ended up getting right through via text...and then she freaked because I didn't answer the return phone call, go figure.

Just like the Windows phone I used to read your comment was made by Microsoft, even though HTC Snap is written on it. Motorola made most of Apple's chips. Just cause they "improved" it by putting a little multicolored apple with a chunk taken out of it over the label doesn't mean they created it. Apple is just a better integrated version of what everyone else is doing, and therefore it's quite often priced higher. Same thing as cars. Better integrated = higher value. The "prototypes" usually end up with more bugs and worth less down the road.

They could have done this by simply putting a Microsoft server at the heart of a major city's traffic signalling network. Oh, wait, they did. Several wtop news stories have shown that DC's traffic lights run on NT. Maybe that is rush hour is so bad. Sorry, no time to cite...and since this isn't a graded paper I don't care...if you do then you go find the proof/disproof.

Throwing a bunch of hardware together and putting a software layer that seamlessly integrates them (to the user) may be a great marketing strategy, but that doesn't mean they created the stuff.

Ok, this stuff is all new(er) than what I would put on a computer geek test. How about some pre-MS-DOS stuff (Linux is *NOT* pre MS-DOS!).

dealing with Verizon has never been pretty. You pretty much have to threaten the worst to get even one ear to listen.

Geocities, banner ads and popups. Nothing to see here folks. Want some real content? Look at the old BBS network! ASCII graphics at 300bps R KEWL!

Inferior? Depends on how you look at it. Ever experienced Verizon customer service? How about Comcast customer service? I've had poor experiences with both. However, I'm losing far less money per month when things go wrong with a less expensive service. Also, my *primary* home line is DSL. I could have cable here, at a full 50Mbps (actual, I've tested it). I don't need it. I stream HD video to a five plus member LAN with little or no delay after a moment of buffering (at 768Kbps) My in laws, OTOH insist they need it for their two email machines. There is more to technology than wires. Customer service and resource management count, too.

Write the check out to Anonymous Coward, duh! When someone produces the ID of the same name, they can have it. Name changes are cheap, aren't they?

I'd kind of rather the trojan be slipped on someone else's phone than on someone else's something else.

The law shouldn't say "don't point lasers at people", it should say "don't hurt people with lasers"

We do it with a sprint phone! The Droid based Samsung moment. We camp, er make that live for a day or two in a RV a lot. Powering on the Overdrive and putting it in a known good reception spot (high on the RV shelves for instance) allows us to use the wireless connection to roam freely and chat, voip, or other internet activity without fear of a constantly in and out connection. Note to RVers, the standard antennae should be down (and off) or your overdrive will hide from 3G signals.