I have tried twice to download it, and it 'finishes' at about 150mb both times, while the file size on their web page shows over 600mb. As a double-check, (suspecting a file size reporting error on their page), it fails MD5 sum as well. Has anyone successfully downloaded it?

Fixed it for you :->

the 3GS can handle encryption and if you have exchange 2007 SP1 you can force the phone to encrypt the data which means any pre-3GS devices won't work

Design always implies a designer, so evolutionary design is always a religious reference. He communicated perfectly, but I'm not sure if he communicated what he intended.

and google probably has an email system where everything is stored in Gmail in the cloud. for the rest of us, we have exchange and people store a lot of data on phones

4GB vs 16GB or 32GB storage

by the time you add more storage to the N1 it's more expensive. and it pretty much locked down to T-Mo since it can't use AT&T's 3G frequencies. and T-Mo sucks. and with all the corporate/work related apps in the app store Google's limit on the number of apps is dumb.

Perhaps he wanted to know who would be on the board. Shuttleworth? Markting drones? The existing members? Users? Me?