... this idea smacks of a tool that's trying to be *too* helpful, and ends up getting in the way. Kinda like the old microsoft paperclip. I went and turned off this function in google accounts when I realized that my search results were being shaped based on my history, since that partially defeats my expectations of how a search engine behaves, and degrades the utility, insofar as the utility (to me the user) is based on receiving an unbiased sampling of the matches. I'm also troubled by this trend in the way that google delivers their news offerings, it seems that the logical progression of this is that we will mostly only be exposed to material that fit our highly individualized pre-existing reality bubbles.

I'm very curious how the G1 (HTC Dream) would have compared. The CPU, memory and screen specs are looking a little dated, but from my (albiet limited) observation, the physical keyboard still seem to be a top notch contender. Particularly because of the innate tactile feedback, due to fairly clicky keys, and the perhaps somewhat overlooked factor of the keys being laid out in the standard diagonal orientation, which I've definitely found to be quite advantageous.

I'm not the worlds fastest typist, but I can touch type, and when I began using that phone, the ability to do so seamlessly transferred to that hardware. Which was interesting since completely different digits are involved. (thumbs vs fingers).

Am convinced that the speed bottleneck involved in on-screen keyboards is more due to do placing the users visual system inside the control feedback loop, which is inherently slower and consumes more resources.

No kidding, MIDI implemted on this thing *could* be really amazing, the Neuros II (which i own and am very happy with) has provisions for a DJ mode which allows basic sample freq. shifted over a reasonable range for beat matching, not terribly usefull if you've only got a single track output at a time but kinda neat, esp, if used alongside some decks. Now theres a bunch of DJ style MIDI controllers out there that are intended to interface with your PC and appropriate software to allow DJing MP3 tracks in tractor or some such. If the Neuros III could edge in on that market i think that it might get the attn. of many more people. But why stop there. with an open OS and MIDI softsynths (not just sample based stuff that hogs lots of RAM) but true in-your-pocket synthesis that can be succintly implemented using surprisingly little (in todays terms) computational resources. (Check out MIT Press: Foundations Of Compter Music a la' soft-synths circa 1985 to see what i'm talking about). Then again there's talk of ethernet on board, so for the really cutting edge shizznit why not go with... http://www.missinglynxsystems.com/kaboodle.html