Yep. I had a Razr V6 also. It was a great phone, but I did hang up on a few people trying to get it out of my pocket. A friend has it now, and it's still working fine.

I passed the Jesus Phone by for a Sony C905. Because of the camera. I use the camera in my work. The Razr had a 3 mpx camera, the Sony does 8.

Only in the USA is this discussion about the "operating system". That's because the US networks are so substandard, I guess.

Everywhere else in the world, it's about the on-air performance (OK and a little about the style...)

The iPhone might look good on the poor USA networks: in Australia it has treacle-like download speeds, marginal ability to hold onto a call, poor performance in weak signal areas, totally inadequate battery life, stuff-all storage, and a crappy camera.

Guys: The only time this discussion is about the OS is if it's Windows. Windows is not reliable enough to support mission-critical usage such as phone calls. A friend of mine found that out the hard way during a life-threatening emergency.

So long as it's not Windows, the question is "How good is the phone?" The winner will be whatever palm-brick contains the best phone!

I have an Intel X-25-E that has been in use as the "System" drive on my Mac Pro since I bought it about March.

It holds the OS, the Applications, and the Page file (which is rarely troubled on this box).

So far: dramatically faster boot time and app launch times, and SMART currently tells me there is still nothing wrong with the SSD.

Whadda ya mean it's a sample of one? So you buy me some more, then... :-)

Let's do a little reducta ad absurdia...

I am a professional writer. These days, I am a "Technical Writer", which means you pay me first, or I don't write. I get to feed my kids.

Imagine I was a software vendor: you have to pay me first, or I don't make any software. I get to feed my kids.

Or a musician... You pay me first, or I don't perform. My kids have shoes to go to school.

Or a movie studio: you pay me first, or I don't make any films.

This is how the world will operate a few years from now if Google gets to suck up everyone's work and distribute it for nothing. What effect will that have?

Remember the Billy Carts we made as kids? I was very proud of mine. It's not what I drive today: I am glad there's a professional car factory to make cars for me.

I remember my attempts to be a musician. Nobody else does, thankfully. I am glad there are professionals to make music for me.

I was a performer (a radio announcer). I was not very good at it: I am glad of the ones who do it better, that I listen to every day.

My life is rich and comfortable because professionals can do for me what I don't do very well for myself. The generation after next may not have that luxury. They may have to grow their own food, make their own clothes, and sing their own songs. Because nobody could earn enough to support themselves as a professional doing these things.

Because Google gave it all away. Google would eventually have it all, and you and I would not be able to buy computers to consume it with.

This is not a discussion about "Freedom", or "Democracy". It's about finding a way for citizens to efficiently exchange their talents and abilities so we all may live. If you progress Google's strategy to its logical end-point, it is very, very, evil...

I couldn't resist this :-)

I used to be an avionics technician. Lousy pay, anti-social rotating shifts, enormous stress, and awful retribution if you get it wrong.

Then I was a journalist. The pay is better, the hours are worse, the stress is greater, everyone knows you're a cad, and the retribution if you get it wrong is nearly as bad.

Then I was a System Administrator. The pay is lousy, the hours are just as bad, and everybody hates you. But if you screw up, you only get fired.

Now I am a Technical Writer. For the past 20 years I have averaged precisely twice the national average earnings. Not to mention the tax perks... Stress is something you could allow other people to do to you, but I don't. And if I get it wrong, the retribution falls on the Technical Reviewer, not me :-) Oh, and at parties, some people believe I am a "writer", which can lead to side benefits...

But mainly, because I like it in this garrett: where the computer is exactly the way I like it, and I get to say which toys I want :-)

So am I -- I must have been out of the game too long :-)

OK, all of those who are coding purely for their own entertainment and who do not want anyone to actually "use" their software are hereby excluded from any need to respond to press calls.

The rest of you: Get back to the journalist with a definitive comment in half an hour, or your competitor will get the mention you could have had :-)

Sadly, I suspect *you* haven't got it -- HE doesn't want anything from you, right? YOU want publicity from him. At least, that's the way its supposed to work if you want to create high-volume software.

As a former journalist, and currently in the IT field, I know both sides of the fence. If you don't want publicity, when he calls, just say so! If you do... well back in my day (1986-ish) the deadlines came up every hour. I was expected to do four to six stories a day.

I'm not going to get me fired by telling my Editor his deadlines don't suit your open-source project. I will just grab the latest Microsoft press release off the spike and top and tail it to fill the space available.

You can change this. I can't :-)