My N8 says Made in Finland, my wife's N8 says Made in China.

I feel good about 50% of our phones.

Available in select markets in October for about $710 according to Phonescoop. I'm sure that's an unsubsidized price.

I still have my 1995 era OS/2 box I built. Some of the components go back to 93 or so. I paid an obscene amount in 1996 for the 2.1GB Micropolis SCSI drive in there. Hands down the best component in the thing is the STB 4Com 4 port serial card. With it's myriad of jumpers to set I was amazed it worked right the first time...

I use flac because my Squeezebox supports it. So does XMMS. So does Winamp. Nero and Roxio support burning audio CDs from it (with appropriate version/plugin).

I'd been down the mp3/Ogg Vorbos road but found myself transcoding from one lossy format to another which had to stop. With flac I have the lossless copy to transcode from. I rip on Windows using dBPowerAmp and with AccurateRip I feel that when it says it's accurate, it is. I've seen people start to rate dBPowerAmp as good or better than Exact Audio Copy.

My wife has an iPod and I finally have her ripping to Apple Lossless. I figure Apple Lossless is better than lossy AAC, even if it is proprietary.