Their sales say otherwise. I use the echo daily and love it. Its super convenient to talk to my alarm system, play music, and ask simple questions. I might buy this device too, there's a handful of situations where echo directs you to the echo app, and its annoying. I'd rather just have it pull up the info form. As far as the camera goes, I already have xbox kinect and playstation camera watching my every move. I have no expectation of privacy, and frankly very little shame. I will start to worry when Amazon starts targeting me with ads for back hair shavers.

Same, I saw this article through RSS... I use outlook as my RSS reader. Allows me to check on recent events when I catch up on my inbox.

I'm seriously having a flashback from the early 90's when this was a big deal.

This article doesn't mention specific bands, but it says "Vertu reckons it'll work on most 4G bands around the world." http://www.cnet.com/news/rich-...

And yes, we're already losing a war of attrition. When terrorist attacks that cost hundres of thousands of dollars can spur a trillion dollar response... how long can the US keep that up?