No Slide outs?

Having had a HTC Kaiser (TyTnII), HTC Rhodium (TouchPro2) and HTC Desire Z I would've liked to see a slide keyboard amongst all the blackberry clones, never been able to get on with the squished compact keyboards like the ones listed.

TouchPro2 had the best keyboard of any phone I've had - though have to say the change to the HTC OneX and losing the physical board hasn't been as jarring as I expected - the bluetooth board I bought has barely been used.

Surprised

It seems HTC have a reputation for poor quality reading the comments, I never knew that and I've been using them some seven years:

Prophet (Orange M600)

Kaiser (TyTnII/O2 XDA Stellar)

Rhodium (Touch Pro2)

Desire

DesireZ

OneX

Still have most of them (sold the Desire to fund the DesireZ which I've now given my old man) and they all still work - as the OneX is a little large to fit in my TriBag (http://www.allterraincycles.co.uk/product/105957.html) including the Overboard water proof cover I tend to use the Kaiser or Rhodium (whichever's got enough power at the moment) for GPS tracking when out cycling.

Have many friends and colleagues whom have HTC devices and never heard anything bad either - I know they can't make every device prefect (would be nice) but didn't realise they were supposedly this bad, probably won't stop me getting another one after the onex though as my experience has been great so far.

(though definitely not going Orange again, or T-Mobile I guess now they've bought them out)

Not just Mac users - mine says it's not read yet either - though it's also trying to install itself to my android phone which is odd as I've not told it to..

I can do double that on the push bike! As for the price, I only paid £500 for my car so that's definitely out! (infact, both bikes, car and all vehicles I've owned previous don't come to that price, or even half)

Surely it's a small demographic of people that interested in cycling they're willing to pay £4.5k for a bike but not that into cycling that they're too physically unfit to propel themselves?

Sounds alot like how Windows Home Server works? I haven't tried WHS as I have a RAID5 array but when I was building it I did read up on it and it was a tempting idea for a home storage solution where I wouldn't lose any photo's/videos/work from drive failure.

Being a bit of a nerd I went for the hardware solution but frankly I don't need the performance improvements over the software one - I guess many smaller home/business users wouldn't either.

What type of Mini Cooper?

The traditional awesome Cooper or the god-awful BMW Cooper which is larger than most small cars I'm surprised they can call it a Mini?

(Seriously, those things are bigger than my K11 Nissan Micra!)

Red Dwarf or Battlestar Galatica - both unmentioned and I'd go for fairly realistic depictions of starcraft, though if you want balls to the wall crazy design you also have the cyclon base stars..

Why not release it as an app

For folk with PC connected TV's - something akin to Boxee, this way the installed user base will be larger so more lure for app developers and content providers.

Love my Boxee though - if it would interface with my DVBS2 card for live TV too it'd be the perfect TV interface.

Licence

If you only have an analogue TV (ie no digital tuner built in) do you need a licence since you no longer have "equipment capable of receiving a signal"?

Make it wireless

And knock a third of the price and I'm interested - as long as your view shifted with it using gyroscope sensors or something - otherwise it's going to be pretty disorientating moving the head and the image staying as is.

Definitely stop the other guy in two player looking at your screen.

GPS?

Would be the perfect sports tracking app - save having to risk the DesireZ in an Overboard pouch everytime I'm on the roads

Well to be fair

If I got caught and were looking at that kind of sentence plus forfeiture I think I'd be more than a little depressed too..

Here was I hoping..

He'd left the camera recording - that'd been an awesome bit of footage!

Is this the same eye-tracking

That they have in digital cameras - the one that at least on mine seems to identify everything but eyes (got to hand it to it though as it has a rather a penchant for boobs),

how about

randomly sending section reversed but with a flag to be put the right way round when decoded - let's see those linguists get their tongue around that ;)

Polycache.com blocked at firewall level and host files updated to redirect to localhost

now, where's my tinfoil hat..

Content

Lots of rants on here about the technical abilities of DAB (or lack of) but not a word about there's fuck all worth listening to on the existing radio channels why would anyone want to shell out a fair bit on a device so they can flick through the rest of the channels that were deemed not good enough to be put on real spectrum?

Radio listeners have been turning off in droves for years and it's only going to continue, DAB may well help some of those along..

Leading the way

Good ol' Firefox leading the way, because this is nothing like the new IE9 performance tab for plugins showing how they've affected the browsers load times.

I'll wait for me Chrome version though, never been a big FF fan, the top bars way to big and takes up too much screen real estate.

What about..

..my MegaCD (original, not 2) and 32X - does it support these, iirc the latter needs an aux connection on the rear of the unit whereas the former requires a massive connection on the bottom of the unit.

Toe bend?

These could be placed against the foot and flexed whilst walking/running to keep your pmp charged whilst jogging for instance or your mobile topped up whilst walking around the office - all without any invasive surgery, just need a cable run up your trouser leg.

If it's placed in a gallon of water..

..shame about the impeding lack of water - or does it not need clean water (I'd've thought any impurities in the water would cause problems or at least reduce performance)...

I would love it

If all the recent posts or game footage were just animations and the whole thing's been a big joke and there isn't actually a game.

Mainly because what I have seen of the game footage is it look shit but still..

Isn't it irrelevant?

Whatever figure they pull out of their ass Limewire won't be able to afford to pay it - I'd be surprised if they had five figures in the bank never mind six, seven or eight.

I was just talking about this the other day

A service, though I used Skype as an example, that did all this - my reasoning was the technology is available and if a schmuck like me on the street can think of it why aren't BT or Vodafone trying to sell me it - it just makes sense in an interconnected modern world - as long as there's an off switch for those quiet times :)