+1 on headline.

I think it's because people finally realized, "Dear god, I'm about to spend almost a thousand bucks on a giant phone that doesn't even make calls."

That took longer to get than it should have.

I guess the iProduct people already bought theirs, the rest of us have no wish to buy such a worthless device.

Okay, I laughed.

Then my wife hit me.

GAT_00: That took longer to get than it should have.

I guess the iProduct people already bought theirs, the rest of us have no wish to buy such a worthless device.

Can't remember where I read this, but it was noted that they had an awful lot of kid-focused programs/apps/whatthef--kever they were showing off on that thing... which might get them a few more sales but damn, I can't see the point of that either. Besides the fact that it's a bit too expensive a devise to leave to a kid for a "color in this picture with by clicking on a color and painting with your finger" apps.

It would be nice to have something of that size to easily carry around, but as it stands now, it seems really kind of stupid and redundant.

+1

Bloody brilliant, Subby!

A pinball game would be fun on one of those.

I have an iPhone and would like to see Steve Jobs forcibly mouthf*cked for a day or two for deliberately crippling such a potentially awesome piece of hardware.

/Oh, and the iMenstruate is for witless jackoffs with too much money.
//I console myself by SSHing into my Linux box from the jailbroken command line.

Tello, who is better known on the Web as Deagol (after a Hobbit in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings), attributes roughly half of the estimated 120,000 first-day sales to "pure overexcited fanboism."

I remember when people used to have to attend college for four years to have their opinions and analysis taken seriously by journalists. Now all you have to do is murder your fishing buddy and steal his bling.