said by RadioDoc :

I'm due for an upgrade after pummeling my trusty LG for two years. The Pre looks interesting...please report back.

said by FastiBook :

The pre doesn't do landscape.

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The Pre's display has a built-in accelerometer so the screen orientation will automatically change from portrait to landscape mode when viewing photos, videos, and Web pages. The accelerometer is fast and changes pages without any lag. There's also a proximity sensor, which will automatically turn off the display when you lift the smartphone to your ear for a phone call.

said by RadioDoc :

I'm due for an upgrade after pummeling my trusty LG for two years. The Pre looks interesting...please report back.

said by Noah Vail :

If you haven't done so already, check out signal quality from the carriers associated with your phones.

It turned out to be a good move. My Touch Pro is terrific (once I added a cooked rom) and the Sprint service is much better in what had traditionally been problem spots.

More evidence that YMMV.

NV

said by tubbynet :

how is the microphone for the voice calls? i've noticed a bad trend with a lot of the "fullscreen" touchscreen phones lately (storm, iphone, even some of the lg's from verizon) that they tend to sound watery or pick up a lot of background noise (and i've tried from several of my phones that have never had that issue when calling traditional "flip" style handsets). while i am no longer with sprint (workphone was moved to att), i'm curious to see if this was just an isolated incident to the few people that i call on a regular basis or if it is something larger...

q.

said by GOLFnSUN :

When I tried it out in the store I only called 1 person. They said it sounded OK to them. But that isn't a real test

said by tubbynet :

understood. some co-workers have iphones (some edge-only, some 3g), my brother in law has a blackberry storm and my wife has the lg dare from verizon. all three of those phones sound echo-y and pick up a lot of ambient noise. i thought it could have been something with the design the phone has to fit...

i as well am waiting for the iphone 3.0 launch. if its good enough, i may buy the phone outright and replace my blackjack ii with it, since we use a web-based content hosting solution for a lot of our internal documentation and said portal can be accessed using the iphone.

appreciate the input...

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Statistics that show the U.S. behind many other countries in broadband deployment don't tell the whole story and may not be as important as some critics suggest, a group of broadband experts said Friday.

OECD statistics might give a better picture if they reflected broadband adoption for households, because families often share a connection and the OECD numbers have largely ignored broadband on smartphones and other wireless devices, said panelists at a broadband forum.

David Gross, former coordinator of international communications and information policy at the U.S Department of State called the OECD statistics "deeply flawed," but also acknowledged that the organization is working to improve its broadband reports.

The U.S. leads the world in broadband to schools, he said, and it's the only country now deploying fiber-based broadband outside urban areas. Part of the problem in the U.S., however, is with demand. Of 21 OECD countries with statistics available, the U.S. ranks 11th in PC ownership, Atkinson said, and without PCs, people aren't going to get wired broadband.

One largely ignored segment of broadband providers, both by OECD and by people who complain about not enough competition, are wireless providers, said Christopher Guttman-McCabe, vice president of regulatory affairs at CTIA. The number of U.S. subscribers with broadband access on their smartphones and other devices has grown from 3 million in 2006 to 73 million in 2008, he said. "I do think broadband to the home is being rapidly overtaken by broadband to the person," he said.

said by big_nik :

David Carradine was a damn freak...

said by RadioDoc :

I get "no such article" when I try to vote. Looks like more monkeybusiness...

said by MrMoody :

I never liked Leno. I kept expecting him to say, "Wocka Wocka Wocka!!" O'Brien is an improvement.

said by LittleDuke :

..I've been waiting FOREVER!

said by drew :

For Eduardo!

said by NOZIREV :

Is the IPhone capable of copy and paste functionality?