This type of device is essential to the world beyond the nation state, in which your entire life is essentially managed from your handheld (your voting, your purchasing, your communications....everything). But we need a lot of trust to make that reality happen. That means open source software and hardware, data portability, and carrier independence. So this device is not nearly good enough.

The iPhone, though, is the most comical, as that is essentially slavery wrapped in a pretty box. This is at least less of a lie. -- KM


The Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Bold officially announced! — Story developing... That didn't take too long, did it? We finally have it people — it's alive and confirmed. The BlackBerry Bold is indeed the official name for the BlackBerry 9000 device and it should be available starting “this summer.”

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