The good news is the keyboard is very not bad, I can fly on it. & I've dropped it several dozen times & besides the dings & scratches & its unwillingness to vibrate anymore, it still totally works.

Why do I still have it? Been waiting for 3g iPhone, 3g Blackberry, or Android. iPhone's pretty much out & Android's not gonna get here soon enough. Looks like Blackberry Bold's gonna be the thing.

We'll see if the iPhone 2 is gonna have all this stuff?:

Camera: 5 Megapixel CMOS
Video: DivX / XviD / H.263 / H.264 / WMV / MP4
Video recording
Audio: FM Radio with RDS, MP3/ AAC / AAC+ / WMA / OGG / AMR
Bluetooth Stereo Headset (A2DP)
Memory: 8GB / 16GB Flash + External Memory slot : microSDHC™

"must use stylus" + "too many colors" = I'm out.

This makes me want to leave AT&T even more now - just waiting for the wifi-enabled Blackberry.

just to play devil's advocate:

* right now it only works with 2 phones - the Nokia 6086 and Samsung t409. I know other T-Mobile phones like the Dash & the other PDA/smartphones currently have wifi , so it shouldn't be too hard to add it to those. But if you want it on a Blackberry, you're out of luck until RIM gets a model with wifi out there.

* if you're frequently out in the boonies, 2 things are likely: no T-Mobile coverage (i.e. you'd be roaming), and no Starbucks every 2 blocks, so coverage could be spotty, but no more so than having T-Mobile sans wifi enabled calling.

* if you currently have one of the lowest-priced plans with free nights & weekends, have decent reception at home, and never go over your minutes, then this is going to actually cost you a little bit MORE than what you're currently paying.

In the specific case of the airlines, since you are on their property & they can make you obey a set of rules, I would say that it is their responsibility to define what is & what is not acceptable. If they don't, then this is what you get: a guy watching porn on an airplane, a pissed off lady in the window seat, & a bunch of people on the internet debating whether or not he had the right to do watch it i.e. nothing gets accomplished.

Now that everyone travels with a laptop, iPhone, PMP or whatever & can semi-publicly view whatever content they please, how hard would it be for an airline to come up with a set of rules for acceptable content? Type up a document of do's & don't's, run it by the legal department, run it by the PR department, and done. Make it part of the fine print that nobody ever reads when they buy an airline ticket or part of the flight crew safety briefing that nobody ever listens to. Publish it in the in-flight magazine next to the list of snacks or in-flight entertainment. Just put the rules out there so that next time this happens, the flight attendant can point to something & say "see this? whether you know it or not, you agreed to it. now turn that shit off."

Really. Give the guy a chance to defend himself at least - who knows what really happened. He might have been watching Monster's Ball or Boogie Nights or other mainstream film that happens to have nudity or a sex scene.

A couple weeks ago, (because of their well-deserved reputation) everyone was all over the TSA screeners who wouldn't let that mom take her baby's water thru security when they only had heard her side of the story.

I guess my point was that this is true, but they can't make up rules as they go along. If it was, the flight crews could seat all the black people in the back of plane and declare a "no shitting in the bathroom because it stinks up the plane" rule.

Thank you for doing the research for me, because it exactly proves my point. No airline has written or published rules that *specifically* prohibit any of those behaviors - it's up to the judgment of individual flight crews. So if you happen to get crew member who is homophobic, feminist, or hates kids, then the passengers who engage in gay kissing, porn watching, or breast feeding are going to be treated unfairly at the whim of the flight crew.

It's not crap, it's true.

I was on a British Airways flght a few years ago where one of the in-flight movies was Monster's Ball which I wouldn't consider hard-core porn, but does contain an extensive sex scene between Halle Berry & Billy Bob Thorton that is about as explicit as it gets and still get an R-rating. It seems that on (at least some) non-American airlines, movies are not edited for content - the scene was shown in full for all to see, including, yes, children. In fact I took special note of a 7-ish year old British girl sitting with her parents in the row ahead of me watching the film. Personally, stuff like this doesn't bother me and it didn't appear to bother her parents either.

So if one person (American) had complained about the content of the film being shown, should they have turned the movie off?

Where do you draw the line with people consuming potentially offensive content in a public place? What am I supposed to do if the guy next to me is watching a white-power propaganda video on his laptop, or a high school kid is reading an Intelligent Design (sic) textbook? I guarantee you that this kinda stuff is just as offensive to me as porn is to feminists or other anti-porn folks. What are you going to do when planes get wifi? Start blocking websites? You either allow it all, or, well, somebody's gotta decide what's allowable and what isn't. And who is qualified for that job? I submit to you that anyone who wants or would take that job is uniquely *unqualified* to do it.

"XviD encoded files are playable if they are encoded as standard MPEG-4 Simple (SP) or Advanced Simple Profile (ASP) without GMC."