The iPhone still has some nice things about it, but I refuse to see it as a "Jesus Phone", but rather a false prophet, in that it has some good characteristics, but is too limiting and incapable of providing enough solutions for my daily use. It is a great casual use phone, however, and if you can use such a kit without draining the battery at the end of the day, then more power to you.

Myself? I like being able to run Debian on my phone, change up and "cook" my own custom Android kit, and work the phone exactly (or near) to how I want it.

There are other great kits out there, as well, and I can't knock them either. : )

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I've used some of the reviews of gadgets from the "Gadget Pr0n" segment to affect some of my purchases in the past, and they were usually spot on, and even used those analysis in past Gadget Pr0ns to see what it is that I might not like on demo kits that have come my way in one way or another.

Now, granted, alot of us miss the old ZD channel, and many of us miss TechTV, but even with the current iteration of Gadget Television, there is alot worth looking at in both AoTS and X-Play shows. If there were anything I'd get rid of, it's those stupid Cops and Cheaters shows that plague the screen half the time. Maybe I'd also ask for more variety in the "Movies that don't suck" column, and ask for a return of people like LaPorte for a new show in the vein of "Screen Savers" for us former TechTV watchers.

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so you managed to notice all the apple coverage, but not the post indicating how to filter it out, and yet STILL had time to come in here and whine about it, off-topic?

Bravo.

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So... THIS is your brilliant plan to rectify this heinous negligence of your daily entertainment needs?

Hang on i'm getting a call... it's BLam... he say's he's very sorry that the site is not meriting your approval, and he'll get off this irrelevant apple stuff, and right on with some Thanko USB posts, your majesty, and can you ever forgive him?

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A little patience would do you well - gadget deals are up, you insufferable dildo.

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Everyone cares about July 4, for instance, but imagine if the NYT wrote only about Independence on that date. That is just not balanced coverage - what happens is that a disproportionately high number of reporters get to cover July 4, and others are assigned to other news, so that there is some diversity.

Of course, this is subject to preference. I know many people will disagree with me, and that is a perfectly fine. I just like to see some color splashed into the sea of Apple Apple Apple.

And of course, this is not really a big of a deal as my whiny post might make it out to be. I would just like to say this to recognize that Corwin Loreman above should not be persecuted for having a valid opinion.

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Does anyone think AT&T is awesome?

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