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Or just buy a local prepaid SIM when you land... hasn't failed me yet :)

CDMA users are screwed though :p

I have one of these from Logitech, the Z305. Looks pretty much like #2 (the 'Zooka), and sounds decent for its size.

"As far as the pro photog is concerned, I wouldn't worry about blurry camera phone shooters getting in his way or stealing the thunder from your paid, polished and professionally tuned works of art."

This. If you're worried about phone pics stealing your "pro" pictures' thunder, you need a better photographer.

Getting contact info, sure. Anything else is going to be hard to tap in quickly enough to keep up with the conversation... there are better solutions out there (tablet PCs, pen & paper, laptops)...

"If it's an old computer, you can always format a few times, just to be thorough. "

LOL, what for? Will the new installation smell like the old one otherwise?

@asdf3001: Be sure to differentiate between regular LCDs and glass-covered LCDs. The latter, as found on most smartphones including the iPhone, is a bit different... glass + oleophobic coating can be cleaned with a lot more than a regular unprotected LCD.

I actually found the picture quite amusing.

As for iMessage: Useless until it becomes interoperable with other operating systems. I don't see why we can't all just use Facebook (because of the mostly real names) for this... there's plenty of multimessenger apps that support it.

You forgot (another, including the trackball) one: Trackpoint!

I use a mouse for certain programs (games, ADS, Photoshop tweaking), a Tablet PC for handwritten stuff, drawing and touch-up work, and a Thinkpad trackpoint for everything else. There's just something great about being able to mouse and scroll without ever leaving the home row.

:)

Nice to hear it worked out.

That $7 repair kit has me eyeing the iPhone ecosystem quite jealously as an Android user - break the glass on any high-end Android phone and you'll be looking at $100-300 in original parts, because there are no cheapo kits available at all, and most of the manufacturers don't sell just the glass, and require you to buy/replace the LCD along with it...

This is one of the things I love about the Thinkpad community - I'm typing this from an X41T right now: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X41_Tablet

Released in 2006, making it about 5 years old, and it still runs Windows 7 like a champ. These things are simply built to last...

If you take a look at forums like thinkpad-forum.de, you can see that people with these devices really care about keeping them running for years and years and years on end. There are people on these forums running pre-PIII laptops for their day-to-day tasks...

I'd suspect Apple forums are similar...? Every now and then I see a worn-down old Titanium PowerBook that's aged beautifully, or that picture of the worn down original iPhone that was posted (here?) a few days back - beautiful.

Of course, it's not all up to the users - the devices need to withstand a little punishment. Hence why I probably won't be buying another HTC phone (or Motorola or Samsung, for that matter - looks like I'm SOL when my Desire dies)...

The problem when buying new tech these days is that you simply don't know if it's going to last - that brand new Thinkpad X220 I've been eyeing? Don't know if the bulid quality is anywhere near up to par, and the CPU gets insanely hot under load, so I might be buying an X200, simply because it's been beta tested for a few years by thousands of consumers, and there are no or hardly any reports of unexpected breakage or malfunctions.

Will that new Android phone last longer than a year? Who knows...