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Scenario 1: Bush wins.
Result: I am a little sad. Hippies VERY sad.
Conslusion: Hippies being SO sad is a like a consolation prize: it makes me a little happy.

Scenario 2: Kerry wins.
Result: I am happy. Hippies VERY happy.
Conclusion: I am happy, but at the same time the hippies thinking their protests and die-ins and vegan-eating actually might have worked will only provoke more of this in 2008.

That 'tripod thingy' is his hair infuser, or perhaps this.

However, that's much different from what the GPL *does*, which is to use copyright law to attempt "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" by making it easy to publish software that's free as in speech (with other positive side effects) and know that the software you're using is free so you can do even more things with it and not have to hire bunch of lawyers telling you that that it's safe to touch before adding value to it.

Re: BTW - Confusing WindRiver with WinDriver would be like confusing MacOS 9 with Mac OS9....

However, that's much different from what the GPL *does*, which is to use copyright law to attempt "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" by making it easy to publish software that's free as in speech (with other positive side effects) and know that the software you're using is free so you can do even more things with it and not have to hire bunch of lawyers telling you that that it's safe to touch before adding value to it.

Re: BTW - Confusing WindRiver with WinDriver would be like confusing MacOS 9 with Mac OS9....

At what point does slashdot just go ahead and directly link each story to the Democratic Party's home page?

This is all a bunch of hippie crap and hippies suck! Next thing you know, slashdot will be posting stories about saving baby cows, instead of good ones about the lord of the rings

You bastards!

I got one of these models (actually a previous one the HBH-30) so it's good to see it got highest marks. Actually I don't have a bluetooth phone, I have a mac and I wanted to use it with the voice chat programs like ohphoneX or I guess iChat now.

Anyway, bad luck, OS X doesn't support the right connection mode yet (SCO synchronous connection-oriented) although at the WWDC they hinted that it would be in the next revision IIRC. Until then I'm SOL or looking for other options, I don't really feel like learning how to write an IOKit driver at the moment. So finally I hear about this nifty gadget here and reviewed here which will basically let you connect a bluetooth headset to any kind of 2.5mm jack equipped cell phone / portable phone.

Not quite good enough I'm afraid but actually I figure it will be easy enough to convert the 2.5mm headset jack into two separate plugs (one for mic other for headphones) and plug them into the right jacks in my TiBook. Some instructions are on this discussion board, but actually I think that I might just buy one of the older "hands free car kits" that work through the cassette deck (such as this one or this other one since they're dirt cheap. I'll just splice the casette cable into a regular 3.5mm (aka 1/8") jack. Or whatever. I'm sure radio shack can supply the necessary parts.

Then I'll be able to use my headset with anything! My computer, my camcorder :) hell, maybe I'll dig up a 2.5mm adapter for my ancient but still cool StarTac :-) Why limit yourself to cell phones? ;-)

simon

Here:
Even when the BT400 was directly in front of a fan I could not get it to effect my voice. This is due to the BT400's design and not due to any noise canceling.

And Here:
One of the Bluespoon's selling points (besides the amazing size and battery life) is the fact that it has a built in DSP (digital signal processor) that helps cancel noise. In my fan test there was a noticeable drop in fan noise whenever I talked indicating that the noise canceling really does work.

As a side note, I own a Jabra BT200 and it is unusable on the road with the convertible top down. I'm looking into getting an HBH-35

The Bluespoon is US $350. Ouch!

For another review.

Linux is already being used on Smartphones, by Motorola and at least one other Asian manufacturer (Sharp, I think).

Aside from that, it is nice to play with, and that's how it's being developed, mainly as a hobby, like most OpenSource software...

I think it's funny that one needs to install another video player considering that the videos are supposed to be .MP4 files which should just play fine with Quicktime according to the Apple PR department... especially 3G phone files... strange... :-(

The T610 seems to have everything that was nice about the T68i (trimode GSM, GPRS, nice color screen, bluetooth, and good build quality) but then adds a metal body instead of plastic, 65k color screen, a camera, and apparently 1/3 faster GPRS. Good review of T610 here Plus it's small, well designed with nice smooth lines, and the red color looks great. Should be released soon.

The T610 seems to have everything that was nice about the T68i (trimode GSM, GPRS, nice color screen, bluetooth, and good build quality) but then adds a metal body instead of plastic, 65k color screen, a camera, and apparently 1/3 faster GPRS. Good review of T610 here Plus it's small, well designed with nice smooth lines, and the red color looks great. Should be released soon.

• official site
• a Mobile Burn article on the phone including pictures
• an IDG article on the phone.

Unfortunately, very few details about the features of the phone.

This phone doesn't support SyncML, so the chances of you syncing with your Mac anytime soon are slim. Nokia does provide PC software to allow syncing with your Windows PC, though.

And as for Bluetooth, once again Nokia has failed to implement the headset profile, although it does support the newer handsfree profile. I can't seem to find any details on the differences between the two but what it does mean for sure is that of the current Bluetooth headsets available, only the SonyEricson HBH-60 and the soon-to-arrive Nokia HDW-2 support that profile. Nokia is known for their poor and buggy Bluetooth support (they must hate that their rival Ericsson invented it) and they do seem to try the "embrace and extend" scheme once in a while - they want you to buy their Bluetooth device and not someone else's. They've used the headset profile in the 6310i, but that's it for the US market.

It's hard not to support SonyEricsson (especially the Ericsson part) when they've made Bluetooth a licensed standard, and when they put things like SyncML, an open syncing standard, on their phones. And don't forget the SonyEricsson Clicker which is just plain cool.

A good review of the 3650 is here.

My 6100 replaced my good, old 7110 - which I got after watching the Matrix - don't know of any other phones with a spring-loaded key-cover.

(btw, by activating a secret menu in the 7110, you can get access to a counter (in hex) that counts the number of times you have opened the cover. Mine was about 5000 or so, and still worked perfectly when in died mysteriously.)

Their server has burned up and is spitting out Internal Server errors.

The new phone appears to be nice, but it's only triband. According to this story (with pictures), the T610 will be sold in Europe and supports GSM at 900, 1800, and 19000 Mhz. The T616, which will be sold in North America, drops the 900Mhz support and supports 850, 1800, and 1900Mhz. So while technically it is a world phone it is missing 900Mhz which is the most used frequency for GSM world wide. It also provides the better coverage (verses 1800Mhz) and penitrates buldings better - one of the hoped for advantages of GSM800 (850Mhz) in the US.

My biggest complaint with the T68i is the SMS alert tone - it totally sucks. And I like to use my phone as a pager, but I can't trust it to wake me up. Given the number of changes we've seen with T68 firmware revisions I had hopes they would fix this, but with the release of this phone I doubt they will. The interaction of Apple's address book with SMS is hopefully...I might just write something to play a loud file when I get an SMS. Or maybe when I get a BT-enabled PDA it will have something.

I have high hopes for Motorola's V600, which will appears to do everything the T610 does and is quadband. However syncing isn't mentioned, which I am a big fan of. I know some friends who have had bad luck with Motorola phones, but I had good luck (quality wise) with my v3682. This phone seems to be a good replacement for that - it's a nice silver color (didn't like the dark plastic of the V60) and is a bit more streamlined than the squarish T720.

I wasn't thinking I'd use BT for more than a headset (which is cool on it's own), but with the Mac it's really nice. Sending SMS messages from apple's Address Book is nice if you're in the office, although I don't use their Address Book since I don't use Mail.app. For those of us that use Entourage, however, there is MobileSync which does the same thing as iSync does but with Entourage. This is from the same guy who wrote the BT clicker program and the client program that makes getting files to the T68i very easy.

One advantage to all this that may get overlooked is that if I were to loose my phone and had to get a replacement T68i then all of the data from the phone (pictures, ringtones, numbers) would be back on there in 5 minutes. And if my next phone supports SyncML (which it almost will have to) it'll make upgrading fairly painless.

The new phone appears to be nice, but it's only triband. According to this story (with pictures), the T610 will be sold in Europe and supports GSM at 900, 1800, and 19000 Mhz. The T616, which will be sold in North America, drops the 900Mhz support and supports 850, 1800, and 1900Mhz. So while technically it is a world phone it is missing 900Mhz which is the most used frequency for GSM world wide. It also provides the better coverage (verses 1800Mhz) and penitrates buldings better - one of the hoped for advantages of GSM800 (850Mhz) in the US.

My biggest complaint with the T68i is the SMS alert tone - it totally sucks. And I like to use my phone as a pager, but I can't trust it to wake me up. Given the number of changes we've seen with T68 firmware revisions I had hopes they would fix this, but with the release of this phone I doubt they will. The interaction of Apple's address book with SMS is hopefully...I might just write something to play a loud file when I get an SMS. Or maybe when I get a BT-enabled PDA it will have something.

I have high hopes for Motorola's V600, which will appears to do everything the T610 does and is quadband. However syncing isn't mentioned, which I am a big fan of. I know some friends who have had bad luck with Motorola phones, but I had good luck (quality wise) with my v3682. This phone seems to be a good replacement for that - it's a nice silver color (didn't like the dark plastic of the V60) and is a bit more streamlined than the squarish T720.

I wasn't thinking I'd use BT for more than a headset (which is cool on it's own), but with the Mac it's really nice. Sending SMS messages from apple's Address Book is nice if you're in the office, although I don't use their Address Book since I don't use Mail.app. For those of us that use Entourage, however, there is MobileSync which does the same thing as iSync does but with Entourage. This is from the same guy who wrote the BT clicker program and the client program that makes getting files to the T68i very easy.

One advantage to all this that may get overlooked is that if I were to loose my phone and had to get a replacement T68i then all of the data from the phone (pictures, ringtones, numbers) would be back on there in 5 minutes. And if my next phone supports SyncML (which it almost will have to) it'll make upgrading fairly painless.

Well, we've got nearly invisible bluetooth headsets, eyeglass displays, and now a keyboard that doesn't exist. Your chances of being mistaken for an well dressed, crazy homeless person are becoming greater by the day.

from here.