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Sorry the iPhone with NFC is going to be the first mobile phone with NFC that is at least 4 years late to be called the first.

http://www.slashphone.com/70/6644.html

I agree -- it's not practical. Just look around: there's no other products that manage to shrink an antenna down in size, and still operate at 2.4GHz, are there?

Given the severe lack of anyone doing stuff like this, it must be impossible to use an antenna shorter than a quarter-wavelength for anything, ever. I mean, it's obvious, isn't it?

what I could really use is a clamshell computer (think Samsung Alias 2) strapped to my forearm. (Like Turanga Leela, but real.)

I have quite a few, many of which have someredundancies, but I just don't want to miss out on information :)

They are also cathegorized:

1.) Games
- www.areagames.de - quite decent german gaming site, especially important for local releases
- www.gametrailers.com - a lot of junk I don't care about, but every now and then very good HD vids
- http://news.filefront.com/ (Gaming Today) - Great gaming Feed
- http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp - Often funny, and good comments on things
- http://www.thelastboss.com/ - Was my favorite, giving lots of Vids and stuff, but it seems to be dead since over a year

2.) General Tech
- http://feeds.computerworld.com/Computerworld/News - A little too ITish at times, but great comments and opinions
- http://www.dailytech.com/ - Most of the time the right amout of ITism, but few opinions and trivia
- http://www.chip.de/rss/rss_tests.xml - A lot of reviews on different produkts
- http://slashdot.org/ - Could be more ITish at times, but good general articles make up for that

3.) Handy Stuff (in German mobile = handy, so this is a wordplay)
- http://www.areamobile.de/ - Not so good on the hardware part, but great for knowing releases and new contracts in Germany
- http://feeds.computerworld.com/Computerworld/Handhelds/News - Again good comments and opinions
- http://www.engadgetmobile.com/ - Very good for hardware and some trivia
- http://news.google.com/news?q=i-mate+7150&output=rss - Was looking forward to that device is it looks dead to me...
- http://www.slashphone.com/ - Kind of redundant with Engadget mobile, might get the axe, but still a good feed.

4.) Hardware
- http://www.anythingbutipod.com/ - Good MP3-Player feed, updated seldomely, but is still good
- http://aqua-computer.de/newsfeed_de.rss - A RSS feed of a watercooling company
- http://www.notebookcheck.com/ - Good reviews on new models, updated infrequently
- http://www.notebookjournal.de/rss/notebookjournal_news_feed.xml - Notebook news, updated infrequently
- http://www.notebookjournal.de/rss/notebookjournal_tests_feed.xml - Notebook reviews, very good, updated infrequently
- http://www.notebookreview.com/ - Great page for getting first looks on the new or upcoming top notebooks
- http://www.themp3players.com/ - Also on MP3 player, updated very seldomely
- http://www.hardwarezone.com/ - Good on general hardware (graphics cards and stuff)

5.) Science
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/default.stm - Good articles but sometimes too much on legislation and stuff
- http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Science.xml - Also great with some good long interesting articles
- http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/ - A very good quick view on what has been discovered or researched

6.) Stuff
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Uh, how about the LG KE850?

And the linux guys already have the multi-finger stretchy fingerpointing stuff.

And Cisco has the iPhone name already, so Apple basically only innovated:
* the advertising (the lawsuit with Cisco got them more free publicity than they could ever afford to pay for)
* the lockin with iTunes at the expense of making it EDGE instead of much faster 3G (but which then would use Real),
* the lockin with Cingular, which costs my brother $120 a month for pretty well basic features.

Here's a link I dug up:
http://www.slashphone.com/70/5360.html
An extreme case...

it is officially released now

, allowing users to browse the web, check email and/or business transactions, and remain firmly connected to the world with one easy-to-use device.

http://www.slashphone.com/73/4321.html/

-a good strong signal that won't drop calls

That's broadly dictated by your provider; granted, a phone can emitt more power to improve the phone to tower SNR, but you can't do much about the tower-to-phone SNR, except putting up more towers.

-a long battery life

Mostly constrained by battery technology, but you can by larger 'long life' battery packs for some phones.

When someone invents better batteries, you can bet the cell phone, camera, laptop, MP3 player, electric car, etc companies will jump on it.

-the ability to survive repeatedly being dropped onto a hard surface from a height of about 5 feet
-waterproofing might be nice

Google and ye shall find.

Michael

What about reducing the chance of fires?

There's a lot of energy in a Li-Ion battery, and when it gets an internal short (or really overheated) it's usually bad for your homeowner's policy. Or pants, depending on the device.

Chip H.