I saw a great point by point response to this NYT article on ZDNet http://blogs.zdnet.com/mobile-gadgeteer/?p=679 (favorite part is that most of it was written on the shadow). Honestly the NYT article feels like the author desperately wants to find flaws in the phone and will follow faulty logic to get there. Things like "two button presses to unlock is too many" make no sense, if it was one button press you'd be unlocking it accidentally all the time. Two button presses is the minimum to actually be effective as a phone lock. I read a lot of reviews (including both the NYT article and ZDNET response) and finally picked the shadow up Saturday. So far I love it. Just enough smartphone features to be convenient without overwhelming. Lack of 3G is kind of a bummer, but not a big deal. I'm not surfing the net constantly, just getting directions occasionally.
Target is also a great place to try. I found both a handful of wii remotes and about 50 copies of wario ware there when every other store I called was out of both.
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I saw a great point by point response to this NYT article on ZDNet http://blogs.zdnet.com/mobile-gadgeteer/?p=679 (favorite part is that most of it was written on the shadow). Honestly the NYT article feels like the author desperately wants to find flaws in the phone and will follow faulty logic to get there. Things like "two button presses to unlock is too many" make no sense, if it was one button press you'd be unlocking it accidentally all the time. Two button presses is the minimum to actually be effective as a phone lock. I read a lot of reviews (including both the NYT article and ZDNET response) and finally picked the shadow up Saturday. So far I love it. Just enough smartphone features to be convenient without overwhelming. Lack of 3G is kind of a bummer, but not a big deal. I'm not surfing the net constantly, just getting directions occasionally.
Target is also a great place to try. I found both a handful of wii remotes and about 50 copies of wario ware there when every other store I called was out of both.