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Prepare for the retreat... wouldn't it be great if there was a scoble reality distortion field! But, there isn't.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-06-30_03:41:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "1837eba3e29a3c71001360c860b98f64", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666561": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow, glad I checked before purchase!  THANK you!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-06-15_11:40:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "d8feb35264104791848969897daf4acd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666562": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I hate Apple, I hate Steve Jobs, I hated the iPhone. But then I got one because the store was out of the HTC Tilt (Windows Mobile 6) and told me I could use the iPhone and return it when the HCT Tilt came in, well after using the iPhone for a week now I have absolutly no intention of ever going back to Windows Mobile. I have never had a device in my pocket that is this powerful with this good of an interface. The camera does suck unless you are in a heavily light area and have a steady hand but other then that I have zero other complaints, I watch my pod casts, watch uTube files constantly (can't help it) and listen to music, plus the phone integration is seamless and it is always 100% reponsive. I can also type faster on the keyboard this thing had then my PPC-6700 that I own previously that had a dedicated full size slide out keyboard. I will never own an Apple Laptop or Desktop Computer but they are years ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to cell phones. My single favorite feature is the fully feature web browser, I can login to my work mail though Outlook Web Access, I can login to my Bank Account without them having to have a mobile friendly version of the website and even though the EDGE network is considered slow it is a crap ton faster then 56k dialup and is still plenty fast to do anything I want to do. Don't trust comments on the iPhone until you have actually used one, I was sadly one of the people going around posting comments about how crappy this thing is and picking on all of its faults. But once I was in a position to use one for a while I changed my mind on all of them. And as for the battery when it goes dead I'll gladly pay the fee to have Apple replace it, its nice not having battery covers fall off or be tempted to buy batteries of ebay that only last for 1 hour :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-10-17_10:08:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "02a942fba8f2f25504a50f9b20ce0408", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666563": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ay I just wanna say Fuck  that damn iphone.. All I hear about is people talking bout how cool it is..and how its the best phone ever made! Dude suck a dick!..the sidekick is the best phone for text,email,and instant message..im so tired of seeing people wit the iphone going onto sidekick blogs talking shit bout it.. Hell I do everything on this<br>phone.. O0o yea and I typed all this on my LX!.. Now wut iphone lovers.. U can't type all this on that big touch screen..holla at me! Peace!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-13_07:32:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "00d8d3ffa3845353085226a6c5de4ac3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666564": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "el negro,<br><br>That whooshing sound you're hearing is the breeze generated by hordes of iPhone-haters looking for ways to distance themselves from you, lest they be associated with this comment.<br><br>If you want to hate the iPhone, knock yourself out. (I, for example, will be passing on the iPhone, opting instead for something simple and cheap. If I determine that I want the application capabilities of the iPhone, I'll start looking into the iTouch.) If you want to love the Sidekick, I'm not about to stand in your way.<br><br>However, if you're going to brag about the texting capabilities of your LX, you might want to check your spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. Otherwise, people might assume that you're using a piece of crap for a phone that doesn't allow you to type correctly, instead of the glorious device that blessed us with your wit and wisdom. - Tim", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-15_14:19:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "a983a252753ca5ff141589fcd2b280d0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10491573": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I must be one of the few iPhone users who can get multiple days use off of one charge.  I tend to use Wi-Fi instead of 3G.  Its faster and uses less power.  I can watch 3 videos on it in one charge.  If you are on a plane, turn on airplane mode and it will help conserve battery.  If it can't get a signal on a plane, the phone will continuously try to ping a tower which will drain the battery.  I like that it doesn't currently have a native GPS system.  It would severely drain the battery to have to constantly communicate its location and give you directions.  The Google Maps function on the phone gives a good enough GPS function for now.  The pin even moves on the map as you do.<br><br>I have noticed that people complain about the battery life and don't bother trying to do anything about it.  The iPhone is a phone first and multimedia second.  For those who would bash the \"crappy\" signal strength they get, I have no problem getting a signal in the city, suburbs, or in mountains.  There were a few dead spots in the mountains, but there also weren't any town around.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-04_14:06:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "c385c0be5ab9c34c1e15bcb12f8bd0f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666380": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Heh...you are wrong as usual.  This thing is going to sell in the millions.  Have you ever traveled outside the U.S.?  Everyone else uses GSM.  Duh.  hey guess what, they have power on airplanes.  Neat huh?  Finally your only other comment is that the camera sucks?  Puh-lease.  No wonder you used to work at Microsoft.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_01:16:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "90bce2b4a07ee1f402c1f84bb3445f81", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666381": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"And Nokia and others will take notice and instill good bits of iPhone into their products - very rapidly.\"<br><br>it's called a patent.<br><br>you are a moron.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_23:20:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "ad6b3ed70e18b565dca6c4f179f098f2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666382": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What you don't get is that the iPhone is the first step of a many-runged ladder; just like the Mac was the beginning of real personal computing.<br><br>Imagine, a permanently online OSX in your pocket. That's what it's REALLY about.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-12_19:12:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "d3274daac7de577cda485b8939f2f4e9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666383": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Just as with the iPod and the fruit colored iMac before it, the \"average consumer\" isn't going to care about the acronyms and the code names. If they can make a phone call with it and show people photographs of their pets and look \"cool\" waving it around that's all most people are going to care about. Heck the iPod mini and the Nano and even the Shuffle were all blasted for not enough storage or no screen. It all comes down to pricing things about $100 more than they are comfortable, so people stretch to pay that $100 premium just because it's Apple.<br><br>This thing will be huge, even if relatively not many people buy it because practically everybody, from grandmas to teenagers have or want a cellphone. The market for the iPod is small compared to that of cellphones. Apple is going to make a killing on this even if they don't totally take over the market.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_23:26:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "c1cc9d8512ea9fb293cbc83702a67fa3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666384": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, the closest device that I have touched to the iPhone is the PPC-6700. I'm blogging about the diffs as we speak, but people who are making comments about whether or not this is a superior phone/mp3 player/connectivity device have apparently not spent time with Windows Mobile 5.0. The differentiator is, and will be, a UI that is suited toward fingers, and not a stylus.<br><br>Think about it. All of the other stuff in the middle, I mean ALL of it (video, 3G, GPS, and so on) can change with little brouhaha, but changing the user interface is a huge deal. Apple got the hardest part, the UI, right. Yes, it would be better to have some kind of tactile feedback, but compared to the WM5 UI I deal with every day (and I thought it was a cool phone until Monday evening), this is like comparing Win95/98 to Vista or OS X.<br><br>With tons of rebates, the PPC-6700 is just now coming down into the sub-$300 range. List is $549.<br><br>The real question is, \"Why would anyone shell out $549 for a Windows device as poorly executed as this?\" The answer is: because it was better than the alternatives.<br><br>You don't have to be the fastest deer, just faster than the slowest. The smartphone market sucks so bad... even with the issues you've brought up (which are fixable), the iPhone behaves in a manner that is at least five years beyond the other phones.<br><br>June will be an interesting month. :D - Tim", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_23:05:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "a983a252753ca5ff141589fcd2b280d0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666385": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Zato: you think I bash Apple? That's funny, considering I'm typing to you on my Apple MacPro, my wife and son both have MacBookPros and I just bought a MacBookPro and I'm going to get one of these phones and we just played the keynote from MacWorld in the BlogHaus.<br><br>I take far more shots at Microsoft, but you don't notice those.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_22:08:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666386": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Som: I already corrected my incorrect statement and apologized for making that error. You come and work 22 hours a day and type a blog in a car in between halls and interviews and see how good you do.<br><br>IT Guy: OK, I won't blame Apple for that. But since I'm gonna spend $600 of my own money on this, I will blame them for not letting me do video with the camera. I will blame them for not putting a GPS into such an expensive device. I will blame them for making me bring a separate iPod on international flights cause I can't charge up two batteries (I want to watch two videos on the way to Switzerland, for instance).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_22:11:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666387": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree Jobs has done a PR master pice, he usually does and they should be the envy of the tech world in that regards. I also think the phone will be highly desirable but again unlike the AppleTV it is hitting a satuarted market place in a limited distribution channel. Will probably be a Cingular top seller but not have a market impact in the way that the AppleTV has an opportunity to.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_21:14:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "7a94ab3bcd3cdb8395728b8b1cd60672", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666388": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "so i am hearing the same negatives about the iPhone that i heard when the iPod first came out. except back then hardly anyone in the windows world even knew what to make of it. when i would point out all the features...they would either be stunned or just not get it. then itunes came and WOW! everyone got it. All the negatives on the iPhone will be gone in a year. i am lining up for mine... ;-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-12_16:46:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "efcd5d17de0e785938588e0179eec7cb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666389": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Okay so just like in our last posting I said I expect the AppleTV to do extremely well and make great market stides in grabbing control of that new arena as the next logical extension of the iPod/iTunes platform I don't see that happening here. Funny thing is I think this is a much more innovative device that the AppleTV and has much more cool factor. What it doesn't have is a virgin market, that much of a differention, multi-carrier support, etc. to make it anything more than another really good phone product in a sea of phone products ranging from bad to great. This will definately be one of the cooler devices out thier but it will not appeal to business (I can here all my buddies in operations at different companies drawing a line in the sand about turning Imap on so people can synch their iPhone), due to cost will mostly only come in to play for new or renewing users who can get it at 2 year subsidized service (and then only Cingular customers) and lets not forget the fact that most cell phones have fairly short life spans so this will have an appeal of one, maybe two years max and would have to be replaced by newer models. I think Apple will have a popular phone here but the market share will be much smaller than we will see with AppleTV and it will quickly be faced by cheaper knockoffs that emulate its function amongst the other carriers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_20:20:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "7a94ab3bcd3cdb8395728b8b1cd60672", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666390": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Don't bash Apple for not doing 3G for the US market, that's a US carrier problem.  Presumably when they offer it in Europe, they'll need to respond to European market realities, where 3G is far more entrenched.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_20:34:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "9173f5074e28d4935e41dee0fcbc38f2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666391": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Cisco is now suing Apple over the iPhone name.<br><br>Whatever you think about desirability of iPhone, you have to admit Jobs has pulled off a PR coup making CES seem trivial.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_20:26:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "bfe99ced7c8a6e2881b170690f503ff5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666392": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Every 1st generation software/hardwreu has its flaws and cons. The iPod took 5 or 6 years to reach the popularity it is at now. It became popular because the flaws and bugs were worked out.<br><br>Sure, the iPhone may have its flaws already, but I wouldnt be surprised if they too are worked out, and it really does \"change the phone\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-12_16:21:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "ea7f478ad3856256ffe545f44370e358", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666393": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And Steve Jobs is raving about is iPhone.  I wish America saw it the same way as he does.  But no offense, but does anyone really think that they are going to switch to either Cingular or whatever the other service is just for the phone?  What if you HATE both carriers?  Let's say the iPhone went to Verizon, then maybe... maybe I'd wait.  But maybe in the meantime there will be some \"upgrades\" to the iPhone before it's released in June.  That's just my two coppers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-12_15:49:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcc5b8e6e6c329d049247e97a6e203e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666394": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What has changed at Scoblizer since the move to PodTech? Nothing. Three quarters of it was Apple bashing, and still is. What is the relationship between PodTech and MS? Are any of the comments posted here from people who aren't being paid to post negative crap about Apple? Blogging at it's finest, Robert. Keep up the good black PR work.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_20:08:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "a4be320afa74962d86835a235cd653db", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666395": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey Robert:<br>I totally agree that a built-in GPS would have made a significant move forward with that phone. Even with rumors of embedded photo geo-tagging functionality. However, as reported by a bunch of other bloggers, this will be a closed phone. Not ability to install 3rd-party apps. This is looking less interesting as the apple skin is being peeled off.<br><br>Thanks - Martin", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_20:43:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "863c558f2bdce6ac9d0661e01671be00", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666396": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, it saddens me to see you go down the same road as a John C. Dvorak.  Sure, you might find rising hit counts as the Apple \"zealots\" respond to these types of posts.  But is that a positive way to trumpet the power of blogging?  Or do you do a disservice to the medium which you are so proud of helping to build?<br><br>When you insist on providing demonstrably false information to help make your points (ie- the 2 hour battery performance), you're going to get called out.  And no amount of labelling your critics with prejorative terms like \"zealot\" or \"fanboy\" will make your point stronger.  Acknowledge the error with grace under fire, Robert.  I've seen you do it many times before.<br><br>Remember that credibility is like virginity; once lost, you can't reclaim it.<br><br>I know much of your commentaries are shot from the hip, but fact checking is an important ingredient for establishing blogs as a reliable information medium.  Please don't duck the responsibility by saying your post isn't a \"news article and hasn't been fact checked\".  Your status as one of the a-list bloggers should compel a higher standard.<br><br>The short of it is your own credibility should require rudimentary fact checking, regardless of whether your blog fits the standard of \"commentary\" or \"news\".<br><br>All that said, I write this in the hopes of engaging you constructively.  Especially since I've been called a jerk by you on one other occasion!<br><br>Now as far as the iPhone is concerned, just wait to see what the non-geek public goes for.  Remember the T-Mo Sidekick does quite well as a similar device and the iPhone moves the goal posts against that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_19:45:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "42ca18b6d378338b6ed8450e54b58e3d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666397": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The British press reports \"Cisco is suing Apple Computer for trademark infringement in a federal court, for using the iPhone name.\"  <a href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6250511.stm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6250511.stm</a><br><br>I have never seen such a story run and run.  Well done Apple (computers), Inc.  Now everyone has heard of the iPhone!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_19:33:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "8691f0a6e08ac13dd3f4e4b7762627c0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666398": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is a blog and you have to quantify/verify comments and I appreciate people sharing what they see and hear since I'm not there.<br><br>The Apple site states something completely different regarding battery life.  However, you cannot replace the battery on the current device displayed at CES (device is not out to market yet so we will have to wait and see).<br><br>No third party applications confirmed? <a href=\"http://www.tuaw.com/2007/01/10/apple-vps-confirm-no-3rd-party-iphone-apps/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.tuaw.com/2007/01/10/apple-vps-confir...</a><br><br>It may not have GPS but it does have Bluetooth so you could connect to a Bluetooth GPS receiver... BUT you cannot install 3rd party applications.  UGH!<br><br>I will most likely see this device around the neighborhood but will I see it in the workplace?  I doubt it.  I need a device and software that can be used at both the workplace and at home.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_19:27:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "48709298fcf937031ecd2f015194c0b8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666399": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Watch a 2-hour video on a phone? Better be a good flick.  Wouldn't you be upset if your TV shrunk to postage-stamp dimensions?<br><br>It is very unlikely that I will ever buy an iPhone, but it seems to me that it's success will depend on how it improves the experience of using a cellphone, not on how well it imitates an iPod running OSX.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_19:23:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "e23c7de17e7195a134afe3eba10d5a5d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666400": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "While I like that the iPhone will support touchscreen (hope they're using some smudge-resistant coating), I don't agree with Jobs' dissing of the stylus.  The reason being my fingers have poor resolution - my fingertip is has about a 30 pixel diameter, and my fingernail will hit an area about 10 pixels wide.  For my computer screen, it'd be fine, and for a lot of tablet and iPhone stuff, it'd be fine, but for things like writing out text or selecting small controls, I need a true pointer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_19:19:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "ffae666ed0f2f8ab84f6569b2295c460", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666401": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Cisco Suing Apple over iPhone name <a href=\"http://www.komotv.com/news/5148637.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.komotv.com/news/5148637.html</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_19:17:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "923674ed17c11371775a459cfbc62a5a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666402": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I recall traveling to Africa a couple years ago with a spare plug-in battery pack to extend the hours on my iPod.  For anyone needing longer iPhone hours, I presume there will soon be third party suppliers of such batteries.  I don't see this is being more than a false issue.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_19:18:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "eb6d7785ab573671b9f6048a524ffddb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666403": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Quote of the day :-)<br><br>They begin to look like malcontents who kvetch about the weather so much that they don't notice the sun coming out.<br><br><a href=\"http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2002/06/01.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/ar...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_19:04:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "8acc381a20c2724e1b3df24cfe3445f5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666404": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Let's see, a \"technical evangelist\", then a \"blogger\"<br>for the most part, you haven't done anything significant with you life<br>maybe rather than spouting mindless opinions about products you know nothing about you should get a \"real job\" and try and make something of your life before you tell your grand kids what a waste you were...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_18:57:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "9e5fe7bef89a78af410849fd624ccb99", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666405": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It makes sense to wait before rushing out to get this latest tech toy..Just like its iPod counterparts, the iPhone is in its first run and obviously will be under revision until it is something consumers, tech geeks and tech analysts applaud.  The early Nano's were hated upon by many and now have become a better, stronger product from Apple..It will take time before the iPhone has won over the hearts of many.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-12_15:17:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "ba4af1b82c056ef1146f046377a7c6f1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666406": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "John: my blog is not a news article and hasn't been fact checked. Thank you for being an astute reader.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_18:45:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666407": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Josh (52) the iPhone does NOT have video recording capabilities.  This was ** confirmed ** to me by an Apple PR/industry relations executive.<br><br>The lack of video recording is ridiculous.<br><br>I write about the wireless imaging capabilities of the iPhone in my camera phone weblog:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.cameraphonereport.com/2007/01/apple_iphone_mi.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.cameraphonereport.com/2007/01/apple_...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_18:27:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "ac8b1b1d0210b96d5537a9af01fda9d6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666408": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"GPS - With 3G and Google maps, do you really need GPS receiver built into the phone [...] iPhone is not 3G yet but [...] with 16GB flash memory caching map data won\u2019t be an issue [...] you can always track location of a phone by using signal strength information from cellphone towers.\"<br><br>I'm sorry, dear sir, but never has such a short quote harboured such myriad logical fallacies! 3G? 16GB flash RAM? Where did you pick up those preposterous specifications -- from Apple's site, peradventure?<br><br>As for the comment about tracking the phone's location, I suppose it's simply a matter \"dry-ungulating\" the phone's exact coordinates with the help of... ehh, nearby link towers? Heah.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_18:27:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "71689eb4f919f9c91eff98ce1f8e5f18", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666409": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Getting everyone to \"talk about it\" is what Steve Jobs does. It's what he's done for the past 30 years. Being surprised is like expecting MS to ship a product when promised.<br>Reality Distortion Field aside. Anything this guy introduces, he has a way of making it seem like the best thing since sliced bread. but the market always determines whether it will succeed or not. That goes for any product, not just those introduced by The Steve.<br>My point is still the same. Determinations made about a products performance or quality of it's implementations before it ships is just,... I don't know... Kinda...STOOPID!!!<br>They've made clear that this thing will not ship for 6 months. Who knows what will happen in that time. Hell, it may not even be called an iPhone by then.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_18:16:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "31460f4b1af13089cc13580ae5115ac6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666410": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ John Bauer... As Scoble says: it's the destortion field... :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_18:09:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "80d100070a1c55693d23630c7b18c4e1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666411": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why would you publicly print what people are telling you at CES instead of checking the facts first at apple.com?  Oh right, it's a blog, no standards necessary.  And bloggers wonder why they're not considered journalists . . .", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_18:08:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "cd9880059391893b5973f5a77d95da44", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666412": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "However, I am very disappointed in Apple's decision to make the iPhone a closed system. The potential for third-party applications would be incredible. If you're an Apple Developer, like myself, who would love to write apps that run on the iPhone, file a <a href=\"http://rentzsch.com/cocoa/iphoneIndieAppDevelopment\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug report</a> to let Apple know how you feel!<br><br>Lack of HSUPA / UMTS in the first generation is unfortunate, but I can live without it. A camera flash &amp; GPS would have been icing on the cake.<br><br>Still, the core features are compelling enough that I'm buying one when they are released.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_18:05:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "710c52dafd5afa3dd281486afdfba6e5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666413": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't know about you americans, but text-messaging is big in Europe. Even if Apples new and patentet screencontroles work as Steve J says, they're going to grease up.<br><br>While both camera and battery suck bigtime on the iPhone (nobody in their right mind will deny this), there real issue in my opinion is in the software.<br><br>I've owned 10+ smartphones over the past two years, and I always find, that Symbian OS-based devices (like Nokia) are far superior in speed, userbility  etc. than Windows Mobile-software. In my opinion this is because of experience. The only thing Windows Mobile is good at, is syncing with Windows (... it is a big issue though).<br><br>I'm looking forward to seeing how well - or poor - Apples implementation of BSD on the cellphone will do. Betting it will be as poor as the first editions of Windows Mobile - but hopefully it won't.<br><br>And by the way: If you have to get into the big markedshares, you have to go corporate... Can't imagine the iPhone doing that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_18:02:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "80d100070a1c55693d23630c7b18c4e1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666414": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Darryl: I will buy one. I'm sure it'll be a huge success no matter what anyway. Steve Jobs got EVERYONE to talk about it. There isn't a single person I've met that doesn't already have an opinion on it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_17:46:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666415": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey Guys,<br>I just had a great idea. It came to me over the last couple of months as I've read all the speculations and prognostications about how this product sucks, would flop and doesn't deliver.<br>These assumptions all made long before the product has shipped or has been handled by any of these prognosticators.<br>I'm reminded of all the failure predictions of a 5g mp3 player introduced in 2001 at a retail price of $399.<br>The predictions were all the same. Too expensive. Doesn't have an FM tuner, not compatible with Windows, yada yada yada!<br>80 million units later, with every potential manufacturer clamoring for what crumbs of market share possible to scrape up, another product is released. The prognosticators having, not learned any lesson, stick their collective necks out on the block again.<br>Anyway, the idea I mentioned earlier is, I'm going to collect these predictions and speculations over the course of next year and have a regular quotefest by next years Macworld\\CES show.<br>I'm not speaking only of Apple products here, I'll be including any manufacturers product that get pre-judgement treatment from all the \"experts\", bloggers and responders.<br>We'll all have a great laugh pointing out the the foot in mouth predictions.<br>I suppose the point is...Let the product ship. Give it try. Damn, are we so full of ourselve that we can see into the future.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_17:40:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "31460f4b1af13089cc13580ae5115ac6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666416": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "3G support will be included...Cingular and Apple are working on this as we speak. A touchscreen completely changes the game in this space. I think basically everyone who see's it goes into shock. One, a shock where they say wow thats just too much. Or shock that theyre Palm stock dropped 20%. Either way, 200 patents means a lot of royalties. Expect Apple to be VERY aggressive in this area just as they were with iPod. And this is just a V1 product. A friend of mine who got the first looks at Motorola's lineup for the end of 2007 said it just doesnt compare. Not even close.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_17:29:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "b4c15007f7d16c7c6db1c9e1cd7ef381", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666417": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "At this rate we'll be calling it \"Newton 2.0\" by 2008....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_17:32:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "e6e3d9ada1514547b9fec62f3561633f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666418": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Nice: can you give us a URL for battery life? I am going off of what people are telling me here at CES. I will correct my post.\"<br><br><a href=\"http://www.apple.com/iphone/technology/specs.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.apple.com/iphone/technology/specs.html</a><br><br>While you're there, be sure to look at the Quicktime demos. They give a clear view of the UI in action and shows how muti-touch works using white circles that represent your fingers.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.apple.com/iphone/ipod/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.apple.com/iphone/ipod/</a><br><br>Very impressive.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_17:35:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "710c52dafd5afa3dd281486afdfba6e5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666419": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hugh, saw your hate-filled cartoon... pathetic. Would you like to wager on the success of Newton 2.0?<br><br>(It has already added almost 12 billion and trimmed a few billion from it's competitors market cap in two days. Just because Scoble and his buddies that decided to make up features since they are at the lame conference decided to talk it down doesn't mean much. I can point out past successful predictions of Scoble: PMCs beating iPod, iTablet, etc...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_17:36:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "3aeb85796d88e54daedf94e769fda691", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666420": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "seems to me that the author of this blog has a serious and definitive BIAS against Apple products-<br><br>sad that he can not embrace all companies that at least try to be forward thinking-<br><br>why do i read his rants against apple??<br>I guess no more for me-<br><br>sad cause i really thought this guy was smart-<br><br>see ya", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_17:23:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "2e9ef3b7f60928fc5353b195acd316bd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666421": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Nice: can you give us a URL for battery life? I am going off of what people are telling me here at CES.\"<br><br>Why? Firstly, are you unaware that Apple has a web site? That there are trustworthy sources out there that have had experience with it/interaction with Apple? Why are you just going off innuendo and rumors from people at CES and not doing some real research? It would take you about 5 seconds to find the battery life at the web site, or more easily you could have actually watched the presentation where it was stated.<br><br>Why the hell should we trust or care about your opinions if you are just making them up based on crap out of your ass?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_17:05:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "3aeb85796d88e54daedf94e769fda691", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666422": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"You have to compare this to M$ based PDAs, and imho it blows these devices big time.\"<br><br>I would say the MS devices blow the iPhone... oh, sorry, you probably meant to have \"away\" in there. I agree.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_17:06:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "3aeb85796d88e54daedf94e769fda691", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666423": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You have to compare this to M$ based PDAs, and imho it blows these devices big time.<br>It actually has a design.<br>It's got huge storage space.<br>It's got a huge display.<br>It's got a serious OS underneath.<br><br>Tiny battery? Well I wonder how at all it's possible to fit that much hardware into such small a device. It's a very small device.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:54:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "d63b9330acbbf75a254f3815e707e2f7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666424": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You cant teather it to your laptop to get broadband Internet access on the go (the biggest reason I use a 3G phone) and no video phone.<br><br>Worthless to me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:54:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "b4f04f9fd2de8730cda367d361178145", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666425": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's starting to sink in that this thing costs as much as a 60GB Playstation 3.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:41:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "ffae666ed0f2f8ab84f6569b2295c460", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666426": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It says clearly here in the tech specs section that the iPhone has five hours of battery life for Talk/video/browsing and it has 16 hours of battery life for audio playback.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.apple.com/iphone/technology/specs.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.apple.com/iphone/technology/specs.html</a><br><br>This \"two hour only\" spec seems to be purely rumor at this point.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:41:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "65682f1076fa6644e90f550d22f94641", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666427": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nice: can you give us a URL for battery life? I am going off of what people are telling me here at CES. I will correct my post.<br><br>MRK: no, not saying that. The rest of the world is going 3G very quickly. That's what a bleeding edge phone should have. Particularly one that costs $600.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:42:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666428": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Some notes on my own enthusiasm for the iPhone:<br><br>If I don't wind up buying an Apple product, I surely will be buying something that the iPhone makes possible because of its critical redesign of the whole smartphone/pda concept.<br><br>The iPhone is going to make voicemail usable. Indexed vm is a great idea.<br><br>It will be the successor to ALP/Palm as those guys insist on committing a long, public suicide. Palm OS 4 is as black-belt a productivity/communications tool on a small phone as I could currently wish for.<br><br>I want Notes, Contacts, Calendar, To Dos and email in my pocket. I want them to sync reliably with my Mac. Am using a great flip phone, Samsung i500, that had no successor in this country. (Mexico and China got the i550).<br><br>The iPhone means that by the time I am ready to change phones I will have a well designed tool. Yes, I am looking for a more \"Nano\" solution than a bulky brick. No Treo in my jeans pocket, maaan! But probably no iPhone v.1 either.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:47:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "2512b1ed42f8408fb0be73791122550e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666429": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Has ANYONE been able to confirm Scoble\u2019s unattributed comment about battery life?\"<br><br>LazY, it's been confirmed he pulled it out of his ass and made it up. 5 hours, the same as most Blackberries.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:34:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "3aeb85796d88e54daedf94e769fda691", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666430": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert - in this case I think you're casting your own reality distortion field. The device doesn't yet exist and I'm quite certain you've not yet touched one. There are three of them in existence - according to Jobs. Three. The product is 6 months out. Except for things we know can't change (like adding tactile feedback), everything else is open.<br><br>Regarding GSM vs, say, Verizon or Springs 3G... keep in mind that most of the world is GSM. Apple wants to target as large an audience as possible - not just half of North America and parts of Asia. Though, he's already noted that future radio options will come. Also, I've been using a Blackberry (various models, recently the Pearl) on GSM and, frankly, it's fine. Great in fact. Rarely do I even think about slow downloads. Certainly for text email, GSM and EDGE are quite good. And, most of us spend a fair amount of time either in our home and office - where we're likely to have WiFi. So, if that's true, the iPhone has better than 3G speeds most of the time. I've tried using MobilePC phones in mixed WiFi/EDGE environments and found the experience horrible. Apple has a good track record of making WiFi painless, so I'm hopeful this phone will be very different from others before it.<br><br>Regarding the camera... I just don't get it. I realize I may be in the minority, but using my cell phone camera for anything other than capturing Bigfoot or the Lochness seems close to pointless. They all, basically, suck. And pixel count means nothing. It's the lens. So, whether it's 1, 2 or 5 Mpixels, it's going to pale in comparison to your average point &amp; click or DSLR. Still, give the iPhone a chance. In June if the camera still sucks, say so - but back it up by having tried it and publishing examples.<br><br>The only thing I regret over the last two days is not buying more AAPL.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:36:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "7026aea0c45b6946c9765df522035c71", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666431": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So Apple Inc. should have made it CDMA, just for you Americans and the rest of the world which is GSM can go to hell?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:36:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "0ca876828d36196fb30201d967e2c743", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666432": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Battery life is 16 hours in audio.  5 hours in video/talk.  Haven't seen any numbers on standby.<br><br>How hard is this information to come by.  Sheesh.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:27:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "34c268887933255cc780e73c545b11b7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666433": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think you are right on Robert, the iPhone is not all what it's cracked up to be. One thing to realize...all of the Apple Zombies will buy it just because they have had the iPhone marketing carrot dangled in front of them for so long now<br><br>They hear Apple and they salivate and you will see all the MacBook, iPod toting people with their new sucky iPhones.  Just my opinion.<br><br>Giving credit to where credit is due, Steve Jobs has done a masterful job of people wanting Apple.  Granted, their products are very good but even a mediocre one will sell well.<br><br>-Rob", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:28:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "c4fe7efc053cf9a52a668b7d2b75f831", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666434": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"When I was in Europe everyone was buying 3G phones. That\u2019s innovative. Can this phone do it? No.\"<br><br>Uhh, dumb, dumb, dumb... Clearly there can be supply issues and their are definitely carrier relationship issues to be dealt with, but why would Apple delay Europe and Asia launches? Let's see: the U.S. is a mix of CDMA/EVDO (with both Verizon and Sprint being the most controlling of their data services) and GSM/EDGE with the migration to GSM/HSDPA incomplete (UMTS is a non-starter, more or less being bypassed in the states because of our lagging the market)... Europe is essentially GSM/HSDPA now or will be by June... Japan and Korea are CDMA. Moreover, in all markets, the world over WiMax may bypass any of these standards as a 3.5/4G standard.<br><br>The iPhone already has 4 antennaes in it: GSM/EDGE, WiFi, Bluetooth. Is it supposed to have NINE?!: GSM/EDGE, CDMA/EVDO, GSM/UMTS/HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth.<br><br>Or should they (1) launch from the dominant world standard and the most advanced, most available \"high speed\" data service of their PARTNER -- Cingular, Edge, (2)build off that standard and add HSDPA when they enter Europe, and (3) build a CDMA phone when they enter the Japanese market?<br><br>I'd go with the second strategy and its unlikely that its any other way: based on what is supported/available in Europe, Japan, and Korea.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:33:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "3aeb85796d88e54daedf94e769fda691", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666435": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br><br>Battery life in audio is 16 hrs.  Battery life in video/phone is 5 hrs.  Please see the official specs again.  Standby is unknown, though one can logically deduce that it must exceed 16 hrs by a large margin.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:22:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "1d8d318b49aebd4265b6da27efe6f8c6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666436": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Partly, Apple targets its products to people who value design over technical performance and feature set. To slightly exaggerate, those people want devices which resonate with their shiny new kitchens or earrings.<br><br>Another target for Apple is the KISS people. Those want simple, easy-to-use things, with minimum of technical jargon.<br><br>So, I predict that iPhone will find its audience from the people above.<br><br>And Nokia and others will take notice and instill good bits of iPhone into their products - very rapidly.<br><br>It is a mystery why Apple broke the news this early. Why are they showing their cards now; what advantage they are now getting?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:24:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "c30a8f8b7bd52f78f02a3cc5a8f2f4aa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666437": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Battery life is five hours ONLY in audio!!!\"<br><br>Uh? According to <a href=\"http://www.apple.com/iphone/technology/specs.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">the published specs</a>:<br>Battery<br>Up to 5 hoursTalk / Video / Browsing<br>Up to 16 hoursAudio playback", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:20:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "be73b6ce436e594cb6bd080a136cf6e5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666438": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Has ANYONE been able to confirm Scoble's unattributed comment about battery life?  Or are we just going let him get away with that like he speaks from a position of authority?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:25:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "26493d7270fb206c1e08599674e51e5a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666439": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"In the BlogHaus last night there were a few \u201cpro Apple folks\u201d who were REALLY disappointed with this. They also pointed out that if you need to text, or email, or blog from your phone that using a touch screen will be very unsatisfactory compared with a Blackberry or a Treo.\"<br><br>Who cares?  The point of the iPhone is that it's a staus symbol.  It's a status symbol to show how both \"rich\" and \"hip\" you are.  Functionality isn't the issue here.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:25:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "cbb9037b0e9b571e1ee0c51782aa86fa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666440": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "how much is MSFT paying you for these anti apple articles", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:24:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "56e6e61e34e34cbedafc3d4f64202353", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666441": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\u201cThey are laughing about the iPhone now.\u201d<br><br>Unfortunately for them, their investors aren't.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:21:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "7ebfc1ce7d88297a4bf1d4836487f250", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666442": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Does anybody know if the iPhone's camera will be able to take videos, or just pictures.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:12:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf90ac8ee57bb5397126c034cbccbd38", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666443": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "When I was in Europe everyone was buying 3G phones. That's innovative. Can this phone do it? No.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:06:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666444": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Reality Distortion Field, indeed.<br><br>Jesus. Actually, Jobs bends it, distorts it... this is more like cracking, smashing, completely denying or excluding reality.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:06:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "3aeb85796d88e54daedf94e769fda691", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666445": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Amazing that people are coming up with lists of negatives when not a single one I've read (in the blogsphere) has even touched the thing. Seems the MSM and analysts that did get a chance to fondle are pretty much positive/enthusiastic. And, they are reaching the minds of real people, not just geeks and bloggers.<br>Reality check...Walk into your local VFW/Legion and they've all heard of the iPhone already today. Ask them about blogs and you'll get a blank stare.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:03:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "1966e5aab1490a53508d57831fddfe8d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666446": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Battery life is five hours ONLY in audio!!!<br><br>If you play a video, the battery life goes down to two hours. At least that's what I've been told.<br><br>Oh, I'll buy one too. Why? Because I am a gadget freak and want to be the first one on the block to have one.<br><br>But, I thought I was an outlier and that no one should listen to people like me who just buy things because Steve Jobs made them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:04:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666447": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br><br>The battery life on the Blackjack sucks too. Infact it sucks enough that Samsung ships the unit with two batteries. However even then I can't live without mine, just because it makes my life easy.<br><br>I think the killer app on iPhone other than the phone itself is safari integration. More than videos, I want the ability to browse the web and if I can get decent battery life there, I'll be happy. But again that is a personal preference. Still video watching would be an occasional thing<br><br>GPS - With 3G and Google maps, do you really need GPS receiver built into the phone. iPhone is not 3G yet but I am sure by 08 it will be and around that time 3G networks will be fast enough to stream map data live on the phone... with 16GB flash memory caching map data won't be an issue and you can always track location of a phone by using signal strength information from cellphone towers etc...<br><br>Cingular + GSM to begin with might not be a bad start - remember Moto Razr, it was exclusive to one carrier when it started out. Now it is everywhere.<br><br>Remember this is just V1 and apple already has a strong foundation. The possibilities are endless for a whole new line of phones. The important thing to note here is that Apple has a headstart over everyone else.<br><br>Remember iPod in an icon... It is the cool thing to have. For most teenagers and early 20s iPhone will do that too.<br><br>Also the Asian market is huge. In the Indian market unlike the US a phone is a status symbol and it is one of the fastest growing markets in the world. In India people don't shy away from spending $400 - $450 on phones every year and this market is growing. For these people this is their primary computer and iPhone does a better job at being a primary computer than other phone out there. Just imagine with a docking station this thing could be hooked up to a large screen display and regular keyboards etc... In India that would be a huge success.<br><br>Is iPhone for the enterprise and the business user though - perhaps not but there is a possibility that apple has one in the wraps for the enterprise too. Something that syncs with Outlook, activesync etc and has all the tools business people need. Also with OSX there are lots of exsisting apple shops that could easily build applications for iPhones or port exsisting applications to iPhone", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_16:05:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "7a2a5238be723eb8aa0db2e47627ab2d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666448": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Also Kedrosky's list is pretty silly.<br><br>You can't use it while it's in your pocket? Oh no!<br><br>It's exclusive to one carrier - this applies to many smartphone launches in the US and beyond.<br><br>It's \"vaporware\" - ie Jobs announced it before the FCC testing process leaked it. Presumably when a vendor like Nokia pre-announces its handsets (which it always does) they are all vaporware too. Does he think there's a serious chance that it's not going to come out, which is what the term implies? At worst Jobs announced a quarter earlier than usual.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_15:49:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "a271b8afdc7706a926250bc7ee5b244b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666449": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mujibur -- The CmdTaco reference is exactly what I thought of when I read this post. \"No gps. Less megapixels than a Nokia. Lame.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_15:47:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "b8f33170f3ce4b0469508e66a01da7d6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666450": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As has been pointed out, the rated battery life is 5 hours for video. And let's face it, video is not a mobile device feature that most people use on a regular basis anyway.<br><br>\"They are laughing about the iPhone now.\"<br><br>What are you on about? You mean they're laughing because it's on Cingular? That's in the US only, and I expect Apple will partner with T-Mobile or 3 in Europe. Or they're laughing because it won't come out until Q4 2007 in Europe? No one is going to catch up with Apple's UI innovations by then.<br><br>Portable devices are an engineering compromise and of course you can come up with a list of features which it doesn't have. If it had 3G, GPS, a 5-megapixel camera then the battery life might really be the two hours you seem to imagine it is.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_15:42:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "a271b8afdc7706a926250bc7ee5b244b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666451": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The other carries such as LG, HTC, NOKIA...do get ...apple is not the only innovator..checkout the following links:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850...</a><br><a href=\"http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/10/08/nokias-aeon-full-surface-screen-cellphone-concept/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/10/08/nokias...</a><br><a href=\"http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/benqsiemens-black-box-concept-phone-204284.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/benqsieme...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_15:38:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "29d4e7d896f9b4b241befdad39dce0b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666452": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No 3rd party development?  That sucks hardcore (at least for me).  One of my favorite things to show people when I have VS.Net running is the PocketPC/SmartPhone emulator for developing software.  Nice thing about being a developer is that if I want a tool that doesn't exist, I make one, and trust me when I say you can do some really cool things when you start thinking of little conveniences that can be thrown together in a few hours. And the more people who have that ability means that more people who don't code can benefit from them as well (contrast with Xbox/XNA Express)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_15:38:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "ffae666ed0f2f8ab84f6569b2295c460", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666453": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's pants - it's just a PocketPC with a better interface and lower spec radio, though the UI and the fanboy following will likely be enough to sell quite a few.  My teenage sons have had pocket pcs for 2+ years giving them a phone, music player (now with stereo bluetooth), note taker, games machine, internet access, etc all in one.<br><br>However, that just means that Microsoft should be ashamed that it's had all this for 2+ years but but  didn't pitch to consumers (just focusing on business) - though it's likely that price had something to do with that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_15:38:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "b872323ed82c63ea7e6e410eb52a4f84", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666454": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Scoble, i see your heart is still a bit on MSFT side... Overall the phone is an amazing upgrade to existing handset technologies, specially in terms of software; sometimes i wonder how phone vendors are so conservative about new features...<br>The battery issue is def a problem, maybe the biggest one, they could have made the battery replaceable so you can always carry a backup, or keep a separate batteries for multimedia apps.<br>GPS would be nice, but it would make the cell a lot bigger...<br>Nokia cells have good features but they are always bulky devices, It is a major issue the size of this iPhone and together with the design i predict this phone will be a huge success all around the world, Why did the V3 RZR succeed? because of its crappy VGA camera? no! because of its nice design and looks.<br>Anyways, who knows what will happen until June.. it they released it today i\u00b4ll def buy one, but 6 months its a long time in tech...<br>Scoble, keep the good job, im starting to think about blogging because of you...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_15:39:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "17f906f69ea83840edc052059c6ba640", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666455": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I was thinking about the smudging you would make to the screen with your fingers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_15:34:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "8e780b2cf13d6d3927838bab15065319", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666456": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Forest. Trees.<br><br>BTW, you totally got the battery life wrong.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_15:33:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "49d11e322bcef906f9265fedb2938e14", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666457": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The question on my mind isn't \"what did Apple get wrong?\"... my question is \"How do they get it so right, every time?\"... I think a lot of it has to do with the Steve Jobs factor - the aggressive, \"we don't take no for an answer\" attitude, that seems to be missing from the \"team and consensus building\" that appears more common at places like Microsoft.<br>I did a post the other day on this very topic... <a href=\"http://www.thealexblog.com/2007/01/09/iphone-vision-and-making-a-difference/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.thealexblog.com/2007/01/09/iphone-vi...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_15:32:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "7381809db6ddb2fca982437f8f19e4c7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666458": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Re point (7) - Cingular only might seem like it keeps the rest of the world away - but that's just a carrier choice.<br><br>Now if this device had been CDMA only that would truly have kept the rest of the world away. Instead of facing 'just' a problem of production ramp-up and carrier negotiations Apple would have also needed to design, test and 'fit' an entirely new radio module into the device.<br><br>Palm is perhaps the only other smartphone vendor out there to have tried it, and frankly I don't think it's worked out so well for them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_15:29:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "78ee14b4df926ba7c642ceaee80bef51", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666459": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The deal killer for me is the lack of a removable battery.  I.e. the inability to carry a spare battery to swap in when you run down the primary battery.<br><br>If one is a heavy user of the multimedia or internet functionality of the device the option to be able to swap batteries is a requirement.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_15:18:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "e9f07c917b66de94d456d58b6afd4d21", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666460": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Matthias, how many devices get anywhere ner the stated battery time?  That is the theoretical limit and I'm sure it's calcualted in a non real usage way, i.e. w/all radios off etc...<br><br>If it get 60% the battery life claimed, I'll be shocked.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_15:16:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "e9f07c917b66de94d456d58b6afd4d21", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666461": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What\u2019s going on here? Read the features list right: battery life is FIVE hours. And 8 Gigs are a lot of storage since more storage would result in a much bigger device. in europe very few are using utms so gsm is the right choice. give them a chance - it\u2019s great device!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_15:08:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "5c42ae17bd648bf70eb31a2a65337e79", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666462": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nothing beats this quote from APC.com:<br><br>\"Do I want one of these? You bet! Is it one of the most technologically advanced phones on the market? Absolutely. Do we live in a perfect world? Of course not. Do I wish Apple had reconsidered a few aspects of the iPhone to make it even better? Yep.\"<br><br>That pretty much sums it up. Scoble, I will make my first comment on your blog in June with my new iPhone.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_15:08:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "7ebfc1ce7d88297a4bf1d4836487f250", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666463": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, yesterday I posted some concerns about calendar sharing with an iPhone:<br><br><a href=\"http://tinyurl.com/v3h8p\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://tinyurl.com/v3h8p</a><br><br>Scott Mace", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_15:07:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "5183baf9c4629648dcdf5603d7de0ec8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666464": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Paul's list is valid, especially the part of tactile feel of the buttons. Sure my Treo 650 isn't nearly as sexy. But sexy wears off in a few days and productivity and ease of use are what I care about long term. Smart Phones are already too complex for many people. The iPhone must do more than my current phone and be easier to use. If it only does one of those, it's not for me regardless of price or carrier. I'll wait to pass judgment until I can play with one. But right now it seems like Jobs told me about a lot of stuff I can do with the iPhone but I'm not sure any of it makes my life any easier. Photos and video are cool but take a backseat to phone and email/SMS.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_15:02:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "brettnordquist", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666465": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't understand: why Steve Jobs claims that WITHOUT TACTILE FEEDBACK typing on touch screen will be better than in phones with QWERTY keyboard? This is white lie. Number one lie of iPhone.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_14:53:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "d298a3adf3dfc66d6790d5013819644f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666466": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I've been having lots of IMs and emails with folks who are going through the same sense of let down and raising the same sorts of questions about iPhone gotchas.<br><br>No tactile feedback, battery life, singular, a Steve-perfect closed environment not open to third-party apps, protection for the screen, yada-yada the blogosphere is swimming in them.<br><br>But I'm still jonesing for it. Or at least I want to touch one.<br><br>The other thing to bear in mind is that with the work Steve showed yesterday, Apple has kicked open a doorway to a very rich treasure room.<br><br>The U-I work and much of the HW and SW development can apply to a whole range of devices: a real video iPod with a hard drive and a bigger battery... a tablet computer... touch-screen control panels for home automation. A really cool universal remote for your home theatre.<br><br>Work on gesture rich U-I has been going on for a long time in a lot of places. Apple may be at the head of the parade to commercialize it, regardless of how the first iPhone fares.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_14:48:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "c2ec17b9df58d5843b147cf69deef262", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666467": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mujibur@17.. what's up with name calling? :P", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_14:45:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "fa2081aa9586ea57e48450035402dd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666468": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I suspect that Apple will still manage to sell a few million of these to the \"buy two of anything with an Apple logo on it\" crowd, and a couple million more people will buy one as a fashion accessory.  Beyond that, it becomes a bit of a harder sell...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_14:45:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "7863889ce4d38ce1098a828a09c26def", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666469": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "&gt; It\u2019s Cingular only and GSM. That automatically<br>&gt; keeps more than half of Americans from considering<br>&gt; this and for the rest of the world? They are<br>&gt; laughing about the iPhone now<br><br>I don't understand this comment about GSM and the rest of the world. GSM is by far and away the most predominant cell phone standard in the world, the last statistic I saw said something like over 80% of all cell phone subscribers in the world use GSM. As for America, the USA is the 4th largest single-country market of GSM subscribers, behind China, Russia and India (where GSM phones apparently outsell bicycles!).<br><br>Are you seriously suggesting that Apple should have picked one of the other cell phone technologies for their iPhone? Why on earth would they have done that?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_14:44:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "c715a8e13b61791f35d6969919b0f822", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666470": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Apparently Apple required extensions to the GSM network's services -- things like the ability to show on the phone who voicemails are from are not standard.   That's why it's locked in to Cingular, because nobody would commit to adding services unless they got a benefit in return, in this case exclusivity.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_14:39:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "a53f2ff6dd4b6f4a4d9756f1ba5d0289", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666471": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey Scoble, do you have anything to backup your 2 hour battery life claim?  I'm thinking you must have access to a prototype or something, because the official word is 5 hours for playing video.<br><br>Also, I'm trying to track down confirmation that the iPhone will be a closed system.  That just doesn't make sense. As far as I know Apple hasn't addressed that issue, so everything we're hearing right now is just speculation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_14:42:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "7a5836a24ba2b8b05fd4caa4154d0758", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666472": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What I want is the iPhone minus the phone - i.e., the next gen iPod with the full screen etc.<br><br>My phone, with it's archaic fixed button interface, strangely enough does allow me to make phone calls and it doesn't need to be recharged every night.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_14:30:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "0112c487966acaaef7a680214a3d9a50", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666473": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh and BTW, not having a blog sure hurt Apple this go round, didn't it.<br><br>You don't hold yourself accountable for the crap that you consistently spew.  It's lame.  You continue to lose credibility.<br><br>Look at Gartenberg's comment that it's unfair to compare Macworld and CES!  You did that very thing last year.. and oh by the way, you came on the afternoon of the very last day while people were packing up their booths.<br><br>You have zero credibility outside of Microsoft technologies.  All this blog is a vehicle that companies use to reach people.  You have little insight anymore now that you don't have access to Microsoft.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_14:30:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "3423bdecedb1e74120350de4e40c7acf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666474": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OK, this is going to go down just like the CmdrTaco post about the original iPod: \"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.\"<br><br>You have no freaking clue.  The signifigance of this device goes far, far beyond battery life or whether it's 3G or not.<br><br>Oh, and BTW you earlier claimed all the products you had predicted earlier this year were released at some point.  Where is the Apple tablet Scoble?<br><br>You, just like your former employer, has little clue how to make great technology for regular everyday consumers.  Oh and BTW, it looks most of Wall Street disagrees with you.<br><br>Idiot.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_14:28:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "3423bdecedb1e74120350de4e40c7acf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666475": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The only public information -- the keynote slides -- say that the device gets 5 hours of battery life playing video. If you directly contradict this Apple-provided information, shouldn't there be, you know, proof?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_14:33:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "b6466d57654dc299e52869558079720d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666476": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You know - what really amazes me, is that even after seeing the demo of the iPhone, so many people still don't get it.<br><br>More on my blog entry, \"It's The Gestures, Stupid\" @<br><br><a href=\"http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/01/10/iphone-analysis-its-the-gestures-stupid/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/01/10/iphone-...</a><br><br>Pretty shocking. Of course, the iPhone isn't perfect.  But do you think Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Microsoft/HTC are going pick up the ball and run with it from here?  I doubt it.  As someone said to me today, if these guys \"got it\", they'd have already done what Apple just did with the iPhone.<br><br>If Apple fixes the mistakes they've made with iPhone, they're going to make one almighty dent in this market.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_14:29:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6625370ffa42f6c3f82d88c4bce53fc9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666477": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Actually, the fact that it's GSM means that if you have accessibility to the sim card, then you can change it out for any other carrier.   Being such, that means that it does support most of Europe since Ericsson is actually the biggest infrastructure builder in the world and happens to be a GSM vendor.<br><br>The biggest issue will be Asia where there's smaller GSM carriers, but mainly they're CDMA/SCDMA.<br><br>North America's biggest carrier is still Cingular so it's not too surprising why they launched there.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_14:21:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "darkmoon", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666478": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Gabe needs to pay his rent. You got a good way for him to do that?\"<br><br>I guess having an ad block has nothing to do with screwing algorithms so that sponsors are given gratuitous links. Those ad blocks don't decrease the value of the service. But gratuitous links in the main conversations do.<br><br>Also, it will be of interest to follow whether Microsoft buys their way in the \"conversation\" (or lack of) for another month. That'd be ridiculous and quite telling for a company that should instead be talked about by others.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_14:25:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "2addab2f4cbec1c2574b6d5e01eadf2a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666479": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "For some post-revolution perspective, check out <a href=\"http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=500\" rel=\"nofollow\">this thread at MacRumors</a> that started right after the initial iPod launch (found via <a href=\"http://www.xckd.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">xckd</a>).<br><br>I've had the same phone since 2003.  It's a piece of s**t.  Black and white (err, green and black), no camera, can't send text messages, can't really do anything.  I've been checking out new phones lately.  I want something with a basic camera.  I want messaging.  I want to be able to check bloglines and my email from it.  I'd like to be able to write blog posts and email pics from it.  I wanted to get it soon, but I'll tell you what:<br><br>I'm willing to wait until the summer to see how this thing stacks up now.  My only big hesitation is that if I get the 1st gen one, a better one will be out in 6 months.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_14:17:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "6e6c2e79a9206a4221e37724ebb8beae", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666480": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm curious where you got this:<br><br><blockquote>Battery is only two hours ... (if you play video)</blockquote><br><br>The <a href=\"http://www.apple.com/iphone/technology/specs.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">iPhone specs</a> indicate something completely different:<br><br><blockquote>Battery: Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing</blockquote><br><br>Granted that may not be the best battery life around, but it way above your two hours number.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_14:19:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "407fb36bbf6a01e151680be9f408b5af", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666481": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Stephane: Gabe needs to pay his rent. You got a good way for him to do that?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_14:14:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666482": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Speaking of distortion field, have you noticed that Channel 9 is linked over at techmeme in the discussion about how Vista is screwing game developers?<br><br>See the actual link : it's a post with one comment.<br><br>Hmmm...<br><br>Whatever (techmeme) sponsorship buys you.<br><br>Shame on Gabe on that one.<br><br>And shame on the Redmond lunatics, obviously.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_14:05:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "2addab2f4cbec1c2574b6d5e01eadf2a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666483": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, Apple has time to change and enhance their iPhone, perhaps to churn out half a dozen varieties like they did the iPod and Macs.  But I tend to agree that chances are good the product will flop.  On the other hand, the design will influence the market for years to come.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_14:12:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "ff8e5b176c81ae11327683c78a2d02fa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666484": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey dudes, some times the oldfashioned guys in ole europe have all the fun with the chicks :-)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.myqtek.com/europe/products/s200.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.myqtek.com/europe/products/s200.aspx</a><br><br>and to make you much more envy - enjoy the specifications<br><br><a href=\"http://www.myqtek.com/europe/products/s200/specifications.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.myqtek.com/europe/products/s200/spec...</a><br><br>Want to type fast (eg Dave's mobile blog) - a foldable Bluetooth Keyboard might be usefull<br><br><a href=\"http://global.level1.com/products2.php?Id=796\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://global.level1.com/products2.php?Id=796</a><br><br>works with all SIMs even prepaid cards", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_14:04:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "a261234544ef78fef81e45070d8516f2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666485": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And yet they will still probably move 10m units. It's like the iPod: No FM radio! It sucks! I can't live without my FM radio feature! CREATIVE already makes three players just like this and THEY have FM radio!<br><br>Apple is betting that GPS doesn't matter. Battery life doesn't matter. GSM doesn't matter. User Interface matters. Seriously, how many people go out and spend their own money on a smartphone or a Blackberry?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_14:00:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "c4e19eb75f6d4c0c8be2cd9255288d15", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666486": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh and theres six months to the launch - Where will the market be in June 07?<br><br>(It's not so much the iPhone. Give Jobs a tea cup and he can talk it up such that you want to marry it :-))", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_14:00:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "df2bebffe2fece4cee7ed284aaff3cf0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666487": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This device is widescreen, but it's obviously not designed well fo video.<br><br>2hr battery + 4GB storage = great for low quality mp3s<br><br>I guess it's better than the ROKR.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_13:55:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "b231e07e868d33adca6135fc54ca06ec", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666488": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "After living in Japan and using no more than 10 different mobile phones while there, there is no doubt in my mind that the flip phone/clam style phones are the best choice (IMHO).  For me there is nothing worse than carrying a big chuck of phone in you pocket.<br><br>I hope Apple will come out with a iPod Nano phone or something more sensible...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_13:42:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "795cdfd6412369c92b8a95d989dce026", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666489": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The battery is definitely a big issue, and a massive problem.  Until batteries improve, I don't think we're going to see the mainstrea using cellfones to watch video.<br><br>Although the phone is locked to Cingular and GSM, this isn't a massive problem.  Unlocking phones isn't hard, and I don't think the iPhone will be any different.  Being a GSM device, it'll work in Europe too which has a huge celluar phone market.  Won't work in Japan though, but they're already doing way cooler stuff.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_13:36:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "ca81d972f45c09680420be6b41412b2a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666490": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Apple endevor to anything new is usually full of hype then disapointment. I own a Ipod and it does great things for me, however the main reason I got it was to watch and listen during long flights. My battery life is 1 hour after 6 months of use. The service to get it fix is taking it's time.<br>These new gadets from Apple are great in concept but short on functions.<br>By that I mean, we (as a collective group of geeks) are used to a certain level of functionality, anytime a new gadget promises more but takes away from the basics is actually going backwards.<br><br>Guy", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_13:49:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "bb31daa6b22b97a9aa6e69016f50badc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666491": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Oh, and if there\u2019s any reader who doesn\u2019t also read the comments here before drawing a conclusion, then, they also are an idiot, and I hope I don\u2019t have any idiots reading here.\"<br><br>Dude, like, there's like 15,650 something words here, how much of a genius do you want us poor commentators to be in order to be a part of the Scoble experience? 183 responses to an iPhone post? Holy crap people: \"Blackberry\", look into it. You can thank me later by not buying an iPhone just like the rest of the 6.5 billion of us.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-12_12:03:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "8bcc700659b0c01e2ef4cadb406fcc34", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666492": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"if anyone takes only my reporting as gospel and does no additional research before drawing a conclusion, then they are an idiot, and I don\u2019t want idiots as readers.\"<br><br>Which makes you an idiot for doing zero research or reading before posting.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-12_12:08:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "3aeb85796d88e54daedf94e769fda691", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666493": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "iPhone looks very promising however I find it strange that people are raving about its input interface without ever using it. I believe the single most important feature of a phone is its input interface and thats one of the main reasons the likes of Nokia, RIM are so good. I seriously don\u2019t like the idea of using your finger to control navigation. This is not something very new. Anyone who used a stylus most often then not have used their hands when their stylus has gone missing. Its impossibly hard to click the correct button for those with large fingers. Apple has claimed its so smart that it can detect false touches, however that remains to be seen since no one outside Apple has got to use it. If this input interface doesn\u2019t work then I surely think this will severly affect the uptake of the new phone which looks good in rest of the features.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-10_13:33:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "67528a95ed18bc5f188893fae79c287e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666494": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "When the iPod came out, i was like - what ? no FM ! it wont sell. it did.<br><br>So, with the iPhone (or whatever it will be called after Cisco and Apple get through with it), its something which everyone would want - or envy if they dont have the money.<br><br>Let me put my points across to you - from a perpective of a person in India .<br><br>6. Battery is less.<br>- Not really a problem for those who can afford it. Sure, it may be a problem for a rickshawala, but they cannot afford it anyways. For others, like me, who work at the desk and comp all the time, it will be getting charged all the time.<br><br>7. its GSM ! Can you believe that ! The CDMA networks in India are pretty much owned by the company, which means we have to be at their mercy for the phones we get. with GSM , we depend on the network companies only for the SIM card. We can independently buy the phones. Which is a pretty good deal, as if we dont like the network provider, we can just switch the SIM and be on the same phone.<br><br>8. Camera. Well, my treo650 has a .5 MP camera. 2MP is pretty good. My sis has one 1.3 without flash, and for most uses its good. If you want flash, and want something better, you need to get a camera. Even if the phone had a good 4MP camera, people would crib about it not having optical zoome etc. etc. etc.<br><br>9. GPS . Come on man. We dont even have good maps here. GPS is a distant dream. One of my friends has a GPS. No maps. Uses it to create squiggles for his road trips.<br><br>The only point i will add is :<br>10. Not available in Asia for a long time :(<br><br>Vibhu..", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-14_04:09:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "53cd95c3236a4ebd80fb8a422725e676", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666495": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Perhaps it's been mentioned somewhere up there in all those comments (I quit reading after 100...nothing personal; I have a 100 comment limit) but it seems to me that the iPhone's true purpose is to behave as a wireless pocket computer and not as a phone or an ipod at all. With that in mind, I'm less ticked off about it's arrival: I was hoping (assuming?) there would be a big ipod upgrade to widescreen and was so excited because I was just saddled with a 3hr bus commute twice a week and I subscribe to over 80 videoblogs! I hadn't yet bought a video ipod because I figured I'd go blind watching that teensy screen! So I held out. Turns out I held out for nothing. I have a relatively new Treo 650 that meets all my phone and daily planner needs. It also runs all my nursing software, something the iPhone certainly will not do. And $500 is too steep for anything that will die in two to five hours.<br><br>I'll have to hold out again till they de-phone the iPhone. Next year? Yikes. That's a lot of sad, lonely bus rides.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-14_02:26:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "628fd1031b3220dfa3d815864df179e8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666496": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So your blog is like Slashdot? You only know the true story by reading the first few comments :)<br><br>Once the link was posted, you changed it fast, but at first when someone told you it was five hours, you should have gone to the website to check. Just saying, I'm not angry.<br><br>As for Cingular not having any towers in Montana, that's an easy fix, don't go to Montana :) \u2026 Well, Montana does have a cool computer museum.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-12_05:01:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d5d4450a4a15ec91682f6dd3d025cfd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666497": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Andrew: regarding \"FUD being spread\": if anyone takes only my reporting as gospel and does no additional research before drawing a conclusion, then they are an idiot, and I don't want idiots as readers.<br><br>I corrected my error pretty damn quickly once the facts were pointed out to me.<br><br>Oh, and if there's any reader who doesn't also read the comments here before drawing a conclusion, then, they also are an idiot, and I hope I don't have any idiots reading here.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-12_04:25:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666499": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Andrew: Verizon might blow, but at least it works in Montana. Cingular doesn't own a single cell phone tower there. Verizon works at my mom's house, Cingular does not.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-12_04:23:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666500": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i> I had this service and it was the worst ever. I\u2019m sticking with Verizon even if it does mean not having the latest, greatest coolest looking phone.</i><br><br>Simon, have you been paying attention? Verizon blows. They are the most consumer hostile cell phone company around. Their employees don't know how to do math and the company insists on castrating any phone they sell.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-12_03:42:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d5d4450a4a15ec91682f6dd3d025cfd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666502": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah, I had to add my two cents on iPhone, as well.  Okay, I added about 1,400 cents, but I think it's relevant:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.theconstantjanitor.org/?p=236\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.theconstantjanitor.org/?p=236</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-16_09:59:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b5ffa8667e5df220ae5678e9a9f9dc6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666504": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "well, guess that the LG counterpart model is better then iphone...<br>sighs...<br><br>and ipod has way too small a capactiy for MP3s...<br><br>no deal for me over here", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-12_02:58:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "ecf6d7a79dc6441dcb0d74ab6577dec4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666506": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"The other carries such as LG, HTC, NOKIA\u2026do get \u2026apple is not the only innovator..checkout the following links:\"<br><br>The Nokia and BenQ devices do look interesting, but they are only design prototypes.<br><br>In creating the iPhone, Apple has created a whole new platform - allowing it to leverage it's experience developing applications, such as Final Cut Pro, Mail.app and iPhoto; along with OS technologies, such as Core Animation, Core Image and Dashboard. I don't see how the cell phone industry can keep up in this space.<br><br>The only other company who could have come even close to putting out something like the iPhone is Microsoft. However, Apple's prior experience in creating it's own notebooks, the Newton and iPods have given it a huge advantage in this segment.<br><br>In addition, Mac OS X technologies, such as Core Image, are already designed to work on two different platforms - Intel and Power PC. At runtime, Core Image detects what hardware is available and just-in-time compiles image processing tasks for either the GPU (graphics card) or one or more SIMD vector units (SSE on Intel or Altivec on PPC) - whatever is most appropriate for the job.<br><br><a href=\"http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/15\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.a...</a><br><br>Instead of creating a whole new API, Apple was able to bring Core Image, and dashboard like effects, to the iPhone by adding it's graphics processor to the existing list of supported hardware.<br><br>As for releasing a tablet based Mac, it appears that Jobs still doesn't think general-purpose tablet computing is ready for prime time. It's likely that the iPhone will be the only fruit of Apple's tablet research we'll see over the next few years.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-13_17:15:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "4c824bbebf7beb281854edb35327bea7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666508": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "im just waiting for the deployment of WiMAX phones and systems so we dont have to worry about cdma/gsm and we can use voip phones anywhere we go ;) iPhone2.0 ? lol.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-12_02:20:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "c7d32cec46511f871b5f5247f3fd980d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666510": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "1) GPS is a non issue, because using tower triangulation, they can determine someone's location with very reasonable accuracy.<br><br>2) Lack of 3G is a legitimate problem.  However, Steve Jobs says in the key note itself that 3G will be added in the future.<br><br>3) Lack of tactile feel may be a very big problem, however, lets see how Apple implements their keyboard, which may stop this problem from being a deal breaker.<br><br>4) Camera without video is stupid, but they should be able to fix that easily enough.<br><br>5) Closed system is also a big problem, but I am sure if consumers start resenting it, Apple will immediately publish a set of API's.<br><br>6) However, the new UI, and the amazing potential of this device will probably more than make up for these issues, for a significant number of people.  Also, the price is not a problem, because in other countries, people buy high quality phones without contracts for anywhere between 200-1000 dollars, and i doubt that they will release it tied to a single service outside the US.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-13_16:07:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "0baf7324270024e0ec3d60893bc50df0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666512": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Cingular sux.  Big time.  They spend $350 Million in advertising every year to tell people they are they best.  There are 58 million subscribers (suckers) out there today.  I had this service and it was the worst ever.  I'm sticking with Verizon even if it does mean not having the latest, greatest coolest looking phone.<br><br>Switching to Cingular is not an option for me, and should not be for anyone with any brains at all.  Cingular Sux.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-12_00:53:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "637aac5d6ea7ed00fb3d61707387e694", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666513": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Check out Nokia N93i, it rocks...<br><a href=\"http://www.technologyevangelist.com/2007/01/ces_steven_knuff_nok.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.technologyevangelist.com/2007/01/ces...</a><br><br>the Design of iPhone make it stand out, not the features it has to offer...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-12_00:31:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "fe149327a9ed44c0161e8d64d216d5df", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666514": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://scobleizer.com/2007/01/10/the-iphone-reality-distortion-field/#comment-244585\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Digital Hell:</strong></a> From what I understand, unlocking the phone won't be difficult, but unlocked phones operating on other networks won't support all of the iPhone's fuctions (like listening to voicemail in any order you want).<br><br><a href=\"http://scobleizer.com/2007/01/10/the-iphone-reality-distortion-field/#comment-244651\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Nick:</strong></a>  Not to be a Macsturbator or anything, but Jobs did say that one of this phone's great features was how easy it would be to change even after it was sold. I can imagine that Apple will monitor the consumer buzz and add new features that you can download via a software-update like system. If the interface is screwy, maybe they'll allow users to make adjustments based on the size of their fingers.<br><br>I'm not saying that I put my faith completely in Apple, but they really, really do get user interfaces. It's possible that they really have cooked up something revolutionary here. It is a pity that we have to wait until June to see it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-13_12:26:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "7a06060683cceef5b96e813cd8a13f04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666515": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How 'bout the fact that anything CES did was overshadowed by Macworld and this announcement? Something was announced in Vegas and then something else, and oh right smart phones are smart.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-13_11:54:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "783bf4164a2f2d9f860340476095d37e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666516": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "While I'm loving the way the phone is supposed to work, I'm probably going to be more interested in what the next generation looks and operates before I finally make the switch. Great points though.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_11:15:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "acnatta", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666517": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "In what way is this thing better than my SPV M600? Or the HTC P3600 (which also does 3G)? Yes, it's pretty, and yes, the UI is nice, but it'll take about a week for someone to clone that in Visual Studio for \u00a310. This might be \"revolutionary\" in the US, but the rest of the world has had touchscreen smartphones for some considerable time... and 8Gb of SD card is only \u00a360.<br><br>It'll sell (remember that it'll be dirt cheap on a \u00a335/month contract) to the \"style\" crowd, but \"reinvention\" isn't happening here.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_11:15:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "4f855c6b856134fac5b9311325f9e8b2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666518": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Fair do's to the Scobelizer. He's had a crack at the iphone but later admitted that he's a closet Mac freak and he'll be blagging himself a free one ASAP.<br><br>Cut the man some slack people.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_10:46:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "e3f15c2f55ec57d3d6f0461e8fce0140", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666520": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Idunno... iPhone looks pretty good for version 0.9.<br><br>What we're seeing is the gulf between how Apple thinks and how Microsoft thinks. Apple has made constant, relentless improvements to the whole iPod system since day two, even in the absence of significant competition. Then Microsoft thinks they'll supplant the iPod with the Zune. They put their best foot forward and it turned into the most pitiful ass kicking Microsoft has ever received from anybody.<br><br>Me? I always wait for version 2.0.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_21:22:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "baaea0acffa9ee6bca29aa23b6d0d2f6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666521": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "it is GSM only? well what do you think it should be? GSM is the global standard in mobile telephone, Apple wants to sell this thing globally and not limit it to the US. And Cingular offers largest GSM user base in the US, so this is a no-brainer.<br><br>yes Nokia's new camera's blow the iphone's away, but have you seen the Nokia phone that does so and looked at how big that thing is? come on, that thing is a camcorder not a phone.<br><br>GPS will just reduce the battery power and with cell triangulation you get enough location data, and you can always add GPS via bluetooth if you are a hardcore offroader.<br><br>the whole thing about Cungular is also nonsense ... so Cingular will sell it here in the US, but you will be able to buy the phone unlocked and then you can also use it on T-Mobile -- it is a GSM phone afterall.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_10:33:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "64c29aebc7d1937dee286c49491ae776", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666522": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The lack of built-in GPS is not a killer. Here in the UK many existing phones use Bluetooth (which the iPhone does have) to link to a Bluetooth GPS receiver. So all that would be requires is for Apple to do a deal to license some maps if they wanted to do this.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_10:03:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "8f9d48d85f2ad8543f9154219e2f6184", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666523": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "iPhone  (Apple Pon) accessories already in the works:<br><br>Snap on keyboard -  it has a dock connector, and OS X -<br>a small snap on keyboard, or a full blown - fold out PDA type 104 key keyboard are sure to come out.<br><br>JUNE - Why so long? - FCC - sure, but more than a dozen companies are already working on attachments, cases, expansion, etc...<br><br>The phone is a little computer, with OS X (light) - and a connector.<br>What Gizmos can you think of already?<br><br>Depending on the processor speed - the Apple Phone would make a great 1 eyed brain for a little robot - enough RAM and CPU can go along way to Linux developers... 2MP camera is great for email, printable size too...<br><br>Still - I look forward to a full screen iPod - 100 GB for $349, you can keep the phone and camera, contact and etc stuff.    The updated iPod will have the same screen as the iPhone (or bigger) - with a larger battery, and focus on music and video - of course.<br><br>the Apple phone starts off as a status symbol - people paying top margin for the shiny new toy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_16:38:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "b1a5d58ef8d0a1257a0bfb5cbd9ef12c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666524": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/11/iphone-and-lg-ke850-separated-at-birth\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/11/iphone-and-l...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_09:07:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "29d4e7d896f9b4b241befdad39dce0b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666525": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>When I was in Europe everyone was buying 3G phones. That\u2019s innovative. Can this phone do it? No.</i><br><br>Robert, speed is not innovative. Of course tech specs improve with time.<br><br>Also, the FUD you spread by not doing a trivial amount research (looking up the battery life) is shameful.<br><br>Lance, I agree that the Touchable Chocolate looks neat, but the other two are \"concepts\" which means there is a very small chance they'll actually come out. What's the release date for the LG one?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_20:04:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d5d4450a4a15ec91682f6dd3d025cfd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666526": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hi Robert and readers of the Scobleizer blog<br><br>Fascinating thread, good discussion. Some of the international comparison issues - what works in America vs Europe vs Asia - are discussed in my blog where I handicap the chances of iPhone reaching 10 million in a year. I say it is do-able, but not quite by the strategy announced. The smartphone market is too small, but if Apple also attacks the musicphone market (was 309 million units last year - yes, over 6 times bigger than all iPods sold in 2006), then it can achieve the 10 million.<br><br>Briefly. In America the GSM standard and Cingular exclusive deal limits reach. Corporate/enterprise customers will be reluctant to buy \"iPods cameras and video iPods\" for their staff bundled in the smartphone offerings. But because of iPod's strong established customer base, they can reach the needed 4.7 million out of America.<br><br>In Europe the 3G will be a massive flaw, and by Christmas 2007 a 2 megapixel camera is obsolescent. If the phone can't do SMS one-handed and blind, the phone will fail in Europe. I am assuming Apple is smart enough to fix this (and just in case, I also wrote an open letter to them highlighting this need which has been widely quoted). But because Europeans buy more expensive phones than Americans, and their penetration rate is 50% higher than Americans (European cellphone subscription penetration per capita is 110% already vs 75% in USA and under 60% in Canada), and Europe is bigger (in population), the smaller European target of 3 million can be reached.<br><br>In Asia it is even more tough. By 2008 the 2 megapixel camera is a toy. In Japan and South Korea today aleady over half of all users are on 3G, so nobody in their right mind would buy a phone with an archaic technology like 2G. The lack of a memory stick module is a serious flaw for the target audience who all have two phones and in many countries replace phones every six months (thus memory module vital for maintaining all kinds of libraries of digital memories). In Asia also SMS is a must, so same assumption, the touch screen has to operate blind and one-handed for sending SMS text messages. But again, with some heavy work, the needed 2.3 million units can be sold into Asia. They do love their gadgets and expensive phones in Asia, from Hong Kong to Indonesia and what would probably be near 1000 dollars of a price in its SIM-free version, is still acceptable price for the wealthy young professionals who need to show off.<br><br>Ok, thats the summary. If you'd like to read the full blog with the regional variations etc, please visit my blog at <a href=\"http://www.communities-dominate.blogs.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.communities-dominate.blogs.com</a><br><br>PS Robert, no surprise on the theme of my last blog on the iPod vs musicphone saga ha-ha, but to let you know, I'll be returning to that topic one last time next week when the Apple quarterly results are out..<br><br>Tomi Ahonen   :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_19:55:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "98002069d372eac47891d7315e652f8c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666527": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "more pics of the phone Apple stole from LG:<br><br><a href=\"http://duggmirror.com/apple/LG_KE850_iPhone/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://duggmirror.com/apple/LG_KE850_iPhone/</a><br><br>looks like what iPhone should, especially flash for camera at back of phone. No flash in Apple iPhone.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_08:31:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "29d4e7d896f9b4b241befdad39dce0b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666528": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Do check out my latest reply to this:<br><br><a href=\"http://print.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/response-to-the-5-2-issues-people-have-with-iphone/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://print.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/response-...</a><br><br>The points are all weak, and smack of FUD. BONUS: You repeat yourself and contradict yourself ! Love it!<br><br>'early adopters' and 'vaporware'. A Juxtaposition to seal your fate as an alarmist, hysteric.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_08:29:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "b633b70647b7320ba9f05c2df2dcc56a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666529": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have posted a wishlist of ideal cellphone features at the MediaVidea blog.<br><a href=\"http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/01/notes-on-ideal-cellphone.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/01/notes-on...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_08:25:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "a23dc2e390112e2af7896d25978a2b39", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666530": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"\u201cAnd Nokia and others will take notice and instill good bits of iPhone into their products - very rapidly.\u201d<br><br>it\u2019s called a patent.<br><br>you are a moron.\"<br><br>No, I think u are. You have to be silly to think that other companies like Nokia, HTC, LG and others are going to rollover due to iPhone over hype. This is their bread and butter (especially Nokia). Plus Nokia has been working on their on version of iPhone for years and so have most companies...LG (touchable chocolate) has one almost exactly like iPhone. This is why probably Apple put their phone out so early (6months) another compnay like LG was probably very close to launching there own and taking the luster and revolution out of the iPhone. See the following links:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850...</a><br><a href=\"http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/10/08/nokias-aeon-full-surface-screen-cellphone-concept/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/10/08/nokias...</a><br><a href=\"http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/benqsiemens-black-box-concept-phone-204284.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/benqsieme...</a><br><br><br><br>Steve is a liar and exaggerator.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_08:25:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "29d4e7d896f9b4b241befdad39dce0b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666531": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Apple is making a consumer electronic device for the average user who don't care about GPS, EDGE versus whatever, locked/unlocked phones, etc.  They are focusing on what people truly want to do with a phone: make calls and check email.  All the other stuff is pure fluff...who cares?<br><br>People aren't as feature focus as you think.  Compare the Creative Nomad with the iPod.  Which has better technology, more features, can be used with more file formats?  The Nomad, but iPod has more market share.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_08:29:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "fb6ae00cebe2ecb029b1e1c6fd3c3aea", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666532": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow.<br><br>Another reason the iPhone will win?<br><br>scobleizer isn't impressed. honestly! Check<br><br><a href=\"http://print.wordpress.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">print.wordpress.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_07:51:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "b633b70647b7320ba9f05c2df2dcc56a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666533": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't know all that the iphone will or will not do, but I believe one of the biggest mistakes is to lock into just one phone provider.  Cingular advertises the \"least dropped call\" nonsense, which is total hogwash.  In my opinion cigular sucks.  As far as the battery life goes, has Apple not learned from the iPod.<br>If the general public is stupid enough to purchase this device with a non-replaceable battery than, let them drown in their ignorance.  If Apple is smart, they would have a dept dedicated to just reading the feedback on the blogs to prevent future fiascos with their produts.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_09:06:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "60d2a42b400b53bb2f3baf2791c426cb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666534": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Any other 'mad texter' like myself will have to re-learn the NON-KEYBOARD approach of texting.  I, as well as a lot of people, can text someone without looking the keys... even with an older 1-9*# keypad.  I guess I won't be texting while I'm having sex anymore...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_18:14:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "242b6d40f854442f45655af5a58c7519", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666535": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm a pocket pc user of a few years now, currently own a jasjam, previous phone was an o2 mini. Prior to that it was nokia 6xxx/8xxx type phones<br><br>The iphone blows the high end \"small\" PPC market out of the water. It is everything a PPC phone wants to be but better, more integrated and easier to use. Just watching the demos on the apple site i see so many things that frustrate me about my PPCs that apple appear to have solved or done significantly better.<br><br>At the price suggested it is not going to be competing with disposeable pay-as-you-go phones or the teen kids market, it's a phone to replace my PPC, make it how it should be and include an ipod. In 12 months when they reach Australia i'll be ready to upgrade. It's in the ballpark of the price i've paid for each PPC phone since moving off nokia so the price isn't that much of a factor. Sure i'll lose 3G which has been underwhelming anyway and i'll have to find new car navigation software and continue to use my BT GPS.<br><br>Note: i don't own an ipod (or any portable mp3 player) and don't have a mac and never have.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_16:59:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "54ba7f228748f7389d423da60cc6ecc4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666536": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Som: I already corrected my incorrect statement and apologized for making that error. You come and work 22 hours a day and type a blog in a car in between halls and interviews and see how good you do.\"<br><br>Boo hoo!  When DON'T you have and excuse for your innacuracies? You CHOOSE to do this, so no sympathy for you!  Saying you don't care about accuracy would have more credibility than trying to blame circumstances. Weren't you just on the campaign trail? you think those \"journalists\" get to use the \"I was tired\" excuse when making errors in reporting?  It's clear all you care about is \"being first\" in the hopes of getting hits, over being accurate.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_16:57:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "26493d7270fb206c1e08599674e51e5a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666537": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You think that's bad:<br><br><a href=\"http://extrapolater.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/iphone-refuses-to-open-ipod-bay-doors/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://extrapolater.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/ip...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_14:07:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "69fdf399719335a2f12c0a675969bfe0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666538": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "everybody who's complaining about battery life needs to actually read the tech specs.  5 hours of talk time is *great*- the motorola razr, for example, only gets about 3 hours...and this is according to motorola's website, the real-world performance of the razr is significantly less, i can assure you ....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_16:18:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "38c4c71625947a139d349f489e12ee10", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666539": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The device is not on the market, it's name may change as well as features. 6 months away is a long time. I'd say the general concept was shown as a working model to show the features, it runs OS X etc. I doubt they are manufacturing them in mass right now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_15:22:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "12ee32151d4cf0cee07d59e498bbf417", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666540": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'll say just one thing about the \"stunning new innovative features\" that iPhone (guess they have to change that name...) have.<br><br>Neonode<br><br>(came out in 2004) <a href=\"http://www.neonode.com/Default.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.neonode.com/Default.aspx</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_15:20:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "51e9f936fd97071bf5b1170acae24fa0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666541": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This iPhone is cool looking and thin, but if I had to choose between this new Apple iPhone and the coming Nokia N95. The decision would easily fall into the N95 camp.<br><br>While thinness is cool it does compromise the capability of the phone. Being a little thicker is ok if the phone has a bigger longert lasting battery, 3G, Edge, Quad-band, GPS, 5 megapixel camera, 30 frame per second video recording and WiFi support.<br><br>Checkout the new coming N95 - <a href=\"http://www.mobilcaster.com/2006/12/must-have-nokia-n95-and-htc-smart.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.mobilcaster.com/2006/12/must-have-no...</a><br><br>Rob Greenlee", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_14:57:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "49660909182515f5798234a3ff77cbd1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666542": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Your points suffer from your US-centric world view, and ultimately this view impacts the strength and accuracy of these points, and impacts your value as a blogger. Don't do yourself any more disservice: stay off the bandwagons.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_14:24:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "401975e57af211b1b2f4295be63503da", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666543": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "154 comments in two days. I think it's unlikely the phone will flop. Even less likely that it won't caus a sea change in the design aesthetic of other phone/PDA makers. It's a pretty incredible step forward. Yes, $599 is a lot, but if I'm not spending $300 on a Treo and $300 more on an iPod, then I've got $600 all of a sudden.<br><br>It is disappointing that Cingular is the carrier. I was really hoping Apple would sell the hardware alone and unlocked from the Apple Store, ready for whatever GSM SIM card you insert. However, seeing now the integration that the phone demands from the carrier service, it's clear that Cingular had to step up with several special service customizations and accomodations in order to make this deal work. If unlocked versions lose a lot of functionality, then they may keep the distribution locked up for a while.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_14:16:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "96fdcbf73def80302fea38464185dfd5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666544": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Battery life isn't good, but it doesn't suck either when considering the large size of the screen. If you compare it to other smartphones, their battery lives are around the same: Treo 680=4 hours, HTC TyTn=5 hours, BlackBerry Pearl 8100=3.5h, etc.<br><br>I definitely won't be getting this iPhone, but maybe the next generation or the one after that again.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_13:56:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "6d792f8267fa9f9beee48f0cb6b8fcd4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666545": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert you are actually missing the point here. Having keyboard, camera flash, storage expansion slot hinders innovation. GPS who needs that anyway, its so 2000ish. Use google map and... sure they find a way.<br>If you can't see the innovation here, you my friend must have been a PC user for a long time. Don't blame Apple for that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_13:37:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "5dfbfee83de2f5747fb0a2ee572d4f12", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666546": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Just a reminder... While it may or may not get 5 hours battery life, it DOES have an iPod port.  How long do you think it will be before someone makes a \"battery extender\" clip-on for those long video or internet sessions.  Seriously, how much time do you really need to be using your phone for sending emails and browsing the web?  If you're spending more than a couple hours staring at that tiny screen you probably should have brought your laptop.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_14:19:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "c9bddbb1f5f99744952f4fb1a287a00e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666547": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Considering how quicly Apple comes out with new iPods, I'd say that if you wait a few months this thing will only get better and better.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_13:30:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "fdc771250f2571a2e611522db216d823", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666548": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why should cingular care if the phone does not work out?  They have a two year contract!  Your stuck.  That is why cell companies have contracts so they can lock you in to what they know may be obsolete technology in a short time.  Fortunately my cell company does not have contracts.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_13:27:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "9f0032e6dd7df1908b5ee135eef519dd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666549": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think we should leave the reviews after we get our hands on the phone first.<br><br>Wait and tell... Don't jump to the conclusion so fast.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_13:23:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "0b981502ddef7dd93db255cf8d16d47d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666550": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I wonder if I am laying on bed/coach playing with iPhone while facing upwards, will the screen be LANDSCAPE OR PORTRAIT automatically???", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_13:26:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "b815731b122cebe901f98771a74e444f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666551": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "UHM... one can bitch, but in a few generations that is going to be one hot little item. Let them work out the bugs and bring it up to speed, or wait for the copies, the clones, the improvements. Either way, it is a step in the direction of things to come.<br><br>Anyhow Robert, I got your point.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_13:21:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "2e0ac2d02231d21c63f6cc65ac2db398", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666552": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "i've never liked having all my eggs in one basket. just give me a basic phone that has strong reception and does txt msgs and email, and i'm set.<br>ipod's are negligible weight/bulk, so does it really hurt to carry your music separately?<br>look how far we've come from boomboxes hoisted on shoulders!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_13:12:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "c390845ddd8b1515df8e2435c76e99e0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666553": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Just heard on the BBC that Cisco is going to sue Apple over the iPhone name.  It appears Cisco did not give permission to Apple as everyone seems to assume.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_03:49:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "4f99753066ffc2e9eeab385bc0f8af95", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666554": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "(A short note on cost) We have to remember that yes apple is pricey but they give discounts (like for teachers, students, etc.)  And just b/c you aren't a student doesn't mean that you can't get that discount, like if your child is a student you can use their discount.  That or you can have someone you trust buy the phone for you with their discount and switch it over to your name, anything is possible you just have to read the small print.  And I've seen a ton of comments on other blogs saying how the cost is unreal, than wait a few months (also if you wait you can save yourself the hell of dealing with the bugs (with is NORMAL for anything super new)).  The iphone is not geared toward apple's normal buyers (students, artist, musicians) they are trying to get new people hooked (read this as business people).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_12:50:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "c05b55fe91e66b514a8b1dbabd7a47af", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666555": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Just wanted to say to everyone calling this a brick, that it isn't, not by a long shot. Going by the measurements in this image:<br><br><a href=\"http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/images/apple-iphone.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/images/apple-ip...</a><br><br>Sorry, I couldn't find a copy on the apple website, but it's from a blog post also saying the iphone sucks.. He probably got it from there, I'm just too lazy to look more than a minute.<br><br><a href=\"http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=210\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=210</a><br><br>It's actually thinner !! than the Moto razr closed. Less than a cm wider, and about 2cm longer.<br><br>That doesn't seem very brick like at all. It's about half an inch longer than a 4.5 gen ipod, and nearly as thin as the 30gb model. I could keep that in my pocket no problem.<br><br>Yeah it's no itty bitty flip phone, but it's thin enough to sit comfortably in a pocket. Plus, half of us are women, they have purses to put the thing in. Oh, and anyone who still uses a belt clip for their phone, looks like a jackass. FYI.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-11_14:23:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "ce0c3b747f9da1b2e719fafdc0a75b35", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666556": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Blog of directtv", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-03-27_06:54:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "58e3bc199114b844722e7a9b1c57a39c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666557": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have read so many review and most of them do not make sence. They have compare phones that will not work in the usa on major networks and do not state how the networks control what we buy.  GSM is the only way to enter the world market and apple has shown people that there can be a wider range of produces. For those that try to compare it to the treo must be in wonderland and love reset and hotsync problems I have had a 600 and 650 both have major problems and poor phone usage. Great phone have not been sold in this country.  I give apple a hand for taking on all the know it alls in this country that tell you how wonderfull all the phone in this country are that will not sell anywhere else. To buy a great phone do not look here go to the unlocked market.  All I want out of the Iphone is to make people understand what these company are doing to use us users and keeping manufatureing company from selling there best Here.  Lets see in june what the real Iphone is Like and Just to let you Know I have several other phones on ny mind and will not be geting the first addition of Iphone.  Cingular,Verison and Sprint have controled us by locked phone and stripping the down that is why most manufacture do not sell there best Here.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-27_19:19:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "6bb40d2a7c59c0feeeea3da3aecbc103", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666558": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "yawn.  give it up bro'", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-02-21_13:19:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "dfda6835222fbe69883a98f124634b6b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9666559": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They are also years ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to<br>desktop or laptop too. Last time ive changed my computer the total cost.<br>Was 300$ to get a Quad Xeon. Value IS important. Sold my old one for 2500. Added 300 and Voila... top of the line computer for 300. Cool no ? Its been like that for at least 9 years now.<br><br>So far since the start Ive added just about 300 every 3 years to get upgraded.<br>So its 100 $ a year to have a Verry expensive machine ? I think I spend about the same as everybody else no ? I like Apple. How much did you spend and what did you get ?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-11-24_21:21:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "be5e6644e303aa67deb43631f6ed3dec", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "18356717", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "125200", "hash": -2324054242805562287}, "thread": {"total_posts": 0, "paginate": false, "per_page": 0, "slug": "the_iphone_reality_distortion_field", "num_pages": 1, "days_alive": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 18356717, "num_posts": 178, "closed": true, "queued": false, "killed": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": false, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "faaf467d0f47abde553c3b8e0e1b3570", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
	/* */ this.jsonData.cookie_messages = {"user_created": null, "post_has_profile": null, "post_twitter": null, "post_not_approved": null}; this.jsonData.session = {"url": null, "name": null, "email": null}; /* */

	
	this.curPageId = 'dsq-comments';

	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

if(typeof DsqLocal == 'undefined') {
	DsqLocal = {};
}



/**
 * Dsq.Strings: UI strings
 */
Dsq.Strings = new function() {
	this.ADD_NEW_COMMENT = "Add New Comment";
	this.LOG_INTO_DISQUS = "Log into DISQUS";
	this.USE_MEDIA = "Use Media";
	this.LOGOUT = "Logout";
	this.SHARING_OPTIONS = "Sharing options";
	this.SHARE_ON = "Share on";
	this.TWEET_THIS_COMMENT = "Tweet this comment";
	this.SHARE_ON_NEWSFEED = "Share on news feed";
	this.SEND_UPDATE_TO_YAHOO = "Send update to Yahoo!";
	this.REBLOG_ON = "Reblog on";
	this.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS = "Configure options";
	this.POST_AS = "Post as";
	this.SORT_BY = "Sort by";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe by email";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS = "Subscribe by RSS";
	this.POPULAR_NOW = "Popular now";
	this.BEST_RATING = "Best Rating";
	this.NEWEST_FIRST = "Newest first";
	this.OLDEST_FIRST = "Oldest first";
	this.HIGHLIGHTED = "Highlighted";
	this.UNSUBSCRIBE = "Unsubscribe";
	this.REQUIRED = "Required";
	this.OPTIONAL = "Optional";
	this.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A = "You are commenting as a";
	this.LOGIN_BELOW = "Login below";
	this.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT = "Please login below to comment.";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe to all comments by email";
	this.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS = "Do not subscribe to comments";
	this.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS = "Real-time updating is";
	this.ENABLED = "enabled";
	this.PAUSED = "paused";
	this.PAUSE = "Pause";
	this.RESUME = "Resume";
	this.SHOW = "Show";
	this.JUST_NOW = "Just now";
	this.REPLY = "Reply";
	this.EDIT = "Edit";
	this.FLAG = "Flag";
	this.MODERATE = "Moderate";
	this.CANCEL = "Cancel";
	this.REPLYING_TO = "Replying to";
	this.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS = "Report missing reactions";
	this.POST_A_COMMENT = "Post a comment";
	this.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT = "Flag inappropriate comment";
	this.FLAGGED = "Flagged";
	this.NO = "No";
	this.YES = "Yes";
	this.NEVER_MIND = "Never mind";
	this.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR = "Are you sure you would like to report this comment to a moderator";
	this.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION = "This will flag comments for moderators to take action";
	this.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN = "To rate, please log in";
	this.JUST_A_MOMENT = "Just a moment...";
	this.GUEST = "Guest";
	this.NAME = "Name";
	this.EMAIL = "Email";
  this.WEBSITE = "Website";
  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
  this.MODERATOR_OPTIONS = "Moderator options: ";
  this.MODERATE_OPTIONS = "Moderate Options";

  // Thread moderator actions
  this.CLOSE_THREAD = "Close thread";
  this.OPEN_THREAD = "Open thread";
  this.REMOVE_THREAD = "Remove thread";
  this.RESTORE_THREAD = "Restore thread";
  this.ACTIONS = "Actions";
};
// Dsq.Strings

/**
 * Dsq.FmtStrings: functions that return interpolated UI strings
 */
Dsq.FmtStrings = new function() {
	// Seems we have to use named interpolation for Django to translate. Investigate more.
	this.LOGGED_IN_AS = function(username) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logged in as %(username)s', {username:username});
	};

	this.LOGOUT_FROM = function(disqus) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logout from %(disqus)s', {disqus:disqus});
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL = function(total, num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comment", {num:num, total:total});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comments", {num:num, total:total});
		}
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION = function(num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comment", {num:num});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comments", {num:num});
		}
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s comment'
				: '%(num)s comments'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_LIKES = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s like'
				: '%(num)s likes'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_POINTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s point'
				: '%(num)s points'
			), {num:num});
	};
};
// Dsq.FmtStrings





Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = 'a2d140c59df8cd4ce27a20e0829cacd8';
Dsq.COMMENTS_RE = /(<li.*?id="?dsq-comment-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/li>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_RE = /(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-header-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/div>)\s*(<div.*?class="?dsq-comment-body"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_BODY_RE = /\s*(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-message-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



var FragmentPacket = function(reader, writer, writer_url, is_child, receiveCallback) {
	var that = this;
	this.reader = reader;
	this.writer = writer;
	this.writer_url = writer_url;

	this.is_child = is_child || false;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

	this.READY		= 0x1;
	this.WRITING	= 0x2;
	this.FIN		= 0x4;
	this.ACK		= 0x8;

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;
	var listener = function() {
		that.recv();
	};
	return window.setInterval(listener, 10);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

FragmentPacket.prototype.recv = function() {
	var hash;
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

		var hashIndex = this.reader.location.href.indexOf('#');
		if (hashIndex == -1) {
			return;
		}
		hash = this.reader.location.href.substring(hashIndex+1);
	}
	var flags = parseInt(hash.substring(0, 4), 10);
	var seqno = parseInt(hash.substring(4, 24), 10);
	var data  = hash.substring(24);

	if (this._lastHash !== hash) {
		this._lastHash = hash;
		this.log('recv: ' + hash);

		this.log(' flags: ' + flags);
		this.log(' seqno: ' + seqno + ' len: ' + hash.substring(4, 24).length + ' (' + hash.substring(4, 24) + ')');
		this.log(' data: ' + data + ' len: ' + data.length);

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

		if (flags & this.WRITING) {
			this._accumMsg += data;
			this.sendFlag(this.ACK, seqno);
			if (flags & this.FIN) {
				this.log('recv finished: ' + decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));
				this.receiveCallback(decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));

				this._accumMsg = '';

				this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
			}
		}
	}

	return {
		flags: flags,
		seqno: seqno,
		data: data
	};
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendRawPacket = function(packet) {
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
		this.writer.name = packet;
	} else {

		this.writer.location.href = this.writer_url + '#' + packet;
	}

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendFlag = function(flag, seqno) {
	this.sendRawPacket(this._zerofill(flag, 4) + this._zerofill(seqno, 20));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {
	this._send(0, encodeURIComponent(msg));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._send = function(packetNum, msg) {
	var that = this;
	var recvBuf = this.recv();

	if (packetNum === 0) {

		if (!(recvBuf.flags & this.READY)) {
			this.log('client is not ready, waiting...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		}
	} else {

		if (!( (recvBuf.flags & this.ACK) && (recvBuf.seqno === this._lastSeqno) )) {
			this.log('waiting for ack from client...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		} else {
			this.log('received ack: ' + this._lastSeqno + ' ' + recvBuf.seqno);
		}
	}

	var flags = this.WRITING;
	var num_packets = Math.ceil(msg.length / this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	this.log('num_packets: ' + num_packets);

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

		this.log('message successfully sent!');
		this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
		return true;
	}

	this._lastSeqno++;

	if (packetNum == num_packets-1) {
		flags |= this.FIN;
	}

	var data = msg.substring(packetNum * this.MAX_DATA_LEN, (packetNum+1) * this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	var packet = this._zerofill(flags, 4) + this._zerofill(this._lastSeqno, 20) + data;

	this.log('sending raw packet: ' + packet);
	this.sendRawPacket(packet);

	return this._send(packetNum + 1, msg);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._zerofill = function(num, width) {
	var retval = num.toString();
	var retval_len = retval.length;
	for (var i = 0; i < width - retval_len; i++) {
		retval = '0' + retval;
	}
	return retval;
};

var PostMessagePacket = function(receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId) {
	var that = this;
	this.receiver = receiver;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;
	this.id = id;


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;

	var listener = function(e) {

		if (!that.id) {
			that.id = e.data;
			return;
		}


		var id = e.data.split(';')[0];
		if (id !== that.id) {
			return;
		}
		var data = e.data.substring(e.data.indexOf(';') + 1);

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

	if (typeof window.attachEvent == 'function') {
		window.attachEvent('onmessage', listener);
	} else if (typeof window.addEventListener == 'function') {
		window.addEventListener('message', listener, false);
	} else {
		throw new Error('No method found to create event listener for PostMessagePacket.');
	}
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



	var needs_reget = false;
	try {
		if (typeof this.receiver.id == 'undefined' || typeof this.receiver.postMessage == 'undefined') {
			needs_reget = true;
		}
	} catch(e) {


	}
	if (needs_reget && typeof this.receiverId != 'undefined') {
		this.receiver = document.getElementById(this.receiverId).contentWindow;
	}

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

		packet = this.id;
	} else {
		packet = this.id + ';' + msg;
	}
	this.receiver.postMessage(packet, '*');
};

PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = null;
PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id = function() {
	var id = (new Date()).getTime();
	if (id == PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id) {
		id++;
	}
	PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = id;
	return id.toString();
};

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

	this.objectToJSON = function(obj) {
		var json = '';
		var results = [];

		if (obj === undefined || obj === null) {
			return 'null';
		}

		switch (obj.constructor) {
			case Object:
				for (var property in obj) {
					if (obj.hasOwnProperty(property)) {
						results.push(this.objectToJSON(property) + ': ' + this.objectToJSON(obj[property]));
					}
				}
				json = '{' + results.join(', ') + '}';
				break;
			case Array:
				for (var i = 0; i < obj.length; i++) {
					results.push(this.objectToJSON(obj[i]));
				}
				json = '[' + results.join(', ') + ']';
				break;
			case Number:
			case Boolean:
				json = obj.toString();
				break;
			case String:

				var specialChars = {'\b': '\\b', '\t': '\\t', '\n': '\\n', '\f': '\\f', '\r': '\\r', '\\': '\\\\'};

				json = obj.replace(/[\x00-\x1f\\]/g, function(match) {
					var ch = specialChars[match];
					return ch ? ch : '\\u00' + match.charCodeAt().toPaddedString(2, 16);
				});

				json = '"' + json.replace(/"/g, '\\"') + '"';
				break;
			default:

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

	this.createHandler = function(send_func, registered_funcs) {
		var that = this;
		var handler = function(message) {

			try {
				var rpc = eval('(' + message + ')');
			} catch(e) {
				alert('bad JSON: ' + message);
				return;
			}
			if (rpc.method) {

				if (!registered_funcs[rpc.method]) {
					return;
				}

				var retval = registered_funcs[rpc.method].apply(null, rpc.params);
				if (rpc.id) {
					var response = {
						result: retval,
						error: null,	// TODO
						id: rpc.id
					};
					send_func(that.objectToJSON(response));
				}
			} else if(rpc.result) {

				if (!that.ids[rpc.id]) {
					return;
				}

				that.ids[rpc.id](rpc.result);
				delete that.ids[rpc.id];
			}
		};
		return handler;
	};

	this.execute = function(send_func, method, params, response_callback) {
		response_callback = response_callback || null;
		var id = (response_callback) ? (new Date()).getTime() : null;

		var request = {
			method: method,
			params: params,
			id: id
		};

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

		if (id) {
			this.ids[id] = response_callback;
		}
	};
};
JsonRpc = new JsonRpc();

var ParentMessenger = function(childUrl, receiverUrl, container, receiveCallback) {


	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') >= 0 && parseInt(navigator.userAgent.substring(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Version/') + 8), 10) == 3) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	} else if (window.opera) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}



	if (!receiverUrl &&
		navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Gecko') >= 0 &&
		parseFloat(navigator.userAgent.slice(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 3, navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 6)) < 1.9) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}


	if (/msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) {


		if (document.domain == window.location.hostname) {
			receiverUrl = '';
		}
	}

	var that = this;
	this.childUrl = childUrl;
	this.receiverUrl = receiverUrl;
	this.container = container || document.body;

	this.packetHandler = null;


	this._ready = false;
	this._error = false;


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

		that.receiver = document.createElement('iframe');
		that.receiver.src = receiverUrl;
		that.receiver.id = 'receiver_' + (new Date()).getTime();
		that.receiver.name = that.receiver.id;

		that.receiver.frameBorder = '0';
		that.receiver.frameSpacing = '0';
		that.receiver.style.borderStyle = 'none';

		var receiver_onload = function() {
			var receiver = document.getElementById(that.receiver.id).contentWindow;

			try {
				receiver.document.body.innerHTML = '';
			} catch(e) {

				that._error = true;
			}
			receiver.document.body.style.padding = '0px';
			receiver.document.body.style.margin = '0px';

			var child = receiver.document.createElement('iframe');
			child.id = 'child';
			child.name = 'child';
			child.src = that.childUrl;

			child.frameBorder = '0';
			child.frameSpacing = '0';
			child.style.borderStyle = 'none';
			child.style.width = '100%';
			child.style.height = '100%';
			receiver.document.body.appendChild(child);

			that.child = receiver.document.getElementById('child').contentWindow;
			that.receiver = receiver;

			that.packetHandler = new FragmentPacket(that.receiver, that.child, that.childUrl, false, receiveCallback);

			that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();

			that.packetHandler.sendFlag(that.packetHandler.READY, 0);

			that._ready = true;
		};

		that.receiver.onreadystatechange = function() {
			if (this.readyState == 'complete') {
				receiver_onload();
			}
		};

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







		if (Dsq.Utils.ie) {
			if (that.container.clientWidth === 0) {

				var _waitForWidth = function() {
					if (that.container.clientWidth > 0) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					} else {
						window.setTimeout(_waitForWidth, 100);
					}
				};
				_waitForWidth();

				that._once = false;
				that.receiver.onresize = function() {
					if (!that._once) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					}
					that._once = true;
				};
			}
		}

		that.container.appendChild(that.receiver);
	};


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

			that.packetHandler.send();
			that._ready = true;
		};

		var id = PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id();
		var receiverId = 'child_' + id;


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

		that.container.innerHTML += '<iframe ' +
			'src="' + childUrl + '" ' +
			'id="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'name="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'onload="ParentMessenger._receiver_onload_' + receiverId +'();" ' +
			'></iframe>';

		that.receiver = document.getElementById(receiverId).contentWindow;
		that.packetHandler = new PostMessagePacket(that.receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId);
		that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();
	};

	if (typeof window.postMessage == 'function') {
		_createReceiverForPostMessage();
	} else {
		_createReceiverForFragmentPacket();
	}

};

ParentMessenger.prototype.sendMessage = function(message) {
	var that = this;
	if (!this._ready) {

		window.setTimeout(function() { that.sendMessage(message); }, 10);
		return;
	}
	this.packetHandler.send(message);
	return true;
};

Dsq.NewFrames = function(url) {
	this.url = url;
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype.init = function(onFailure) {
	var that = this;

	try {
		this.messenger = new ParentMessenger(this.url, Dsq.jsonData.integration.receiver_url, this.container, this.receive_callback);
	} catch(e) {
		if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
			onFailure();
		}
	}

	if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
		var iId = window.setInterval(function() {
			if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				return;
			}
			if (that.messenger._ready) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
			} else if (that.messenger._error) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				onFailure();
			}
		}, 10);
	}
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype._execute = function(method, args, callback) {
	var that = this;
	if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
		return false;
	}
	JsonRpc.execute(
		function(msg) { that.messenger.sendMessage(msg); },
		method,
		args || [],
		callback);
	return true;
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame = function(container, parent_post_id) {
	var that = this;
	this.container = container;
	this.parent_post_id = parent_post_id;

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

		Dsq.Debug.log('Dsq.ReplyFrame.sendFunc');
		that.messenger.sendMessage(msg);
	};


	var postComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		Dsq.jsonData.posts[response.message.id] = response.message.post_meta;
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key]) {
			Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key] = response.message.user_meta;
		}


		var reply_position = (typeof(disqus_insert_wrt_sort) == 'undefined' 
			? (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reply_position ? -1 : null) 
			: (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? null : -1));
		
		if (response.message.post_meta.approved) {
			Dsq.Post.insert(response.message.post_meta.parent_post_id || reply_position, response.message.id, response.message.post_meta.message);
		}

		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var postComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(response.message, 'Error');
		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onFailure(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var editComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);
		
		message.innerHTML = response.message;
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
	
	var editComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('Sorry, there was an error editing this comment.', 'Edit Error');
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	var getUserByEmail_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var msg = response.message;
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(parent_post_id);

		if (msg.username) {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'login', {
				'username': msg.username,
				'display_name': msg.display_name,
				'avatar_url': msg.avatar_url,
				'verified': msg.verified,
				'email': fields.email.value
			});
		} else {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'register');
		}
	};

	var validateAuth_onSuccess = function(response, auth_choice) {
		Dsq.Templates.postComment(parent_post_id, null, true, auth_choice);
	};

	var validateAuth_onFailure = function(response, auth_choice) {
		var pid = parent_post_id ? '-' + parent_post_id : '';
		var msg = response.message;

		if (auth_choice == 'register') {
			var fields = ['email', 'username', 'password'];

			for (var i = 0; i < fields.length; i++) {
				var field = fields[i];
				var errorDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-' + field + '-errors' + pid);

				if (msg[field]) {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = msg[field];
				} else {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = '';
				}
			}
		} else if (auth_choice == 'login') {
			Dsq.$('dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid).innerHTML = '<p>We couldn\'t log you in. Please verify your login.</p>';
		}
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.receive_callback = JsonRpc.createHandler(sendFunc, {
		'postComment.onSuccess': postComment_onSuccess,
		'postComment.onFailure': postComment_onFailure,
		'editComment.onSuccess': editComment_onSuccess,
		'editComment.onFailure': editComment_onFailure,		
		'getUserByEmail.onSuccess': getUserByEmail_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onSuccess': validateAuth_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onFailure': validateAuth_onFailure,
		'reload': function() { window.location.reload(); }
	});

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=scobleizer' +
		'&t=the_iphone_reality_distortion_field' +
		'&ff=' + Dsq.Thread.ff +
		'&default_text=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_default_text) +
		'&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
	if (this.parent_post_id) {
		this.url += '&parent_post=' + this.parent_post_id;
	}
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype = new Dsq.NewFrames(Dsq.ReplyFrame.url);

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.post = function(author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe) {
	this._execute('postComment', [author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.edit = function(post_id, message) {
	this._execute('editComment', [post_id, message]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.setState = function(parent_post_id, depth) {
	this._execute('setState', [parent_post_id, depth]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.getUserByEmail = function(email) {
	this._execute('getUserByEmail', [email]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.validateAuth = function(auth_choice, email, username, password) {
	this._execute('validateAuth', [auth_choice, email, username, password]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.authenticateFacebook = function(session, forum_url) {
	this._execute('authenticateFacebook', [session, forum_url]);
};

	Dsq.Facebook = function() {
	var that = this;

	var handleSessionData = function(session) {

		var forum_url = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;




		if (typeof disqus_facebook_forum != 'undefined') {
			forum_url = disqus_facebook_forum;
		}
		Dsq.frames.reply_0.authenticateFacebook(session, forum_url);
	};

	var onLogin = function() {
		FB.Connect.getSignedPublicSessionData(handleSessionData);
	};

	this.login = function() {
		FB.Connect.requireSession(onLogin, true);
	};
};
Dsq.Facebook = new Dsq.Facebook();


	






Dsq.Themes = {};

Dsq.Themes.narcissus = new function() {
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-form-area';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-textarea-wrapper';



	
	this.header = function() {
		var comments_count, total_posts, num_posts;
		var html = '';
		var missing_perm_tmpl;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.missing_perm) {
			missing_perm_tmpl = Dsq.Templates.missingPermissions();
			if (missing_perm_tmpl) {
				html += '<div class="dsq-missing-permissions">' + missing_perm_tmpl + '</div>';
			}
		}

		total_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.total_posts;
		num_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_posts;

		if (total_posts) {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL(total_posts, num_posts);
		} else {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION(num_posts);
		}

		html += ' \
		<div id="dsq-comments-title"> \
			<h3>' + comments_count + '</h3> \
		</div> \
		';

		html += ' \
		<div class="dsq-options"> \
			<span class="dsq-item-sort">'
				+ Dsq.Strings.SORT_BY + ' \
				<select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);"> \
					<option value="hot" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 4 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.POPULAR_NOW + '</option> \
					<option value="best" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 3 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.BEST_RATING + '</option> \
					<option value="newest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.NEWEST_FIRST + '</option> \
					<option value="oldest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 1 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.OLDEST_FIRST + '</option> \
				</select> \
				&nbsp; \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<span id="dsq-subscribe">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.subscribed
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.UNSUBSCRIBE + '</a>'
						: '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL + '</a>')
				+ '</span> \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-rss" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png" alt="" /> \
				<a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/the_iphone_reality_distortion_field/latest.rss">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS + '</a> \
			</span> \
		</div> \
		';

		
		

		return html;

	};
	
	this.footer = function() {
		var html = '';

		html += Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
		
			html += Dsq.Templates.realtime();
			html += Dsq.Templates.showThreadSettings();
			html += Dsq.Templates.postBox();

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		


		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) {
 			html += ' \
				<div class="dsq-global-moderator-extras">'
					+ '<strong>shortname:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url
					+ '<strong>thread id:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.id
					+ '<strong>thread slug:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.slug
				+ '</div> \
			';
		}

		return html;
	};
	
	this.realtime = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			html += '<div id="dsq-realtime-options" class="dsq-options">'
					 + Dsq.Strings.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS + ' <strong id="dsq-realtime-status" style="text-transform: lowercase">' + Dsq.Strings.ENABLED + '</strong>. \
					 <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-toggle" style="text-transform: capitalize"></a> \
					</div>';
		}

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
			html += ' \
				<div style="display: none" id="dsq-realtime-alert" class="dsq-realtime-alert"><span id="dsq-realtime-queued"></span> <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-show"></a></div> \
			';
		}
		
		return html;
	};

	this.showThreadSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '<div id="dsq-thread-settings" class="dsq-thread-settings">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATOR_OPTIONS;
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showSettings(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.SETTINGS + '</a>';
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showModeratorActions(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>';
		if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled && Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.reportMissingReactions(); return false;">'
						+ Dsq.Strings.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS
						+ '</a>';
		}
		html +='</div>';

		return html;
	};

	this.postBox = function(post_id, use_fallback_iframe) {


		var html;
		var display_sharing_options = Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated;

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post) {
			return '';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.hasOwnProperty(Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain)) {
				display_sharing_options = false;
			}
		}
		
		if (post_id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];				
		}
		
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		var _requestUserInfo = function() {
			var html;



			var user_has_email = false;

			html = '<div class="dsq-request-user-info"> <!-- // If authenticated --> \
				<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT + '?ctkn=' + Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN + '" class="dsq-request-user-logout">' + Dsq.Strings.LOGOUT + '</a> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td rowspan="2">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '')
								+ '<img src="' + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR + '" width="48" height="48" class="dsq-request-user-avatar">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-name">'
								+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
									 ? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '">' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '</span>'
									 : (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_verified
											? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span>'
											: '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span>'))
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '') 
								+ Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username 
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
							+  (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && user_has_email ? ' <small>(<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.remoteAccountSettings(); return false;">change settings</a>)</small>' : '')
							+  (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <small>(<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/info/" target="_blank">change name</a> or <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/avatar/" target="_blank">picture</a>)</small>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-stats"> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count == 1 ? 'comment' : 'comments') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count == 1 ? 'like' : 'likes') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.points + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.points == 1 ? 'point' : 'points') + '</span> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		var _loginOptions = function() {
			var html;
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-authenticate"> \
				<p class="dsq-autheneticate-copy">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
					? Dsq.Strings.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A + ' <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. ' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.LOGIN_BELOW + '.'
					: Dsq.Strings.REQUIRED + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT + '.')
				+ '</p> \
				<ul class="dsq-login-buttons">'
					+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-disqus.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Facebook.login(); return false;"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-facebook.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-twitter.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL(); return false" ><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-openid.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_yahoo ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Yahoo.startYahooConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-yahoo.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
				+ '</ul> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {



				return '<div id="dsq-form-area" style="display:none"><div id="dsq-textarea-wrapper"></div></div>' + _loginOptions();
			} else {
				return '';
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<div id="' + (post_id 
			? 'dsq-reply-post-' + post_id
			: 'dsq-new-post')
		 	+ '" class="dsq-post-area"> \
			<div class="dsq-dc-logo"> \
				<a href="http://disqus.com/comments" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/disqus-logo.png"></a> \
			</div>'
			+ (post_id 
				? '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.REPLYING_TO + ' ' + userData.display_name + '</h3>'
				: '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT + '</h3>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated 
				? _requestUserInfo()
				: _loginOptions() )
			+ '<div id="dsq-form-area' + pid + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-textarea"> \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper" id="dsq-textarea-wrapper' + pid + '"></div> \
			</div>'
			+ (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated
			? ' \
			<div class="dsq-post-fields"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-name' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_name ? disqus_def_name : (Dsq.jsonData.session.name ? Dsq.jsonData.session.name : Dsq.Strings.NAME + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-website' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (Dsq.jsonData.session.url ? Dsq.jsonData.session.url : Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')" class="dsq-placeholder') + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" /></div></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-email' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_email ? disqus_def_email : (Dsq.jsonData.session.email ? Dsq.jsonData.session.email : Dsq.Strings.EMAIL + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"> \
							<div class="dsq-subscribe"> \
								<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.chooseSubscribe(' + post_id + '); return false" class="dsq-subscribe-menu"><span id="dsq-subscribe-select' + pid + '">' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post ? Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL : Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS) + '</span> <small>&#9660;</small></a> \
								<ul class="dsq-panel" id="dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid + '"> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(2, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL + '</a></li> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(0, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS + '</a></li> \
								</ul> \
								<input id="dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid + '" type="hidden" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post + '" /> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div>'
			: '')
			+ '<div class="dsq-post-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-sharing-options" ' + (!display_sharing_options ? 'style="display:none;"' : '') + '> \
					<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onfocus="document.getElementById(\'dsq-post-button' + pid + '\').focus();"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.SHARING_OPTIONS + ' <small>&#9660;</small></span></button> \
					<div class="dsq-panel"> '
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '"'
								  + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Twitter</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook
								&& (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.enabled === true ||
										(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'facebook'))
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Facebook</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Yahoo!</label> \
								</div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Tumblr</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Wordpress</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Movable Type</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
								  <label for="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' TypePad</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ '<div><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections/" target="_blank" class="dsq-configure-options">' + Dsq.Strings.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS + '</a></div>'
					+ '</div> \
				</div>'
				+ '<button type="button" class="dsq-button" id="dsq-post-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.POST_AS + ' '
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					? Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					: Dsq.Strings.GUEST)
				+ '</span></button>'
				+ (post_id
					? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button" id="dsq-cancel-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.CANCEL + '</span></button>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
			+ '</div>' // end dsq-form-area
		+ '</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};




	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-append-post-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		html = ' \
		<table> \
			<tr> \
				<td id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-avatar" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
					<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
					? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
					: '')
				+ '</a> \
				</td> \
				<td class="dsq-comment-header-meta"> \
		';

		
		return html;
	};
	
	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var html;
		var parent_display_name = '';
		
		if(_meta.parent_post_id) {

			var _parent_meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[_meta.parent_post_id];

			if (_parent_meta) {
				var parentUserData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_parent_meta.user_key];
				parent_display_name = parentUserData.display_name;
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/moderator.png" class="dsq-moderator-star" title="Moderator" /> \
		<span class="dsq-comment-header-time"><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')" title="Permalink">' + (_meta.is_realtime ? Dsq.Strings.JUST_NOW : _meta.date) + '</a></span> '
		+ (_meta.parent_post_id && parent_display_name
			? '<a href="#comment-' + _meta.parent_post_id + '" title="Jump to comment">in reply to ' + parent_display_name + '</a>'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		<td id="dsq-like-pts-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-comment-header-likes">'
		+ (_meta.points
			? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		</tr> \
		</table> \
		';
		return html;
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		var html = '';
		return html;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed || !_meta.approved) { return ''; }
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
					? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.moderateOptions(' + post_id+ '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>'
					: '')
				+ '<a href="#" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG + '</a> \
			</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right">'
				+ (_meta.votable 
					? '<span id="dsq-like-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-like">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1)" >Like</button>'
						: 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;')
					+ '</span>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-post-edit" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + ')" >' + Dsq.Strings.EDIT + '</button>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<span class="dsq-comment-footer-reply" id="dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-comment-footer-reply-tab">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button><span></span> \
					</span>'
					: '')
			+ '</div> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};



	
	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		var item = '<li class="dsq-comment dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-header"> \
			<table> \
			<tr> \
			<td class="dsq-header-avatar"> \
			';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'" class="dsq-avatar">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {

			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar92.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== ''
				? '</a>'
				: '')
			+ '</td>'
			+ '<td><cite class="dsq-comment-cite">' + reaction.author_name + '</cite> <span class="dsq-comment-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</span></td>'
			+ '<td class="dsq-comment-header-likes"></td>'
			+ '</tr></table></div>' // end dsq-comment-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header" \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-reaction-header-left">'
							+ '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png" />'
							+ ' From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
							+ 'via <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : 'UberVU') + '</a>'
						+ '</td>'
						+ '<td class="dsq-reaction-header-right">';

			if(reaction.retweets) {
				var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
				if (num_retweets > 0) {
					if (num_retweets == 1) {
						item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
					} else {
						item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');
						item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
						var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 3) ? 3 : num_retweets;
						item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);
						if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
							item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
								+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
						}
					}
				}
			}	
			item += '</td></tr> \
			</table> \
			</div>' // end dsq-reaction-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-body"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left"> \
				</div>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator 
					? ' \
					<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right"> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-hide-reaction" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + ')">Hide</button> \
					</div>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 id="dsq-reactions-title" class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-container"> \
			<table> \
				<tbody> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-tl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-tr"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-body"> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
								<div class="dsq-popup-title"> \
									<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" style="float:right" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)">Close</button>'
									+ content['header'] 
								+ '</div>'
								+ content['body']
							+ '</div> \
							<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
						</td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-bl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-br"></td> \
					</tr> \
				</tbody> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
	};



	
	this.chooseSubscribe = function(post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		menu.style.display = menu.style.display == 'block' ? 'none' : 'block';
		
	};
	
	this.setSubscribe = function(value, el, post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var input = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid);
		var select = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-select' + pid);
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		select.innerHTML = el.innerHTML;
		input.value = value;
		this.chooseSubscribe(post_id);
	};
	
	this.getFormFields = function(post_id) {

		var fields = {};
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var name = Dsq.$('dsq-field-name' + pid);
		var email = Dsq.$('dsq-field-email' + pid);
		var website = Dsq.$('dsq-field-website' + pid);
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid);
		var password = Dsq.$('dsq-field-password' + pid);

		fields = {
			'name': name,
			'email': email,
			'website': website,
			'username': username,
			'password': password
		}
		
		return fields;
	}
	
	this.validateFields = function(post_id) {
		
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) { return true; }
		
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		
		var nameField = fields.name;
		var websiteField = fields.website;
		var emailField = fields.email;
		
		websiteField.value = (websiteField.value == Dsq.Templates.placeholder['website']) ? '' : websiteField.value;
		
		var v = [{

			validator: Dsq.Validators.name,
			value: nameField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.email,
			value: emailField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.url,
			value: websiteField.value
		}];
		
		return Dsq.Validators.validate(v, function(e) { Dsq.Popup.popModal(e, 'Oops...') } );
	};
	
	this.checkExistingUser = function(post_id) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);		
		Dsq.Popup.loading(post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		}
	};

	this.validateAuth = function(el_clicked, post_id, auth_choice) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		var email = fields.email ? fields.email.value : '';
		var username = fields.username ? fields.username.value : '';
		var password = fields.password ? fields.password.value : '';
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		}
	};

	this.lightboxUpdateEmail = function(post_id, new_email) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		fields.email.value = new_email;
	};

	this.lightboxAuthenticate = function(post_id, auth_choice, auth_data) {
		var title, body;
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		if(typeof(auth_data) == 'undefined') {
			var auth_data = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		}

		d = auth_data;

		switch(auth_choice) {
			case 'register':
				var suggestedUsername = d.name.value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/g,'').toLowerCase();
			
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Register a <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';

				body = ' \
				<ul class="dsq-lightbox-register-reasons"> \
				<li>Verify your comments</li> \
				<li>Edit and delete comments</li> \
				<li>Manage comments and replies</li> \
				</ul> \
				';

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Email</td> \
							<td><input type="text" value="' + d.email.value + '" onchange="Dsq.Templates.lightboxUpdateEmail(' + post_id + ', this.value)" /><div id="dsq-email-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + suggestedUsername + '"/><div id="dsq-username-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /><div id="dsq-password-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'login\'); return false">Login instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button type="button" class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Register and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			case 'login':
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Login to your <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';
				body = '';
				
				if(d.avatar_url) {
					body += '<div class="dsq-lightbox-recognized"><table><tr>';
					body += '<td><img src="' + d.avatar_url + '" alt="" /></td>';
					body += '<td><span class="dsq-badge ' + (d.verified ? 'dsq-badge-verified' : 'dsq-badge-registered') + '">' + (d.verified ? 'Verified' : 'Registered') + '</span></td>';
					body += '<td>Hey <strong>' + d.display_name + '</strong>, is that you? Login below to claim this comment.';
					body += '</tr></table></div>';
				}

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username or Email</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (d.avatar_url ? d.username : '') + '" /></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password <a href="http://disqus.com/forgot" target="_blank">(cannot log in?)</a></td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'register\'); return false">Register instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button type="button" class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Login and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
		Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid).focus();
	};
	
	this.buttonsToRestore = [];
	this.setLoadingButton = function(btn, post_id) {
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		if (btn) {

			var loadingBtn = document.createElement('button');
			loadingBtn.id = btn.id + '-loading';
			loadingBtn.innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-lite.gif" alt="" /> ' + Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
			loadingBtn.className = btn.className + ' dsq-post-loading';
			btn.parentNode.appendChild(loadingBtn);
			btn.style.display = 'none';
			var cancelBtn = Dsq.$('dsq-cancel-button' + pid);
			if(cancelBtn) { cancelBtn.style.display = 'none'; this.buttonsToRestore.push(cancelBtn); }
			this.buttonsToRestore.push(btn);
		} else {

			var buttons = this.buttonsToRestore;
			for(var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
				buttons[i].style.display = 'inline';
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$(buttons[i].id + '-loading'));
			}
		}
		
	};

	this.postComment = function(post_id, el_clicked, force, auth_choice) {
		var append_id = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);

		if (Dsq.Templates.validateFields(post_id)) {

			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && !force &&
				((!Dsq.Utils.readCookie('skipped_auth') && !disqus_skip_auth && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled) || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post)) {
				Dsq.Templates.checkExistingUser(post_id);
				return false;
			}
			var params = [];
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
				params.push(fields.name.value,
					fields.email.value,
					fields.website.value);

				if (auth_choice == 'login' || auth_choice == 'register') {
					params.push({
						auth_choice: auth_choice,
						username: fields.username.value,
						password: fields.password.value,
						email: fields.email.value
					});
				} else {
					params.push(null);
				}

				params.push(null /* sharing options */, Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + append_id).value);
			} else {
				var service_checked = function(name) {
					var el = Dsq.$('dsq-sharing-' + name + append_id);
					return (el !== null && el.checked === true) ? '1' : '0';
				};
				params.push(null, null, null, null, {
					tw: service_checked('twitter'),
					fb: service_checked('facebook'),
					tr: service_checked('tumblr'),
					wp: service_checked('wordpress'),
					mt: service_checked('movabletype'),
					tp: service_checked('typepad'),
					yh: service_checked('yahoo')
				});
			}

			var frame = Dsq.frames['reply_' + (post_id ? post_id : 0)];
			frame.post.apply(frame, params);

			if (el_clicked) {
				Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
			}
			
			if (force) {
				Dsq.Utils.createCookie('skipped_auth', true);	
			}
			
		} else {
			return false;
		}
	};

	this.editComment = function(el_clicked, post_id) {
		var edited_message = Dsq.$('dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id).value;

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].edit(post_id, edited_message);
	};

	this.toggleEdit = function(post_id) {
		var body = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-body-' + post_id);
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);

		if (!Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id]) {


			message.style.display = 'none';
			if (Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {

				var edit_area = document.createElement('div');
				edit_area.id = 'dsq-edit-' + post_id;
				edit_area.className = 'dsq-edit dsq-textarea';
				edit_area.innerHTML = ' \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper"> \
					<textarea class="dsq-edit-textarea" id="dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id + '">' + message.innerHTML + '</textarea> \
				</div> \
				<div class="dsq-save-edit"> \
					<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.editComment(this, ' + post_id + ')" class="dsq-button-small">Save Edit</button> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id + '" style="display: none"></div> \
				';

				body.appendChild(edit_area);

				if (!Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id), post_id);
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].init();
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
		} else {

			message.style.display = 'block';
			Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id] = !Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id];
	};
	
	this.edit = function(el, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(post_id, button) {
		
		if(!this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

			if (Dsq.$('dsq-reply-post-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id);
				var container = Dsq.$('dsq-textarea-wrapper-' + post_id);
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] && container) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(container, post_id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].init(function() {

						Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id, true);
						Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id).innerHTML = '';

						var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
						Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id), post_id, {theme: theme});

					});
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-append-post';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply-active';
			
		} else {

			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = '';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply';
		}
		
		this.stateReplyToggled[post_id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[post_id];

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie && this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

		}

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: post_id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]
		});
	};
	
	this.moderateOptions = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		if(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) { return false; }

		var html;
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-moderate-options"> \
		<table>'
		+ (_meta.email ? '<tr><td>Email</td><td>' + _meta.email + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ (_meta.ip ? '<tr><td>IP address</td><td>' + _meta.ip + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ '<tr> \
			<td>Actions</td> \
			<td><ul>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
				? '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
				: '')
			+ '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Delete Comment</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li> \
			</ul></td> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		html += '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
		
		return Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Moderate Options', post_id);
	};
	
	this.placeholder = {
		'class': 'dsq-placeholder',
		'name': Dsq.Strings.NAME,
		'email': Dsq.Strings.EMAIL,
		'website': Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')'
	};
	
	this.handlePlaceholder = function(evt, el, key) {
		var placeholder = Dsq.Templates.placeholder[key];
		var className = Dsq.Templates.placeholder['class'];
		
		switch(evt.type) {
			case 'focus':
				if(el.value == placeholder) {
					el.value = '';
					el.className = '';
				}
				break;

			case 'blur':
				if(el.value == '') {
					el.value = placeholder;
					el.className = className;
				}
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
	};
	
	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked) {

		var extra_params = '';

		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked);
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'the_iphone_reality_distortion_field'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};
	
	
	this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {


		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
			}
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/vote.js'
				+ '?post_id='    + id
				+ '&vote='        + vote);
		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login('To rate, please log in');
		}
	};

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {

		Dsq.$('dsq-like-pts-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.';

		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;';
		}
	};




	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {
		var approved = response.message.post_meta.approved;

		if (parent_post_id) {
			Dsq.Post.toggleReply(parent_post_id);
		}

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
		
		if (approved) {
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		} else {			
			var unapproved_msg = 'Thanks for posting!\
	 Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.\
			';
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(unapproved_msg, 'Comment awaiting approval', post_id);
		}

		var sharing_results = response.message.sharing_results;
		var sharing_errors = '';
		for (var service in sharing_results) {
			if (sharing_results.hasOwnProperty(service) === true) {
				if (sharing_results[service].error === true) {
					sharing_errors += service + ', ';
				}
			}
		}

		if (sharing_results.facebook && sharing_results.facebook.callback) {
			FB.ensureInit(function() {
				FB.Connect.streamPublish('', sharing_results.facebook.attachment);
			});
		}

		if (sharing_errors !== '') {
			var message = 'Your comment was posted, but there were errors sharing with the following connections: ';
			message += sharing_errors.replace(/,\s$/, '');
			message += '<p><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections" target="_blank">Configure your connections here</a></p>'
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sharing options');
		}

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.postComment_onFailure = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
};




// TODO: It might be faster to use string methods to find all <li (...) </li> blocks and pass to Dsq.PostHandler manually.
Dsq.CommentsHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_post = Dsq.Templates.prependPost(post_id);
	var append_post = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(post_id);

	content = content.replace(Dsq.POST_RE, Dsq.PostHandler);
	Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter++;
	head = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContainer(post_id, head);
	return prepend_post + head + content + tail + append_post;
};

Dsq.PostHandler = function(str, h_head, post_id, h_content, h_tail, b_head, b_content, b_tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_header = Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader(post_id);
	var append_header = Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader(post_id);
	var prepend_body = Dsq.Templates.preBody(post_id);
	var append_body = Dsq.Templates.postBody(post_id);
	var append_footer = Dsq.Templates.postFooter(post_id);

	b_content = b_content.replace(Dsq.POST_BODY_RE, Dsq.PostBodyHandler);
	return h_head + prepend_header + h_content + append_header + h_tail + b_head + prepend_body + b_content + append_body + b_tail + append_footer;
};

Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	content = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContent(post_id, content);
	return head + content + tail;
};

Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
	args = args.split(' ');
	if(args[0] == 'seesmic') {
		return '<br />' + Dsq.Templates.mediaSeesmic(args[1], args[2]);
	}
	return '';
};


/**
 * Shorcuts
 */
Dsq.$ = function(element) { return document.getElementById(element); };
Dsq.$b = document.body || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];


/**
 * Dsq.Debug: Logging functions.
 */

Dsq.Debug = new function() {this.log=function(s){};this.profile=function(f){if(typeof f == 'function')return f();else return eval(f);};};


/**
 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
 */
Dsq.Urls = new function() {
	this.LOGIN = '/profile/login/';
	this.LOGOUT = '/logout/';
	this.REPLY = 'http://scobleizer.disqus.com/the_iphone_reality_distortion_field/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/images/noavatar92.png';
};
// Dsq.Urls

/**
 * Dsq.Validators: Validation for form fields
 */
Dsq.Validators = new function() {
	this.VALID_EMAIL_RE = /^[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*\@(([a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*)+\.[a-z]{2,}|([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+)$/i;
	this.name = function(name) {
		var error = false;

		if(typeof Dsq.Templates.placeholder !== 'undefined' &&
		   name == Dsq.Templates.placeholder.name) {
			error = true;
		}
		if(name.length <= 1) {
			error = true;
		}

		if(error) {
			return "Please enter a name to comment.";
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	};
	this.email = function(addr) {
		if(Dsq.Validators.VALID_EMAIL_RE.test(addr)) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
		}
	};
	this.url = function(addr) {
		if(!addr || addr.indexOf('.') != -1) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please check your website URL (this field is optional).";
		}
	};

	this.validate = function(bulk_validation, failure_callback) {
		failure_callback = failure_callback || function(e){ alert(e); };

		for(var i = 0; i < bulk_validation.length; i++) {
			v = bulk_validation[i];
			ret = v.validator(v.value);
			if(ret !== true) {
				failure_callback(ret);
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	};
};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
Dsq.Utils = new function() {
	this.ie = /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
	this.ie7 = (document.all && !window.opera && window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true : false;
	this.ie6 = (!window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true: false;
	this.webkit = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('AppleWebKit/') >= 0;
	this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = {};
	this._styleSheet = null;

	this.gebiFromElement = function(el, id, tag) {
		// This only method only helps IE.
		if(!this.ie) {
			return Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var cacheKey = el.id + '-' + tag;
			tag = tag || 'div';
			if(typeof this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] != 'undefined') {
				collection = this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey];
			} else {
				collection = el.getElementsByTagName(tag);
				this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] = collection;
			}

			for(var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
				if(collection[i].id == id) {
					return collection[i];
				}
			}
			return null;
		}
	};

	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
		var node = document.createElement('document:ready');
		try {
			node.doScroll('left');
			func();
			node = null;
		} catch(err) {
			setTimeout(function() { Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(func); }, 10);
		}
	};


	// Courtesy of http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
	this.createCookie = function(name,value,days) {
		if (days) {
			var date = new Date();
			date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
			var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
		}
		else var expires = "";
		document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
	};

	this.readCookie = function(name) {
		var nameEQ = name + "=";
		var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
		for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
			var c = ca[i];
			while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
			if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.eraseCookie = function(name) {
		Dsq.Utils.createCookie(name,"",-1);
	};

	this.deleteNode = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			this.deleteChildren(node);
			if(typeof node.outerHTML != 'undefined') { node.outerHTML = ''; }
			else if(node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); }
			delete node;
		}
	};

	this.deleteChildren = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			for(var x = node.childNodes.length-1; x >= 0; x--) {
				var childNode = node.childNodes[x];
				if(childNode.hasChildNodes()) { this.deleteChildren(childNode); }
				if(typeof childNode.outerHTML != 'undefined') { childNode.outerHTML = ''; }
				else node.removeChild(childNode);
				delete childNode;
			}
		}
	};

	this.findPos = function(obj) {
		var curleft = 0;
		var curtop = 0;
		if (obj.offsetParent) {
			do {
				curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
				curtop += obj.offsetTop;
			} while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
		}
		return [curleft,curtop];
	};

	this.getWindowSize = function() {
		var windowWidth = -1;
		var windowHeight = -1;

		if(typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number') { //Non-IE
			windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
		} else if(document.documentElement) { // IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
			windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
			windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight;
		}

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

	this.getScrollPos = function() {
		var scrollWidth, scrollTop;

		if(document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollWidth)) {
			scrollWidth = document.documentElement.scrollWidth;
			// IE is weird here.  If no doctype is provided, document.body.scrollTop is 0,
			// otherwise document.documentElement.scrollTop is 0.
			scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
		} else if(document.body.scrollTop && document.body.scrollWidth) {
			scrollWidth = document.body.scrollWidth;
			scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop;
		}

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

	this.addEventListener = function(instance, eventName, listener) {
		var listenerFn = listener;
		if (instance.addEventListener) {
			instance.addEventListener(eventName, listenerFn, false);
		} else if (instance.attachEvent) {
			listenerFn = function() {
				listener(window.event);
			};
			instance.attachEvent("on" + eventName, listenerFn);
		} else {
			throw new Error("Event registration not supported");
		}
		return {
			instance: instance,
			name: eventName,
			listener: listenerFn
		};
	};

	this.removeEventListener = function(event) {
		var instance = event.instance;
		if (instance.removeEventListener) {
			instance.removeEventListener(event.name, event.listener, false);
		} else if (instance.detachEvent) {
			instance.detachEvent("on" + event.name, event.listener);
		}
	};

	this.fixIframesIE = function(id) {
		var disqusThread = Dsq.$(disqus_container_id);
		var iframes = disqusThread.getElementsByTagName('iframe');

		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-content');
		}

		for(i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
			if (container) {
				iframes[i].style.width = container.offsetWidth;
			}
		}
	};

	this.getElementsByClassName = function(oElm, strTagName, strClassName) {
	/* Credit: Jonathan Snook [http://www.snook.ca/jonathan], Robert Nyman [http://www.robertnyman.com] */
		var arrElements = (strTagName == "*" && oElm.all)? oElm.all : oElm.getElementsByTagName(strTagName);
		var arrReturnElements = new Array();
		strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, "\\-");
		var oRegExp = new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + strClassName + "(\\s|$)");
		var oElement;
		for(var i = 0; i < arrElements.length; i++) {
			oElement = arrElements[i];
			if(oRegExp.test(oElement.className)) {
				arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
			}
		}
		return (arrReturnElements);
	};

	this.postToUrl = function(url, post_data, opt_redirect) {
		var form = document.createElement('form');
		var iframe_container = document.createElement('div');
		var id = 'dsq-temp-iframe-' + (new Date()).getTime();

		form.method = 'POST';
		form.action = url;
		if (!opt_redirect) {
			form.target = id;
		}
		iframe_container.innerHTML = '<iframe style="display:none" name="' + id + '" id="' + id + '"></iframe>';

		for(var key in post_data) {
			if(post_data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var input = document.createElement('input');
				input.name = key;
				input.type = 'hidden';
				input.value = post_data[key];

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

		Dsq.$b.appendChild(iframe_container);
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(form);
		form.submit();
	};

	// Strips integer id from id of element in the form ('some-id-###')
	this.extractId = function(e) {
		var chunks = e.id.split('-');
		if(chunks.length <= 1) {
			return 0;
		} else {
			var retval = parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
			return !isNaN(retval) ? retval : null;
		}
	};

	this.getStyle = function(el, styleProp) {
		if(el.currentStyle) {
			var y = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
		} else if(window.getComputedStyle) {
			var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
		}

		if(y == 'transparent' || y == '') {
			this.getStyle(el.parentNode, styleProp);
		} else {
			return y;
		}
	};

	this.execScript = function(url, append_qs, container) {
		var script = document.createElement('script');
		append_qs = typeof append_qs == 'undefined' ? true : append_qs;
		container = container || Dsq.container;

		if(append_qs) {
			var j = (url.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? '&' : '?';
			url += j + (new Date()).getTime();
		}
		script.type = 'text/javascript';
		script.charset = 'UTF-8';
		script.src = url;
		container.appendChild(script);
		return script;
	};

	this.pluralize = function(num, singular, plural) {
		return (num != 1) ? plural || 's' : singular || '';
	};

	this.getRequestParams = function(queryString /* optional */) {
		var pairs, tuple;
		var params = {};

		queryString = queryString || window.location.search.substring(1);
		pairs = queryString.split('&');

		for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i]; i++) {
			tuple = pair.split('=');
			params[tuple[0]] = (tuple[1] || true);
		}

		return params;
	};

	this.addCssRule = function(selector, styleText, index) {
		var stylesheet;
		index = index || 0;

		if(!this._styleSheet) {
			var styleEl = document.createElement('style');
			document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(styleEl);
			this._styleSheet = styleEl.sheet;
			if(!this._styleSheet) {
				// IE does not like our newly created stylesheet.
				this._styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
			}
		}
		stylesheet = this._styleSheet;

		if(stylesheet.insertRule) {
			var ruleText = selector + ' { ' + styleText + ' }';
			if(index == -1) {
				index = stylesheet.cssRules.length;
			}
			stylesheet.insertRule(ruleText, index);
		} else if(stylesheet.addRule) {
			stylesheet.addRule(selector, styleText, index);
		}
	};

	this.forEachIn = function(obj, callback) {
		for(var key in obj) {
			if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				callback(key, obj[key]);
			}
		}
	};

	this._interpolateGlobalContext = {
		// values that get used a lot and are global to the request
		'profile_url': Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE,

		'disqus_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url,
		'media_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url,
		'request_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.username,
		'request_display_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username,
		'forum_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name
	};

	this.renderFromContextStack = function(key, contexts) {
		// Returns the first instance of `key` in the array of objects `contexts` or else ''
		for (var i=0; i<contexts.length; i++) {
			if (contexts[i][key] !== undefined) {
				return String(contexts[i][key]);
			}
		}
		throw new Error('key ' + key + ' not found in context');
	};

	var that = this;
	this.interpolate = function(fmt, opt_localContext) {
		// Interpolate `fmt` named-format string with an assumed global context.
		// Based on `interpolate` in django.views.i18n
		var contextStack = [opt_localContext || {}, that._interpolateGlobalContext];
		return fmt.replace(/%\(\w+\)s/g, function(match){
			return that.renderFromContextStack(match.slice(2,-2), contextStack);
		});
	};

	this.stripTags = function(s) {
		// Removes HTML tags from `s`
		return s.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g,"");

	};

	this.assert = function(b) {
		if (!b) {
			throw new Error('Assertion error.');
		}
	};

};
// Dsq.Utils

/**
 * Dsq.Popup: Popup helper functions.
 */
Dsq.Popup = new function() {
	this.timeHide = new Array();
	this.timeShow = new Array();
	this.activePopup = {};
	this.profileCache = {};
	this.statusCache = {};

	this.showTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the hide timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeHide[post_id]);

		// start the timer
		if(!Dsq.Popup.profileIsOn && !Dsq.Thread.adminIsOn) {
			this.timeShow[post_id] = setTimeout("Dsq.Popup.popProfile(\"" + post_id + "\")", 400);
		}
	};

	this.hideTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the show timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeShow[post_id]);
	};

	this.updateProfile = function(username) {
		// Callback from /embed/profile.js
		if (this.statusCache[username]) {
			var statusEl = Dsq.$('dsq-profile-status-' + username);
			statusEl.innerHTML = this.statusCache[username];
			statusEl.style.display = 'block';
		}

		if (this.profileCache[username]) {
			var _cache = this.profileCache[username];

			var _genhtml = function(text) { return '<span><big>' + text + '</big></span>'; };
			var _no_comments = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS(_cache.comments_count));
			var _no_likes = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_LIKES(_cache.likes_count));
			var _no_points = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_POINTS(_cache.points));

			var statsEl = Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + username);
			statsEl.innerHTML = '';

			if (Dsq.jsonData.users[username].registered) {
				statsEl.innerHTML = _no_comments + _no_likes;
			}
			statsEl.innerHTML += _no_points;

			var activeSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.active_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.active_sites[i];
				activeSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (activeSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = activeSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = 'This site.';
			}

			var moderatedSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.moderated_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.moderated_sites[i];
				moderatedSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (moderatedSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + username).innerHTML = moderatedSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + username).innerHTML = '';
			}
		}

		// Reposition popup after full HTML is rendered
		if(Dsq.Popup.activePopup && Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el) {
			Dsq.Popup.initPopup(Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.type);
		}

	};

	this.showCookieMsgs = function() {
		var title = '';
		var message = '';
		var numAlerts = 0;

		Dsq.Utils.forEachIn(Dsq.jsonData.cookie_messages, function(k, v) {
			if (!v) return;

			switch(k) {
				// Cookie: Twitter
				case 'post_twitter':
					if (v === 'error') {
						title = 'Twitter Error!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-error">Oops, we couldn\'t tweet this comment. Please check your <a href="http://disqus.com/account/services">account settings</a>.</li>';
					} else {
						var _msg = v.split(':');
						title = 'Tweeted!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-success">Your comment was successfully tweeted. <a href="http://twitter.com/' + _msg[0] + '/status/' + _msg[1] + '">Click here to view the tweet</a>.</li>';
					}
					break;
				// Cookie: Unapproved Post
				case 'post_not_approved':
					title = 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-not-approved">Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.</li>';
					break;
				// Cookie: Profile Found
				case 'post_has_profile':
					title = 'Use your existing commenter profile';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-has-profile">You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a></li>';
					break;
				case 'user_created':
					var _data = v.split(':');
					title = 'Profile created!';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-user-created">You have just created a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, the best way to claim, manage, and track your comments all over the web. \
					<br /><br />A confirmation is being sent to <strong>' + _data[1] + '</strong>. Please check for this email in order to verify your profile. \
					<ul class="dsq-list-tick"> \
						<li>Your username is <strong>' + _data[0] +'</strong>. <a href="http://disqus.com/people/' + _data[0] + '/" target="_blank">Click here to view your public profile</a>.</li> \
						<li>Be sure to set your profile picture, as well as connect your <span class="dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> and <span class="dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> accounts. <a href="http://disqus.com/account/" target="_blank">Click here for account settings</a>.</li> \
					</ul> \
					</li>'
					break;
				default:
					break;
			}
			numAlerts++;
		});

		if(numAlerts > 1) {
			message = '<ul class="dsq-list-bluebullet">' + message;
			message += '</ul>';
			title = 'Thanks for posting!';
		}
		if(numAlerts > 0) {
			if(typeof(disqus_cookie_msgs) == 'function') {
				disqus_cookie_msgs(message, title);
			} else {
				Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
			}
		}
	};

	this.helpBadges = function(post_id) {
		var html = ' \
			<ul class="dsq-popup-help"> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile with a confirmed email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, but has not yet confirmed his or her email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span> is not logged in with any account and has not claimed his or her comments.</li> \
				<li class="dsq-help-otheraccts">Other accounts</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> is using his or her Facebook profile via Facebook Connect.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> is using his or her Twitter profile via Twitter Sign-in.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-openid">OpenID</span> is using his or her OpenID.</li> \
			</ul> \
		';

		this.popModal(html, 'Help: Types of Commenters', post_id);
		return;
	};

	this.permalink = function(post_id) {
		var header = 'Link to this comment';
		var body = '<strong>You are anchored to</strong>:<br />' + document.location.protocol + '//' + document.location.host + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + '#comment-' + post_id;

		this.popModal(body, header, post_id);
	};

	this.login = function(header, body) {
		var h = header || 'Login or Register';
		var b = body || '';
		b += Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: 'dsq-popup-login'});
		b += '</iframe>'; // HACK: Sometimes there is something funky with the IFRAME SRC that causes no end tag
		this.popModal(b, h, null, true, 'dsq-popup-login');
	};

	this.blacklist = function(id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		var title = 'Add to Blacklist';
		var message = ' \
		Adding this person to the blacklist will block him or her from commenting on this site. Check the following types that you would like to add to the blacklist:'
		+ (userData['registered'] ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-username" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-username"><strong>Username</strong>: ' + userData['username'] + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ (_meta.email ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-email" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-email"><strong>Email address</strong>: ' + _meta.email + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ '<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
			<input id="dsq-blacklist-ip" type="checkbox" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-blacklist-ip-warning\').style.display=\'block\'"> \
			<label for="dsq-blacklist-ip"><strong>IP address</strong>: ' + _meta.ip + '</label> \
		</div> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p id="dsq-blacklist-ip-warning" style="display:none">	\
				Note: Blocking this person\'s IP address may also unintentionally prevent others, who share his/her IP address, from commenting on this site. \
				This may include people who are sharing the same computer, living in the same house, or using the same Internet provider. Only block an IP address as a last resort. \
			</p> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p style="text-align:center"><button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
	};

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/_auth/embed/remote_settings/';
		var attributes = {id: 'dsq-popup-account-settings'};
		if (typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}

		body = Dsq.Templates._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
		this.popModal(body, 'Account Settings', null, true, 'dsq-popup-account-settings');
	};

	this.popModal = function(message, title, post_id, use_listener, extra_classes) {
		var container = document.createElement('div');
		var header, body;

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

		if(typeof(title) == 'undefined') { title = ''; }
		if(typeof(use_listener) == 'undefined') { use_listener = true; }

		if(post_id) {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message-' + post_id;
		} else {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message';
		}

		header = title;
		body = message;

		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupModal(header, body);
		Dsq.Popup.initPopup(container, post_id, 'message', extra_classes);
		if(use_listener) {
			Dsq.Popup.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', Dsq.Popup._closePopup);
		}
	};

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

	this.loading = function(post_id) {
		var title = Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
		var body = '<div style="text-align:center; padding: 5px 0 10px 0"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif" alt="" /></div>'
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
	};

	this.lightbox = function(message, title, post_id) {
		// Wraps Dsq.Popup.popModal

		var overlay = document.createElement('div');
		overlay.id = 'dsq-overlay';
		overlay.className = 'dsq-overlay';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(overlay);
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, post_id, false, 'dsq-lightbox');
	};

	this.popProfile = function(post_id, userKey) {
		var post = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id];
		if (post && post.has_been_anonymized) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('This message was anonymized by its previous owner.', 'Anonymized', post_id);
			return;
		}

		if(post_id) {
			userKey = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id].user_key;	
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][userKey];
		var elId = 'dsq-popup-profile-' + userKey;
		var container = document.createElement('div');

		if(this.activePopup.el) {
			this._closePopup(null, true);
			if(this.activePopup.linkClicked) {
				this.activePopup.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		container.id = elId;
		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupProfile(userKey);

		this.initPopup(container, post_id, 'profile');
		this.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._closePopup);

		if(!this.profileCache[userKey]) {
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/embed/profile.js'
				+ '?username=' + userKey
				+ '&anon=' + (userData['registered'] ? 0 : 1)
				+ '&f=' + Dsq.jsonData['request'].forum);
		} else {
			this.updateProfile(userKey);
		}
	};

	this._closePopup = function(e, force) {
		var activePopup = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el;
		var id = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id;
		var link = 'dsq-avatar-' + id; // HACK: Specific to profile toggle target

		// HACK: This event should be gone if there is no active popup.
		if(!activePopup) {
			return;
		}
		if(force || !Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, activePopup.id)) {
			// TODO: This is breaking iE?
			if(Dsq.Popup.popupListener) {
				Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Popup.popupListener);
			}
			
			// Kill overlay
			var overlay = Dsq.$('dsq-overlay');
			if(overlay) { Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(overlay); }
			
			try {
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(activePopup);
			} catch(e) {
				// HACK: IE6 throws an error when using deleteNode() with a node containing a <table> in the html.
				activePopup.parentNode.removeChild(activePopup);
			}
			Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {};
		}

		if(!force && Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Popup.activePopup.linkClicked = true;
		}

	};

	this.initPopup = function(popup, post_id, type, extra_classes) {
		popup.className = 'dsq-popup dsq-popup-' + type + ' ' + (extra_classes ? extra_classes : '');
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6 || Dsq.Utils.ie7) {
			// HACK: We can't modify the body before it's ready, so we need
			//       to use an IE-safe "DOMReady" workaround before loading
			//       our popup.
			Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(function() {Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup); });
		} else {
			Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup);
		}

		popup.style.display = 'block';

		var xPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[0] - popup.offsetWidth) / 2;
		var yPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[1] - popup.offsetHeight) / 2;

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
			yPos += Dsq.Utils.getScrollPos()[1];
		}

		popup.style.left = xPos + 'px';
		popup.style.top = yPos + 'px';

		Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {
			'el' : popup,
			'id' : post_id,
			'type': type,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};
	};

	this.isClicked = function(e, id) {
		var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
		while(t && t.parentNode) {
			if(t.id == id) {
				return true;
			}

			t = t.parentNode;
		}
		return false;
	};
};
// Dsq.Popup

/**
 * Dsq.Templates
 */
Dsq.Templates = new function() {
	/*
	 * Counter keeping track of the number of posts iterated over.
	 */
	this.postLoopCounter = 0;
	this.filters = {};
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-post-add';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-post-add';

	this.registerTemplate = function(name, func) {
		this['$$_' + name] = func;

		if(typeof DsqLocal.Filters != 'undefined'
		&& typeof DsqLocal.Filters[name] == 'function') {
			// Push filters to this.filters to unify code.
			this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
			this.filters[name].push(DsqLocal.Filters[name]);
		}

		this[name] = function() {
			var ret;

			if(typeof DsqLocal.Templates != 'undefined'
			&& typeof DsqLocal.Templates[name] == 'function') {
				ret = DsqLocal.Templates[name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(ret === undefined) {
				ret = this['$$_' + name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(this.filters[name]) {
				var args = [ret];

				args.push.apply(args, arguments);
				for(var i = 0; i < this.filters[name].length; i++) {
					ret = this.filters[name][i].apply(this, args);
				}
			}

			return ret;
		};
	};

	this.registerFilter = function(name, func) {
		this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
		this.filters[name].push(func);
	};

	/**
	 * Dsq.Templates.Filters
	 */
	this.Filters = new function() {
		this.commentContainer = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var classes = [];
			if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page > 1) {
				classes.push('dsq-append');
			}

			//
			// Extra classes used for custom themes
			//

			if(_meta.depth) {
				classes.push('dsq-comment-child', 'dsq-depth-' + _meta.depth, 'dsq-parent-is-' + _meta.parent_post_id);
			}


			//

			if(_meta.author_is_creator) {
				// TODO: We need to deprecate the "special" class since it is not properly prefixed.
				classes.push('special', 'dsq-special');
			}
			if(_meta.author_is_moderator) {
				classes.push('dsq-moderator');
			}
			classes.push(['dsq-odd', 'dsq-even'][Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter % 2]);

			s = s.substring(0, s.lastIndexOf('>'));
			return s + ' class="dsq-comment ' + classes.join(' ') + '" style="margin-left:' + _meta.depth*30 + 'px">';
		};

		this.commentContent = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			if (_meta.killed) {
				return '<em>Comment removed.</em>';
			} else if (!_meta.approved) {
				return '<em>This comment was flagged for review.</em>';
			}

			s = s.replace(Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE, Dsq.MediaPostHandler);
			return s;
		};
	};

	//
	// Thread
	//
	// TODO: These need to be stripped of all Django template tags.

	this.authPost = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			return '';
		}
		var result = [];
		result = result.concat([
				'<div id="dsq-auth"',
						Dsq.jsonData.integration.reply_position ? 'class="dsq-auth-bottom"' : '',
						'>',
					'<div class="dsq-by">',
						'<a href="http://disqus.com" target="_blank">',
							(Dsq.jsonData.integration.disqus_logo ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/by-disqus.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">') :
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/dsq-button-120x19.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">')
							),
						'</a>',
					'</div>',
					'<div class="dsq-auth-header">',
						'<h3 id="dsq-add-new-comment" class="dsq-h3-addcomment">',
								Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT,
						'</h3>',
						'<div id="dsq-login">',
						(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
								? '<p class="dsq-login-message" id="dsq-login-message">You are commenting as a <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. You may select one to log into:</p>'
								: '')
		]);
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			result = result.concat([
							Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
								'<a id="dsq-login-toggle" href="%(disqus_url)s%(login_url)s?next=article:%(thread_id)s" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsq-profile-btn.png" title="%(log_into)s" alt="%(log_into)s"/></a>',
								{login_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGIN, thread_id: Dsq.jsonData.thread.id, log_into: Dsq.Strings.LOG_INTO_DISQUS}
								),
							'&nbsp; ',
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ?
								'<div id="dsq-fbc-login" onlogin="DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin()" size="medium" background="light" length="short" style="display:inline; margin-right:7px"></div>' :
								''
							),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-twitter-login" class="dsq-twitter-login" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect();" style="display:inline; cursor: pointer"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/twitter-signin-short.png" style="margin-right:7px" /></div>', {}) : ''),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-openid-login" class="dsq-openid-login" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL();" style="display:inline; cursor:pointer;"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/openid-login-button.png"/></div>', {}
								) : '')
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
						'</div>', // dsq-login
					'</div>', // dsq-auth-header
					'<div id="dsq-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated" ',
						Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated ? 'style="display:block"' : '',
						'>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-pic">',
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">' +
																			'<img class="dsq-post-avatar" src="%(avatar_url)s" alt="" /></a>',
																			{avatar_url: Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR,
																			url: (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
																					 ? Dsq.jsonData.request.url
																					 : Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE) }),
						'</div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>', {url:Dsq.jsonData.request.url})
										  )
										: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(profile_url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>')
											)
									),
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">',
									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsqicon12.png" alt="%(logged_in_as)s"/>&nbsp',
											{logged_in_as: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username)})
										: ''),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="%(logout_from_disqus)s">',
											{logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN, logout_from_disqus: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('DISQUS')})
										: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'twitter')
												? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using Twitter (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
												 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
												: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'openid')
													 ? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using OpenID (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
													 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
													 : ''
													)
											)
									),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote ? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('<span class="logo-disqus">DISQUS</span>') : ''),
									'</a>',
								'</li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
		]);
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect) {
			result = result.concat([
					'<div id="dsq-fbc-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated">',
						'<div id="dsq-fbc-profilepic" class="dsq-authenticated-pic" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.ProfilePic" size="square" facebook-logo="true"></div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									'Logged in as <span id="dsq-fbc-name" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.Name" linked="true" useyou="false"></span>',
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">using Facebook Connect <a href="#" onclick="javascript:DisqusFbcParentController.logout();return false;">(Logout)</a></li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
				'</div>', // dsq-auth
				'<div id="dsq-toolbar-items">',
				'</div>'
		]);
		result = result.concat([
					//
					//
					//
				((!Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) ?
					// Needs to be translated:
					('<p id="dsq-no-anon-msg">Required: Please log into <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> ' +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? 'or connect with Facebook ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? 'or sign in with Twitter ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
					''
				),
				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
				((Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media) ?
						'<a href="#" id="dsq-media-link" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, false, \'media\'); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.USE_MEDIA + ' <small>&#9660;</small></a>' :
						''),
				'</div>'
		]);
		return result.join('');
	};


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 <span id="dsq-num-posts">178</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/the_iphone_reality_distortion_field/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/the_iphone_reality_distortion_field/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p>Comments for this page are closed.</p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-alert-message dsq-upgrade-message"> \
				<strong>Disqus upgrade available.</strong> Hi ' + Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username + ', this message is being displayed to you because you are a moderator of this site. <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-upgrade-message\').style.display=\'block\';this.style.display=\'none\';return false">Click here for details.</a> \
				<div style="display:none; margin-top:10px;" id="dsq-upgrade-message"> \
					A new theme is available with added features. <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/settings/' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url + '/?p=customize">To change your theme, click here</a> and choose the theme Narcissus. \
					If you do not upgrade, you are missing out on features such as: real-time commenting, new sign-in integrations, and an upgrade interface. \
					<strong>This message will automatically go away in one week.</strong> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			' + html; 
		}
		return html;
	};

	this.footer = function() {
		var html = Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

	this.pagination = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) { Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = ''; }
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.thread.paginate) { return ''; }

		//
		// TODO: num_paginator still uses the template tag for pagination, 
		// 		while append_paginator does it all in JavaScript.
		//		This should all be in JavaScript.
		//

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages > 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.page < Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages) {
			html = ' \<a class="dsq-paginate-append-text" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this); return false">Show more comments...</a>\
	 <button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-paginate-append-button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this);">Load more comments</button>\
			';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = html;
			return '';
		} else {
			return '<div id="dsq-pagination" class="dsq-pagination">' + html + '</div>';
		}
	};

	this.trackbacks = function() {
		var html = '';

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://scobleizer.disqus.com/the_iphone_reality_distortion_field/trackback/';
		}

		html += '<div class="dsq-item-trackback">Trackback URL&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class="dsq-trackback-url" onclick="this.select()" readonly="true" value="' + trackback_url + '"></div>';

		if(trackbacks.length) {
			html += '<ul id="dsq-references">'
			for(var i = 0; i < trackbacks.length; i++) {
				var trackback = trackbacks[i];
				html += '<li><cite><a href="' + trackback.author_url + '" rel="nofollow">' + trackback.author_name + '</a></cite> \
						<p class="dsq-meta">' + trackback.date + '</p> \
						<p class="dsq-content">' + trackback.excerpt + '</p></li>';
			}
			html += '</ul>';
			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
		}

		return html;
	}

	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		/* Reaction HTML begins */
		var item = '<li class="dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-header-avatar">';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'">';
		} else {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="#" onclick="return false;">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {
			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar32.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png"/>'
			+ '</a></div>'
			+ '<cite><span>' + reaction.author_name + '</span></cite>'
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"><a class="dsq-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</a></span>'
			+ '</div><div class="dsq-reaction-body">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-footer">From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
			+ 'via <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : 'UberVU') + '</a>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator ? '&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a class="dsq-hide-reaction" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + '); return false;">Hide</a>' : '') + '</div></div>';

		if(reaction.retweets) {
			var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
			if (num_retweets > 0) {
				item += '<div class="dsq-reaction-retweets">';
				if (num_retweets == 1) {
					item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
				} else {
					item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');

					item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
					var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 15) ? 15 : num_retweets;
					item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);

					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
							+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
					}
				}
				item += '</div>';
			}
		}

		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p>Comments for this page are closed.</p>\n';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-comment-reply-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		return '';
	}

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
								 	<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You are commenting as a Guest. You may choose to log into an existing DISQUS Profile, your Facebook, Twitter or OpenID account to comment on Scobleizer" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Optional:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:18356717" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'scobleizer',
			't'				: 'the_iphone_reality_distortion_field',
			// Do we need encodeURIComponent here?
			'ifrs'			: encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css),
			'to_redirect'	: encodeURIComponent(window.location),
			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
			'ff'			: Dsq.Thread.ff,
			'fc'			: Dsq.Thread.fc,
			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
		};

		base_url += '?' + (new Date()).getTime();
		// Add params to default_params.
		if(params) {
			for(var key in params) {
				if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					default_params[key] = encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
				}
			}
		}
		// Build querystring.
		for(var key in default_params) {
			if(default_params[key] && default_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				base_url += '&' + key + '=' + default_params[key];
			}
		}

		return [
			'<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0"',
			(' allowtransparency="true" src="' + base_url + '"'),
			this._makeAttributes(attributes),
			'</iframe>'].join('');
	};

	this.frameLogin = function(opt_attributes) {
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/login.html';
		var attributes = opt_attributes || {};
		attributes['class'] = 'dsq-post-login';

		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameReply = function(post_id, extra_params, attributes) {
		// Returns the HTML for a reply iframe. Called by Dsq.Iframes.setReplyIframeToContainer
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY;
		var params = {
			'def_email'		: disqus_def_email,
			'def_name'		: disqus_def_name
		};
		if(extra_params) {
			for(var key in extra_params) {
				if(extra_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					params[key] = extra_params[key];
				}
			}
		}
		if(_meta) {
			params['parent_post'] = post_id;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			params['per_page'] = disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			attributes['class'] += '-authenticated';
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameEdit = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/edit.html';
		var params = {
			'p' : post_id
		};
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, {'class': 'dsq-post-edit', 'name': 'dsq-edit_' + post_id + '-frame'});
	};

	//
	// Menus
	//

	this.menuMore = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: "Remove post" button should hide menu.
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')">Link</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Profile</a></li>'
	+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
		? '	<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>' + (_meta.email ? '<li class="dsq-admin-email">' + _meta.email + '</li>' : '')
		+ '	<li class="dsq-admin-ip">' + _meta.ip + '</li> \
			<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>'
		+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
			? ' <li class="dsq-admin-edit"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
			: '')
		+ ' <li class="dsq-remove"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Remove Comment</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-report-spam"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-block-user"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li>'
		: '');
	};

	this.menuMedia = function(post_id) {
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(this, ' + post_id + ', \'seesmic\'); return false;">Record video</a></li> \
		';
	};

	this.dropProfile = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};


		var menu = '<li class="dsq-drop-showlnk"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Expand &#8663;</a></li>';
		var pointsMessage = '';
		if (userData['registered']) {
			pointsMessage = 'with ' + userData['points'] + ' points (more points are better).';
		}

		if (userData['is_remote']) {
			var domain = userData['remote_domain_name'];
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' is a ' + domain + ' user ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
			menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-' + domain.toLowerCase() + '">' + domain + '</span></li>';
		} else if (userData['registered']) {
			if (userData['verified']) {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a verified commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span></li>';
			} else {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a registered, but unverified, commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span></li>';
			}
		} else {
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has not claimed this commenter profile." onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()"><span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span></li>';
		}

		menu += _includeServices();
		return menu;
	};

	//
	// Popups
	//

	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-top"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-body" class="clearfix"> \
				<div class="dsq-popup-body-padding"> \
					<div class="dsq-popup-header"> \
						<a class="dsq-close-link" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/modal-close.png" alt="" /></a>'
						+ content['header']
					+ '</div>'
					+ content['body']
					+ '<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
				</div> <!-- padding --> \
			</div> <!-- body --> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-bottom"></div> \
		</div> \
		';
	};

	this.popupProfile = function(user_key) {
		var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(user_key, null);
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var html = '';
			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == 0
					? '<h4>Connections</h4><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li> \
					<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" title="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" /> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>'
				+ (i+1 == userServices.length ? '</ul>' : '');
			}
			return html;
		};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<table> \
				<tr> \
					<td> \
						<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><img class="dsq-popup-profile-avatar" src="' + userData['avatar'] + '" alt="" /></a> \
					</td> \
					<td> \
						<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user"> \
							<h3>' + userData['display_name'] + '</h3> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats" id="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + user_key + '">Loading...</div> \
						</div> \
					</td> \
				</tr> \
			</table> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-state"> \
				This is a&nbsp;<span class="'
					+ (userData['registered']
						? (userData['verified']
							? ' dsq-badge-verified'
							: (userData['is_remote']
								? ' dsq-badge-' + userData['remote_domain_name'].toLowerCase()
								: ' dsq-badge-registered')
							)
							: ' dsq-badge-guest') + '">'
			+ (userData['registered']
				? (userData['verified']
					? 'Verified'
					: (userData['is_remote']
						 ? userData['remote_domain_name']
						 : 'Registered')
					)
				: 'Guest')
			+ '</span>&nbsp;commenter profile.'
			+ '&nbsp;<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><strong>View more comments </strong></a>'
			+ (!userData['points']
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice">If this is you, <a href="http://disqus.com/profile" target="_blank">claim it now</a> to manage your comments.</p>'
				: '')
			+ ((userData['registered'] && !userData['verified'] && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username == userData['username'])) && !userData['is_remote'])
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice"><strong>Alert</strong>: You have not verified this account. <a href="http://disqus.com/verify">Verify it now.</a></p>'
				: '')
			+ '</div> \
			<div id="dsq-profile-status-' + user_key + '" class="dsq-popup-profile-status" style="display:none"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-snapshot"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td> \
							<div id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Most active sites</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
						<td>'
							+ _includeServices()
							+ '<div id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Moderator of</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupReblog = function() {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<cite><span>Reblog this comment</span></cite> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div id="dsq-reblog-form" class="dsq-reblog-form"> \
			</div> \
		';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupModal = function(title, message) {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<h3>' + title + '</h3> \
		';

		bodyHtml = message;

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.alertContent = function(name, post_id) {
		var alert = {
			'post_not_approved': {
				'title': 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator',
				'message': 'Thanks for posting. Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.'
			},
			'post_has_profile': {
				'title': 'Use your existing commenter profile',
				'message': 'You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> commenter profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a>'
			}
		};
		return alert[name] || false;
	};

	//
	// Actions
	//

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {
		// Update number of points
		Dsq.$('dsq-points-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.';

		// Update link text
		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.';
		}
	};

	this.subscribed = function(status) {
		var title, message;

		if(status) {
			title = 'Subscribed!';
			message = 'You have subscribed to this comment thread. New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox, where you may read and respond by email.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">Unsubscribe</a> \
			';
		} else {
			title = 'Unsubscribed';
			message = 'You have unsubscribed to this comment thread. New comments will no longer be sent to your email inbox.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a> \
			';
		}

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

	};
	
	this.highlighted = function() {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('This comment has been highlighted.', 'Highlighted comment');
	};

	//
	// Media
	//

	this.mediaSeesmic = function(id, thumb) {
		return ' \
			<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_preview" class="dsq-seesmic-preview"><a href="http://www.seesmic.com/video/' + id + '" target="_blank" class="see_link">&nbsp;</a> \
				<div style="display:block;width:160px; height:120px; border:none; background-image:url(http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/' + thumb + ')"> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_hide" class="seePlayOverlay" style="display:none;"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',false)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/stopOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_show" class="seePlayOverlay"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',true)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/playOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; border:none; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			<div id="' + id + '_content" style="display:block; width:100%; padding-top:5px"></div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(parent_post_id) {
		// Increment post count
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');
		
		if (num_posts) { 
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) { 
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
	};
};
// Dsq.Templates


/**
 * Dsq.Post
 */
Dsq.Post = new function() {
	this.openedMenu = {};
	this.menuEventListener = null;
	this.stateReplyToggled = {};
	this.stateEditToggled = {};
	this.stateRecordLink = {};

	/**
	 * Inserts a new post into the document.
	 *
	 * @param after_id {Number}	Insert a post before specified id.  If after_id
	 *							evaluates to false, then post in the front.  If
	 *							after_id is -1, post at the end.
	 */
	this.insert = function(after_id, id, message, author) {
		// Skeleton template from thread_posts.html.
		var skeleton = ' \
			<li id="dsq-comment-%(id)s"> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-header-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-header"> \
					<cite id="dsq-cite-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-cite"> \
						<a id="dsq-author-user-%(id)s" href="%(author_url)s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">%(author_name)s</a> \
					</cite> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-body-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-body"> \
					<div id="dsq-comment-message-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-message">%(message)s</div> \
				</div> \
			</li> \
		';
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var _user_meta = Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key];
		var markup = Dsq.Utils.interpolate(skeleton, {
			id: id,
			message: message,
			author_url: _user_meta.blog,
			author_name: _user_meta.display_name
		});
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		markup = markup.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
		div.innerHTML = markup;

		if (after_id === -1) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').appendChild(div);
		} else if (!after_id) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').insertBefore(div, Dsq.$('dsq-comments').firstChild);
		} else if (Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + after_id)) {
			// Get next node after "after_id", so we can insert before it.
			// If "after_id" is the last comment, the target node is the
			// last node.
			
			// var append_post_id = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(after_id).replace('<div id="','').replace('"></div>', '');
			var append_post_id = 'dsq-append-post-' + after_id;
			var node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			while (node = node.nextSibling) {
				if (!node || node.nodeType == 1) { // 1 == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!node) {
				node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			}
			node.parentNode.insertBefore(div, node);
		}
	};

	this.incrementPostCount = function() {
		
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');

		if (num_posts) {
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) {
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
	}
	
	this.outlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className += ' dsq-comment-outline';
		setTimeout("(function () { Dsq.Post.clearOutlineComment(" + post_id + ") })()", 3000);
	};
	
	this.clearOutlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className.replace('dsq-comment-outline', '');
	};

	this.showMenu = function(el, id, name) {
		var anchorPos = Dsq.Utils.findPos(el);
		var menu = document.createElement('ul');

		if(this.openedMenu) {
			if(this.openedMenu.linkClicked) {
				this.openedMenu.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		switch(name) {
			case 'more':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMore(id);
				break;
			case 'media':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMedia(id);
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}

		// Add menu to document body
		menu.id = 'dsq-menu-' + id;
		menu.className = 'dsq-menu';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(menu);

		// Position and show
		anchorPos[1] += 15;
		menu.style.left = anchorPos[0] + 'px';
		menu.style.top = anchorPos[1] + 'px';
		menu.style.display = 'block';

		// Set global reference
		this.openedMenu = {
			'el' : menu,
			'id' : id,
			'name' : name,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};

		// Set listener
		this.menuEventListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._hideMenu);
	};

	this._hideMenu = function(e) {
		var el = e.target || e.srcElement;
		var openedMenu = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el;
		var id = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.id;

		if(!id) {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link';
		} else {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link-' + id;
		}

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

		if(!Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, openedMenu.id)) {
			openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Post.menuEventListener);
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(openedMenu);

		} else {
			// Hide the menu if a link was clicked inside the menu.  We can't
			// completely remove the menu until the onclick event on the link
			// fires, but the menuEventListener will prevent multiple menus
			// from polluting the DOM.
			if(el && typeof el.href != 'undefined') {
				openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el = null;
			}
		}

		if(Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Post.openedMenu.linkClicked = true;
		}
	};


	this.getUserServices = function(user_key, id) {
		if(!user_key && id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
			user_key = _meta.user_key;
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var userServices = [];

		// Keep a full list of supported services. This is the order they will display in the drop-profile.
		// Each service must have a corresponding case in _buildServiceUrl()
		var supportedServices = ['blog', 'twitter', 'facebook', 'tumblr'];

		function _buildServiceUrl(serviceName) {
			var data = userData[serviceName];
			var services = {
				blog:		function(d) { return d; },
				twitter:	function(d) { return d; },
				facebook:	function(d) { return d; },
				tumblr:		function(d) { return 'http://' + d + '.tumblr.com'; }
			};
			return services[serviceName](data);
		}

		for(var i = 0; i < supportedServices.length; i++) {
			if(userData[supportedServices[i]]) {
				var serviceUrl = _buildServiceUrl(supportedServices[i]);
				userServices.push({'name' : supportedServices[i], 'url' : serviceUrl});
			}
		}
		return userServices;
	}

	this.dropProfile = function(id) {
		var dp = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-profile-' + id);

		// IE6 needs JS to display/hide. All other browsers use CSS.
		if(dp) {
			if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) dp.style.display = (dp.style.display == 'inline') ? 'none' : 'inline';
			return false;
		} else {
			dp = document.createElement('ul');
		}

		dp.id = 'dsq-drop-profile-' + id;
		dp.className = 'dsq-drop-profile';

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) { dp.style.display = 'inline'; }

		var container = Dsq.$('dsq-header-avatar-' + id);
		dp.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.dropProfile(id);
		container.appendChild(dp);
	};

	this.dropProfileMore = function(el, id) {
		var hiddenItems = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-hidden-' + id);

		hiddenItems.style.display = 'inline';
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
	};

	this._updateReplyLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "reply / cancel" links based on state.
		var displayDict = {};

		if(id) {
			if(this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				el.innerHTML = 'Cancel';
				displayDict['media'] = 'inline';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'none';
			} else {
				el.innerHTML = 'Reply';
				displayDict['media'] = 'none';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'inline';
			}
		}

		for(var key in displayDict) {
			if(displayDict.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var	linkEl = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-el-' + id),
					spacer = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-spacer-' + id);

				if(linkEl) {
					linkEl.style.display = displayDict[key];
					if(spacer) spacer.style.display = displayDict[key];
				}
			}
		}
	};

	this._updateMediaLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "use media / cancel" links based on state.
		var appendId = (id) ? ('-' + id) : '';
		var link = Dsq.$('dsq-media-link' + appendId);

		if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			link.innerHTML = 'Cancel Media';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(link, id); return false; };
		} else {
			link.innerHTML = 'Use Media <small>&#9660;</small>';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.showMenu(link, id, 'media'); return false; };
		}
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(el, id) {
		// Create reply IFrame
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			if (!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				// Create IFrame if it doesn't exist.
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-frame-' + id), id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].init();
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].setState(id, _meta.depth);
				}
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
			}
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			if(!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				// Reply toolbar
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id), id);
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Iframes.hideAllInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id));
				if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
					// HACK: Cancel media before canceling self.
					this.toggleMediaReply(Dsq.$('dsq-media-link-' + id), id);
				}
			}
		}

		this.stateReplyToggled[id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[id];
		this._updateReplyLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-reply-' + id); }

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[id]
		});
	};

	this.toggleMediaReply = function(el, id, xtype) {
		id = id || 0;
		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(!this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id, {xtype:xtype}, 'dsq-post-video');
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id);
		}
		this.stateRecordLink[id] = !this.stateRecordLink[id];
		this._updateMediaLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};

	this.edit = function(el, id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.frameEdit(id);
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-comment-message-' + id); }
	};

    this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
                Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
            }

            Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/vote.js'
                + '?post_id='    + id
                + '&vote='        + vote);

		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login(Dsq.Strings.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN);
		}
    };

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/the_iphone_reality_distortion_field/post_report/', {'post_id': id});
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Thank you. This comment has been flagged for moderator attention.', 'Successfully flagged');
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$('dsq-post-report-' + id));
		} else {
			var title = Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT;
			var message = Dsq.Strings.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR + '? \
			<br /><br /> \
			<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.NO + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.NEVER_MIND + '</button>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + id + ', true);"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.YES + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT + '</button><br /><br />'
			+ Dsq.Strings.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION + '. \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, id);
		}
	};



	this.showAlert = function(id, msg) {
		var msgEl = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id);
		var alert = '<div class="dsq-comment-alert">' + msg + '</div>';

		msgEl.innerHTML = alert + msgEl.innerHTML;
	};

};
// Dsq.Post


/**
 * Dsq.Thread
 */
Dsq.Thread = new function() {
	this.fc = null;
	this.ff = null;
	this.ac = null;

	
	this.adminIsOn = false;

	
	
	

	this.hlComment = null;
	this.hlCommentClass = null;

	this.getNextComment = function(el) {
		var start_id = el.id;
		while(el = el.nextSibling) {
			if(el.id && el.id.indexOf('dsq-comment-') != -1 && el.id != start_id) {
				return el;
			}
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.getActiveCommentId = function() {
		if (document.URL.indexOf('#comment-') >= 0) {
			var anchor = document.URL.slice(document.URL.indexOf('#') + 1);
			return anchor.replace('comment-', '');
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.highlightAnchor = function() {
		var i = this.getActiveCommentId();
		if (i == null) return false;
		var id = 'dsq-comment-' + i;
		var hash = window.location.hash;

		// Toggle the hash incase the comment isn't available when the page loads
		// for WebKit-based browsers.
		if (Dsq.Utils.webkit) {
			window.location.hash = '';
			window.location.hash = hash;
		}

		this.hlComment = Dsq.$(id);
		// Adding this conditional guard pending #289
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlCommentClass = this.hlComment.className;
		this.hlComment.className += ' dsq-hl-anchor';

		setTimeout("Dsq.Thread.highlightClear()", 3000);
	};

	this.highlightClear = function() {
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlComment.className = this.hlCommentClass;
	};

	this.login = function(toggle) {
		// toggle id is #dsq-reply-login-[id]
		var postId;
		if(toggle.id.indexOf('dsq-reply-login') != -1) {
			postId = toggle.id.slice(16);
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + postId);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(toggle) {
			if(toggle.className == 'dsq-login-active') {
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(container, postId);
				toggle.className = '';
			} else {
				Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
				toggle.className = 'dsq-login-active';
			}
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
		}

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};


	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked, per_page) {
		// Use extra_params to pass any override parameters that we need to persist.
		var extra_params = '';

		// "Per page" can either be overriden by providing it as an argument
		// (per-call) or setting the disqus_per_page override variable (global).
		if(typeof per_page == 'undefined') {
			per_page = null;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined' && per_page === null) {
			per_page = disqus_per_page;
		}

		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}
		if(per_page !== null) {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + per_page;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			el_clicked.style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'the_iphone_reality_distortion_field'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};

	this.sortBy = function(sort) {
		var disqus_script = document.createElement('script');
		var disqus_date = new Date();

		if (location.hash != '') {
			location.hash = '#disqus_thread';
		}

		if(typeof(disqus_url) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_url = disqus_href;
		}
		disqus_script.type = 'text/javascript';
		disqus_script.src = 'http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'the_iphone_reality_distortion_field'
			+ '&sort='	+ sort
			+ '&title='
			+ '&'		+ disqus_date.getTime();

		Dsq.$('dsq-comments').innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif">';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(disqus_script);
	};

	this.subscribe = function(status, email) {
		// `status` is an int -- 1 to subscribe, 0 to unsubscribe
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || email) {
			// If authenticated user OR anonymous email provided

			if(email) {
				Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
			}

			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ 'the_iphone_reality_distortion_field'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
		}
	};

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

  this.showModeratorActions = function() {
      if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
          return;
      }

      var html = '<div class="dsq-moderate-options"><table><tr>' +
                 '<td>' + Dsq.Strings.ACTIONS + '</td><td><ul>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleClosed(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.closed ? Dsq.Strings.OPEN_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.CLOSE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleKilled(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.killed ? Dsq.Strings.RESTORE_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.REMOVE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '</ul></td></tr></table></div>' +
              '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate-threads/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
      Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, Dsq.Strings.MODERATE_OPTIONS);
  };

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		  var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		  var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		  Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		  status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		  window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};

  this.toggleClosed = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/toggle_thread_closed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };

  this.toggleKilled = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/toggle_thread_killed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };
};
// Dsq.Thread

Dsq.Events = function() {
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/18356717/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

	this.update = function(timestamp, posts, users) {
		ongoing_request = false;
		last_checked = timestamp;

		if (users) {
			for (var user_id in users) {
				if (users.hasOwnProperty(user_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id] = users[user_id];
					}
				}
			}
		}

		if (posts) {
			for (var post_id in posts) {
				if (posts.hasOwnProperty(post_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] = posts[post_id];
						new_posts.push(post_id);
					}
				}
			}

			if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				insertNewPosts();
			} else {
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
		}
	};

}();

// DEPRECATED
Dsq.Iframes = function() {
	// Different style of object from the above. Hoping to switch to this for some reason.
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var showIframeInContainer = function(container, id, markup) {
		// Look through container for iframes, hiding them, except show one that matches id
		// If none of them matched id, create a new iframe using markup and insert it.
		// Returns the iframe node if and only if it was newly created.
		var found = false;
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				if (child.id == id) {
					child.style.display = 'block';
					found = true;
				} else {
					child.style.display = 'none';
				}
			}
		}
		if (found) {
			return;
		}
		// The iframe wasn't found, so construct it and add it to the container.
		// Don't use innerHTML because it might reload iframes
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		div.innerHTML = markup;
		var iframe = div.childNodes[0];
		div.removeChild(iframe);
		container.appendChild(iframe);
		return iframe;
	};

	// Public
	obj.makeReplyIframeId = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var id = 'dsq-post-add-iframe';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			id += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			id += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return id;
	};
	obj.makeLoginIframeId = function(opt_postId) {
		if (!opt_postId) {
			return 'dsq-login-iframe';
		}
		return 'dsq-login-iframe-' + opt_postId;
	};
	obj.makeReplyIframeName = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var name = 'dsq-reply-frame';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			name += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			name += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return name;
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId, opt_extraParams, opt_className) {
		// Construct the id so we can check if it's already present.
		// Hide any other iframes we find, and show this one if it's found.
		var params = opt_extraParams || {};
		// use xtype in the id and name so we can distinguish media replies from text replies:
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeId(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var name = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeName(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var attributes = {
			'id': id,
			'name': name,
			'class': opt_className || 'dsq-post-reply'
			};
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameReply(opt_postId, opt_extraParams, attributes);
		var iframe = showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
		// It was newly created
		if (iframe) {
			Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED, {
				postId: opt_postId,
				node: iframe,
				xtype: params.xtype
			});
		}
	};
	obj.showLoginIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId) {
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeLoginIframeId(opt_postId);
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: id});
		showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed = function(container, opt_postId) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			obj.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, opt_postId);
		} else {
			obj.hideAllInContainer(container);
		}
	};
	obj.hideAllInContainer = function(container) {
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				child.style.display = 'none';
			}
		}
	};

	return obj;
}();

Dsq.Twitter = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startTwitterConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._twitterWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/twitter/begin/', 'twitterWindow', popupParams);
		that._twitterInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeTwitterConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeTwitterConnect = function() {
		if (that._twitterWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._twitterInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Yahoo = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startYahooConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._yahooWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/yahoo/begin/', 'yahooWindow', popupParams);
		that._yahooInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeYahooConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeYahooConnect = function() {
		if (that._yahooWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._yahooInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.OpenID = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.requestURL = function() {
		var message = '<table class="dsq-openid-form"><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;" rowspan="2"><img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url + '/images/openid-icon-100x100.png" /></td>';
		message += '<td><label for="dsq-openid-url">OpenID URL:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-url" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td><label for="dsq-openid-username">Display name:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-username" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td class="dsq-openid-submit" colspan="3"><input type="button" value="Sign in" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.startConnect();" /></td></tr>';
		message += "</table>";

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sign in using OpenID');
	};

	this.startConnect = function() {
		var isblank = function(str) {
			return /^\s*$/.test(str);
		};

		var openid_url = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-url').value;
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-username').value;

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=500';
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/openid/begin/' + '?url=' + encodeURIComponent(openid_url) + '&username=' + encodeURIComponent(username);
		that._openidWindow = window.open(url, 'openidWindow', popupParams);
		that._openidInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeConnect = function() {
		if (that._openidWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._openidInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Reaction = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.hide = function(id) {
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/hidereaction.js?' + 'reaction_id=' + id);
	};

	this.reportMissingReactions = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled) {
			return;
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.queued) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Your report has been received. The system will automatically search for new reactions; if any are found, they will be displayed on this comment thread.<br/><br/>Thank&nbsp;you.',
												 'Reported missing reactions');
			return;
		}

		Dsq.Utils.execScript(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/forums/scobleizer/queueurl.js');
	};
};

Dsq.CNN = function() {
	var obj = {};

	obj.authenticate = function() {
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + "/saml/cnn/try/";
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl(url, {'target': document.location}, true);
	};

	return obj;
}();


if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
	(function() {
		DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE = /<div class="dsq-header-avatar"(.*?)>/gim;
		Dsq.Templates.registerFilter('postPrependHeader', function(html, post_id) {
			// Add "onmouseout" for dsq-header-avatar for dropProfile
			// functionality since IE6 cannot use :hover.
			function _headerAvatarReplace(content, inner, _unused, html) {
				return '<div class="dsq-header-avatar" '
					+ inner
					+ ' onmouseout="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')">';
			}
			html = html.replace(DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE, _headerAvatarReplace);
			return html;
		});
	})();
}





	// TODO: Move Seesmic code outside of the main script.  Don't let this script clobber the global namespace.
	if(typeof seesmic == 'undefined') { var seesmic = {}; }
	seesmic.widget = new function () {
		this.callback = function (data) {
			playerVersion = data.disqusplayer;
		};
	};

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://seesmic.com/version.js?callback=seesmic.widget.callback');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://media.disqus.com/javascript/library/swfobject.js');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	function see_play_video(_videoUri, _add) {
		var swf = !!playerVersion ? playerVersion : 'http://seesmic.com/embeds/StandalonePlayer.swf';

		flashcontentDiv = Dsq.$(_videoUri + '_content');
		previewDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_preview');
		hideDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_hide');
		showDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_show');
		if(_add) {
			// push flash widget
			var so = new SWFObject(swf, 'sotester', '300', '270', '9', '#000000');
			so.addVariable('video', _videoUri);
			so.addParam('allowFullScreen', 'true');
			so.addParam('allowScriptAccess','always');
			so.useExpressInstall('swfobject/expressinstall.swf');
			so.write(_videoUri + '_content');

			previewDiv.style.display = 'none';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'block';
			showDiv.style.display = 'none';
		}
		else {
			flashcontentDiv.innerHTML = '';
			previewDiv.style.display = 'block';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'none';
			showDiv.style.display = 'block';
		}
	};





(function() {
	//
	// Load theme.  This overrides the base templates with template functions
	// from the respective themes.
	//
	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		var theme = 'narcissus';
		// HACK: Set variable on window to use post message.
		window.disqus_use_postmessage = true;

		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Themes[theme]) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Templates[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Post) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Post[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
	}

	//
	// Register templates.  This must be done after all themes are loaded.
	//
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('authPost', Dsq.Templates.authPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('header', Dsq.Templates.header);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('footer', Dsq.Templates.footer);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('trackbacks', Dsq.Templates.trackbacks);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('reactions', Dsq.Templates.reactions);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('prependPost', Dsq.Templates.prependPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('appendPost', Dsq.Templates.appendPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postPrependHeader', Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postAppendHeader', Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('preBody', Dsq.Templates.preBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBody', Dsq.Templates.postBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postFooter', Dsq.Templates.postFooter);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('_popupGeneric', Dsq.Templates._popupGeneric);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('voted', Dsq.Templates.voted);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('popupProfile', Dsq.Templates.popupProfile);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBox', Dsq.Templates.postBox);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('pagination', Dsq.Templates.pagination);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postComment_onSuccess', Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess);

})();

Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9666493">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666493" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666493" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666493">Eshwar S</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666493" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666493" class="dsq-comment-message">iPhone looks very promising however I find it strange that people are raving about its input interface without ever using it. I believe the single most important feature of a phone is its input interface and thats one of the main reasons the likes of Nokia, RIM are so good. I seriously don’t like the idea of using your finger to control navigation. This is not something very new. Anyone who used a stylus most often then not have used their hands when their stylus has gone missing. Its impossibly hard to click the correct button for those with large fingers. Apple has claimed its so smart that it can detect false touches, however that remains to be seen since no one outside Apple has got to use it. If this input interface doesn’t work then I surely think this will severly affect the uptake of the new phone which looks good in rest of the features.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9666489">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666489" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666489" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666489" href="http://digitalhell.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Digital Hell</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666489" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666489" class="dsq-comment-message">The battery is definitely a big issue, and a massive problem.  Until batteries improve, I don\'t think we\'re going to see the mainstrea using cellfones to watch video.<br><br>Although the phone is locked to Cingular and GSM, this isn\'t a massive problem.  Unlocking phones isn\'t hard, and I don\'t think the iPhone will be any different.  Being a GSM device, it\'ll work in Europe too which has a huge celluar phone market.  Won\'t work in Japan though, but they\'re already doing way cooler stuff.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9666488">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666488" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666488" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666488" href="http://www.almostageek.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ET</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666488" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666488" class="dsq-comment-message">After living in Japan and using no more than 10 different mobile phones while there, there is no doubt in my mind that the flip phone/clam style phones are the best choice (IMHO).  For me there is nothing worse than carrying a big chuck of phone in you pocket.<br><br>I hope Apple will come out with a iPod Nano phone or something more sensible...</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9666490">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666490" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666490" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666490" href="http://glpelletier.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Guy Pelletier</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666490" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666490" class="dsq-comment-message">Apple endevor to anything new is usually full of hype then disapointment. I own a Ipod and it does great things for me, however the main reason I got it was to watch and listen during long flights. My battery life is 1 hour after 6 months of use. The service to get it fix is taking it\'s time.<br>These new gadets from Apple are great in concept but short on functions.<br>By that I mean, we (as a collective group of geeks) are used to a certain level of functionality, anytime a new gadget promises more but takes away from the basics is actually going backwards.<br><br>Guy</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9666487">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666487" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666487" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666487" href="http://ian.sundermedia.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ian Muir</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666487" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666487" class="dsq-comment-message">This device is widescreen, but it\'s obviously not designed well fo video.<br><br>2hr battery + 4GB storage = great for low quality mp3s<br><br>I guess it\'s better than the ROKR.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9666486">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666486" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666486" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666486">blogger@wordpress</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666486" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666486" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh and theres six months to the launch - Where will the market be in June 07?<br><br>(It\'s not so much the iPhone. Give Jobs a tea cup and he can talk it up such that you want to marry it :-))</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9666485">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666485" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666485" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666485" href="http://www.stanford.edu/~bcellis" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Byron</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666485" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666485" class="dsq-comment-message">And yet they will still probably move 10m units. It\'s like the iPod: No FM radio! It sucks! I can\'t live without my FM radio feature! CREATIVE already makes three players just like this and THEY have FM radio!<br><br>Apple is betting that GPS doesn\'t matter. Battery life doesn\'t matter. GSM doesn\'t matter. User Interface matters. Seriously, how many people go out and spend their own money on a smartphone or a Blackberry?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666484" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666484">Anton2000</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666484" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666484" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey dudes, some times the oldfashioned guys in ole europe have all the fun with the chicks :-)<br><br><a href="http://www.myqtek.com/europe/products/s200.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.myqtek.com/europe/products/s200.aspx</a><br><br>and to make you much more envy - enjoy the specifications<br><br><a href="http://www.myqtek.com/europe/products/s200/specifications.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.myqtek.com/europe/products/s200/spec...</a><br><br>Want to type fast (eg Dave\'s mobile blog) - a foldable Bluetooth Keyboard might be usefull<br><br><a href="http://global.level1.com/products2.php?Id=796" rel="nofollow">http://global.level1.com/products2.php?Id=796</a><br><br>works with all SIMs even prepaid cards</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666482" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666482">Stephane Rodriguez</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666482" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666482" class="dsq-comment-message">Speaking of distortion field, have you noticed that Channel 9 is linked over at techmeme in the discussion about how Vista is screwing game developers?<br><br>See the actual link : it\'s a post with one comment.<br><br>Hmmm...<br><br>Whatever (techmeme) sponsorship buys you.<br><br>Shame on Gabe on that one.<br><br>And shame on the Redmond lunatics, obviously.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666483" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666483" href="http://ad7gm.spaces.live.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nick</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666483" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666483" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, Apple has time to change and enhance their iPhone, perhaps to churn out half a dozen varieties like they did the iPod and Macs.  But I tend to agree that chances are good the product will flop.  On the other hand, the design will influence the market for years to come.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666481" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666481" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666481" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666481" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666481" class="dsq-comment-message">Stephane: Gabe needs to pay his rent. You got a good way for him to do that?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666479" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666479" href="http://thechrisproject.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Chris Norris</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666479" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666479" class="dsq-comment-message">For some post-revolution perspective, check out <a href="http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=500" rel="nofollow">this thread at MacRumors</a> that started right after the initial iPod launch (found via <a href="http://www.xckd.com/" rel="nofollow">xckd</a>).<br><br>I\'ve had the same phone since 2003.  It\'s a piece of s**t.  Black and white (err, green and black), no camera, can\'t send text messages, can\'t really do anything.  I\'ve been checking out new phones lately.  I want something with a basic camera.  I want messaging.  I want to be able to check bloglines and my email from it.  I\'d like to be able to write blog posts and email pics from it.  I wanted to get it soon, but I\'ll tell you what:<br><br>I\'m willing to wait until the summer to see how this thing stacks up now.  My only big hesitation is that if I get the 1st gen one, a better one will be out in 6 months.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666480" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666480" href="http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Joseph Scott</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666480" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666480" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m curious where you got this:<br><br><blockquote>Battery is only two hours ... (if you play video)</blockquote><br><br>The <a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/technology/specs.html" rel="nofollow">iPhone specs</a> indicate something completely different:<br><br><blockquote>Battery: Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing</blockquote><br><br>Granted that may not be the best battery life around, but it way above your two hours number.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666477" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666477" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666477" href="http://www.merchantsmirror.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ben Hwang</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666477" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666477" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually, the fact that it\'s GSM means that if you have accessibility to the sim card, then you can change it out for any other carrier.   Being such, that means that it does support most of Europe since Ericsson is actually the biggest infrastructure builder in the world and happens to be a GSM vendor.<br><br>The biggest issue will be Asia where there\'s smaller GSM carriers, but mainly they\'re CDMA/SCDMA.<br><br>North America\'s biggest carrier is still Cingular so it\'s not too surprising why they launched there.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666478" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666478">Stephane Rodriguez</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666478" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666478" class="dsq-comment-message">"Gabe needs to pay his rent. You got a good way for him to do that?"<br><br>I guess having an ad block has nothing to do with screwing algorithms so that sponsors are given gratuitous links. Those ad blocks don\'t decrease the value of the service. But gratuitous links in the main conversations do.<br><br>Also, it will be of interest to follow whether Microsoft buys their way in the "conversation" (or lack of) for another month. That\'d be ridiculous and quite telling for a company that should instead be talked about by others.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666474">Mujibur</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666474" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666474" class="dsq-comment-message">OK, this is going to go down just like the CmdrTaco post about the original iPod: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."<br><br>You have no freaking clue.  The signifigance of this device goes far, far beyond battery life or whether it\'s 3G or not.<br><br>Oh, and BTW you earlier claimed all the products you had predicted earlier this year were released at some point.  Where is the Apple tablet Scoble?<br><br>You, just like your former employer, has little clue how to make great technology for regular everyday consumers.  Oh and BTW, it looks most of Wall Street disagrees with you.<br><br>Idiot.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666476" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666476" href="http://www.psynixis.com/blog/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Simon Brocklehurst</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666476" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666476" class="dsq-comment-message">You know - what really amazes me, is that even after seeing the demo of the iPhone, so many people still don\'t get it.<br><br>More on my blog entry, "It\'s The Gestures, Stupid" @<br><br><a href="http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/01/10/iphone-analysis-its-the-gestures-stupid/" rel="nofollow">http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/01/10/iphone-...</a><br><br>Pretty shocking. Of course, the iPhone isn\'t perfect.  But do you think Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Microsoft/HTC are going pick up the ball and run with it from here?  I doubt it.  As someone said to me today, if these guys "got it", they\'d have already done what Apple just did with the iPhone.<br><br>If Apple fixes the mistakes they\'ve made with iPhone, they\'re going to make one almighty dent in this market.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666472" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666472" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666472">Rick Blaiklock</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666472" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666472" class="dsq-comment-message">What I want is the iPhone minus the phone - i.e., the next gen iPod with the full screen etc.<br><br>My phone, with it\'s archaic fixed button interface, strangely enough does allow me to make phone calls and it doesn\'t need to be recharged every night.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666473">Mujibur</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666473" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666473" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh and BTW, not having a blog sure hurt Apple this go round, didn\'t it.<br><br>You don\'t hold yourself accountable for the crap that you consistently spew.  It\'s lame.  You continue to lose credibility.<br><br>Look at Gartenberg\'s comment that it\'s unfair to compare Macworld and CES!  You did that very thing last year.. and oh by the way, you came on the afternoon of the very last day while people were packing up their booths.<br><br>You have zero credibility outside of Microsoft technologies.  All this blog is a vehicle that companies use to reach people.  You have little insight anymore now that you don\'t have access to Microsoft.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666475" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666475" href="http://www.karppinen.fi/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Marko</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666475" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666475" class="dsq-comment-message">The only public information -- the keynote slides -- say that the device gets 5 hours of battery life playing video. If you directly contradict this Apple-provided information, shouldn\'t there be, you know, proof?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666470" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666470">Jonquil</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666470" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666470" class="dsq-comment-message">Apparently Apple required extensions to the GSM network\'s services -- things like the ability to show on the phone who voicemails are from are not standard.   That\'s why it\'s locked in to Cingular, because nobody would commit to adding services unless they got a benefit in return, in this case exclusivity.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666471" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666471" href="http://www.medialoper.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">kirk</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666471" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666471" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey Scoble, do you have anything to backup your 2 hour battery life claim?  I\'m thinking you must have access to a prototype or something, because the official word is 5 hours for playing video.<br><br>Also, I\'m trying to track down confirmation that the iPhone will be a closed system.  That just doesn\'t make sense. As far as I know Apple hasn\'t addressed that issue, so everything we\'re hearing right now is just speculation.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666469" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666469">Andrew</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666469" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666469" class="dsq-comment-message">&gt; It’s Cingular only and GSM. That automatically<br>&gt; keeps more than half of Americans from considering<br>&gt; this and for the rest of the world? They are<br>&gt; laughing about the iPhone now<br><br>I don\'t understand this comment about GSM and the rest of the world. GSM is by far and away the most predominant cell phone standard in the world, the last statistic I saw said something like over 80% of all cell phone subscribers in the world use GSM. As for America, the USA is the 4th largest single-country market of GSM subscribers, behind China, Russia and India (where GSM phones apparently outsell bicycles!).<br><br>Are you seriously suggesting that Apple should have picked one of the other cell phone technologies for their iPhone? Why on earth would they have done that?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666467" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666467">Habanero</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666467" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666467" class="dsq-comment-message">Mujibur@17.. what\'s up with name calling? :P</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666468" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666468" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666468">Brian Lutz</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666468" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666468" class="dsq-comment-message">I suspect that Apple will still manage to sell a few million of these to the "buy two of anything with an Apple logo on it" crowd, and a couple million more people will buy one as a fashion accessory.  Beyond that, it becomes a bit of a harder sell...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666466" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666466" href="http://mickeleh.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Michael Markman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666466" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666466" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve been having lots of IMs and emails with folks who are going through the same sense of let down and raising the same sorts of questions about iPhone gotchas.<br><br>No tactile feedback, battery life, singular, a Steve-perfect closed environment not open to third-party apps, protection for the screen, yada-yada the blogosphere is swimming in them.<br><br>But I\'m still jonesing for it. Or at least I want to touch one.<br><br>The other thing to bear in mind is that with the work Steve showed yesterday, Apple has kicked open a doorway to a very rich treasure room.<br><br>The U-I work and much of the HW and SW development can apply to a whole range of devices: a real video iPod with a hard drive and a bigger battery... a tablet computer... touch-screen control panels for home automation. A really cool universal remote for your home theatre.<br><br>Work on gesture rich U-I has been going on for a long time in a lot of places. Apple may be at the head of the parade to commercialize it, regardless of how the first iPhone fares.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666465" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666465" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666465" href="http://comicstripblog.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Comic Strip Blogger</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666465" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666465" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t understand: why Steve Jobs claims that WITHOUT TACTILE FEEDBACK typing on touch screen will be better than in phones with QWERTY keyboard? This is white lie. Number one lie of iPhone.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666464" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666464" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666464" href="http://blog.nordquist.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Brett Nordquist</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666464" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666464" class="dsq-comment-message">Paul\'s list is valid, especially the part of tactile feel of the buttons. Sure my Treo 650 isn\'t nearly as sexy. But sexy wears off in a few days and productivity and ease of use are what I care about long term. Smart Phones are already too complex for many people. The iPhone must do more than my current phone and be easier to use. If it only does one of those, it\'s not for me regardless of price or carrier. I\'ll wait to pass judgment until I can play with one. But right now it seems like Jobs told me about a lot of stuff I can do with the iPhone but I\'m not sure any of it makes my life any easier. Photos and video are cool but take a backseat to phone and email/SMS.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666463" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666463" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666463" href="http://www.calendarswamp.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Scott Mace</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666463" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666463" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, yesterday I posted some concerns about calendar sharing with an iPhone:<br><br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/v3h8p" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/v3h8p</a><br><br>Scott Mace</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666461" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666461" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666461">matthias</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666461" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666461" class="dsq-comment-message">What’s going on here? Read the features list right: battery life is FIVE hours. And 8 Gigs are a lot of storage since more storage would result in a much bigger device. in europe very few are using utms so gsm is the right choice. give them a chance - it’s great device!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666462" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666462" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666462">Hypertime McMultiverse</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666462" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666462" class="dsq-comment-message">Nothing beats this quote from APC.com:<br><br>"Do I want one of these? You bet! Is it one of the most technologically advanced phones on the market? Absolutely. Do we live in a perfect world? Of course not. Do I wish Apple had reconsidered a few aspects of the iPhone to make it even better? Yep."<br><br>That pretty much sums it up. Scoble, I will make my first comment on your blog in June with my new iPhone.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666460" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666460" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666460">John Gibson</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666460" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666460" class="dsq-comment-message">Matthias, how many devices get anywhere ner the stated battery time?  That is the theoretical limit and I\'m sure it\'s calcualted in a non real usage way, i.e. w/all radios off etc...<br><br>If it get 60% the battery life claimed, I\'ll be shocked.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666459" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666459">John Gibson</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666459" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666459" class="dsq-comment-message">The deal killer for me is the lack of a removable battery.  I.e. the inability to carry a spare battery to swap in when you run down the primary battery.<br><br>If one is a heavy user of the multimedia or internet functionality of the device the option to be able to swap batteries is a requirement.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666458" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666458" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666458">Andrew Kimpton</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666458" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666458" class="dsq-comment-message">Re point (7) - Cingular only might seem like it keeps the rest of the world away - but that\'s just a carrier choice.<br><br>Now if this device had been CDMA only that would truly have kept the rest of the world away. Instead of facing \'just\' a problem of production ramp-up and carrier negotiations Apple would have also needed to design, test and \'fit\' an entirely new radio module into the device.<br><br>Palm is perhaps the only other smartphone vendor out there to have tried it, and frankly I don\'t think it\'s worked out so well for them.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666457" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666457" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666457" href="http://www.thealexblog.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Alex</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666457" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666457" class="dsq-comment-message">The question on my mind isn\'t "what did Apple get wrong?"... my question is "How do they get it so right, every time?"... I think a lot of it has to do with the Steve Jobs factor - the aggressive, "we don\'t take no for an answer" attitude, that seems to be missing from the "team and consensus building" that appears more common at places like Microsoft.<br>I did a post the other day on this very topic... <a href="http://www.thealexblog.com/2007/01/09/iphone-vision-and-making-a-difference/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thealexblog.com/2007/01/09/iphone-vi...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666456" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666456" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666456">Michael</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666456" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666456" class="dsq-comment-message">Forest. Trees.<br><br>BTW, you totally got the battery life wrong.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666455" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666455" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666455" href="http://printhellogoto10.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Lee</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666455" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666455" class="dsq-comment-message">I was thinking about the smudging you would make to the screen with your fingers.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666451" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666451">Lance</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666451" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666451" class="dsq-comment-message">The other carries such as LG, HTC, NOKIA...do get ...apple is not the only innovator..checkout the following links:<br><br><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/" rel="nofollow">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850...</a><br><a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/10/08/nokias-aeon-full-surface-screen-cellphone-concept/" rel="nofollow">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/10/08/nokias...</a><br><a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/benqsiemens-black-box-concept-phone-204284.php" rel="nofollow">http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/benqsieme...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666452" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666452" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666452">Keith Patrick</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666452" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666452" class="dsq-comment-message">No 3rd party development?  That sucks hardcore (at least for me).  One of my favorite things to show people when I have VS.Net running is the PocketPC/SmartPhone emulator for developing software.  Nice thing about being a developer is that if I want a tool that doesn\'t exist, I make one, and trust me when I say you can do some really cool things when you start thinking of little conveniences that can be thrown together in a few hours. And the more people who have that ability means that more people who don\'t code can benefit from them as well (contrast with Xbox/XNA Express)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666453" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666453" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666453">colin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666453" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666453" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s pants - it\'s just a PocketPC with a better interface and lower spec radio, though the UI and the fanboy following will likely be enough to sell quite a few.  My teenage sons have had pocket pcs for 2+ years giving them a phone, music player (now with stereo bluetooth), note taker, games machine, internet access, etc all in one.<br><br>However, that just means that Microsoft should be ashamed that it\'s had all this for 2+ years but but  didn\'t pitch to consumers (just focusing on business) - though it\'s likely that price had something to do with that.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666454" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666454" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666454">Mariano</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666454" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666454" class="dsq-comment-message">Scoble, i see your heart is still a bit on MSFT side... Overall the phone is an amazing upgrade to existing handset technologies, specially in terms of software; sometimes i wonder how phone vendors are so conservative about new features...<br>The battery issue is def a problem, maybe the biggest one, they could have made the battery replaceable so you can always carry a backup, or keep a separate batteries for multimedia apps.<br>GPS would be nice, but it would make the cell a lot bigger...<br>Nokia cells have good features but they are always bulky devices, It is a major issue the size of this iPhone and together with the design i predict this phone will be a huge success all around the world, Why did the V3 RZR succeed? because of its crappy VGA camera? no! because of its nice design and looks.<br>Anyways, who knows what will happen until June.. it they released it today i´ll def buy one, but 6 months its a long time in tech...<br>Scoble, keep the good job, im starting to think about blogging because of you...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666450" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666450">Ben</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666450" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666450" class="dsq-comment-message">As has been pointed out, the rated battery life is 5 hours for video. And let\'s face it, video is not a mobile device feature that most people use on a regular basis anyway.<br><br>"They are laughing about the iPhone now."<br><br>What are you on about? You mean they\'re laughing because it\'s on Cingular? That\'s in the US only, and I expect Apple will partner with T-Mobile or 3 in Europe. Or they\'re laughing because it won\'t come out until Q4 2007 in Europe? No one is going to catch up with Apple\'s UI innovations by then.<br><br>Portable devices are an engineering compromise and of course you can come up with a list of features which it doesn\'t have. If it had 3G, GPS, a 5-megapixel camera then the battery life might really be the two hours you seem to imagine it is.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666449" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666449" href="http://fupeg.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Michael</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666449" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666449" class="dsq-comment-message">Mujibur -- The CmdTaco reference is exactly what I thought of when I read this post. "No gps. Less megapixels than a Nokia. Lame."</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666448">Ben</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666448" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666448" class="dsq-comment-message">Also Kedrosky\'s list is pretty silly.<br><br>You can\'t use it while it\'s in your pocket? Oh no!<br><br>It\'s exclusive to one carrier - this applies to many smartphone launches in the US and beyond.<br><br>It\'s "vaporware" - ie Jobs announced it before the FCC testing process leaked it. Presumably when a vendor like Nokia pre-announces its handsets (which it always does) they are all vaporware too. Does he think there\'s a serious chance that it\'s not going to come out, which is what the term implies? At worst Jobs announced a quarter earlier than usual.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666445" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666445" href="http://www.geise.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">PXLated</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666445" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666445" class="dsq-comment-message">Amazing that people are coming up with lists of negatives when not a single one I\'ve read (in the blogsphere) has even touched the thing. Seems the MSM and analysts that did get a chance to fondle are pretty much positive/enthusiastic. And, they are reaching the minds of real people, not just geeks and bloggers.<br>Reality check...Walk into your local VFW/Legion and they\'ve all heard of the iPhone already today. Ask them about blogs and you\'ll get a blank stare.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666446" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666446" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666446" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666446" class="dsq-comment-message">Battery life is five hours ONLY in audio!!!<br><br>If you play a video, the battery life goes down to two hours. At least that\'s what I\'ve been told.<br><br>Oh, I\'ll buy one too. Why? Because I am a gadget freak and want to be the first one on the block to have one.<br><br>But, I thought I was an outlier and that no one should listen to people like me who just buy things because Steve Jobs made them.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666447" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666447">Rish</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666447" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666447" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br><br>The battery life on the Blackjack sucks too. Infact it sucks enough that Samsung ships the unit with two batteries. However even then I can\'t live without mine, just because it makes my life easy.<br><br>I think the killer app on iPhone other than the phone itself is safari integration. More than videos, I want the ability to browse the web and if I can get decent battery life there, I\'ll be happy. But again that is a personal preference. Still video watching would be an occasional thing<br><br>GPS - With 3G and Google maps, do you really need GPS receiver built into the phone. iPhone is not 3G yet but I am sure by 08 it will be and around that time 3G networks will be fast enough to stream map data live on the phone... with 16GB flash memory caching map data won\'t be an issue and you can always track location of a phone by using signal strength information from cellphone towers etc...<br><br>Cingular + GSM to begin with might not be a bad start - remember Moto Razr, it was exclusive to one carrier when it started out. Now it is everywhere.<br><br>Remember this is just V1 and apple already has a strong foundation. The possibilities are endless for a whole new line of phones. The important thing to note here is that Apple has a headstart over everyone else.<br><br>Remember iPod in an icon... It is the cool thing to have. For most teenagers and early 20s iPhone will do that too.<br><br>Also the Asian market is huge. In the Indian market unlike the US a phone is a status symbol and it is one of the fastest growing markets in the world. In India people don\'t shy away from spending $400 - $450 on phones every year and this market is growing. For these people this is their primary computer and iPhone does a better job at being a primary computer than other phone out there. Just imagine with a docking station this thing could be hooked up to a large screen display and regular keyboards etc... In India that would be a huge success.<br><br>Is iPhone for the enterprise and the business user though - perhaps not but there is a possibility that apple has one in the wraps for the enterprise too. Something that syncs with Outlook, activesync etc and has all the tools business people need. Also with OSX there are lots of exsisting apple shops that could easily build applications for iPhones or port exsisting applications to iPhone</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666443" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666443" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666443" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666443" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666443" class="dsq-comment-message">When I was in Europe everyone was buying 3G phones. That\'s innovative. Can this phone do it? No.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666444" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666444" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666444">Goebbels</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666444" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666444" class="dsq-comment-message">Reality Distortion Field, indeed.<br><br>Jesus. Actually, Jobs bends it, distorts it... this is more like cracking, smashing, completely denying or excluding reality.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666442" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666442" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666442" href="http://vidaday.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Josh</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666442" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666442" class="dsq-comment-message">Does anybody know if the iPhone\'s camera will be able to take videos, or just pictures.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666437" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666437" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666437" href="http://soapbox.co.nz/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">PatrickQG</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666437" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666437" class="dsq-comment-message">"Battery life is five hours ONLY in audio!!!"<br><br>Uh? According to <a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/technology/specs.html" rel="nofollow">the published specs</a>:<br>Battery<br>Up to 5 hoursTalk / Video / Browsing<br>Up to 16 hoursAudio playback</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666441" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666441" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666441">Hypertime McMultiverse</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666441" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666441" class="dsq-comment-message">“They are laughing about the iPhone now.”<br><br>Unfortunately for them, their investors aren\'t.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666435" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666435" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666435">Mike A</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666435" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666435" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br><br>Battery life in audio is 16 hrs.  Battery life in video/phone is 5 hrs.  Please see the official specs again.  Standby is unknown, though one can logically deduce that it must exceed 16 hrs by a large margin.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666436" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666436" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666436" href="http://www.raindropper.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Tomi Itkonen</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666436" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666436" class="dsq-comment-message">Partly, Apple targets its products to people who value design over technical performance and feature set. To slightly exaggerate, those people want devices which resonate with their shiny new kitchens or earrings.<br><br>Another target for Apple is the KISS people. Those want simple, easy-to-use things, with minimum of technical jargon.<br><br>So, I predict that iPhone will find its audience from the people above.<br><br>And Nokia and others will take notice and instill good bits of iPhone into their products - very rapidly.<br><br>It is a mystery why Apple broke the news this early. Why are they showing their cards now; what advantage they are now getting?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666440" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666440" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666440">Orbit</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666440" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666440" class="dsq-comment-message">how much is MSFT paying you for these anti apple articles</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666439" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666439" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666439">Stanley</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666439" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666439" class="dsq-comment-message">"In the BlogHaus last night there were a few “pro Apple folks” who were REALLY disappointed with this. They also pointed out that if you need to text, or email, or blog from your phone that using a touch screen will be very unsatisfactory compared with a Blackberry or a Treo."<br><br>Who cares?  The point of the iPhone is that it\'s a staus symbol.  It\'s a status symbol to show how both "rich" and "hip" you are.  Functionality isn\'t the issue here.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666438" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666438" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666438">LayZ</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666438" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666438" class="dsq-comment-message">Has ANYONE been able to confirm Scoble\'s unattributed comment about battery life?  Or are we just going let him get away with that like he speaks from a position of authority?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666432" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666432">nice research</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666432" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666432" class="dsq-comment-message">Battery life is 16 hours in audio.  5 hours in video/talk.  Haven\'t seen any numbers on standby.<br><br>How hard is this information to come by.  Sheesh.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666433" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666433" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666433" href="http://www.robertbazinet.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rob Bazinet</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666433" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666433" class="dsq-comment-message">I think you are right on Robert, the iPhone is not all what it\'s cracked up to be. One thing to realize...all of the Apple Zombies will buy it just because they have had the iPhone marketing carrot dangled in front of them for so long now<br><br>They hear Apple and they salivate and you will see all the MacBook, iPod toting people with their new sucky iPhones.  Just my opinion.<br><br>Giving credit to where credit is due, Steve Jobs has done a masterful job of people wanting Apple.  Granted, their products are very good but even a mediocre one will sell well.<br><br>-Rob</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666434" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666434">Goebbels</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666434" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666434" class="dsq-comment-message">"When I was in Europe everyone was buying 3G phones. That’s innovative. Can this phone do it? No."<br><br>Uhh, dumb, dumb, dumb... Clearly there can be supply issues and their are definitely carrier relationship issues to be dealt with, but why would Apple delay Europe and Asia launches? Let\'s see: the U.S. is a mix of CDMA/EVDO (with both Verizon and Sprint being the most controlling of their data services) and GSM/EDGE with the migration to GSM/HSDPA incomplete (UMTS is a non-starter, more or less being bypassed in the states because of our lagging the market)... Europe is essentially GSM/HSDPA now or will be by June... Japan and Korea are CDMA. Moreover, in all markets, the world over WiMax may bypass any of these standards as a 3.5/4G standard.<br><br>The iPhone already has 4 antennaes in it: GSM/EDGE, WiFi, Bluetooth. Is it supposed to have NINE?!: GSM/EDGE, CDMA/EVDO, GSM/UMTS/HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth.<br><br>Or should they (1) launch from the dominant world standard and the most advanced, most available "high speed" data service of their PARTNER -- Cingular, Edge, (2)build off that standard and add HSDPA when they enter Europe, and (3) build a CDMA phone when they enter the Japanese market?<br><br>I\'d go with the second strategy and its unlikely that its any other way: based on what is supported/available in Europe, Japan, and Korea.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666429" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666429" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666429">Goebbels</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666429" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666429" class="dsq-comment-message">"Has ANYONE been able to confirm Scoble’s unattributed comment about battery life?"<br><br>LazY, it\'s been confirmed he pulled it out of his ass and made it up. 5 hours, the same as most Blackberries.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666430" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666430" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666430" href="http://whatcounts.com/bin/blog?pid=965AABA79286169C" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">David Geller</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666430" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666430" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert - in this case I think you\'re casting your own reality distortion field. The device doesn\'t yet exist and I\'m quite certain you\'ve not yet touched one. There are three of them in existence - according to Jobs. Three. The product is 6 months out. Except for things we know can\'t change (like adding tactile feedback), everything else is open.<br><br>Regarding GSM vs, say, Verizon or Springs 3G... keep in mind that most of the world is GSM. Apple wants to target as large an audience as possible - not just half of North America and parts of Asia. Though, he\'s already noted that future radio options will come. Also, I\'ve been using a Blackberry (various models, recently the Pearl) on GSM and, frankly, it\'s fine. Great in fact. Rarely do I even think about slow downloads. Certainly for text email, GSM and EDGE are quite good. And, most of us spend a fair amount of time either in our home and office - where we\'re likely to have WiFi. So, if that\'s true, the iPhone has better than 3G speeds most of the time. I\'ve tried using MobilePC phones in mixed WiFi/EDGE environments and found the experience horrible. Apple has a good track record of making WiFi painless, so I\'m hopeful this phone will be very different from others before it.<br><br>Regarding the camera... I just don\'t get it. I realize I may be in the minority, but using my cell phone camera for anything other than capturing Bigfoot or the Lochness seems close to pointless. They all, basically, suck. And pixel count means nothing. It\'s the lens. So, whether it\'s 1, 2 or 5 Mpixels, it\'s going to pale in comparison to your average point &amp; click or DSLR. Still, give the iPhone a chance. In June if the camera still sucks, say so - but back it up by having tried it and publishing examples.<br><br>The only thing I regret over the last two days is not buying more AAPL.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666431" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666431" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666431" href="http://www.itchmerry.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">MRKisThatKid</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666431" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666431" class="dsq-comment-message">So Apple Inc. should have made it CDMA, just for you Americans and the rest of the world which is GSM can go to hell?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666425" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666425" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666425">Keith Patrick</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666425" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666425" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s starting to sink in that this thing costs as much as a 60GB Playstation 3.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666426" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666426" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666426">MGB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666426" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666426" class="dsq-comment-message">It says clearly here in the tech specs section that the iPhone has five hours of battery life for Talk/video/browsing and it has 16 hours of battery life for audio playback.<br><br><a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/technology/specs.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.apple.com/iphone/technology/specs.html</a><br><br>This "two hour only" spec seems to be purely rumor at this point.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666427" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666427" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666427" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666427" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666427" class="dsq-comment-message">Nice: can you give us a URL for battery life? I am going off of what people are telling me here at CES. I will correct my post.<br><br>MRK: no, not saying that. The rest of the world is going 3G very quickly. That\'s what a bleeding edge phone should have. Particularly one that costs $600.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666428" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666428" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666428" href="http://solostudio.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Solo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666428" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666428" class="dsq-comment-message">Some notes on my own enthusiasm for the iPhone:<br><br>If I don\'t wind up buying an Apple product, I surely will be buying something that the iPhone makes possible because of its critical redesign of the whole smartphone/pda concept.<br><br>The iPhone is going to make voicemail usable. Indexed vm is a great idea.<br><br>It will be the successor to ALP/Palm as those guys insist on committing a long, public suicide. Palm OS 4 is as black-belt a productivity/communications tool on a small phone as I could currently wish for.<br><br>I want Notes, Contacts, Calendar, To Dos and email in my pocket. I want them to sync reliably with my Mac. Am using a great flip phone, Samsung i500, that had no successor in this country. (Mexico and China got the i550).<br><br>The iPhone means that by the time I am ready to change phones I will have a well designed tool. Yes, I am looking for a more "Nano" solution than a bulky brick. No Treo in my jeans pocket, maaan! But probably no iPhone v.1 either.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666424" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666424" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666424">Larry</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666424" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666424" class="dsq-comment-message">You cant teather it to your laptop to get broadband Internet access on the go (the biggest reason I use a 3G phone) and no video phone.<br><br>Worthless to me.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666423" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666423" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666423">Patrick Schriner</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666423" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666423" class="dsq-comment-message">You have to compare this to M$ based PDAs, and imho it blows these devices big time.<br>It actually has a design.<br>It\'s got huge storage space.<br>It\'s got a huge display.<br>It\'s got a serious OS underneath.<br><br>Tiny battery? Well I wonder how at all it\'s possible to fit that much hardware into such small a device. It\'s a very small device.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666421" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666421" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666421">Goebbels</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666421" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666421" class="dsq-comment-message">"Nice: can you give us a URL for battery life? I am going off of what people are telling me here at CES."<br><br>Why? Firstly, are you unaware that Apple has a web site? That there are trustworthy sources out there that have had experience with it/interaction with Apple? Why are you just going off innuendo and rumors from people at CES and not doing some real research? It would take you about 5 seconds to find the battery life at the web site, or more easily you could have actually watched the presentation where it was stated.<br><br>Why the hell should we trust or care about your opinions if you are just making them up based on crap out of your ass?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666422" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666422" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666422">Goebbels</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666422" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666422" class="dsq-comment-message">"You have to compare this to M$ based PDAs, and imho it blows these devices big time."<br><br>I would say the MS devices blow the iPhone... oh, sorry, you probably meant to have "away" in there. I agree.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666420" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666420" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666420" href="http://rjmalfalfa.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">rjmalfalfa</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666420" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666420" class="dsq-comment-message">seems to me that the author of this blog has a serious and definitive BIAS against Apple products-<br><br>sad that he can not embrace all companies that at least try to be forward thinking-<br><br>why do i read his rants against apple??<br>I guess no more for me-<br><br>sad cause i really thought this guy was smart-<br><br>see ya</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666416" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666416" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666416">cachorfreelance</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666416" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666416" class="dsq-comment-message">3G support will be included...Cingular and Apple are working on this as we speak. A touchscreen completely changes the game in this space. I think basically everyone who see\'s it goes into shock. One, a shock where they say wow thats just too much. Or shock that theyre Palm stock dropped 20%. Either way, 200 patents means a lot of royalties. Expect Apple to be VERY aggressive in this area just as they were with iPod. And this is just a V1 product. A friend of mine who got the first looks at Motorola\'s lineup for the end of 2007 said it just doesnt compare. Not even close.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666417" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666417" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666417" href="http://www.gapingvoid.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">hugh macleod</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666417" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666417" class="dsq-comment-message">At this rate we\'ll be calling it "Newton 2.0" by 2008....</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666418" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666418" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666418">Scott</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666418" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666418" class="dsq-comment-message">"Nice: can you give us a URL for battery life? I am going off of what people are telling me here at CES. I will correct my post."<br><br><a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/technology/specs.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.apple.com/iphone/technology/specs.html</a><br><br>While you\'re there, be sure to look at the Quicktime demos. They give a clear view of the UI in action and shows how muti-touch works using white circles that represent your fingers.<br><br><a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/ipod/" rel="nofollow">http://www.apple.com/iphone/ipod/</a><br><br>Very impressive.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666419" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666419" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666419">Goebbels</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666419" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666419" class="dsq-comment-message">Hugh, saw your hate-filled cartoon... pathetic. Would you like to wager on the success of Newton 2.0?<br><br>(It has already added almost 12 billion and trimmed a few billion from it\'s competitors market cap in two days. Just because Scoble and his buddies that decided to make up features since they are at the lame conference decided to talk it down doesn\'t mean much. I can point out past successful predictions of Scoble: PMCs beating iPod, iTablet, etc...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666415" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666415" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666415">Darryl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666415" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666415" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey Guys,<br>I just had a great idea. It came to me over the last couple of months as I\'ve read all the speculations and prognostications about how this product sucks, would flop and doesn\'t deliver.<br>These assumptions all made long before the product has shipped or has been handled by any of these prognosticators.<br>I\'m reminded of all the failure predictions of a 5g mp3 player introduced in 2001 at a retail price of $399.<br>The predictions were all the same. Too expensive. Doesn\'t have an FM tuner, not compatible with Windows, yada yada yada!<br>80 million units later, with every potential manufacturer clamoring for what crumbs of market share possible to scrape up, another product is released. The prognosticators having, not learned any lesson, stick their collective necks out on the block again.<br>Anyway, the idea I mentioned earlier is, I\'m going to collect these predictions and speculations over the course of next year and have a regular quotefest by next years Macworld\\CES show.<br>I\'m not speaking only of Apple products here, I\'ll be including any manufacturers product that get pre-judgement treatment from all the "experts", bloggers and responders.<br>We\'ll all have a great laugh pointing out the the foot in mouth predictions.<br>I suppose the point is...Let the product ship. Give it try. Damn, are we so full of ourselve that we can see into the future.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666414" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666414" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666414" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666414" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666414" class="dsq-comment-message">Darryl: I will buy one. I\'m sure it\'ll be a huge success no matter what anyway. Steve Jobs got EVERYONE to talk about it. There isn\'t a single person I\'ve met that doesn\'t already have an opinion on it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666413" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666413" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666413">Nikolaj Stenberg</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666413" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666413" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t know about you americans, but text-messaging is big in Europe. Even if Apples new and patentet screencontroles work as Steve J says, they\'re going to grease up.<br><br>While both camera and battery suck bigtime on the iPhone (nobody in their right mind will deny this), there real issue in my opinion is in the software.<br><br>I\'ve owned 10+ smartphones over the past two years, and I always find, that Symbian OS-based devices (like Nokia) are far superior in speed, userbility  etc. than Windows Mobile-software. In my opinion this is because of experience. The only thing Windows Mobile is good at, is syncing with Windows (... it is a big issue though).<br><br>I\'m looking forward to seeing how well - or poor - Apples implementation of BSD on the cellphone will do. Betting it will be as poor as the first editions of Windows Mobile - but hopefully it won\'t.<br><br>And by the way: If you have to get into the big markedshares, you have to go corporate... Can\'t imagine the iPhone doing that.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666412" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666412" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666412">Scott</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666412" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666412" class="dsq-comment-message">However, I am very disappointed in Apple\'s decision to make the iPhone a closed system. The potential for third-party applications would be incredible. If you\'re an Apple Developer, like myself, who would love to write apps that run on the iPhone, file a <a href="http://rentzsch.com/cocoa/iphoneIndieAppDevelopment" rel="nofollow">bug report</a> to let Apple know how you feel!<br><br>Lack of HSUPA / UMTS in the first generation is unfortunate, but I can live without it. A camera flash &amp; GPS would have been icing on the cake.<br><br>Still, the core features are compelling enough that I\'m buying one when they are released.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666411" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666411" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666411">John Bauer</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666411" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666411" class="dsq-comment-message">Why would you publicly print what people are telling you at CES instead of checking the facts first at apple.com?  Oh right, it\'s a blog, no standards necessary.  And bloggers wonder why they\'re not considered journalists . . .</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666410" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666410" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666410">Nikolaj Stenberg</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666410" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666410" class="dsq-comment-message">@ John Bauer... As Scoble says: it\'s the destortion field... :-)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666409" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666409" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666409">Darryl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666409" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666409" class="dsq-comment-message">Getting everyone to "talk about it" is what Steve Jobs does. It\'s what he\'s done for the past 30 years. Being surprised is like expecting MS to ship a product when promised.<br>Reality Distortion Field aside. Anything this guy introduces, he has a way of making it seem like the best thing since sliced bread. but the market always determines whether it will succeed or not. That goes for any product, not just those introduced by The Steve.<br>My point is still the same. Determinations made about a products performance or quality of it\'s implementations before it ships is just,... I don\'t know... Kinda...STOOPID!!!<br>They\'ve made clear that this thing will not ship for 6 months. Who knows what will happen in that time. Hell, it may not even be called an iPhone by then.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666408" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666408" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666408">mandarin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666408" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666408" class="dsq-comment-message">"GPS - With 3G and Google maps, do you really need GPS receiver built into the phone [...] iPhone is not 3G yet but [...] with 16GB flash memory caching map data won’t be an issue [...] you can always track location of a phone by using signal strength information from cellphone towers."<br><br>I\'m sorry, dear sir, but never has such a short quote harboured such myriad logical fallacies! 3G? 16GB flash RAM? Where did you pick up those preposterous specifications -- from Apple\'s site, peradventure?<br><br>As for the comment about tracking the phone\'s location, I suppose it\'s simply a matter "dry-ungulating" the phone\'s exact coordinates with the help of... ehh, nearby link towers? Heah.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666407" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666407" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666407" href="http://www.CameraPhoneReport.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Alan A. Reiter</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666407" class="dsq-comment-message">Josh (52) the iPhone does NOT have video recording capabilities.  This was ** confirmed ** to me by an Apple PR/industry relations executive.<br><br>The lack of video recording is ridiculous.<br><br>I write about the wireless imaging capabilities of the iPhone in my camera phone weblog:<br><br><a href="http://www.cameraphonereport.com/2007/01/apple_iphone_mi.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cameraphonereport.com/2007/01/apple_...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666406" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666406" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666406" class="dsq-comment-message">John: my blog is not a news article and hasn\'t been fact checked. Thank you for being an astute reader.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666404" href="http://billthecathatesyou.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">BillTheCat</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666404" class="dsq-comment-message">Let\'s see, a "technical evangelist", then a "blogger"<br>for the most part, you haven\'t done anything significant with you life<br>maybe rather than spouting mindless opinions about products you know nothing about you should get a "real job" and try and make something of your life before you tell your grand kids what a waste you were...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666403">Anton2000</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666403" class="dsq-comment-message">Quote of the day :-)<br><br>They begin to look like malcontents who kvetch about the weather so much that they don\'t notice the sun coming out.<br><br><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2002/06/01.html" rel="nofollow">http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/ar...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666401" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666401" href="http://kamalm.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Kamal</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666401" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666401" class="dsq-comment-message">Cisco Suing Apple over iPhone name <a href="http://www.komotv.com/news/5148637.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.komotv.com/news/5148637.html</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666402" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666402" href="http://www.SequimScience.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">dtrapp</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666402" class="dsq-comment-message">I recall traveling to Africa a couple years ago with a spare plug-in battery pack to extend the hours on my iPod.  For anyone needing longer iPhone hours, I presume there will soon be third party suppliers of such batteries.  I don\'t see this is being more than a false issue.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666400" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666400">Keith Patrick</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666400" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666400" class="dsq-comment-message">While I like that the iPhone will support touchscreen (hope they\'re using some smudge-resistant coating), I don\'t agree with Jobs\' dissing of the stylus.  The reason being my fingers have poor resolution - my fingertip is has about a 30 pixel diameter, and my fingernail will hit an area about 10 pixels wide.  For my computer screen, it\'d be fine, and for a lot of tablet and iPhone stuff, it\'d be fine, but for things like writing out text or selecting small controls, I need a true pointer.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666399" href="http://www.straypackets.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">billg</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666399" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666399" class="dsq-comment-message">Watch a 2-hour video on a phone? Better be a good flick.  Wouldn\'t you be upset if your TV shrunk to postage-stamp dimensions?<br><br>It is very unlikely that I will ever buy an iPhone, but it seems to me that it\'s success will depend on how it improves the experience of using a cellphone, not on how well it imitates an iPod running OSX.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666398">David Little</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666398" class="dsq-comment-message">This is a blog and you have to quantify/verify comments and I appreciate people sharing what they see and hear since I\'m not there.<br><br>The Apple site states something completely different regarding battery life.  However, you cannot replace the battery on the current device displayed at CES (device is not out to market yet so we will have to wait and see).<br><br>No third party applications confirmed? <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2007/01/10/apple-vps-confirm-no-3rd-party-iphone-apps/" rel="nofollow">http://www.tuaw.com/2007/01/10/apple-vps-confir...</a><br><br>It may not have GPS but it does have Bluetooth so you could connect to a Bluetooth GPS receiver... BUT you cannot install 3rd party applications.  UGH!<br><br>I will most likely see this device around the neighborhood but will I see it in the workplace?  I doubt it.  I need a device and software that can be used at both the workplace and at home.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666397" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666397" href="http://www.equityfingerprint.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Philip Baddeley</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666397" class="dsq-comment-message">The British press reports "Cisco is suing Apple Computer for trademark infringement in a federal court, for using the iPhone name."  <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6250511.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6250511.stm</a><br><br>I have never seen such a story run and run.  Well done Apple (computers), Inc.  Now everyone has heard of the iPhone!!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666396" href="http://femto.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Som</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666396" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, it saddens me to see you go down the same road as a John C. Dvorak.  Sure, you might find rising hit counts as the Apple "zealots" respond to these types of posts.  But is that a positive way to trumpet the power of blogging?  Or do you do a disservice to the medium which you are so proud of helping to build?<br><br>When you insist on providing demonstrably false information to help make your points (ie- the 2 hour battery performance), you\'re going to get called out.  And no amount of labelling your critics with prejorative terms like "zealot" or "fanboy" will make your point stronger.  Acknowledge the error with grace under fire, Robert.  I\'ve seen you do it many times before.<br><br>Remember that credibility is like virginity; once lost, you can\'t reclaim it.<br><br>I know much of your commentaries are shot from the hip, but fact checking is an important ingredient for establishing blogs as a reliable information medium.  Please don\'t duck the responsibility by saying your post isn\'t a "news article and hasn\'t been fact checked".  Your status as one of the a-list bloggers should compel a higher standard.<br><br>The short of it is your own credibility should require rudimentary fact checking, regardless of whether your blog fits the standard of "commentary" or "news".<br><br>All that said, I write this in the hopes of engaging you constructively.  Especially since I\'ve been called a jerk by you on one other occasion!<br><br>Now as far as the iPhone is concerned, just wait to see what the non-geek public goes for.  Remember the T-Mo Sidekick does quite well as a similar device and the iPhone moves the goal posts against that.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666394">zato</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666394" class="dsq-comment-message">What has changed at Scoblizer since the move to PodTech? Nothing. Three quarters of it was Apple bashing, and still is. What is the relationship between PodTech and MS? Are any of the comments posted here from people who aren\'t being paid to post negative crap about Apple? Blogging at it\'s finest, Robert. Keep up the good black PR work.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666389" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666389" href="http://www.mikeysgblog.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Michael Gannotti</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666389" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay so just like in our last posting I said I expect the AppleTV to do extremely well and make great market stides in grabbing control of that new arena as the next logical extension of the iPod/iTunes platform I don\'t see that happening here. Funny thing is I think this is a much more innovative device that the AppleTV and has much more cool factor. What it doesn\'t have is a virgin market, that much of a differention, multi-carrier support, etc. to make it anything more than another really good phone product in a sea of phone products ranging from bad to great. This will definately be one of the cooler devices out thier but it will not appeal to business (I can here all my buddies in operations at different companies drawing a line in the sand about turning Imap on so people can synch their iPhone), due to cost will mostly only come in to play for new or renewing users who can get it at 2 year subsidized service (and then only Cingular customers) and lets not forget the fact that most cell phones have fairly short life spans so this will have an appeal of one, maybe two years max and would have to be replaced by newer models. I think Apple will have a popular phone here but the market share will be much smaller than we will see with AppleTV and it will quickly be faced by cheaper knockoffs that emulate its function amongst the other carriers.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666391" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666391" href="http://billkosloskymd.typepad.com/lexicillin_qd/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Bill K</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666391" class="dsq-comment-message">Cisco is now suing Apple over the iPhone name.<br><br>Whatever you think about desirability of iPhone, you have to admit Jobs has pulled off a PR coup making CES seem trivial.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666390" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666390" href="http://www.goshen.edu/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">IT Guy</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666390" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t bash Apple for not doing 3G for the US market, that\'s a US carrier problem.  Presumably when they offer it in Europe, they\'ll need to respond to European market realities, where 3G is far more entrenched.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666395" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666395" href="http://www.kakiloc.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Martin Dufort</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666395" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey Robert:<br>I totally agree that a built-in GPS would have made a significant move forward with that phone. Even with rumors of embedded photo geo-tagging functionality. However, as reported by a bunch of other bloggers, this will be a closed phone. Not ability to install 3rd-party apps. This is looking less interesting as the apple skin is being peeled off.<br><br>Thanks - Martin</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666387" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666387" href="http://www.mikeysgblog.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Michael Gannotti</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666387" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree Jobs has done a PR master pice, he usually does and they should be the envy of the tech world in that regards. I also think the phone will be highly desirable but again unlike the AppleTV it is hitting a satuarted market place in a limited distribution channel. Will probably be a Cingular top seller but not have a market impact in the way that the AppleTV has an opportunity to.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666385" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666385" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666385" class="dsq-comment-message">Zato: you think I bash Apple? That\'s funny, considering I\'m typing to you on my Apple MacPro, my wife and son both have MacBookPros and I just bought a MacBookPro and I\'m going to get one of these phones and we just played the keynote from MacWorld in the BlogHaus.<br><br>I take far more shots at Microsoft, but you don\'t notice those.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666386" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666386" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666386" class="dsq-comment-message">Som: I already corrected my incorrect statement and apologized for making that error. You come and work 22 hours a day and type a blog in a car in between halls and interviews and see how good you do.<br><br>IT Guy: OK, I won\'t blame Apple for that. But since I\'m gonna spend $600 of my own money on this, I will blame them for not letting me do video with the camera. I will blame them for not putting a GPS into such an expensive device. I will blame them for making me bring a separate iPod on international flights cause I can\'t charge up two batteries (I want to watch two videos on the way to Switzerland, for instance).</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666384" href="http://timthefoolman.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Tim</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666384" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, the closest device that I have touched to the iPhone is the PPC-6700. I\'m blogging about the diffs as we speak, but people who are making comments about whether or not this is a superior phone/mp3 player/connectivity device have apparently not spent time with Windows Mobile 5.0. The differentiator is, and will be, a UI that is suited toward fingers, and not a stylus.<br><br>Think about it. All of the other stuff in the middle, I mean ALL of it (video, 3G, GPS, and so on) can change with little brouhaha, but changing the user interface is a huge deal. Apple got the hardest part, the UI, right. Yes, it would be better to have some kind of tactile feedback, but compared to the WM5 UI I deal with every day (and I thought it was a cool phone until Monday evening), this is like comparing Win95/98 to Vista or OS X.<br><br>With tons of rebates, the PPC-6700 is just now coming down into the sub-$300 range. List is $549.<br><br>The real question is, "Why would anyone shell out $549 for a Windows device as poorly executed as this?" The answer is: because it was better than the alternatives.<br><br>You don\'t have to be the fastest deer, just faster than the slowest. The smartphone market sucks so bad... even with the issues you\'ve brought up (which are fixable), the iPhone behaves in a manner that is at least five years beyond the other phones.<br><br>June will be an interesting month. :D - Tim</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666381" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666381">mike</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666381" class="dsq-comment-message">"And Nokia and others will take notice and instill good bits of iPhone into their products - very rapidly."<br><br>it\'s called a patent.<br><br>you are a moron.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666383" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666383" href="http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Webomatica</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666383" class="dsq-comment-message">Just as with the iPod and the fruit colored iMac before it, the "average consumer" isn\'t going to care about the acronyms and the code names. If they can make a phone call with it and show people photographs of their pets and look "cool" waving it around that\'s all most people are going to care about. Heck the iPod mini and the Nano and even the Shuffle were all blasted for not enough storage or no screen. It all comes down to pricing things about $100 more than they are comfortable, so people stretch to pay that $100 premium just because it\'s Apple.<br><br>This thing will be huge, even if relatively not many people buy it because practically everybody, from grandmas to teenagers have or want a cellphone. The market for the iPod is small compared to that of cellphones. Apple is going to make a killing on this even if they don\'t totally take over the market.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666380">Terry</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666380" class="dsq-comment-message">Heh...you are wrong as usual.  This thing is going to sell in the millions.  Have you ever traveled outside the U.S.?  Everyone else uses GSM.  Duh.  hey guess what, they have power on airplanes.  Neat huh?  Finally your only other comment is that the camera sucks?  Puh-lease.  No wonder you used to work at Microsoft.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666553" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666553" href="http://stufforama.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Tony</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666553" class="dsq-comment-message">Just heard on the BBC that Cisco is going to sue Apple over the iPhone name.  It appears Cisco did not give permission to Apple as everyone seems to assume.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666532" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666532" href="http://print.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">print</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666532" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow.<br><br>Another reason the iPhone will win?<br><br>scobleizer isn\'t impressed. honestly! Check<br><br><a href="http://print.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">print.wordpress.com</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666529" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666529" href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">pramit</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666529" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666529" class="dsq-comment-message">I have posted a wishlist of ideal cellphone features at the MediaVidea blog.<br><a href="http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/01/notes-on-ideal-cellphone.html" rel="nofollow">http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/01/notes-on...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666530">Lance</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666530" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666530" class="dsq-comment-message">"“And Nokia and others will take notice and instill good bits of iPhone into their products - very rapidly.”<br><br>it’s called a patent.<br><br>you are a moron."<br><br>No, I think u are. You have to be silly to think that other companies like Nokia, HTC, LG and others are going to rollover due to iPhone over hype. This is their bread and butter (especially Nokia). Plus Nokia has been working on their on version of iPhone for years and so have most companies...LG (touchable chocolate) has one almost exactly like iPhone. This is why probably Apple put their phone out so early (6months) another compnay like LG was probably very close to launching there own and taking the luster and revolution out of the iPhone. See the following links:<br><br><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850-touchable-chocolate/" rel="nofollow">http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/15/the-lg-ke850...</a><br><a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/10/08/nokias-aeon-full-surface-screen-cellphone-concept/" rel="nofollow">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/10/08/nokias...</a><br><a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/benqsiemens-black-box-concept-phone-204284.php" rel="nofollow">http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/benqsieme...</a><br><br><br><br>Steve is a liar and exaggerator.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666531" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666531" href="http://www.michaeldoan.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Michael Doan</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666531" class="dsq-comment-message">Apple is making a consumer electronic device for the average user who don\'t care about GPS, EDGE versus whatever, locked/unlocked phones, etc.  They are focusing on what people truly want to do with a phone: make calls and check email.  All the other stuff is pure fluff...who cares?<br><br>People aren\'t as feature focus as you think.  Compare the Creative Nomad with the iPod.  Which has better technology, more features, can be used with more file formats?  The Nomad, but iPod has more market share.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666528" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666528" href="http://print.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">print</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666528" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666528" class="dsq-comment-message">Do check out my latest reply to this:<br><br><a href="http://print.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/response-to-the-5-2-issues-people-have-with-iphone/" rel="nofollow">http://print.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/response-...</a><br><br>The points are all weak, and smack of FUD. BONUS: You repeat yourself and contradict yourself ! Love it!<br><br>\'early adopters\' and \'vaporware\'. A Juxtaposition to seal your fate as an alarmist, hysteric.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666527">Lance</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666527" class="dsq-comment-message">more pics of the phone Apple stole from LG:<br><br><a href="http://duggmirror.com/apple/LG_KE850_iPhone/" rel="nofollow">http://duggmirror.com/apple/LG_KE850_iPhone/</a><br><br>looks like what iPhone should, especially flash for camera at back of phone. No flash in Apple iPhone.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666533" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666533" href="http://appleraffle.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">appleraffle</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666533" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t know all that the iphone will or will not do, but I believe one of the biggest mistakes is to lock into just one phone provider.  Cingular advertises the "least dropped call" nonsense, which is total hogwash.  In my opinion cigular sucks.  As far as the battery life goes, has Apple not learned from the iPod.<br>If the general public is stupid enough to purchase this device with a non-replaceable battery than, let them drown in their ignorance.  If Apple is smart, they would have a dept dedicated to just reading the feedback on the blogs to prevent future fiascos with their produts.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666524">iPhone &amp;amp; LG KE850: separat</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666524" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666524" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/11/iphone-and-lg-ke850-separated-at-birth" rel="nofollow">http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/11/iphone-and-l...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666522" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666522">John Lockwood</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666522" class="dsq-comment-message">The lack of built-in GPS is not a killer. Here in the UK many existing phones use Bluetooth (which the iPhone does have) to link to a Bluetooth GPS receiver. So all that would be requires is for Apple to do a deal to license some maps if they wanted to do this.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666521" href="http://blackbox.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blackbox</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666521" class="dsq-comment-message">it is GSM only? well what do you think it should be? GSM is the global standard in mobile telephone, Apple wants to sell this thing globally and not limit it to the US. And Cingular offers largest GSM user base in the US, so this is a no-brainer.<br><br>yes Nokia\'s new camera\'s blow the iphone\'s away, but have you seen the Nokia phone that does so and looked at how big that thing is? come on, that thing is a camcorder not a phone.<br><br>GPS will just reduce the battery power and with cell triangulation you get enough location data, and you can always add GPS via bluetooth if you are a hardcore offroader.<br><br>the whole thing about Cungular is also nonsense ... so Cingular will sell it here in the US, but you will be able to buy the phone unlocked and then you can also use it on T-Mobile -- it is a GSM phone afterall.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666518" href="http://www.arsenal.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blip</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666518" class="dsq-comment-message">Fair do\'s to the Scobelizer. He\'s had a crack at the iphone but later admitted that he\'s a closet Mac freak and he\'ll be blagging himself a free one ASAP.<br><br>Cut the man some slack people.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666516" href="http://dresramblings.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Andre Natta</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666516" class="dsq-comment-message">While I\'m loving the way the phone is supposed to work, I\'m probably going to be more interested in what the next generation looks and operates before I finally make the switch. Great points though.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666517">David</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666517" class="dsq-comment-message">In what way is this thing better than my SPV M600? Or the HTC P3600 (which also does 3G)? Yes, it\'s pretty, and yes, the UI is nice, but it\'ll take about a week for someone to clone that in Visual Studio for £10. This might be "revolutionary" in the US, but the rest of the world has had touchscreen smartphones for some considerable time... and 8Gb of SD card is only £60.<br><br>It\'ll sell (remember that it\'ll be dirt cheap on a £35/month contract) to the "style" crowd, but "reinvention" isn\'t happening here.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666554" href="http://happyberryneko.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">happyberryneko</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666554" class="dsq-comment-message">(A short note on cost) We have to remember that yes apple is pricey but they give discounts (like for teachers, students, etc.)  And just b/c you aren\'t a student doesn\'t mean that you can\'t get that discount, like if your child is a student you can use their discount.  That or you can have someone you trust buy the phone for you with their discount and switch it over to your name, anything is possible you just have to read the small print.  And I\'ve seen a ton of comments on other blogs saying how the cost is unreal, than wait a few months (also if you wait you can save yourself the hell of dealing with the bugs (with is NORMAL for anything super new)).  The iphone is not geared toward apple\'s normal buyers (students, artist, musicians) they are trying to get new people hooked (read this as business people).</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666552" href="http://rduren.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Russell</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666552" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666552" class="dsq-comment-message">i\'ve never liked having all my eggs in one basket. just give me a basic phone that has strong reception and does txt msgs and email, and i\'m set.<br>ipod\'s are negligible weight/bulk, so does it really hurt to carry your music separately?<br>look how far we\'ve come from boomboxes hoisted on shoulders!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666551" href="http://uncondition.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dannie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666551" class="dsq-comment-message">UHM... one can bitch, but in a few generations that is going to be one hot little item. Let them work out the bugs and bring it up to speed, or wait for the copies, the clones, the improvements. Either way, it is a step in the direction of things to come.<br><br>Anyhow Robert, I got your point.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666549" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666549" href="http://www.jimmylin.ca/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jimmy Lin</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666549" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666549" class="dsq-comment-message">I think we should leave the reviews after we get our hands on the phone first.<br><br>Wait and tell... Don\'t jump to the conclusion so fast.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666550" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666550">Henry Jin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666550" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666550" class="dsq-comment-message">I wonder if I am laying on bed/coach playing with iPhone while facing upwards, will the screen be LANDSCAPE OR PORTRAIT automatically???</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666548">Mike</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666548" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666548" class="dsq-comment-message">Why should cingular care if the phone does not work out?  They have a two year contract!  Your stuck.  That is why cell companies have contracts so they can lock you in to what they know may be obsolete technology in a short time.  Fortunately my cell company does not have contracts.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666547" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666547" href="http://southpawreview.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">southpawreview</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666547" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666547" class="dsq-comment-message">Considering how quicly Apple comes out with new iPods, I\'d say that if you wait a few months this thing will only get better and better.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666545">Hans</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666545" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert you are actually missing the point here. Having keyboard, camera flash, storage expansion slot hinders innovation. GPS who needs that anyway, its so 2000ish. Use google map and... sure they find a way.<br>If you can\'t see the innovation here, you my friend must have been a PC user for a long time. Don\'t blame Apple for that.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666544" href="http://threebyfive.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Tina</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666544" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666544" class="dsq-comment-message">Battery life isn\'t good, but it doesn\'t suck either when considering the large size of the screen. If you compare it to other smartphones, their battery lives are around the same: Treo 680=4 hours, HTC TyTn=5 hours, BlackBerry Pearl 8100=3.5h, etc.<br><br>I definitely won\'t be getting this iPhone, but maybe the next generation or the one after that again.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666537" href="http://extrapolater.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">extrapolater</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666537" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666537" class="dsq-comment-message">You think that\'s bad:<br><br><a href="http://extrapolater.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/iphone-refuses-to-open-ipod-bay-doors/" rel="nofollow">http://extrapolater.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/ip...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666543" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666543" href="http://laughinggiant.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">laughinggiant</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666543" class="dsq-comment-message">154 comments in two days. I think it\'s unlikely the phone will flop. Even less likely that it won\'t caus a sea change in the design aesthetic of other phone/PDA makers. It\'s a pretty incredible step forward. Yes, $599 is a lot, but if I\'m not spending $300 on a Treo and $300 more on an iPod, then I\'ve got $600 all of a sudden.<br><br>It is disappointing that Cingular is the carrier. I was really hoping Apple would sell the hardware alone and unlocked from the Apple Store, ready for whatever GSM SIM card you insert. However, seeing now the integration that the phone demands from the carrier service, it\'s clear that Cingular had to step up with several special service customizations and accomodations in order to make this deal work. If unlocked versions lose a lot of functionality, then they may keep the distribution locked up for a while.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666546">webdog314</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666546" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666546" class="dsq-comment-message">Just a reminder... While it may or may not get 5 hours battery life, it DOES have an iPod port.  How long do you think it will be before someone makes a "battery extender" clip-on for those long video or internet sessions.  Seriously, how much time do you really need to be using your phone for sending emails and browsing the web?  If you\'re spending more than a couple hours staring at that tiny screen you probably should have brought your laptop.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666555" href="http://steves7words.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Steve</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666555" class="dsq-comment-message">Just wanted to say to everyone calling this a brick, that it isn\'t, not by a long shot. Going by the measurements in this image:<br><br><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/images/apple-iphone.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/images/apple-ip...</a><br><br>Sorry, I couldn\'t find a copy on the apple website, but it\'s from a blog post also saying the iphone sucks.. He probably got it from there, I\'m just too lazy to look more than a minute.<br><br><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=210" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=210</a><br><br>It\'s actually thinner !! than the Moto razr closed. Less than a cm wider, and about 2cm longer.<br><br>That doesn\'t seem very brick like at all. It\'s about half an inch longer than a 4.5 gen ipod, and nearly as thin as the 30gb model. I could keep that in my pocket no problem.<br><br>Yeah it\'s no itty bitty flip phone, but it\'s thin enough to sit comfortably in a pocket. Plus, half of us are women, they have purses to put the thing in. Oh, and anyone who still uses a belt clip for their phone, looks like a jackass. FYI.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666542">Graham F</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666542" class="dsq-comment-message">Your points suffer from your US-centric world view, and ultimately this view impacts the strength and accuracy of these points, and impacts your value as a blogger. Don\'t do yourself any more disservice: stay off the bandwagons.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666541" href="http://www.mobilcaster.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rob Greenlee</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666541" class="dsq-comment-message">This iPhone is cool looking and thin, but if I had to choose between this new Apple iPhone and the coming Nokia N95. The decision would easily fall into the N95 camp.<br><br>While thinness is cool it does compromise the capability of the phone. Being a little thicker is ok if the phone has a bigger longert lasting battery, 3G, Edge, Quad-band, GPS, 5 megapixel camera, 30 frame per second video recording and WiFi support.<br><br>Checkout the new coming N95 - <a href="http://www.mobilcaster.com/2006/12/must-have-nokia-n95-and-htc-smart.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mobilcaster.com/2006/12/must-have-no...</a><br><br>Rob Greenlee</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666540">Cactus</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666540" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ll say just one thing about the "stunning new innovative features" that iPhone (guess they have to change that name...) have.<br><br>Neonode<br><br>(came out in 2004) <a href="http://www.neonode.com/Default.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.neonode.com/Default.aspx</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666539">Hello</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666539" class="dsq-comment-message">The device is not on the market, it\'s name may change as well as features. 6 months away is a long time. I\'d say the general concept was shown as a working model to show the features, it runs OS X etc. I doubt they are manufacturing them in mass right now.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666538">r</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666538" class="dsq-comment-message">everybody who\'s complaining about battery life needs to actually read the tech specs.  5 hours of talk time is *great*- the motorola razr, for example, only gets about 3 hours...and this is according to motorola\'s website, the real-world performance of the razr is significantly less, i can assure you ....</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666523" href="http://www.cisco.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Reg</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666523" class="dsq-comment-message">iPhone  (Apple Pon) accessories already in the works:<br><br>Snap on keyboard -  it has a dock connector, and OS X -<br>a small snap on keyboard, or a full blown - fold out PDA type 104 key keyboard are sure to come out.<br><br>JUNE - Why so long? - FCC - sure, but more than a dozen companies are already working on attachments, cases, expansion, etc...<br><br>The phone is a little computer, with OS X (light) - and a connector.<br>What Gizmos can you think of already?<br><br>Depending on the processor speed - the Apple Phone would make a great 1 eyed brain for a little robot - enough RAM and CPU can go along way to Linux developers... 2MP camera is great for email, printable size too...<br><br>Still - I look forward to a full screen iPod - 100 GB for $349, you can keep the phone and camera, contact and etc stuff.    The updated iPod will have the same screen as the iPhone (or bigger) - with a larger battery, and focus on music and video - of course.<br><br>the Apple phone starts off as a status symbol - people paying top margin for the shiny new toy.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666536">LayZ</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666536" class="dsq-comment-message">"Som: I already corrected my incorrect statement and apologized for making that error. You come and work 22 hours a day and type a blog in a car in between halls and interviews and see how good you do."<br><br>Boo hoo!  When DON\'T you have and excuse for your innacuracies? You CHOOSE to do this, so no sympathy for you!  Saying you don\'t care about accuracy would have more credibility than trying to blame circumstances. Weren\'t you just on the campaign trail? you think those "journalists" get to use the "I was tired" excuse when making errors in reporting?  It\'s clear all you care about is "being first" in the hopes of getting hits, over being accurate.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666535">natslovR</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666535" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m a pocket pc user of a few years now, currently own a jasjam, previous phone was an o2 mini. Prior to that it was nokia 6xxx/8xxx type phones<br><br>The iphone blows the high end "small" PPC market out of the water. It is everything a PPC phone wants to be but better, more integrated and easier to use. Just watching the demos on the apple site i see so many things that frustrate me about my PPCs that apple appear to have solved or done significantly better.<br><br>At the price suggested it is not going to be competing with disposeable pay-as-you-go phones or the teen kids market, it\'s a phone to replace my PPC, make it how it should be and include an ipod. In 12 months when they reach Australia i\'ll be ready to upgrade. It\'s in the ballpark of the price i\'ve paid for each PPC phone since moving off nokia so the price isn\'t that much of a factor. Sure i\'ll lose 3G which has been underwhelming anyway and i\'ll have to find new car navigation software and continue to use my BT GPS.<br><br>Note: i don\'t own an ipod (or any portable mp3 player) and don\'t have a mac and never have.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666534">KeithDaddy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666534" class="dsq-comment-message">Any other \'mad texter\' like myself will have to re-learn the NON-KEYBOARD approach of texting.  I, as well as a lot of people, can text someone without looking the keys... even with an older 1-9*# keypad.  I guess I won\'t be texting while I\'m having sex anymore...</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666526" href="http://www.tomiahonen.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Tomi Ahonen</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666526" class="dsq-comment-message">Hi Robert and readers of the Scobleizer blog<br><br>Fascinating thread, good discussion. Some of the international comparison issues - what works in America vs Europe vs Asia - are discussed in my blog where I handicap the chances of iPhone reaching 10 million in a year. I say it is do-able, but not quite by the strategy announced. The smartphone market is too small, but if Apple also attacks the musicphone market (was 309 million units last year - yes, over 6 times bigger than all iPods sold in 2006), then it can achieve the 10 million.<br><br>Briefly. In America the GSM standard and Cingular exclusive deal limits reach. Corporate/enterprise customers will be reluctant to buy "iPods cameras and video iPods" for their staff bundled in the smartphone offerings. But because of iPod\'s strong established customer base, they can reach the needed 4.7 million out of America.<br><br>In Europe the 3G will be a massive flaw, and by Christmas 2007 a 2 megapixel camera is obsolescent. If the phone can\'t do SMS one-handed and blind, the phone will fail in Europe. I am assuming Apple is smart enough to fix this (and just in case, I also wrote an open letter to them highlighting this need which has been widely quoted). But because Europeans buy more expensive phones than Americans, and their penetration rate is 50% higher than Americans (European cellphone subscription penetration per capita is 110% already vs 75% in USA and under 60% in Canada), and Europe is bigger (in population), the smaller European target of 3 million can be reached.<br><br>In Asia it is even more tough. By 2008 the 2 megapixel camera is a toy. In Japan and South Korea today aleady over half of all users are on 3G, so nobody in their right mind would buy a phone with an archaic technology like 2G. The lack of a memory stick module is a serious flaw for the target audience who all have two phones and in many countries replace phones every six months (thus memory module vital for maintaining all kinds of libraries of digital memories). In Asia also SMS is a must, so same assumption, the touch screen has to operate blind and one-handed for sending SMS text messages. But again, with some heavy work, the needed 2.3 million units can be sold into Asia. They do love their gadgets and expensive phones in Asia, from Hong Kong to Indonesia and what would probably be near 1000 dollars of a price in its SIM-free version, is still acceptable price for the wealthy young professionals who need to show off.<br><br>Ok, thats the summary. If you\'d like to read the full blog with the regional variations etc, please visit my blog at <a href="http://www.communities-dominate.blogs.com" rel="nofollow">www.communities-dominate.blogs.com</a><br><br>PS Robert, no surprise on the theme of my last blog on the iPod vs musicphone saga ha-ha, but to let you know, I\'ll be returning to that topic one last time next week when the Apple quarterly results are out..<br><br>Tomi Ahonen   :-)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666525" href="http://andrewhitchcock.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Andrew Hitchcock</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666525" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>When I was in Europe everyone was buying 3G phones. That’s innovative. Can this phone do it? No.</i><br><br>Robert, speed is not innovative. Of course tech specs improve with time.<br><br>Also, the FUD you spread by not doing a trivial amount research (looking up the battery life) is shameful.<br><br>Lance, I agree that the Touchable Chocolate looks neat, but the other two are "concepts" which means there is a very small chance they\'ll actually come out. What\'s the release date for the LG one?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666520">Steve W.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666520" class="dsq-comment-message">Idunno... iPhone looks pretty good for version 0.9.<br><br>What we\'re seeing is the gulf between how Apple thinks and how Microsoft thinks. Apple has made constant, relentless improvements to the whole iPod system since day two, even in the absence of significant competition. Then Microsoft thinks they\'ll supplant the iPod with the Zune. They put their best foot forward and it turned into the most pitiful ass kicking Microsoft has ever received from anybody.<br><br>Me? I always wait for version 2.0.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666513">Firestarter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666513" class="dsq-comment-message">Check out Nokia N93i, it rocks...<br><a href="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/2007/01/ces_steven_knuff_nok.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.technologyevangelist.com/2007/01/ces...</a><br><br>the Design of iPhone make it stand out, not the features it has to offer...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666512">Simon</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666512" class="dsq-comment-message">Cingular sux.  Big time.  They spend $350 Million in advertising every year to tell people they are they best.  There are 58 million subscribers (suckers) out there today.  I had this service and it was the worst ever.  I\'m sticking with Verizon even if it does mean not having the latest, greatest coolest looking phone.<br><br>Switching to Cingular is not an option for me, and should not be for anyone with any brains at all.  Cingular Sux.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666508">peaceguy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666508" class="dsq-comment-message">im just waiting for the deployment of WiMAX phones and systems so we dont have to worry about cdma/gsm and we can use voip phones anywhere we go ;) iPhone2.0 ? lol.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666504" href="http://devilcatz.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">yuE</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666504" class="dsq-comment-message">well, guess that the LG counterpart model is better then iphone...<br>sighs...<br><br>and ipod has way too small a capactiy for MP3s...<br><br>no deal for me over here</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666500" href="http://andrewhitchcock.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Andrew Hitchcock</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666500" class="dsq-comment-message"><i> I had this service and it was the worst ever. I’m sticking with Verizon even if it does mean not having the latest, greatest coolest looking phone.</i><br><br>Simon, have you been paying attention? Verizon blows. They are the most consumer hostile cell phone company around. Their employees don\'t know how to do math and the company insists on castrating any phone they sell.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666499" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666499" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666499" class="dsq-comment-message">Andrew: Verizon might blow, but at least it works in Montana. Cingular doesn\'t own a single cell phone tower there. Verizon works at my mom\'s house, Cingular does not.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666497" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666497" class="dsq-comment-message">Andrew: regarding "FUD being spread": if anyone takes only my reporting as gospel and does no additional research before drawing a conclusion, then they are an idiot, and I don\'t want idiots as readers.<br><br>I corrected my error pretty damn quickly once the facts were pointed out to me.<br><br>Oh, and if there\'s any reader who doesn\'t also read the comments here before drawing a conclusion, then, they also are an idiot, and I hope I don\'t have any idiots reading here.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666496" href="http://andrewhitchcock.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Andrew Hitchcock</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666496" class="dsq-comment-message">So your blog is like Slashdot? You only know the true story by reading the first few comments :)<br><br>Once the link was posted, you changed it fast, but at first when someone told you it was five hours, you should have gone to the website to check. Just saying, I\'m not angry.<br><br>As for Cingular not having any towers in Montana, that\'s an easy fix, don\'t go to Montana :) … Well, Montana does have a cool computer museum.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666491" href="http://saltedlithium.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">feartheseeds</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666491" class="dsq-comment-message">"Oh, and if there’s any reader who doesn’t also read the comments here before drawing a conclusion, then, they also are an idiot, and I hope I don’t have any idiots reading here."<br><br>Dude, like, there\'s like 15,650 something words here, how much of a genius do you want us poor commentators to be in order to be a part of the Scoble experience? 183 responses to an iPhone post? Holy crap people: "Blackberry", look into it. You can thank me later by not buying an iPhone just like the rest of the 6.5 billion of us.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666492">Goebbels</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666492" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666492" class="dsq-comment-message">"if anyone takes only my reporting as gospel and does no additional research before drawing a conclusion, then they are an idiot, and I don’t want idiots as readers."<br><br>Which makes you an idiot for doing zero research or reading before posting.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666405" href="http://mctechtalk.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">mcstylin</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666405" class="dsq-comment-message">It makes sense to wait before rushing out to get this latest tech toy..Just like its iPod counterparts, the iPhone is in its first run and obviously will be under revision until it is something consumers, tech geeks and tech analysts applaud.  The early Nano\'s were hated upon by many and now have become a better, stronger product from Apple..It will take time before the iPhone has won over the hearts of many.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666393" href="http://avuee.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">avuee</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666393" class="dsq-comment-message">And Steve Jobs is raving about is iPhone.  I wish America saw it the same way as he does.  But no offense, but does anyone really think that they are going to switch to either Cingular or whatever the other service is just for the phone?  What if you HATE both carriers?  Let\'s say the iPhone went to Verizon, then maybe... maybe I\'d wait.  But maybe in the meantime there will be some "upgrades" to the iPhone before it\'s released in June.  That\'s just my two coppers.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666392" href="http://prototism.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Matthew Reed</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666392" class="dsq-comment-message">Every 1st generation software/hardwreu has its flaws and cons. The iPod took 5 or 6 years to reach the popularity it is at now. It became popular because the flaws and bugs were worked out.<br><br>Sure, the iPhone may have its flaws already, but I wouldnt be surprised if they too are worked out, and it really does "change the phone".</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666388" href="http://bicilogic.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">vanni</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666388" class="dsq-comment-message">so i am hearing the same negatives about the iPhone that i heard when the iPod first came out. except back then hardly anyone in the windows world even knew what to make of it. when i would point out all the features...they would either be stunned or just not get it. then itunes came and WOW! everyone got it. All the negatives on the iPhone will be gone in a year. i am lining up for mine... ;-)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666382">Joe</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666382" class="dsq-comment-message">What you don\'t get is that the iPhone is the first step of a many-runged ladder; just like the Mac was the beginning of real personal computing.<br><br>Imagine, a permanently online OSX in your pocket. That\'s what it\'s REALLY about.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666515" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666515" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666515" href="http://texturadesign.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">DL Byron</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666515" class="dsq-comment-message">How \'bout the fact that anything CES did was overshadowed by Macworld and this announcement? Something was announced in Vegas and then something else, and oh right smart phones are smart.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666514" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666514" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666514" href="http://teresacentric.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Teresa Valdez Klein</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666514" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666514" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://scobleizer.com/2007/01/10/the-iphone-reality-distortion-field/#comment-244585" rel="nofollow"><strong>Digital Hell:</strong></a> From what I understand, unlocking the phone won\'t be difficult, but unlocked phones operating on other networks won\'t support all of the iPhone\'s fuctions (like listening to voicemail in any order you want).<br><br><a href="http://scobleizer.com/2007/01/10/the-iphone-reality-distortion-field/#comment-244651" rel="nofollow"><strong>Nick:</strong></a>  Not to be a Macsturbator or anything, but Jobs did say that one of this phone\'s great features was how easy it would be to change even after it was sold. I can imagine that Apple will monitor the consumer buzz and add new features that you can download via a software-update like system. If the interface is screwy, maybe they\'ll allow users to make adjustments based on the size of their fingers.<br><br>I\'m not saying that I put my faith completely in Apple, but they really, really do get user interfaces. It\'s possible that they really have cooked up something revolutionary here. It is a pity that we have to wait until June to see it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666510" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666510" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666510" href="http://theboxinsidethebox.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">varun</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666510" class="dsq-comment-message">1) GPS is a non issue, because using tower triangulation, they can determine someone\'s location with very reasonable accuracy.<br><br>2) Lack of 3G is a legitimate problem.  However, Steve Jobs says in the key note itself that 3G will be added in the future.<br><br>3) Lack of tactile feel may be a very big problem, however, lets see how Apple implements their keyboard, which may stop this problem from being a deal breaker.<br><br>4) Camera without video is stupid, but they should be able to fix that easily enough.<br><br>5) Closed system is also a big problem, but I am sure if consumers start resenting it, Apple will immediately publish a set of API\'s.<br><br>6) However, the new UI, and the amazing potential of this device will probably more than make up for these issues, for a significant number of people.  Also, the price is not a problem, because in other countries, people buy high quality phones without contracts for anywhere between 200-1000 dollars, and i doubt that they will release it tied to a single service outside the US.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666506" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666506" href="http://www.ahtenindustries.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Scott</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666506" class="dsq-comment-message">"The other carries such as LG, HTC, NOKIA…do get …apple is not the only innovator..checkout the following links:"<br><br>The Nokia and BenQ devices do look interesting, but they are only design prototypes.<br><br>In creating the iPhone, Apple has created a whole new platform - allowing it to leverage it\'s experience developing applications, such as Final Cut Pro, Mail.app and iPhoto; along with OS technologies, such as Core Animation, Core Image and Dashboard. I don\'t see how the cell phone industry can keep up in this space.<br><br>The only other company who could have come even close to putting out something like the iPhone is Microsoft. However, Apple\'s prior experience in creating it\'s own notebooks, the Newton and iPods have given it a huge advantage in this segment.<br><br>In addition, Mac OS X technologies, such as Core Image, are already designed to work on two different platforms - Intel and Power PC. At runtime, Core Image detects what hardware is available and just-in-time compiles image processing tasks for either the GPU (graphics card) or one or more SIMD vector units (SSE on Intel or Altivec on PPC) - whatever is most appropriate for the job.<br><br><a href="http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/15" rel="nofollow">http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.a...</a><br><br>Instead of creating a whole new API, Apple was able to bring Core Image, and dashboard like effects, to the iPhone by adding it\'s graphics processor to the existing list of supported hardware.<br><br>As for releasing a tablet based Mac, it appears that Jobs still doesn\'t think general-purpose tablet computing is ready for prime time. It\'s likely that the iPhone will be the only fruit of Apple\'s tablet research we\'ll see over the next few years.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666495" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666495" href="http://www.missbhavens.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">missbhavens</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666495" class="dsq-comment-message">Perhaps it\'s been mentioned somewhere up there in all those comments (I quit reading after 100...nothing personal; I have a 100 comment limit) but it seems to me that the iPhone\'s true purpose is to behave as a wireless pocket computer and not as a phone or an ipod at all. With that in mind, I\'m less ticked off about it\'s arrival: I was hoping (assuming?) there would be a big ipod upgrade to widescreen and was so excited because I was just saddled with a 3hr bus commute twice a week and I subscribe to over 80 videoblogs! I hadn\'t yet bought a video ipod because I figured I\'d go blind watching that teensy screen! So I held out. Turns out I held out for nothing. I have a relatively new Treo 650 that meets all my phone and daily planner needs. It also runs all my nursing software, something the iPhone certainly will not do. And $500 is too steep for anything that will die in two to five hours.<br><br>I\'ll have to hold out again till they de-phone the iPhone. Next year? Yikes. That\'s a lot of sad, lonely bus rides.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666494" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666494" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666494" href="http://vibhurishi.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Vibhu</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666494" class="dsq-comment-message">When the iPod came out, i was like - what ? no FM ! it wont sell. it did.<br><br>So, with the iPhone (or whatever it will be called after Cisco and Apple get through with it), its something which everyone would want - or envy if they dont have the money.<br><br>Let me put my points across to you - from a perpective of a person in India .<br><br>6. Battery is less.<br>- Not really a problem for those who can afford it. Sure, it may be a problem for a rickshawala, but they cannot afford it anyways. For others, like me, who work at the desk and comp all the time, it will be getting charged all the time.<br><br>7. its GSM ! Can you believe that ! The CDMA networks in India are pretty much owned by the company, which means we have to be at their mercy for the phones we get. with GSM , we depend on the network companies only for the SIM card. We can independently buy the phones. Which is a pretty good deal, as if we dont like the network provider, we can just switch the SIM and be on the same phone.<br><br>8. Camera. Well, my treo650 has a .5 MP camera. 2MP is pretty good. My sis has one 1.3 without flash, and for most uses its good. If you want flash, and want something better, you need to get a camera. Even if the phone had a good 4MP camera, people would crib about it not having optical zoome etc. etc. etc.<br><br>9. GPS . Come on man. We dont even have good maps here. GPS is a distant dream. One of my friends has a GPS. No maps. Uses it to create squiggles for his road trips.<br><br>The only point i will add is :<br>10. Not available in Asia for a long time :(<br><br>Vibhu..</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666502" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666502" href="http://www.theconstantjanitor.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">janitorman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666502" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666502" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, I had to add my two cents on iPhone, as well.  Okay, I added about 1,400 cents, but I think it\'s relevant:<br><br><a href="http://www.theconstantjanitor.org/?p=236" rel="nofollow">http://www.theconstantjanitor.org/?p=236</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666557" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666557" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666557">wayne thompson</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666557" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666557" class="dsq-comment-message">I have read so many review and most of them do not make sence. They have compare phones that will not work in the usa on major networks and do not state how the networks control what we buy.  GSM is the only way to enter the world market and apple has shown people that there can be a wider range of produces. For those that try to compare it to the treo must be in wonderland and love reset and hotsync problems I have had a 600 and 650 both have major problems and poor phone usage. Great phone have not been sold in this country.  I give apple a hand for taking on all the know it alls in this country that tell you how wonderfull all the phone in this country are that will not sell anywhere else. To buy a great phone do not look here go to the unlocked market.  All I want out of the Iphone is to make people understand what these company are doing to use us users and keeping manufatureing company from selling there best Here.  Lets see in june what the real Iphone is Like and Just to let you Know I have several other phones on ny mind and will not be geting the first addition of Iphone.  Cingular,Verison and Sprint have controled us by locked phone and stripping the down that is why most manufacture do not sell there best Here.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666558" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666558" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666558">Suresh</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666558" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666558" class="dsq-comment-message">yawn.  give it up bro\'</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666556" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666556" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666556" href="http://usatiy17.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">directtv</a>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666556" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666556" class="dsq-comment-message">Blog of directtv</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9666561">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666561" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666561" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666561">Anjay</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666561" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666561" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow, glad I checked before purchase!  THANK you!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9666560">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666560" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666560" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666560">Peter Graves</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666560" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666560" class="dsq-comment-message">the iPhone will be a huge hit.... bigger than the ipod. Prepare for the retreat... wouldn\'t it be great if there was a scoble reality distortion field! But, there isn\'t.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666562" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666562" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666562">Jerry</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9666562" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666562" class="dsq-comment-message">I hate Apple, I hate Steve Jobs, I hated the iPhone. But then I got one because the store was out of the HTC Tilt (Windows Mobile 6) and told me I could use the iPhone and return it when the HCT Tilt came in, well after using the iPhone for a week now I have absolutly no intention of ever going back to Windows Mobile. I have never had a device in my pocket that is this powerful with this good of an interface. The camera does suck unless you are in a heavily light area and have a steady hand but other then that I have zero other complaints, I watch my pod casts, watch uTube files constantly (can\'t help it) and listen to music, plus the phone integration is seamless and it is always 100% reponsive. I can also type faster on the keyboard this thing had then my PPC-6700 that I own previously that had a dedicated full size slide out keyboard. I will never own an Apple Laptop or Desktop Computer but they are years ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to cell phones. My single favorite feature is the fully feature web browser, I can login to my work mail though Outlook Web Access, I can login to my Bank Account without them having to have a mobile friendly version of the website and even though the EDGE network is considered slow it is a crap ton faster then 56k dialup and is still plenty fast to do anything I want to do. Don\'t trust comments on the iPhone until you have actually used one, I was sadly one of the people going around posting comments about how crappy this thing is and picking on all of its faults. But once I was in a position to use one for a while I changed my mind on all of them. And as for the battery when it goes dead I\'ll gladly pay the fee to have Apple replace it, its nice not having battery covers fall off or be tempted to buy batteries of ebay that only last for 1 hour :)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666559" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666559" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666559">Big Mac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666559" class="dsq-comment-message">They are also years ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to<br>desktop or laptop too. Last time ive changed my computer the total cost.<br>Was 300$ to get a Quad Xeon. Value IS important. Sold my old one for 2500. Added 300 and Voila... top of the line computer for 300. Cool no ? Its been like that for at least 9 years now.<br><br>So far since the start Ive added just about 300 every 3 years to get upgraded.<br>So its 100 $ a year to have a Verry expensive machine ? I think I spend about the same as everybody else no ? I like Apple. How much did you spend and what did you get ?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666563" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666563" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9666563">el negro</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666563" class="dsq-comment-message">Ay I just wanna say Fuck  that damn iphone.. All I hear about is people talking bout how cool it is..and how its the best phone ever made! Dude suck a dick!..the sidekick is the best phone for text,email,and instant message..im so tired of seeing people wit the iphone going onto sidekick blogs talking shit bout it.. Hell I do everything on this<br>phone.. O0o yea and I typed all this on my LX!.. Now wut iphone lovers.. U can\'t type all this on that big touch screen..holla at me! Peace!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9666564" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9666564" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9666564" href="http://timthefoolman.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Tim</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9666564" class="dsq-comment-message">el negro,<br><br>That whooshing sound you\'re hearing is the breeze generated by hordes of iPhone-haters looking for ways to distance themselves from you, lest they be associated with this comment.<br><br>If you want to hate the iPhone, knock yourself out. (I, for example, will be passing on the iPhone, opting instead for something simple and cheap. If I determine that I want the application capabilities of the iPhone, I\'ll start looking into the iTouch.) If you want to love the Sidekick, I\'m not about to stand in your way.<br><br>However, if you\'re going to brag about the texting capabilities of your LX, you might want to check your spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. Otherwise, people might assume that you\'re using a piece of crap for a phone that doesn\'t allow you to type correctly, instead of the glorious device that blessed us with your wit and wisdom. - Tim</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10491573" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10491573">shryx86</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10491573" class="dsq-comment-message">I must be one of the few iPhone users who can get multiple days use off of one charge.  I tend to use Wi-Fi instead of 3G.  Its faster and uses less power.  I can watch 3 videos on it in one charge.  If you are on a plane, turn on airplane mode and it will help conserve battery.  If it can\'t get a signal on a plane, the phone will continuously try to ping a tower which will drain the battery.  I like that it doesn\'t currently have a native GPS system.  It would severely drain the battery to have to constantly communicate its location and give you directions.  The Google Maps function on the phone gives a good enough GPS function for now.  The pin even moves on the map as you do.<br><br>I have noticed that people complain about the battery life and don\'t bother trying to do anything about it.  The iPhone is a phone first and multimedia second.  For those who would bash the "crappy" signal strength they get, I have no problem getting a signal in the city, suburbs, or in mountains.  There were a few dead spots in the mountains, but there also weren\'t any town around.</div>\
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		}
		pending = newPending;
	};
	return obj;
})();

// also used in embed_thread.js:
window.fbIsReady = function () {return window.FB && FB.init;};
// NOTE: This script gets executed again without threadEl
//       set when we are loaded again as the fbc_receiver.
//       In this case, we don't need the hidden container.

if(!window.FB || !FB.init) {
	if(window.Dsq && Dsq.container) {
		// container is not present when init.js is loaded from an xd-receiver iframe; in this case,
		// we don't need the FB_HiddenContainer anyway.
		var fbDiv = document.createElement('div');
		fbDiv.id = "FB_HiddenContainer";	// Required or else FeatureLoader will execute a document.write.
		fbDiv.style.position = 'absolute';	// This is intentionally not setting display to none as this breaks
		fbDiv.style.top = '-10000px';		// Flash in Safari.
		fbDiv.style.left = '-10000px';
		fbDiv.style.width = '0px';
		fbDiv.style.height = '0px';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(fbDiv);
	}
	var fbJS = document.createElement('script');
	fbJS.type = "text/javascript";
	fbJS.src = "http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php";
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(fbJS);

	ExecuteWhen.add(window.fbIsReady,
		function () {
			// HACK: This is a workaround FBC's single domain limitation by
			//		 allowing sites to create multiple forums with different
			//		 Facebook API keys.  This must be used in conjunction with
			//		 disqus_facebook_forum (see authenticateFacebook).
			var facebook_api_key = 'faaf467d0f47abde553c3b8e0e1b3570';
			if (typeof disqus_facebook_api_key != 'undefined') {
				facebook_api_key = disqus_facebook_api_key;
			}

			FB.init(facebook_api_key, window.facebookXdReceiverPath || null,
				{fetchSignedPublicSessionData: true});
		});
}


	


if(typeof(disqus_callback) == 'function') {
	var callback_params = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams()['dsq_cbp'] || null;

	// We don't care about any errors in third-party code
	try {
		disqus_callback(callback_params);
	} catch (x) {
		if (typeof(console) != 'undefined' && typeof(console.log) == 'function') {
			// But it would be nice to let developers know about them
			console.log(x);
		}
		// pass
	}

	// HACK: We don't know if the callback wraps our container, which may
	// possibly result in a new DOM element.
	Dsq.container = document.getElementById('dsq-content');
}

// Global event handler for narcissus.
if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
	var g = Dsq.Utils.ie ? document : window;
	Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(g, 'keydown', function(event) {
		// Handle "enter" key on input for post box.
		if ((event.keyCode || event.which) == 13) {
			var target = Dsq.Utils.ie ? event.srcElement : event.target;
			// For Safari bug, detect text node.
			if (target.nodeType == 3) {
				target = target.parentNode;
			}

			if (target.nodeName == 'INPUT' &&
				target.parentNode.className == 'dsq-input-wrapper') {
				var postId = Dsq.Utils.extractId(target);
				Dsq.Templates.postComment(postId, this, false);
			}
		}
	});
}

})();




