Hmmm. Looking at the feature list, you might think the saliva is beginning to build. After all, the LG VX9800 looks like one juicy morsel when it comes to geek-enabled cell phonery. Figure the QWERTY keypad, bluetooth, MP3 playback capability, EV-DO support, miniSD expansion slot ... what more do I want?

 

How about a real PDA OS? I don't particularly care which one, just something that gives me enough juice to do something interesting. And useful.

 

And I swear, this new video clip thing is going to wind up forcing me to climb onto a rooftop somewhere with an AK-47. On one side you've got vendors like Verso building applications to allow Verizon-types to block Web traffic like P2P, free VoIP and similar stuff because they're ostensibly "bandwidth drains."

 

And then you read about great new "products" from those same ISPs (like Verizon with this freaking phone) that allow you to sign up for what amounts to tiny, low-rez video snippets of various bits of TV content?! So not only are you wasting more time and bandwidth on something that can't entertain you for more than 10 seconds; you're also paying for something you get with better quality for free at home?!  How is this anything but a bandwidth drain?

 

Kills me.