is the LED backlight the local-dimming type?

Are these local-dimming LED backlights? That's important to me.

I seem to recall the Obama campaign putting out their own iPhone app during the campaign. It was an "Obama for president" app, essentially. How is that okay, but this is not?!

Instincts have always used BREW for many of the built-in apps.

"Video not available" is coming? Whee! I can't wait for that! ;-P

That is, by a wide margin, the worst Photochop job I have seen so far in 2009. WOW that's bad!

I find the "Source / Email / Share / Comments" bar confusing. The dark line at the top looks like a divider line. It makes it look like the bar belongs to the blog post below, not the one above. It would be a lot less confusing if all components of a post were grouped together visually and/or there were some kind of graphic divider between posts.

A third party is working on an emulator for old Palm OS apps.

No IR.

I thought the same thing when I bought my first iPhone. Then I discovered movies. Try putting a few movies on your phone for a long flight and see how quickly you want all the storage you can get.

Bill is correct. Unfortunately, plenty of phones do put the memory card slot under the battery.

The idea - in theory - is that most people only put a card in once, then leave it, or perhaps upgrade to a larger card at one other time. Most people do not have a collection of cards they swap regularly, and only a minority use cards to transfer files to/from their PC.

Of course, minority or not, enough people do use cards to transfer files that manufacturers should put the slot where it can be accessed, and most do.

The reality is that some manufacturers put the slot under the battery because it's easier to design a smaller phone that way. Others do it because their software can't handle hot-swaps gracefully, so they prevent hot-swapping physically.