There is nothing wrong with the Verizon ad at all. It clearly states that it's a comparison of 3G coverage. And to top it off, I live in an area that has NO Verizon coverage at all. No AT&T 3G or EDGE either here 75 miles from Oklahoma City.

I got one of these with my new 21.5" iMac. So far I'm liking it a lot. No scroll ball to gunk up is the biggest plus. The sideswipe backwards/forwards function works in any browser, not just Safari. I'm not a gamer, so I don't need or want 15 buttons on my mouse.

ABC is the worst, the commercials just knock you out of your chair when they come on. Then you can't hear the dialogue on the program after you've cut the volume to nothing. I appreciate wide dynamic range, but this is ridiculous.

I installed it today on my PowerPC Macbook Pro running Leopard and it works perfectly. Synced my iCal, Address Book, and iTunes music with no problems at all.

DirecTV has had these MTV "HD" networks for quite some time, and outside of Palladia, I don't think I've ever seen an actual HD program on any of them. They are HD in name only.

Considering that National Geographic Channel in the US has become something that should be more appropriately called the Dog and Crime Channel, I am just a little bit jealous of this development.

Of the 4 stations in the Oklahoma City market that made the switch, two shut down their full-power UHF DT transmitters and switched to their old VHF channel slots for DT operation, albeit at about half their original power. They won't be allowed to return to full power by the FCC until sometime in the "future", which leaves a large chunk of service area now without signal. Great way to run a transition.

AT&T is still building EDGE towers, they put up four in my county this year. 3G is only available in 3 towns in my state, they didn't add any new areas in the past year. Based on this, we probably won't get 3G service for 20 years since it took 20 years to get to this point. The old analog system covered a tremendously large land area, but AT&T lost 80% of their coverage area when they were required to shut analog off and they are still working to get that lost area served by something, which right now is EDGE.

There simply aren't 150 HD channels available right now. Never mind the "HD channels" that have yet to show one single program in actual HD. This is all marketing.

This is a new development, programmers are starting to require their HD channels be scrambled before allowing carriage on cable systems. Example: Turner Networks requires that CNN-HD, TNT-HD, and TBS-HD be scrambled before they can be added to a lineup. Of course this requires a cable system to spend about $40,000 for controllers, scrambling equipment, and spend $400-500 on "advanced" cable boxes or Cablecards systems. Cable systems below 2000 customers can't justify this expense, which means they won't be able to carry these channels, causing them to lose customers to DirecTV and Dish, meaning the complete end to smaller cable operators. 80% of the actual cable systems in the US are small systems. Those who dislike the "cable monopoly" should be thrilled that there will soon be only satellite for television, two providers in lockstep price-wise. Progress.