Expect it to have a slightly shinier cover than most hardbacks, cost 3 times as much and be written in a proprietary DRM-encoded language that can only be read if you buy a pair of Apple iEyes.

Unfortunately I think Google's fire-and-forget (or is that launch-and-don't-listen) policy will win the day again and the popularity of Buzz will overshadow the concerns of the few privacy-savvy users because it brings something new and interesting to the field (which in fact relies on the lack of privacy).

Posts you make on Buzz are, by default, public and if possible geo-tagged as well; "nothing special compared with Twitter" you say? It's integrated into the latest version of Maps for mobile allowing you to see the Buzz posts made around your location (or any other location for that matter). Those badgers' paws now have a local angle and I suspect will prove to be a hit because of that.

But caveat buzzor. If you post from work your boss just has to start up Maps on his phone to see what you said about his parentage and that bank teller who wouldn't waive your overdraft fees has just changed the name on your account to "Ivan Toshagponies" because you Buzzed in anger while standing just outside the building.

During the close of Borders a number of publishers took out injunctions agains the shop preventing them from selling off their stock cheap. I thought we'd seen the end of this kind of racketeering but it seems unfair practices and retail price blackmail are alive and well in the publishing industry.

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men."

-- Edward R. Murrow on McCarthyism

He was watching the film when he died ergo the film killed him. He (and billions of others) were found to be breathing in the few moments before they died so I humbly suggest that we ban breathing as it constitutes a serious health hazard. There may be a minor upturn in mortality during the first few minutes after this law is enacted but it will be followed by an extremely extended period of no human deaths whatsoever.

I suggest you do a quick news search on the number of stories containing the phrase ‘Google superphone’

Did Google ever call it that or was it journalists over-egging or doing a straw man act so they could then cry conspiracy and outrage at Google taking over the mobile hardware world? I notice you omit HTC in the list of Google's partners yet conveniently forget to mention that it is they, traditionally Google's closest Android partner who actually manufacture this phone and not Google themselves. Maybe you could credit people with enough intelligence that they're willing to buy a phone based on its technical merits as much as the logo attached to it.

And in what way exactly are they shafting networks? Were any of the press and blogosphere predictions that the Nexus One would be targetted to run only with Wifi and VoIP instead of a GSM network even remotely true? No. The phone's initial release is again with one of its traditional partners - T-Mobile. Sure it's sold exlusively from Google's own web site and they are selling it unlocked for use with any GSM SIM which is relatively unusual for the US but they are also selling it operator-subsidised with a network contract from a major network under terms that are pretty much business-as-usual including a 2-year contract lock-in. They're also rumoured to be working on similar agreements with Verizon and Vodafone. Hell, did you even try to look for any actual facts before you started on this rhetoric?

Mr Orlowski, it's not really joining the dots when you're drawing all the dots yourself.

Google can't sensibly move into hardware when their idea of customer support is to provide forums that their employees may or may not respond to on a whim. Even the worst of the Android handset manufacturers, Acer, will reply to your requests (albeit with instructions to call their 60p/min premium support line because their web-based support staff aren't trained to do anything else).

it won't be long before the shouting to starts when people have bought a faulty Nexus One and find there's no way to contact Google to return it.

Unfortunately Google makes a lot of noise about new products and very little about support. Android is (nominally) an open platform but Google provide their own proprietary software to most phones and are shockingly remiss about supporting it. Take a look at the android help forums (particularly the Market tech help forum) and you'll see a mile long list of problems and complaints that are rarely addressed or even merit a response from the company. Consider also that there is no way to contact Google directly; those forums are your only means of bringing any issue to their attention.

I really hope their strategy announcement says something more than just reeling off a list of device names and new features going into the next Android version when some phones are still 3 versions behind with no sign of being updated.

Let's hope that unlike the Liquid some of them have proper access to the Android Market. Maybe they'll improve customer service too and train their Internet support team to reply with something other than "call our premium rate support number".

I know 3 people with Asperger's and they're all quite capable of understanding the difference between right in wrong. In fact due to the OCD-type symptoms they tend to spend excessive hours pondering and questioning their own actions in minute detail. Asperger's prevents sufferers from empathising with others' state of mind and motivations. It does not stop them understanding basic moral principles.

This phone does not have full access to the Android Market. Like a lot of unlocked handsets it won't allow you to browse, search and install applications marked as copy-protected so you're losing up to as many as 25% of the applications there. I found this to my cost after buying the Liquid when I lost access to several applications I'd already bought and paid for on my G1.

I wonder if they'll screw users of their own unlocked phone the way they have with users of sim-unlocked phones from other manufacturers by preventing access to any copy-protected applications on the Android Market. Can't wait to find out and then complain to the Fair Trade Commission for abuse of their market position when they don't put the same restrictions on their own device.

Very impressive. It thought my wireless mouse was anything from an Egyptian pyramid to a pair of meerkats and matched my can of redbull with a picture of an actual cow.

...and installing iTunes is a price I'm just not willing to pay

Do any of the application providers get a share of the XBox Live Gold subscription or are you simply paying Microsoft to use the fruits of other people's work and the Internet connection for which you already pay?

Why are you comparing observed maxima for USB 3 with theoretical maxima for USB 2? In fact why does this read more like an advert (or maybe an apology) for Buffalo than an article about USB speeds?

When it comes to blindness we sighted people, ironically, seem to see the world in black and white; blind = you see nothing. There are plenty of people in the world who are (in a legal sense) blind but still retain some of their sight. As a player of one of SOE's MMORPGs I can see areas where sensible accesibility improvements such as text-to-speech announcements could be made for people who find it possible to distinguish shapes but not detail or text, or for a limited field of vision that prevents you seeing the whole screen at once. That's not to say this guy isn't out for a quick buck; as the whole "loss of earnings" part will attest to (and Sony will trample all over that as their T&Cs prohibit using the service in that manner).

And @Gordon Pyra I have to ask, other than the inability to actually spell Braille, is your lack of skill a disability or just down to uwillingness to learn it? Being able to see doesn't prohibit you from reading Braille. And how many books do you know of that are published ONLY in Braille?

Seems a little perverse that 3D laptops are supporting 1920x1080 resolution when the best nVidia can manage with their recommended external monitors are 22" 1680x1050 displays.

This would be a huge selling point as it opens up the avilability of many more books from many more established stores compared with the still-developing support for ePub. Shame they apparently just made it up.