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...call from Darryl Zanuck saying, 'Come do this movie on Monday.' So you have to do it on your own." He has already checked off teen flick (Dazed and Confused), western (The Newton Boys), romance (Before Sunrise), sequel (Before Sunset), animation (Waking Life), sci-fi (A Scanner Darkly, due in 2006), filmed play (Tape) and a kids' movie (School of Rock). If you've got a script for an Elizabethan musical, now might be the time to send it over...
Luckily, Steven Spielberg’s sparkling new version of H. G. Wells’ anti-colonialist sci-fi bonanza, “The War of the Worlds,” avoids the cliché pratfalls that have been the peril of many an ambitious epic. As he destroys Planet Earth, Spielberg spares us images of the White House splintering to pieces or blustery generals ordering tanks and fighter jets into battle; instead, we see the horrors through the eyes of Spielberg’s everyman hero, Ray Ferreira (Tom Cruise...
...issue is that the Wi-Fi and EVDO connections can't run simultaneously. This isn't a problem if you're in one of the places that supports Verizon's EVDO network. But when you're not, and have to switch to Wi-Fi mode, you lose phone service-it won't even ring! Suddenly, this Wi-Fi bonus sounds like a burden...
...this thing. (There's also a pay-per-kilobyte plan). Once you've paid for a service that's anywhere you go (within the boundaries of the 40+ markets), why would you swing by a Starbucks to pay for an additional service like T-Mobile's location-specific Wi-Fi? That isn't to say the phone couldn't be used to access your home Wi-Fi network if you have one, but if you don't have one, you might not need it. EVDO is pretty darn fast...
...While many point to handsets like this as proof that Wi-Fi and wide-area broadband networks will co-exist, I think that the i730 is a good example of why only one is necessary. The original promise was that these devices would simply upload and download data using the most efficient means, and that all of the streaming would happen below the surface. Instead, the burden is on the user-do you want Wi-Fi or EVDO at this very moment?-and it remains to be seen whether the user is the best person to make this judgment. Wide...