Double Impact

Don't you just hate weeks with two Mondays? Here's a short news overview that grew out of control:

The Blackberry/8700 is official, putting an end to a lot of speculation.
Nokia churned out another threesome, of which only the N92 sparked my interest (DVB-H is still lost somewhere in the Valley of Hype, but the form factor is interesting).
Vastly more interesting, however, is their new Open Source site - especially their Python port page, their S60 OSS Browser and (for those of you sleeping on the job) their SIP stack.
fon is making waves again. Considering that it is still completely impractical to do any sort of real mobile service atop Wi-Fi, I guess that the only reason people keep trying is that they simply don't understand the problem (I suppose one of these days I'll have to re-cast the issues and show why the technology is still fundamentally wrong for this sort of thing).
Sprint and Comcast and a few others clearly get it, though.
Is it just me, or is Beagle beginning to look a lot like Spotlight?
iSquint - brilliant name.
The geniuses behind the ROKR strike again - and omit the headphone jack. Sure, there are plenty of Bluetooth stereo headsets, but...
GNUstep lives.
Rob Galbraith's article on Aperture - for later perusal.

In the meantime, if you're curious, 10.4.3 doesn't improve support for my Canon/EOS 350D RAW/CR2 files - despite other improvements.

I guess Apple is still too US-centric to realize there are regional variations in cameras...