i did some research on class ratings and found them to be unreliable and not consistent depending on who you got your sdhc card from, not to mention if you're pulling more than one thing off or onto it at any given period in time.. i've tested different cards, most of them suck and there is a difference in performance... eg: i can pull a 1 gig rendition in divx format of 300 off my sandisk but not other cards that are not rated as high. and you don't have to "hack" the **** out of it to be compatible. and memory is not an issue because it's not a bashable harddrive, it's flash based so it recieves impacts VERY COMMON in this type of device. and if i wanted to watch tv proprietarily i would have bought a gameboy, or a game gear, or 500 of the other devices that provide tv... this possibly working with myth tv provides much more functionality than just watching tv... but that's what most would use it for... I'm not "advertising" and you really need to stop before you started. If i were getting paid there'd be a nice graphic and a bunch of links... i'm just trying to open people's eyes to something that DOESN'T suck and it's a multifunction device at a great price.... Not to mention you didn't have a rebuttal for 50% of the crap that this thing does because you don't know all of what it does... it's just overall great... so you going to ban the 5000+ posters that say "amd, intel, ati, nvidia" cards are awesome? yeah, no, that's not going to happen... so no hypocrisy here.
Speed Guaranteed Minimum Write
Class Performance
Class 2 2MB per second
Class 4 4MB per second
Class 6 6MB per second
that's copied from about every chart i've found... they're mostly the same.
mine is rated at 9/10mb/sec add's quite a bit over class six which is common in most marketpaces, i also only paid $10/gig at the time which is roughly HALF of what the slower cards were going for.... you should find them at that price easily now. (not to mention you don't have to PAY for all the software and bluetooth and gps, hell, getting free gps out of your phone could be worth 200+ dollars, and how much does a gps device cost? how much does your phone company charge to activate their proprietary gps program?, yeah, use it for free.... ANYWAY)
and now to this
"It's a nice unit, but not alone in alot of it's features."
that's just the problem, you don't know what all it can do... and at the rated battery life, what it does is more amazing than most products.. it does A HELLUVA LOT for how much it costs and how big it is... my point in case... and it's constantly evolving. I personally use it for in car audio video, and random on the move web surfing... because you know, i live in a place where wi-fi access is about as common as fat people in sweats are in wal*mart. ANYWAY. It basically does all the eeeeeee pc does, at half the price and more battery life, maybe a little slower, but also HALF THE PRICE, and twice the battery life... and it fits in your pocket...
AND FOR THE FINALE!
you just named HOW MANY? different devices to supposedly compete with one... thanks buddy for trying to rain on the parade.... but it's all good. I like a good opposition, without it we might never learn.