I hear ya. When are they going to get off their asses and get the xulrunner version of Thunderbird done? I'd love to have the 'Bird on my tablet.

A convergence device would always be on-line, and therefore the concept of syncing becomes irrelevant; just store your addresses, bookmarks and calendar online and consult it from both home and device. Sync is a kludgy workaround for a problem that will go away soon, I hope. I hope soon we'll all be wondering why anyone wanted sync.

I disagree. Well, I want a phone in my IT (preferrably several phones, that's what convergence is all about, no?), but only via VoIP. See my lengthy rants above.

Hm, again, I think an always-online convergence device shouldn't have any (unique) data actually stored on-device, or anything stored on it should be easily transferred to the Internet. Therefore, any old terminal in any old place should do the job to get you big-screen access to your data. My question is: if you already have a KVM, monitor, keyboard, etc, etc, why wouldn't you have a computer? And if you have the computer, why would you use your handheld instead?

Video-out to watch movies or play games on a hotel-room TV, or make a spur-of-the-moment presentation in a random boardroom, on the other hand, would be nice.