I've been using a Motorola Q these last few weeks and I have to say I find the experience  to be an inverse square law for usefulness. I.e the  potential of the devices is far less applicable in practice. What you think you can  do with them ends up taking far more time  ie  each step takes you x2 longer than doing the same thing on a phone, next step x 2 that  until you are faced with a 4 step task that would take you 20 minutes to figure out.    These are great forwarding devices if you are in a position to have other people carry out the task you need, nearly useless if you have to do it yourself.  Until we get a device that combines say a projected laser keyboard, or decent speech recognition these things are just going to be under utilized. ( unless we can get these things freed  up from the carriers

The only good thing so far. The few sites that have mobile features are actually more pleasant to use.  I don't need to wade through extraneous material to buy an item or locate the account info I need. I'm guessing a few sites will get a shock when they start touting " x number hit our mobile sites" and then go look at the user agents and realize that it's  people surfing from their desktop.

With the above in mind the  "news" that  You Tube will now  be carried on Verizon's Vcast service is , to me, underwhelming.

They call it social yet  restricted by carrier,  how friendly is that. They want you to pay to be friends with them. Well I hope a few  "can you hear me  now" parodies make it to , oh crap, they control what's seen, er this is about as appealing as last nights sick ... 

Giga Om has more info with analysis  and the comments seem to mirror reality for most people not sniffing their own farts re the immediate future of the mobile web.

As for the rest of the coverage  ( anyone noticed that most portals have  science and tech news that could be  renamed PR wire lite echo edition?