Given how in-your-face HTC's new Sense 5 UI is, we feel a bit silly kvetching about something as unobtrusive as carrier bloatware.

ENGADGET: HTC One for AT&T and Sprint: what's different? Mobile

Of course, you can also navigate the various panels and screens with the usual hand waves and air pinches, should you feel a bit silly talking to your console.

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Given how in-your-face HTC's new Sense 5 UI is (its BlinkFeed home page manages to be reminiscent of Flipboard, Blur and Windows Phone), we feel a bit silly kvetching about something as unobtrusive as carrier bloatware.

ENGADGET: HTC One for AT&T and Sprint: what's different? Mobile

It took so long for electronic ink screens to finally hit the market we feel a bit silly getting impatient for the next-generation, but the Kindle has been on the market for a year and a half now, Sony Reader models for twice that long, and still we're dealing with the same crummy 7:1 contrast ratio, 16 shade grayscale, and .74 second refresh rate.

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"I have to be guided by the doctors in what they suggest I can and can't do so that I don't do anything silly because I feel I can do anything I would do normally, " he says.

BBC: John Phillipson

It would take a brave government to tell voters that it was making anything up to 50m television sets obsolete and a pretty silly one to spend billions on handing out free set-top boxes to people who don't feel like buying them.

ECONOMIST: Digital broadcasting