The wildly entertaining 13-episode series about the soap-opera-like underbelly of politics in the U.S., features a performance by Kevin Spacey that critics are raving about.
It is hoped it will become the first in an ongoing series of live-streamed opera productions broadcast directly from various prestigious Viennese venues and more intimate settings.
Ms. Callas, American-born and Greek-educated, had made a series of appearances in Italian opera houses in the late 1940s that stunned audiences and critics and laid the foundation for her international celebrity.
In addition to several cons that will unfurl over the course of the show, they say the series will operate on a broader, more traditional soap opera canvas with dueling lives, wives and fathers as fodder.
PocketNow recently put a Nexus One with Android 2.2 through a series of speed tests against an iPhone 3GS and and HTC HD2 running Opera for Windows Mobile.
The QD is a slick looking little smartphone, capable of running all the Series 60 applications that the 36XX phones and others can run (like the beloved Opera web browser), as well as all the N-Gage games.