You might find your battery is not up to that.

There's no question in my mind that USB is going to happen. There's a lot of activity for inclusion by model year 2009, with some offerings coming sooner.

The real issue is digital rights management.

Some manufacturers will specify performance and some will even [detail] vibration characteristics, but only in rare cases will they specify the electronic components that will be used to implement those specifications. They do the 'paper job,' and rely on suppliers for nitty-gritty details.

If they end up spending 4 or 5 weeks there, it won't surprise me.