They're have been less confusion, they'd have avoided the worst of the shock over the economic slump, and they'd have given themselves time to develop the solutions to avoid that stupid active glasses tech altogether.
Sorry, I had to respond to this. I will always be a fan of Active over Passive. For Passive reduces resolution drastically. Active can also adapt better to different uses of 3D and movement. I feel my Active glasses make the glasses actually worth it for the 3D, with Passive I'd wonder why I have this expensive TV and I have to use these cheap glasses to use it.
Passive is only good if you have a lot of people viewing the 3D. For me that's not the case.
As for the rest of this thread, I agree with the iPhone statement. But regardless of that I think 3D is here to stay, especially as the technology advances and more people use it and find out that it's not as bad as they want to believe it is. Though I don't think it will get to a point where every phone does 3D, only a few will. The main hurdle with 3D is content, once more movies or even TV shows come out in 3D, then I can see it taking off more. The 3DS is also a huge boost for the 3D technology growing, Nintendo has been one to really push innovation.
After fully reading the rest of the posts on here I have a couple other things to say.
For WiMAX, it actually is not that much different than LTE. The industry is jumping on LTE which is why Sprint is going towards it, but I don't think it's like HD-DVD and Blu-Ray where one would become obsolete. WiMAX is sorta a long-range Wi-Fi connection that I feel many places including campuses will take up. The great thing about WiMAX is that it give complete free access to the internet where LTE can be controlled by the companies running it to add limitations. I've always been one for Net Neutrality. I used to be on the LTE bandwagon because of it's speeds over LTE, but that's because of more people being on it and the fact it is currently capped at 5 MHz width capacity which will like double, maybe quadruple which should raise WiMAX speeds up to 30Mb/s. Not to mention WiMAX 2 around the corner sporting real-world speeds of up to 100Mb/s. There just needs to be more WiMAX towers, and that only needs time and more investment from Sprint and other backers of WiMAX.
As for eye strain I can see it in some people. My father for one can't see 3D at all because he has a bad eye. My gf hates seeing stereoscopics, one because she hates new technology, and also she says it hurts her eyes. She's threatened to break up with me because I was pushing her to watch something in 3D on my 3DTV. So she'll never enjoy my 3D Blu-Ray movies, my 3D PS3 games, she finds the 3D on my 3VO to be neat but she's not that into it, and she has said she'll only play 3DS games in 2D once I get one. Some people are just like that, and some people just can't help it. But I think most people if they give it an honest try will love it.
As for future proof technology, I don't think you can get much better than the 3VO. I'm always after something that is going to last me. I got my computer 5 years ago and it is still going strong because I made sure it had a dual core processor, a dedicated graphics card, and 2GB of RAM. Sure it's showing it's age now but it's held up really nicely over the years. My TV is a Sony 1080P LED 3DTV, and the only thing I've felt I've missed out since getting it is the feature on the newer Sony models where they can listen to music on a show and tell you Shazam/Soundhound style what it is, which is cool but not a big deal. I chose the PS3 over the 360 not only because I liked my PS2 and enjoy Sony games, but also because of Blu-Ray because I knew it would win in the HD Media format war. The reason I'm saying all this is because I want to get the point out that I'm really cautious when buying new technology, and I find the 3VO a phone I can enjoy for the next 2+ years. Sure they might have higher resolution in the future but who needs it, they might have quad processors but how fast do you need it to go, especially since you can overclock to processor on the 3VO to 1.5-1.8, and graphics might get better with Tegra 3 and OMAP 4-5 chips but I only play the most casual of games on my phone to pass the time, if I want to play games that's what I have my handheld systems from Nintendo and Sony for. And as I stated above WiMAX is only going to improve so you can't get much faster, you just might see phones that handle the larger amount of data being transferred better, and by then you should be up for a upgrade on your phone. As for 3D sticking around, as already stated by others as more content is made available the more 3D will be accepted and people will shy away from a product if it doesn't allow 3D. So I'm sure in a couple years there will be yet another amazing phone with stereoscopic display. I'm just hoping that phone hasa rotating dual camera system, so I can take 3D photos and video in landscape and portrait.
. I am thinking at the moment that I will keep this phone longer than a few months. I have a feeling though, gadget junkie I am, that I will be enticed by another device before then and end up with it. Lol my husband calls me a phone s-word. 
He does end up with some great hand me downs as a result for someone who doesn't care nearly as much as I do about phone specs and making his phone do cool stuff.
