Price?  Applications?  Mainstream acceptance?

+1 for coinbase

I dont care about gox.  I got my buy orders ready to rock at $500 on a real exchange.

Is there a hardware wallet yet that I can store my bitcoins on and just put in my safe?

I don't even have a computer.  I'm one of the people bitcoin is trying to win over to make it more mainstream.  I'm not really tech savy.  One thing holding bitcoin back is it seems you need to be somewhat tech savy to use them. They recomend you don't keep your coins on a exchange due to hackers. Ok, so I send them to my phones wallet. Ok, now if I lose or break my phone my coins are gone. Not going to walk around with thousands of dollars in bitcoins in my pocket either. Ok, so now they say you need to back up your keys with a flashdrive or external hard drive, computer, or print out a paper wallet. WAAAYYY to many steps for your average user. It really needs a US based coin exchange thats regulated that people would feel safe keeping there coins in a online wallet then transfer small ammounts to there phone.

New BTC adapter here.  I'm waiting to get verified by coinbase.  I was planning on using there online wallet to store my bitcoins but with all the news last week I see some people are saying not to store your BTC online.  Do you guys think it is safe?  Otherwise I guess I'll download the bitcoin wallet app for android but what happens if I brake my phone are my bitcoins gone?