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LOL!

Zune Phone == Tard Phone

]]>Aug 11th 2009 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Nokia = Hardware

zPhone realized

If anything close comes out of it, I just my find myself out of HTC's arms and at Nokia's front door.]]>Aug 11th 2009 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/

Why because your Iphone is a smartphone? Lol.]]>Aug 11th 2009 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/
Mmm...yummy!!!








.]]>Aug 11th 2009 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/
the same tard.
micro-sized.

]]>Aug 11th 2009 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/
Person 1: Hey, look I got my iPhone today. Love how smooth it scrolls.

Others: Wow, cool.

Person 2: Hey, look I got my Android phone today. Google Voice is amazing.

Others: Wow, cool.

Person 3: Hey, look I got my Palm Pre today. I like the interface much better than the iPhone's.

Others: Wow, cool

Tard: Hey, look I got my Zune Phone today.

Others: -awkward silence-

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Person 1: Hey, look I got my iPhone today. Love how smooth it scrolls.

Others: Wow, cool.

Person 2: Hey, look I got my Android phone today. Google Voice is amazing.

Others: Wow, cool.

Person 3: Hey, look I got my Palm Pre today. I like the interface much better than the iPhone's.

Others: Wow, cool

Person 4: Hey, look I got my Zune Phone today.

Others: Gawk in silence and drools over the screen resolution while putting all the other phones in pocket.]]>Aug 11th 2009 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/*crickets*]]>Aug 11th 2009 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/]]>Aug 11th 2009 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/
It was nice knowin' ya, Nokia. Hope you keep your dumbphone business swift, you'll need it.]]>Aug 11th 2009 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/
Name me one thing that Symbian can do that WinMo can't.

WinMo's downside is perhaps that it supports too many devices that are not fit to properly run it.
Case on point, Apple's iPhone struggles to multi-task to this day with its doubled RAM capacity (in spite of whatever excuses Apple gives), and in the case of the 3G (sans s), you could actually feel it chug and lag when forced to juggle a couple of first-party apps on its 128 MB whereas WinMo phones have been juggling multiple apps with as little as 64MB.

Nevertheless, with stricter hardware requirements for WM7, the day shall soon come when people will stop incessantly hyperbolizing the performance issues of WM and WM devices.
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S60 makes a fool out of WinMo. Why don't you tell me one reason why WinMo is better than 60? ]]>Aug 11th 2009 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/
MS fans don't loathe WinMo.

If they did, WinMo phones wouldn't have outsold iPhones (or Android phones) in 2007, 2008, and thus far in 2009.

We may despise some of the hardware choices that go into WinMo phones, such as HTC's insistence on sticking with the same 528 MHz Qualcomm chips they've used in 3 generation of phones now and without forking over the extra dough to enable its 3D drivers, but, we do not loathe MS's Mobile OS.

In fact, a skinned WM (with TF3D/TF3D2/TouchWiz/Mobile Shell 3) or even a native WM 6.5 is just as slick as an iPhone or whatever other phone du jour.

Capabilities wise, WinMo plays second fiddle to none.

As I've said before in the past, if you want to blame WinMo (MS) for something, blame it for supporting too many devices without a higher level of min requirements. ]]>Aug 11th 2009 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/
As opposed to SE, who are launching 3 new devices with 3 different mobile OSs in the near future. ]]>Aug 11th 2009 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/
s40, s60 and Maemo. They already have three ;)]]>Aug 11th 2009 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 6:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/
anywho i totally had this premonition the other day.

i thought, how do you get a phone on the zune?

let some mobile company suppport the phone features.

bada bing, is this the big answer?

it's all fitting into place.]]>Aug 11th 2009 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 19th 2009 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 19th 2009 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 12th 2009 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/----------------------------------------
They've both seen better days but

* WinMo is still an awesome platform
* Nokia still makes great hardware
* Microsoft has zillions to sink in R&D
* both companies want to regain their lost marketshare....

should be cool.
]]>Aug 11th 2009 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/I mean they bought world dominant mobile OS last year turned it open, doubled their workforce for Maemo and made new division called Maemo Devices, bought trolltech for 400 million that's about xplatform, turning symbian for full Qt support and same for maemo... and now they would start making phones with OS that got about 10% of smartphone marke and Nokia got no experience with it and don't have the Qt pridge they are building for Maemo and future Symbian Foundatin OS. Just wont happen.]]>Aug 11th 2009 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/nokia-and-microsoft-to-announce-an-alliance-tomorrow-what/Aug 11th 2009 6:58PM