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Go 7 ! Desktop and Mobile ]]>Oct 14th 2009 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 14th 2009 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/
Everyone thought the PDA was the future. PDA Magazine went under in the early 90s. No market they said. Now that iPhone burst onto the scene with usability, design and balanced features... its another story.

It takes innovation, and hopefully we'll see a ton more designs hit the market this time around for the larger 'Tablet' platform.

However, next to a well thought out design, even with faster processors, engineers will still have to contend with FatWare because of battery life and limited CPU. May the best man win!
]]>Oct 14th 2009 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/
As a purveyor of electronics I will talk about whatever electronic i so choose. i did not talk about it's usage or it's pros and cons, but if you really want a list just ask: I own one.

It is decidedly mid '90s apple from the startup to the interface. as for your japan comment, another falsity, they were special order items at apple retailers when they were released. my father bought one for me thinking it'd be my computer and video game system. computer, it worked fine. video games? i got a SNES 3 months later (lack of titles)]]>Oct 15th 2009 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 14th 2009 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 14th 2009 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Original Zune launched with FM radio on Nov. 14, 2006
iPod nano 5G with FM radio came out in september.]]>Oct 14th 2009 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 14th 2009 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 14th 2009 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/
I have reading up on the HD2 and I'm confident i'm going to make it my next device. so long as it delivers, it has everything I want: large screen, finger friendly, capacitive display (i know that resistive works fine, but games are better with a multi-touch screen) HD playback and most importantly. REALLY FAST. The iPhone is slow. i know the 3Gs is faster, but the 3G is too slow for me now and the speed alone was not a good enough reason to upgrade.

I like android, a lot. but It's still in it's grassroots stage, I like that moto came out with blur and HTC with sense, i like competition and I'd like to see more than one phone be the defacto standard. If i go to android, I need more refinement. I'm a techy and I love linux and use it at work every day, but when it comes to my phone i'd like the original be refined and let me delve into the code as I need to.

I used Windows Mobile up to 6.1 and i loved it. moreover, I loved my Hermes (8525) and i made do with the software to continue to use the device. I think winmo is great and am excited for 6.5 and 7 so that finally it may keep up with iphone os and android. my one gripe with 6.1, it was limited in it's execution. sure it brought about alot of new and better features from 6.0 but it wasn't enough. microsoft released 6.1 when apple released v1.0 not to sound fanboyish, but it's not hard to see which one was a) more aesthetically pleasing and also b) more intuitive. both were (and still are) lacking, and i don't think there is actually a phone out there that is perfect at this moment but hopefully we'll see 2010 as the year the mobile os finally steps up and becomes what everyone here (engadget) wants it to be.

Manufacturers are spoiled with the general public not really knowing much, money in their pocket, millions of posts on engadget, a bunch of unhappy techies :-(]]>Oct 14th 2009 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 14th 2009 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/
yeah i try to do my part. keeping the trolls outta bay]]>Oct 14th 2009 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 14th 2009 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 14th 2009 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 14th 2009 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/
it was god-awful]]>Oct 14th 2009 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 14th 2009 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/
If the price was right and the weight was light, a tablet PC or Mac would be perfect for students and teachers alike. Preferably it'd also have a keyboard for typing, but as it stands today, all convertible tablet are a huge burden to both the college students' wallets and their backs.]]>Oct 15th 2009 3:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 14th 2009 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Steve Jobs is so right about they are a company that lacks of creativity! WinMo 6.5 looks good but they still need some hardware would run the software perfectly/ close to perfectly, which is why Apple design their own hardwares! ]]>Oct 14th 2009 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/
It's called the HTC Leo (HD2).]]>Oct 14th 2009 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 14th 2009 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/ ....I'm sure Snow Leopard and iPhone OS 3.x users totally agree.

Imagine if Microsoft only need make their soft work on a single device...............instead of the thousands of different configurations that it works just fine on.]]>Oct 14th 2009 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 14th 2009 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/
The side quotes out of the article in all bold 'n such are a nice professional touch.]]>Oct 14th 2009 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/
How can Steve Jobs walk around if your blowing him nonstop???]]>Oct 14th 2009 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Apple releases the iPhone in June 2007
Apple released the iPod in Oct 2001

Microsoft is the one late to the game? It took Apple 7 years and 2 months to release a phone. Talk about rewriting history - 7 years Microsoft had a product on the market without Apple releasing their phone. 7 yearsMicrosoft had a phone with a music player before Apple stolethe idea from Microsoft. Microsoft had a portable media player in phone form for a year and 6 months before Apple even introduced their iPod - which had only a crappy monochrome display. Windows Mobile was a portable device with a color LCD screen capable of displaying pictures and video 4 years before the iPod with picture the ability to display pictures in color was even introduced by Apple.

Do you not understand that? This "Steve Jobs invented the telephone," "Steve Jobs invented the portable media player," and "Steve Jobs invented a portable media player in a phone" bits can be proven false with actual provable facts and data, not your version of the "Truth"]]>Oct 14th 2009 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 14th 2009 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 15th 2009 4:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/
But I have NO idea what it was. What did it do?]]>Oct 14th 2009 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 14th 2009 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 14th 2009 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/
Obviously I haven't. I don't really care if it was a success or not. Can't you give me some information without being such a douche? =/]]>Oct 14th 2009 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/
It was a miserable failure, an even worse failure than the Apple Lisa (that thing Apple fanboys like to bring up as a holy grail of Microsoft failure - BOB - sold more than those two products combined).

Because it was not manufactured by Apple, and because it was produced during the non-Steve Jobs years, they try to make it appear that it was not Apple's fault, even though Apple wrote the software and designed the hardware - poorly. It would be like if the iPhone failed, fanboys blaming the failure on Foxconn because while Apple designed the hardware and wrote the software, it is Foxconn who builds the hardware.]]>Oct 14th 2009 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/i don't know if it was the crude bluntness or what, but your comment struck me funny. i lol'd]]>Oct 14th 2009 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 14th 2009 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 14th 2009 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 14th 2009 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 14th 2009 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 14th 2009 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 15th 2009 6:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/
@Tsing

As a purveyor of electronics I will talk about whatever electronic i so choose. i did not talk about it's usage or it's pros and cons, but if you really want a list just ask: I own one.

It is decidedly mid '90s apple from the startup to the interface. as for your japan comment, another falsity, they were special order items at apple retailers when they were released. my father bought one for me thinking it'd be my computer and video game system. computer, it worked fine. video games? i got a SNES 3 months later (lack of titles)]]>Oct 15th 2009 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 15th 2009 4:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/But i was wondering, "how many humans actually seek/buy Apple products using Microsoft devices" and also "How many buy/seek Microsoft products using Apple devices".
Who wins ? They do.
by cross contaminating your feable minds with pure pompous corporate computer addiction.
get a life guys and enjoy the technology.
What ever your preference.....!
Me i prefer anything that works.
And as far as i can remember, neither of the two so called giants (Microsoft and Apple) have made anything near PERFECT.
It works all the time and does not need a support engineer.
lol. I'm outta here. Live long and prosper. (as the great man says.)]]>Oct 15th 2009 6:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/switched-on-microsofts-touchy-subjects/Oct 15th 2009 6:22AM