@finbred I was thinking the same thing. Though, A) he might be Swedish speaking Finn or B) just a Finn who used to live in Sweden, of which either is too rare. Plus, if you watch the Intel site about the CannonBells, you can hear fluent Finnish and definite Finnish accent.

Ehh. WTH? The whole point of the Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust was to "compete" against G-Wiz, a really shoddy plastic EV in UK. The aim was to create a simple EV, under the prize of G-Wiz. It was NEVER going to compete "real" cars like Volt... Little bit accuracy to the articles, plz.

G-Wiz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REVA

Then I guess you like how Apple gives no credits to Jeff Han for his multi-touch work, too.

No and no. It's not an investment money like you seem to comprehend it, and thus we are not paying for it like you seem to think. Let me explain:

Years before this whole thing, the ISP's were all in agreement with government that they will provide internet to every citizen, it's just now been made official. The ISP's have already been tearing down copper from rural areas cos hardly anyone has landline phones anymore (at least last 10 years I haven't heard of single family that has landline phone and still uses it) and since it's cheaper to use wireless to provide the bandwith. Thus, there already are means to provide the connections AND have already been spinning to that direction for years. All that the law does is to protect the few people who live too far away from any existing network, to have a working broadband. Though, since Finland has had GSM 100% coverage for almost a decade already, I don't think that is going to be a problem. See what I'm heading here?

The internet access in Finland is quite important since things like banking have already been online for way over 10 years in here and most of the government stuff is already moving towards internet, for example you can fill out forms, apply and cash out loans etc all via your browser, so the connection is becoming more and more vital. Thus, by making internet connection a legal right the government can, in the future, push things purely to the internet. And all they are doing is making sure ISP can't just drop people off from the grid whenever they feel like it.

Maybe people are comparing things to US, oh, I don't know, maybe because the site you are writing to resides within the same country? Do you think purely international site would be reporting AT&T coverage in Chigago (or where-ever) so extensively?

Oh, btw. A lot of stuff Nazi Germany has invented is being used every day all around the world. A space shuttle would be nice example of Nazi Germany engineering.

Erm. You'll be hard pressed to find a place that A) doesn't have water (Finland has one of the most extensive fresh water resources in the world, thus if by some happenstance you don't have "public water" you can always drill a well) or B) don't have electricity and is used as a main establishment (there are cottages which don't have electricity but this can even be by choice, for that is the nature of summer cottage). Find one that has both lacking (permanent/main establishment and not by choice) and I congratulate you.

Erm? How is this questionable in any ways? The RC (Release Candidate) is already out from the door which means it's in feature freeze, thus SP1 is definitely in the works.

Imran, I was just 'bout to write the same thing. :P

@ Dhomas
If you are going to be stickler and all, then at least have the right answers on you. Ie. know the difference between additive (all colors equal white) and subtractive (all colors equal black) colors. First hit on google is not going to be the right answer every time.

Ooops. Ment to say that "don't know about the direction" about the cellphone market as a business; the vendor lock-ins etc. We might see something that's between the two, who knows. The touch-screens however are here to stay. Unfortunately. Until the point that they finally come up with a touchscreen that deforms to have a actual buttons on it.

@ utahnkid
"Nokia is losing ground (and employees) just as quickly as every other manufacturer and in such a tight economy you can bet lavish gadgets like this will be the first thing people stop spending money on (and keep in mind the tempting $199 iPhone price tag as you think about that)"
Again. That 550€ is unlocked price. Unlike US, the rest of the world isn't that hot on vendor locking, so people buy unlocked phones as they realize how expensive the vendor locked phones are. Like in here (Finland), in the ads, you are legally bound to show also the actual prize that the phone is going to cost you when you buy it locked. Just a quick calculation for iPhone 3G (with measily 16 GB storage) with small dataplan shows that you end up paying 1000€ for your lavish iPhone (that's 24 month plan, 100 megs of data, 100 minutes of talk and 100 SMS. Of course if you are lucky and end up spending all those "free" minutes, SMS's and MB's then you still end up with 550€ price tag, which you aren't going to reach anyways; you either end up paying for the extra stuff or lose "free" minutes etc.). Now, combine that with ridiculously cheap callrates in Europe and as the competition gets tighter I would presume are going to be as low in the whole world. (like when you make the call within the same provider, you just pay for the first minute, the last are free)

Now, compare all that to say, N97 (just because the article is about it) and tell me again, how again is the iPhone tempting (knowing the limitations it has: no video, no MMS, no true GPS drive instructions capability, not usable while wearing globes etc)? Specially when you know the true price that it's going to cost you, no matter what. And you can't legally change your provider. Of course there is jailbreak but that is why I would still say that the iPhone is not going to be that big of a thing in global marketshare, just because it's vendor locked. It's just filling up the void that is there at the moment. Now, I'm not saying that it's not going to make nicely but I'm still saying it's not going to be huge on global marketshare.

However, I'm going to agree you on one thing. The part of cellphone market is changing which includes lavish techno-toys like iPhone and N97. But to what direction, I'm still not sure.

-M

Not exactly clear on this. What would be the situation that you can touch the other parts of your phone and not the screen? If you mean that your hands are going to be full of gung of somekind then you prolly are better of not touching your phone anyways. :P If you mean something like gloves? Well, I'd guess that's one of the reasons Nokia went for resistive touchscreen, you can use it with or without gloves.