Leave it to Apple to even give out free thriller videos to honor a pop icon... wait, that was Microsoft.

To be fair, Chris is probably the fairest reporter on Engadget. He at least backs up his claims with reason or states most of his biases up front.

Ah, yes, I got it wrong. Forgot about Symbian. Need to get that damn N97 already, so I can play around with it.

Erik, hardly anyone using?
Last I checked, it was still #2 in smartphone marketshare below RIM. WinMO also has a lot more apps and a lot more developers.
What it has lacked until recently in an singel distribution point, app store, it has had in multiple, highly intelligent, and very active user communities that have managed to make some rather amazing apps, tweaks, mods, etc.

What Microsoft needs to do is start taking control over the platform, rather then allowing all the Carriers to throw their own junk on there. Simply flashing a clean rom puts WinMo phones in the same league as the iPhones, in terms of performance. The UI is also progressing well, with major companies like HTC and SE, putting a good bit of development into it.

The iPhone in contrast relies on a viral type of development, in that you have a huge amount of developers working on apps for the iPhone, but a majority are induviduals rather then large sized firms.

Ah, looks like another Microsoft bashing post by Nilay Patel. Next thing you know, he'll start to tell us about the virtues of paying only $29 for an OS upgrade vs. $299. Have fun with your %10000 overpriced memory, hard drives, and video cards. Wait, that's because they're higher quality? Sure, putting an Apple sticker on a stick of memory makes them high quality. Want to buy my civic for $500,000? I put a Ferrari decal on it, so you know it is fast.

Yes, but you can't afford them.

One of the big plusses of a resistive screen is that it can be made out of strong scratch resistant plastics like those you get on good glasses/ sun glasses. Capacitive screen = glass or amorpheous polymer = brittle as hell. No Capacitive screen can compare in durability right now.

Question, do we actually get SGX or MBX or w/e drivers with this? The one thing that really kills HTC is that we don't have GPU drivers for a lot of their phones. If not, that would explain the UI stutters, but it would be nice to be able to have by release or a few months after even.

One of the funniest comments ever.

I think you're giving Paris Hilton too much credit. I'd say that Hayden Panettiere better applies to that analogy.