Erm, where did they do that in this article? And BTW: purchasing power parity doesn't normally lead to 1:1 the PPP exchange rate is somewhere close to 1:1.2

There's a thing called VAT or as the italians call it: imposta sul valore aggiunto (IVA). 570€ + 20% = ...

It’s 570 € plus VAT – and that’s a bit ouch.

Actually, FTD doesn't claim anything different. The article says that nokia will continue using symbian for lower end modells while higher end smartphones will get something else - probably maemo.

Brütal?

Asus isn’t exaggerating too much. You can get 9.5h with your Eee 1000HE, but more likely under normal use will be 8+. Here’s a good test: http://www.blogeee.net/2009/03/19/test-asus-eeepc-1000he/

If the 1005 offers even more battery life, i’m looking forward to it. :)

mAh is telling you pretty much nothing about the battery Wh would.

They built (or designed at least) a version for europe (and maybe the USA) which has improved safety features to pass these tests - you’re simply not allowed to sell unsafe cars over here. But it will cost 5000 € then.

Though a 2000-$-car is very much more affordable and probably better in many ways than the average car in developing nations, you don’t get the 4 star safety features that cheap.

It’s even less: around 3000 in 2009 and 40,000 next year. Their new dactory won’t open before the end of 2010.

They aren’t gonna sell a lot for a while, because they can’t produce more than 40,000 this year. And not much more next year. Originally planned were 250,000 cars a year.