Though we as techies love smartphones and expect the best around 90% of the mobiles being sold and the mayority of the money most likely isnt in the smartphone department. So sure a new smartphone would put Sony on the map again a bit but they should focus on releasing a significant interesting dumbphone or atleast produce something like the Cookie which is dirtsheep yet still looks smart.
But then... I´m just another techie what would I know about business strategies :D

I wonder is it possible to take notes in PDF files with this reader? I´m really looking for an E-book reader which lets me write in the papers like normally in study books. Lacking this feature really holds me back from getting one. Further I really hope they will release a reader which is A4+ sized.

Asap as you get me a out of the box Mac-mini with BR let me know. Further the disign a square box might resemble a lot like the mini but then... damn isnt it so generic to design something box-like. It´s almost like the everlasting argument that a mobile looks like an iPhone.. its square and it has a screen. What´s more important what does it do and what can you get. And regarding this certainly for this price I think it´s a neat solution. Certainly if the options are avaible that are rumoured its obviously a Zino > Mini.

Same thought here, Apple used to be leading in development but since they switched to Intel they seem to lag more and more behind their competition if it comes to hardware. Such a shame that they are slow, consider it a bag of hurt of simply don´t give their users the option to use the best hardware that is actually avaible without giving up 12 ribs, 2 arms and a testicle.

Interesting idea that the value doesn´t fit what you deliver though.. is there any substantial reasoning behind it? Don´t take me wrong but I pay here about 6 to 8 euro for a movie in the cinema while these movies I can easily play at my home cinema together with 4 or 6 friends at a neat screen. Now throw in 6x8 euro its 48 euro while a stream only costs me 17 euro. Now... if a movie gets released at a stream for this price at the same time as it plays in the cinema I´m more then willing to pay this much for it but the catch is imo that this price is pretty much equal to a BR Disc which I can play inifinite times. This basically messes up the demanded price. So imo the price isn´t that bad but it should be priced a bit below the actual physical disc-price to be reasonble. That new buyers get a small promo over excisting users iba since thats what a promo is about. You can´t demand everytime as excisting user that you miss out on the promo´s. There is an easy solution keep buying new tele´s.

I wonder though if something like this actually fits. The maximum debt of the box in the wall is in the Netherlands 70 mm which is plenty with a normal power outlet together with some wiring behind it. But with this you need a lot more space behind it as well how does the folding mechanism behave with the wiring behind it. I can imagine wires shooting loose out of their sockets after repeadet usage. In the end.. nice concept though not viable I think with the present regulations. Not to mention if it´s actually possible to get this poweroutlet actually certified ...

@All things considered, Though the idea that OS automatically means more people will look into the insides of a piece of software and because of that it´s more vulnerable compared to non-OS its a misconseption. If ... and to take it to the outer limits compare Windows / Linux / OSX there has been an everlasting debate about which is the safest piece of software yet the end result is while maybe more vulnerabilities in Linux gets appointent high-risk they also get fixed fastest and more important it´s clear that they are actually fixed. While with an OS update like OSX does or a service patch it´s always the question what actually happens. It maybe just some bugsquashing but who knows they also close holes which may have a big influence on other software. It wouldn´t be the first time that an update resulted in massive problems for the endusers due this untransparancy.
Now to extend the claim that OS means it´s more open, you can also look from the other side. OS projects often attract thousends of developers who can all look into the software and if you use Linux for example you´ll see especially with Ubunut how many fixes are done on a daily base. Not due hacks like what happens here but because people simply find flaws in the software. Nice thing about all these fixes is that its very clear what happens. I prefer transparancy over a black box in which you have to hope that the end-developer, int his case Apple, has the best meaning for the user. And... the more I read Engadget, the more I doubt this is actually the case.

Why do you pay 29 euro/usd anyways for what MS calls a servicepack? The whole pricing comparison between MS/Apple always boggled my mind. MS makes an OS release every 4 years and the in between updates are for free while Apple touts that their OS only costs 30 usd/euro, a small detail they leave out is that every minor update/bug-squash runs you another x euro. I wonder how expensive the OS actually is if you compare it on a day to day basis.

Now that Apple releases an OS dirt-cheap it´s no wonder people will try to install it on a piece of hardware which isnt Apple. The chance this happens increases even more thanks to Apple refusing to provide the mass. Ofcourse you could say... well its Apple if you don´t like it don´t buy it. But what right has Apple to tell me on which equipment I can install it? Apple is being attacked on all sides due their closed model which is kind of odd as I remember in the old days that users would scream their lungs out about MS doing exactly the same.

Apple sure produces something nice but its rediculous that they lock in their user-base as much as they do and lock-out their developers equally as bad.

EULA´s always made me wonder how they could function. Maybe.. in some country it´s allowed to write an EULA in whicn you are supposed to give away your first born. It could be legal somewhere yet to use the verysame EULA worldwide may cause some problems as is here. I can imagine the regulations written by Amazon are perfectly ok in the US yet in the EU and then especially Norway the law may see it differently. Rendering EULA´s anways probably always somewhere illegal due differences. What troubles me most is that when I want to use something an EULA can prevent me in their legal point of view todo whatever I feel like while my laws consider it differently. This.. isn´t a poblem yet if I want to have my rights I have to spend time and money on a paper which could be illegal locally. The whole EULA system imo is botched and companies should consider writing them atleast per continent different and if possible even per country to meetup to the local laws.

She can be mounted yet the effect wont be that practical.