@yanksgrtrthnsox

If you're left-handed then you're backwards i.e. soulless like the redheads and other witches and you shall burn in hell.

On a more serious note I would be VERY VERY surprised if there was not a way to put the menu on the left hand side...
-I can do it with gnome menu, I can do it with cairo-dock, I can do it in KDE...
-It's easy to code
-it would be very surprising if there was no left-handed (soulless mofo) @ Else to think about it.
-Those Else NERDS read engadget and you're comment has been taken into account (and is thus irrelevant now)

@Ray While your question makes absolutely no sense, given its incoherence, I'll answer you oh poor lost soul.

Manufacturer make expensive and shiny phones, sell them for $600 on their Website.
AT&T and Verizon sell phone contracts, very expensive and overpriced one, so no one wants to buy one.

-random moron like you : "But HEY I still WANT my iPhone/N900/HTC HD2/ Hero /DROID !!! and I don't have $600"

-AT&T (or any other carrier) : " No prob bro' ! let's get inside and talk. So you want that $600 smartphone ? hum... and you don't have $600. huhu of course I see... that's tough ! if only one could SUBSIDIZE this phone so it costs ONLY $99 !!!"

-Random moron : " REALLY YOU COULD DO THAT ?!!"

-AT&T : " Sure as long as you accept to pay for an higly overpriced service that I'll provide with 0 garanties and sign in for 36 months."

Random Moron : " Oh thank you, thank you AT&T !"

Got it ?

You got it ALL wrong engadget.
Or at least you make it sound like you don't understand what's going on and you misslead people.

Nokia abandons S60, not Symbian. The Symbian Foundation will realease a brand new open-source version of Symbian (a Symbian 2.0 if you will) and nokia is 100% behind that !

Blah blah blah Apple is hardware based company...


Why do their hardware is so lame then and still they're so successfull?

because they are not hardware based at all, hardware is where they make the money taking advantage of their strong software.

The real question is : is it in the best interest of customers (i.e. people) to be forbidden to install OS X on whatever they like and if not then why is there a law that allows Apple to do so (I.e. a law that's is not in the best interest of the people).

It's strange to see the american law is so corparate-biased from europe.

WRONG !
Tab browsing was invented (or at least patented and made culturally acceptable) by Steve Jobs for Safari8.4... oh wait

the statement number 2) is so true !
I'm a real google enthousiast but Nokia (Ovi) maps has been doing what google navigation does now for a long time now.

Lol if Apple had produced a netbook it would definitely look like this :
low specs, "running a proprietary web-optimized OS" (except it wouldn't be that web-optimised), and Very overpriced.

But that would be Apple so it would be "amazing" and "UN-BE-LIE-VA-BLE".
"BOOM!"

Yeah....
But the G1 hasn't a jack nor do a lot of phones who shoddl have.

Not to mention the iPhone 1 who had a 3,5mm jack that wasn't usable with most 3,5mm jack...
Apple or "why we like to use standards, but prefer when we can make them a little less standard than usual..."

Verizon is absent from the E.U. ( as far as I know)
And droid is a verizon trademark.

Hence no droid for europe.

GET OVER IT !
You had the Pre for what 6 months now ?
And what about Moto Droid ?
We always get the goodies late, let us enjoy for once :)
(BTW : we are gonna pay 600euros for this phone, you will pay $600 hence we deserve it)