I've been a loyal Mac user a few years now (cut my teeth coding C/C++ on PC's thought). Now here is the thing, Win7 is a pretty good OSX rip off yes, but it is stable and had new features I liked. It even found everyone of my drivers and was painless install. After two weeks with snow leopard and win7 I only had few complaints. I write about them here:

http://wordpress.verticalchallenge.org/2009/10/windows-7-gets-it-right-for-disabled-users/

But one thing I want to know is about speed. Win7 running 32 bit code on 64 bit machine mus6t be slower than OSX and it's new thread dispatching. I don't have similar hardware to test on, but might try to dual boot my iMac with win7 and run few3 benchmarks.

Kicker is that if MS got win7 right and it feels like OSX but on better/cheaper hardware... them Apple needs to keep ahead with features. I'm not knocking snow leopard, I installed it and didn't expect cool new things.. I just wanted better, cleaner system. It would serve MS well to improve and consolidate the core functionality once and awhile.. maybe they have that with win7?

Brad

here is video off my 5800:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z93u-3UBVkA

I got a 5800 in Vancouver Canada and had to RMA it because the firmware wouldn't update. I chose Nokia because they were the best, been around longer and had great free dev tools. I wanted to be ready for the App store they are putting up, but without being able to run python and install version 20 of the firmware.... I was stalled out and very, very unhappy.. G1 and iPhone are putting out better bluetooth frameworks now and both have full featured app stores. Nokia screwed up this roll out in NA for sure.

Nokia + Polar heart rate was what was after, because I have open source for this here:
http://code.google.com/p/zephyropen/

Anyone else in Canada or USA have to wait weeks on an RMA?

I got a 5800 in Vancouver Canada and had to RMA it because the firmware wouldn't update. I chose Nokia because they were the best, been around longer and had great free dev tools. I wanted to be ready for the App store they are putting up, but without being able to run python and install version 20 of the firmware.... I was stalled out and very, very unhappy.. G1 and iPhone are putting out better bluetooth frameworks now and both have full featured app stores. Nokia screwed up this roll out in NA for sure.

Nokia + Polar heart rate was what was after, because I have open source for this here:
http://code.google.com/p/zephyropen/

Anyone else in Canada or USA have to wait weeks on an RMA?

Brad

Well... the phone was in the Batman movie, but never saw any printed promos in stores in Canada. Fido and Rogers are not in any hurry to offer this phone with a plan either.

Does any one know if the new polar devices will be "open"? The hackers will figure it out one way or the other, like the Wii etc... but it would be cool if they opened the API.

Good to see. I like Nokia phones for the usability (button design really matters to use quadriplegics) and of course the Java environment. But.. deploy over air or bluetooth? Having to unlock phones is a headache for even savvy users.

See Open Source project for Hear Rate Monitoring here:
http://code.google.com/p/zephyropen/

Open Source project for Hear Rate Monitoring here:

http://code.google.com/p/zephyropen/