@fourthletter
I believe he's meaning the developments that would allow phone screens to truly provide tactile feedback, such as raising and lowering.
The currently implemented reiterations of haptics merely provides a bit of feedback to confirm your press, a far cry from the tactile feedback a hard-keyboard can provide.

Or am I wrong? I only messed with the Hero for a few minutes.

Looks highly undeveloped thus far, an improved keyboard is a VERY welcome change for WinMo. HTC's offerings are nice, but WinMo definitely needs a native onscreen keyboard that doesn't complete suck for finger usage.

You are aware Windows 7 IS version 7 but was labeled 6.1 to retain compatibility, right?

I'm with Harney. The WinMo Facebook App is definitely better and possesses more features.

It's a tough call since none of the desktops on the site are listed having 1TB hard drives.
Whenever more information gets posted, try and see if you can grab a shot of the inside or a listing of the available slots on the motherboard. HP does some funky stuff with the available ports on their motherboards, ie: My friend's didn't have a PCI-E slot, one of our customer's computers lacked any PCI slots at all.
Just a word of caution is all.

I'm sure with such a big screen and advanced touch registration, you could just create a roll-out keyboard you can sit on the screen to make it easier to touch type. :]

I can see this being levied as a low-power solution for casual web/office editing.
As opposed to running a full pledged cpu [Core2/i7/etc] and gpu that would produce a large amount of heat, use more power, and create more noise [I'm sure fan speeds could be lowered for Atom use], you could could simply boot up on the Atom side.

Having a console would be pretty nice.

I had to start using a mouse pad when I noticed that my mouse's pads were starting to rub away some of my desk's paint.

There hasn't been anything THAT BIG added to iPods for a very long time.
Other than those lovely $10 firmware upgrades.