@ Cameron

I agree 100%. "Smart phones" are getting faster and prettier, but they seem to be loosing a lot of core functionality. I can't speak for the iPhone but I just bought an HTC Magic, and as nice and pretty as it was, my old Palm m515 and WinMo6 phone had better copy and paste support.

I mean for gods sakes, the iPhone JUST got it. And Android is in bad need of a copy and paste redesign. Forget the m515, my m105 and IIIe did that better :P

So a note to RIM, MS, Apple, Google, and Palm. We know you want to make you're phones all pretty and touch friendly, but look back and remember that we don't like being jipped out of what we used to be able to do. At least I don't.

Another note, what makes capacitive screens all the rage? I mean sure it's nice to have finger friendly UIs, but where has all this hate for resistive screens come from? Just because capacitive screens are the cat's meow right now doesn't mean we should forget the stylus. 90% of the things I do on my phone work great with my thumb, but it would be nice to have handwriting recognition again.

I'm getting off topic here :P

Plain and simple. When developing for the future, don't forget the past.

I could be wrong, I can't keep track of these things, but isn't 1.6 Donut and 2.0 Eclair?

Umm... you might want to take that back engadget, I don't think an atom processor could handle "uncompressed" 1080p video. Do you have any idea how large that would be?

I'm using an android phone as a place holder for Windows Mobile 7. It seems these days that mobile OSs have become just as much a popularity game as desktop OSs. No one seems to care which is better or has more robust features, simply which is the most popular.

After using Android for the past six months I can say it is years behind windows mobile. Don't get me wrong it has a lot of things going for it, nice API, capacitive touch support, and google integration. But it has horrible copy and paste support, and even worse multimedia support. The "open souceness" of Android is also debatable with many developers giving up on good projects because they would need to touch a part of google's locked down code.

I can see this becoming a large rant so I'm going to end it here. Android is an OK OS, especially for how young it is, but it is nowhere near as robust as Windows Mobile. I think once Microsoft puts a face lift on it with miltitouch support and a good API, both of which I am expecting with WinMo7, it will best all the so called "next gen" mobile OSs that are out there.

Is it sad that I have one of those?

I don't understand. You guys bitch and complain when there are three different versions of Vista or 7, and those have clearly marked differences. Now you fight to confuse people more, with a setup page that throws a bunch of browsers in your face all claiming to be fast and secure.

People use IE because it is already installed. When they feel they want a better browser experience, they can venture out. Forcing end users to decide all the applications they want on their system on first boot is just tedious and a bad idea.

I would love to hear someone who doesn't work for a rival software company tell me how this is a good idea.

Yup. Add a matte finish as well. I'm sick of all the body's using shiny fingerprint magnet plastic.

Agreed. Intel won't want any part of this because it has been investing time in Moblin.

WTF... Sometimes CEOs have to say no. Even if a business suggestion this bad comes from a family member.

Landscape keyboard. I can understand putting portrait QWERTY on a candybar style phone, but if you are going to put a slider mechanism in, might as well use the extra thickness to incorporate a landscape keyboard.