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Saying that the HD7 was a “success story” compared to a Windows Mobile device really isn’t saying much. The numbers you saw in this case are quite similar to the numbers in the broader marketplace, actually yours were probably somewhat in WP7’s favour.

Of course they have new products somewhere in the pipeline, but I think Ive was talking in a more general sense.

He didn’t say they were working on the best product they’ve ever made, but that the work they’re doing right now in general is the best work they’ve ever done. I would assume that includes iPhone, iPad and Mac, as well as the ecosystem that ties them together. They’re bringing intuitive computing to the masses and the growth of that idea since Steve’s death alone has been monumental. Look at their numbers quarter over quarter.

It’s already a legitimate platform. Look at the kind of money iOS developers are making and the influx of new small studios that can become professional game developers off a $1 app without needing a publisher and a distributor and all that.

I spend more time playing games on my iPad than my Xbox 360

are you really churning out all these bullshit walls of text just to justify the fact that youre using adblock on the verge?

It would be nice if the next Nexus was made by a manufacturer like HTC. Samsung really blew it on the hardware side with the Galaxy Nexus, pure ICS is great but the phone feels awful.

Celebrities that you see on TV/YouTube don’t count as “in the wild”.

I can’t see them being too high, I still haven’t seen a single WP7 device in the wild. It seems to be a 50/50 split between iPhones and Androids (of which 90% are Samsungs and the other 10% are awful budget devices), and a few BlackBerries, most of which are cheap Curves.

Of course that’s anecdotal evidence, but I think there would be the occasional person with a Windows Phone on the subway or the street or whatever if they were moving significant numbers. It’s a shame, because I think WP7.5 is way better than Android (2.3 at least) in almost every way, and compared to iOS each has its pros and cons.

Is this customs issue specifically about the ’647 patent? I thought there were several others as well. Also HTC claimed in a 2011 press release that “the ‘647 patent is a small UI experience and HTC will completely remove it from all of our phones soon.”

It’s totally obvious once you see it, but you have to remember that there were loads of touchscreen phones before the iphone and none of them did all these TOTALLY OBVIOUS things

and what kind of subscriber numbers are those carriers doing compared to the big four?

Both of those look basically identical in functionality to Twitter for Mac, except uglier :/

The LG Prada wasn’t a smartphone. It was a dumbphone in a nice body and a reskinned dumbphone OS.

Great post. One other device I’d add is the Sidekick.

It was really the only comsumer-focused smartphone before the iPhone was released. Sure it has a reputation of being a toy for teens, but it became popular in that market because it was a good device.

It had a transflective LCD display way back in like 2004. Current phone screens tend to be completely unreadable in bright sunlight, the Sidekick had this problem solved almost 10 years ago.

€10 per month. I get 1000 minutes, 1000 texts, and 1GB of data. Additional data is billed at €4/GB, additional minutes and texts at €0.04 each.
No long term commitment, I can cancel anytime. The disadvantage is that I had to buy my handset upfront.

who cares whose fault it is?

nope, just your circle of friends.

Apple is a hardware company. The software is there to sell the hardware but really they’re not too bothered if you don’t use it as long as you buy the hardware.

where the hell do you live that people have such emotional opinions about laptops? i’ve never seen anybody give anyone hate about their laptop IRL in my life.

Second biggest battery on market and it lasts 8 hours.

It doesn’t look like The Verge at all in my opinion. It’s the same old Ars colour scheme with a new grid-based look to replace the ancient thing Ars had going on before.

Ars is a fantastic tech site that has been around for ages providing superb content. They know better than just ripping off the new kid on the block.

rumor has it the iOS6 version of maps will not only use a new backend but also a completely new 3d visual style.

???

the current one does.

i wouldn’t be surprised if the next gen came with 256GB standard and a 512GB option, at least at 13". Also an 8GB option at 13". The upcoming CPU upgrades aren’t all that groundbreaking, so it would make sense to do something else to entice new buyers.

he was making an educated guess. god forbid anyone ever guesses wrong.