houkoholic

Except that we’ve been using Metro (or the Swiss design language) in places like our street signs and train station signage for MUCH longer than faux bling and leather. Depth and throw shadows in icons is a fairly recent invention due to the increase in computing power, and IMO it isn’t necessary nor does it convey more information.

I bought one for shits and giggles – I couldn’t stand flashing custom ROMs on my Galaxy S to get it work properly anymore so when my contract ended I bought one while tying me over until the Lumia 800. Used it as a daily driver for about 2 months.

Like most people have said already – conceptually it is a nice phone, though massively buggy/incomplete on the PR1.1 firmware (wifi dropouts which bricked the phone on the first update, facebook/gtalk login errors, spartan browser etc). I’m keeping it for the shits and giggles for its historic value and unique design; but otherwise the phone now lives permanently in my drawer – now I use a Lumia 800 for 5 months now and so much more happier than either the Galaxy S and N9.

With 100Mb and even gigabit fibre widely available in metropolitan Japan the size is not going to matter.

Also 3000yen for an album is the average cost of a normal CD in Japan, considering these are TrueHD surround recordings which you won’t be able to get outside of Blu-ray concerts (which would normally cost from 5000yen upwards) I’d say the pricing is actually surprisingly fair.

I think they said something about the increased screen size made making the screen curved impractical.

I think the point is that Woz loves WP so much that he would recommend WP over Android even when there’re not as much apps. Woz is saying the difference in app number isn’t a big deal because the other bits are so good.

This is a big contrast to basically every tech journalist who says “I can’t recommend WP7 because it doesn’t have the apps.”. It’s a huge endorsement from Woz.

To be fair it’s not even just Joshua but pretty much the entire tech journalism sphere that holds this mentality that WP7 is not worth recommending because “it lacks apps”. It’s pretty refreshing to hear someone of Woz’s calibre/status to come out and say what needs to be said rather than just going with the bandwagon line.