I really hope WinMo 7 doesn't go very far. The touchscreen-enabled web has been significantly better since all they've really had to target is Webkit and Opera. MS is going to have to allow at least one third-party browser, or get IE9 ported to ARM, fully standard compliant very quickly. Otherwise all the iPhone/Android targeting sites aren't going to work so well on Windows.
How is this impressive? Which part of this hardware/software or form factor is impressive? Can anyone please point it out to me, after reading Engadget user comments going gaga over this device and I am really confused. I can't help but think that these bloggers are paid to rave about this device.
Note: I am not a mac fanboy in any stretch of imagination or don't own an iPad.
I will argue that looking good is subjective because their form factor looks a lot like a big sidekick which has been around since 2002. As for good hardware, they have the same hardware as Nexus One which has been available since the beginning of this year.
To draw your analogy, its like two cars being released 4 months apart, the new one looks hideously ugly with same speed as the old one - but getting raving positive reviews (without anyone even touching or driving it).
I am pretty confident that these are paid posts and staged leaks.
If you hang around these gadget blogs enough, you'll notice that anything new will get a few comments saying "Ooooh this looks hot, it's just what I've been waiting for! I'm gonna replace my xxx device with this as soon as it comes out." ... Good for them, but it doesn't correlate at all with actual market success.
Many gyms have lots of TV's in front of the bank of bikes/treadmills etc. Each one tuned to a different channel and a FM radio frequency below it. This allows you to listen to the sound from the show you are watching.
Why not? A lot of people enjoy listening to radio shows, and I'd guess that using a build in FM radio draws a lot less power than streaming a radio show over the internet. Plus it won't cut into your bandwidth quote for people who have to worry about that.
I guess it depends on where you live.
I'm in Europe and in my part of the world public radio is pretty good and without ads. I can't stand radio stations that airs ads every few minutes or just have mindless jingles.
At my old job we had a visitor from your headquarter, some head of department from TI. Someone asked why we didn't include FM radio in our chipset and his reaction was the same as yours. He was a bit surprised when he asked who of us still listed to radio and everyone put their hand up.
I was recently at a baseball game and realized that I really wanted to hear the stats that the announcers usually have when listening to a baseball game on radio. Wish I had a iPod Nano.
