From the review, I'd be saying, "Why only 75%?"

It's actually a really positive review. I went to the second page assuming that'd be where all the downsides were, but that didn't happen.

Having used (very sceptically to start with) a WP7 device for a year now, I'd say:

1GHz single core is enough for the phone. Anything more is a bonus. It runs very fast. You're just used to Android needing multiple cores to make up for garbage collection causing UI stutter.

16GB is a lot. No MicroSD is a bit annoying, but for a lot of people (e.g. me) it's not a showstopper. I get by fine with 8GB at the moment. YMMV. @Silverburn obviously EITHER only 16GB of storage OR no MicroSD is the feature fail, you can't list them as two problems.

Almost every app I need (or have heard of on another platform and wanted) is either there or built into the OS.

I've NEVER had to powercycle/remove the battery on my phone from a crash. Not once, in over a year. The only time I restart it is if I want to fully discharge the battery, and that's probably just a ritual left over from NiCad days. My phone does let me remove the battery though, and I value that feature.

Anyway. Sounds like a load of commenters who haven't used the phone. As a Java monkey who ran Linux for a long time, it works really well and it's getting better. I'm a gradual convert to Windows 7 + WP7 + Xbox 360, and MS hopefully to pull another Xbox-style win, glad I got in early.

(And have you tried the dev tools? Amazing. If you're used to Objective C, welcome to the 21st century.)

Is this only news because the iPad 3 has it?

If you stop feeding the crazy Apple fans, they may become less crazy.

Commodity hardware without a fashion label is best value?

Shocker.

And yes echo the above comments - as soon as you try and scale up that commodity PC you'll have massive costs.

Software patents?

See image.

Irony alert

You ARE you when you're hungry. Hunger (or anything else) doesn't change you, it reveals you.

Introspection five?

@Dan 55

If Windows maintains backward compatibility with code that requires soldering, then that is some serious effort gone into keeping everything working!

You will download your sneakers within 20 years.

Someone needs a better Internet connection.

Err...

“Probably the silliest design of all time is the Star Trek ‘Enterprise’. It's obviously built with a clear notion of which way should be ‘up’ - but what does up or down mean in space? Why make the habitat section in the form of a saucer, anyway (except, perhaps, as homage to the old Kenneth-Arnold style UFO shape)? And, since the engines are so far off the centreline, why doesn't it only fly in loops?”

None of this makes sense. Of course you have to design a spaceship with a notion of which way is "up", if they have gravity and rooms inside them designed with a similar assumption in mind. And the engines aren't rockets. Seriously, I don't care about this stuff enough to make a career out of it, but the guy who does seems to be talking some crap!

Zombie Marie Curie to the rescue

http://xkcd.com/896/

Finally!

A journalist dealing with the essential topic of how other journalists covered a product release. Pulitzer?

"this game is all about kicking zombies while there down"

Really? REALLY?

Hyperchondria

The author of this article makes one good point: the app doesn't help at all with hyperchondria. Because hyperchondriacs would never install it.

If you're going to immortalise your Daily Mail thoughts, please don't call people workshy until you can be bothered to get up from writing a short article to open a dictionary.

I work for them :)

This is easily the coolest acquisition we've ever made!

@andy gibson

Apple won't take action, as Mac Defender didn't use rounded icons. But if they HAD, there'd be a lawsuit filed faster than you can spell frivolous!

Dropbox lets you share files too

If you put files in your Public folder you can:

a) Share individual files with anyone (basically file permissions are read-only, but directory listing is not allowed)

b) Share an entire folder with another Dropbox user

And it has 2GB available with its free account.

Android app screens: http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=439

Well I'm convinced

Had a Windows Phone 7 phone for 3 months now. For the first two months I was waiting to be disappointed, but it's been great. NEVER frozen or slowed down, amazing UI IMO (lovely fonts, lots of negative space, I seriously never liked the grey-to-grey gradients that are all over iPhone apps, how people think that looks good is beyond me), lots of features out of the box, the Zune PC software looks amazing and (I think) is much more intuitive than iTunes. It's seriously an amazing start from MS; don't dismiss it out of hand.

P.s. no doubt the same numpties who are saying that MS are too late to the party with WP7 also said that when the Xbox was released.

@AndyLucia

So other than "able to fend of Somalians in speedboats" his piece is pretty much accurate. Being fitted "for" X just means the obscene cost of the boat doesn't include the cost of X, so to make the thing useful you have to spend even MORE money on parts and labour.

Just put the jack housing in the bumper

Once you put your iDevice in its mandatory bumper it loses most of its visual aesthetic appeal and all of its thinness anyway, so why bother putting the housing in the device at all. Then you can make an even thinner device that demos even better, but because the bumper keeps the phone the same size anyway you can carry on using a normal jack housing.

What does "whitelist" mean here anyway?

The problem might just be linguistic ambiguity. The terms "whitelist" and "blacklist" probably have no useful meaning in the context of search, where all sites that don't break Google's ToS are permitted.

Google might sometimes manually select which algorithms are used to rank certain sites, but they can do that and still truthfully claim to not "whitelist", if the question is put to them in a naive way.

'I work for Accenture'

Even if saying that doesn't get your laptop stolen, it may earn you a punch in the face