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It's bizarre that some want to mandate the FM radio standard, when it is in decline in many areas of the world. Many countries have already switched to digital radio standards, such as DAB or HD Radio. In many markets, the digital standards are growing while FM declines. Why on earth mandate...

A Tablet PC is something Microsoft used to offer. The modern-day "slate" is a thin device. It's a portable device. People read them on buses. GPS and Camera should be on every slate. 3G networking optional (as with iPad). So the only remaining difference between a phone form factor and a slate...

At the moment, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 doesn't scale. It should downscale to small music devices. It should upscale to larger slates. But currently, Zune HDs are running a different form of Windows CE, and we have Microsoft's Tablet PCs running the full desktop version of Windows 7. The...

I think I liked Ubuntu's old brown Netbook Remix UI much better.

Android is the only choice for Samsung, as it is the only OS that can be run on both smartphone and slate, giving Samsung consistency between devices.

Thanks, Ars Technica. Very useful information. You've turned my off those multinational ice teas.

There is no reason that mobile communication should cost as much as it does. If you had to connect a whole city (that had no connections), wireless would be the cheapest way to do it. So why does it cost more than cable/adsl? Handset subsidies. Government auctions of spectrum (adding to the...

Do we need another low-power x86 processor? Consumers are moving towards ARM. Maybe AMD should have just taken out an ARM license.

It is becoming obvious that Windows Phone 7 will fail. Everything about it is a mess. Nothing is ready for launch. Features are missing. Microsoft promises everything will come at a later date, but provides no roadmap for when these update fixes will come. Now we hear that the OEMs are losing...

It's only a matter of weeks before Windows Phone 7 is loaded in handsets sitting on store shelves. Therefore, whatever shortcomings the platform has now, it will have at release time. You can Google for the long list of missing features in Windows Phone 7. Microsoft even admitted that Windows...

The approaching failure of Windows Phone 7. The OS is unfinished. Most of the APIs are not done. 3rd party apps cannot access critical hardware features like the compass or the video camera. Even something as basic as sockets isn't there, so there will be no VoIP apps. Can't believe the WP7 OS...

Does Microsoft <i>always</i> get the interface wrong? -1980s: Bill Gates once said that the Graphic User Interface was not for serious computing. -2001: Microsoft releases the Tablet PC, with stylus pen, that does not sell -2007: Steve Ballmer laughed at the iPhone, saying the touch interface...