HILARIOUS! Best part is that EVEN WITH THE RIGGING, the Microsoft phone STILL lost against a Galaxy Nexus. FTA: "According to the latest report by The Verge, Microsoft admits to using only those challenges where it knows it will have an upper hand, while avoiding those where it could lose or the result would be a tie, among other things. So no, there is nothing random (and might I even add fair) about these events and everything, including the part where you lose to the Windows Phone, is part of the plan."

A little too late to save face, though. If I were the guy, I would make sure to collect the laptop and then immediately install Linux on it just to make a point.

For maps reasons? What reasons are those? Couldn't Nokia put their maps application out for Android? Hell--if it's actually good, it might make them more money than their half-arsed Windows Phones. I've seen a few third-party mapping apps on Android that were done at least as good as Google's (I tend to use Waze no a daily basis--a LOT more than Google Maps, even though I love them both for different reasons). Once again, it's nice to have a platform where I can HAVE both a wide array of software (unlike Nokia) AND competition (unlike iOS).