Yes and no. Yes, there are those. No, there are still many that aren't necessarily ready to break their integrity for money or gifts. What I think happens sometimes with tech journalists is that they prefer to root for everyone and decide to do away with any critical thinking in their reporting. In all honesty, I'm far more likely to believe that that's the case, based on the way they talk. It annoys me when they make innaccurate statements or conveniently forget to do any research (or maybe they don't have a genuine interest in tech) and didn't realize how much better something could/should be or forget that something had already been done before. (ala Microsoft claiming to invent filesystem hard links in a patent, or that Apple DID try to get into the gaming market (remember the Apple Pippin?) WAY before Microsoft, and so on and so on).

Irksome. Just... irksome. Seems less about money and integrity and more a lack of journalists bothering to do some research or a lack of experience.

Thread is in the wrong section.

I can't see how this is actually competitive?

Microsoft are so competitive they KOed Meego before it got into the boxing ring.

Competitive enough for you ?

To quote GLaDOS, "That would be funny, if it weren't so sad."

They named it after my bus pass? Sounds about as interesting.

All we saw inside the boxing ring is a 500 pounds fat giant throwing money to a step father for killing an unborn infant inside a pregnant woman, which the step father merrily took the money and did what he paid for.

Yes, in real world we call this a legal competitive strategy. You're right.

In fairness it looks like they have some nice features.. IF the N9 or whatever it's called doesn't meet expectations i'll have no hesitation in jumping.

I'm more interested in WP than Android.. or iOS for that matter

this is the first nokia windows phone.confirmed

In other news, in an epic comeback, Nokia proved they had bigger Packages and named their upcoming OS as "Banana".

The Win 7 UI is actually very nice (IMO) -- arguably one of the nicest. It doesn't look like much in screenshots, but it has a definite quality to it. I can't really comment on the quality of apps or other aspects of the system, but the UI is quite slick.

It is, however, a bit boring to use for extended periods as it seems quite consistent across apps (again, I have limited experience). It's like seeing the same thing over and over again.