Mythbusters

talking of pass, you should checkout the new nokia maps on the lumia. It's f awesome!!!

Did you really expect anything different from a non-paid PR rep of Apple?

You probably want to get your hands on a Lumia 920 then. Much better keyboard (I compared it to SG III) Does not run hot and looks much much cooler than moto

You want difference how about Nokia 920 and Nokia 900 Lumias. That is a huge leap

It depends on how many applications you use very regularly. Games pretty much get old as you complete them. When it comes to the rest of the apps, I doubt an average person buys more than a few bucks worth of non-game apps.

smartphone costs a few thousand dollars to own over a couple of years. Cost of apps is bust a small portion of that cost.

yeah 45% thinner than the previous one! OMG!!! 45!!! that is a big number.

It's sad that every time the authors chose to compare the phone they compared it with iPhone 4S instead of comparing it with any of the newer phones out there in the market such as Lumia 920 or GSIII. That is like taking a page from Apple's marketing book. Of course it is going to be better than the older version released last year. How does it compare to the phones of this generation?

That question is left unanswered. May be that is because the audience won't like the answer...

The one in Windows phone acts up much more consistently then. The back button takes you to the previous screen in the app until you get to the home screen and then it takes you back to the page where you launched the app from.

You should really try the Windows Phone in that case. Its quite intuitive. Now I know the word is relative but I have used both android and iPhone in the past and I just love how the Windows phone brings everything together and how it is consistent across the board.

It has this app integration where you can link into an app from another. e.g. if I looked up a restaurant in maps then all the restaurant related apps such as yelp and opentable are available to me right there. A tap takes me right into those apps at the page that talks about that specific restaurant. This has been there for a couple of years unfortunately not enough people have used the platform

This is still a recent development. It never had this originally. Besides going by the ugly apps, it hasn't had much impact so its ineffective at best.

What does this site have to do with android anyway? Isn't the article basically saying, its possible to develop good looking apps on android?

The problem with android is that it never had any design language like iPhone and the Windows Phone have. They give a framework for an app developer to work within. It inspires them to make consistent beautiful designs. Android has always been this free-form thing which I think caused many ugly apps to be developed for it.

Windows Phone market place for one is full of such beautiful apps, thanks to the detailed guidelines about the metro design.

or anybody else for that matter...

which it apparently does if the video released later is to be believed.

Percentage aside, I think it is perfectly reasonable that Google reserves a lot of space for ads. What pays for the search results after all? I am surprised that people expect to get great service for free. It's just not sustainable.

What is not reasonable is how deceptively similar the ad looks to an actual search result. If Google is confident about an Ad being information then why not let people click it for its relevance? Why make the background just barely different from the search result so that its almost impossible to visually separate ads from results? Let people clearly know that its an ad and let them decide whether they want to click on it or not.

Bing is as deceptive as Google here so not singling you guys out but please don't portray a reasonable effort to make money as a something larger than that.

From reading the article, there is no reason why Android was chosen specifically. So this experiment could have been done with any modern smartphone out there, they just happen to choose a couple of android phones. Is that right?

What is neat about metro (ooops windows 8 style) apps is that you get the whole canvas by design to play with. The pattern that controls are out of sight when you don't need them is really neat.

Quite likely most of the new PCs sold after Jan will have Windows 8 on them by default.

This is one product I hope people really get behind. Good interface and smart aggregation. Keep it up guys!

Or better still on Windows Rt with proven Os backing it, Windows should be a much interesting alternative on a tablet being used as a productive device.

and this is why the Surface device sounds so exciting. iPad hasn't been exploited as a productivity device yet. With Microsoft's stronghold on productivity market, this should be interesting.

just some poor design. Scroll down maybe?

A transaction like this is sure to raise the confidence of any enterprise thinking of using the onlive desktop product. :)

Right. Google and Motorola are too separate corporate entities.

and why would they? It's not that they vowed to do no evil or something.

If there was any doubt about it in the past, it should be put to rest now.

Yes. It's Motorola suing Apple and Not Google. Google, the current owner of Motorola has nothing to do with this. Just like Romney had nothing to do with what the other executives at Bain Capital did.

Neat. You should make it an app using the new 2013 excel applications http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/apps/fp142161...

When you say neutral solutions, you are assuming that the API developed by Apple and Microsoft can only be accessed from these platforms. I know that that's not true at least for SkyDrive API.

Given these why would I choose a neutral API?

what makes you say that?

Labels were originally pure labels like tags but now they have added sub-labels and nested labels which is basically the same thing as folders. So they are calling them labels but have basically abandoned that concept and are back to folders.

Here's why it doesn't work:

Remove 140 character limit: That is the essence of twitter. The limit helps me consume a lot more tweets than I can consume long winding emails or articles.

Whitelist: So make it difficult for someone to send you an email unless they are pre-approved? That looks like solving the spam problem with too big a hammer. I think the spam problem is mostly solved btw. I don't get it on either my Hotmail, yahoo or gmail addresses and an occasional spa can easily be marked and future emails get filtered

Hashtags: Google tried to do this in gmail as labels and I think failed. The automatic classification that Hotmail started (to identify important email, email from contacts, etc.) and probably is there in gmail too is the direction. Why make me do the wok when a machine can do it for me?