@johnmc
I'm not exactly a fan of Verizon, but "outside the US" should really read "outside of US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Korea, China, all of Europe, Autralia, New Zealand and Indonesia (the list goes one, I'm just too lazy)"

CDMA is more widespread than you would think. Its never going to be nearly as widespread as GSM, but that's mostly a cost issue...

I don't get how Engadget is in trouble... a) you don't need to ask permission if you're reporting it as news, not like Engadget is saying they made this; b) Engadget never said this case was new, all the article says is "Wow, this casemod is wicked." and c) Engadget got this from Case Mod Blog... why do they need to be so snarky toward Engadget?... I think MDPC needs to pull a giant stick out of its ass or something.

Sasuke, of course!

One reason why I will continue to like WinMo over Apple's stuff is choice though. I will concede that Apple's default interface is leaps and bounds ahead of WinMo's by any stretch of the imagination but it just doesn't allow enough choice. With WinMo, I can install Opera and flash to get a kickass browser. Apple refused to let Opera into the App store because it competed with Safari (according to an Ars Technica post), typical of the vertical monopoly ideology they've been pushing. With WinMo, I can install pretty much any app I want by simply getting the cab over the interwebs, while everything on the iPhone has to go through the App Store in all its SDK/EULA glory. I honestly don't get when people complain about M$'s monopoly all the time when Apple does it worse. The actively try to kill off any continued support for 3rd party iPod syncing, limit OS X to apple hardware only, limit browser/GPS navigation software on the iPhone, as a few examples. I honestly would use Apple and its beautiful BSD core over Windows if Apple simply weren't so restrictive on what I could do with their devices.

the major difference that I find the most important reason to have a proper "tablet" with an active digitizer is that a "touchscreen" has 1 level of sensitivity. Active digitizers usually have around 250 though some have more.

The sensitivity is a huge bonus in apps that support it (e.g. photoshop) as you can use it to change the size of your brush stroke and such to make things a lot more "natural" looking

the major difference that I find the most important reason to have a proper "tablet" with an active digitizer is that a "touchscreen" has 1 level of sensitivity. Active digitizers usually have around 250 though some have more.

The sensitivity is a huge bonus in apps that support it (e.g. photoshop) as you can use it to change the size of your brush stroke and such to make things a lot more "natural" looking

Did you not watch the whole section in the video about how it's going to be sold as a barebones system and the OS, HDD and memory will be up to the distributor? What is it Linux fan boys and being really ignorant? Everytime a new product comes up it's like "ZOMG BUT IT NEEDZ LINUX OR ELSEZ IT SUX"

"...Ballmer says he has 'no clue' what Google is up to..."

http://searchengineland.com/080520-134803.php
How about kicking the living daylights out of Live Search or whatever they call that POS these days...

@Technex

someone missed the nuances of that pun...

@User

"Why do you have to be racist against Macs?"

... I didn't realize Mackintoshes were a race...

I wonder if the NAACP will step in to prevent further atrocities against Macs.