Amrosorma

Good luck everyone!

...Or I can keep tethering *and* my $15 AT&T unlimited data plan with my unlocked Nexus One. Just two of the advantages of never having to be AT&T's subsidized slave :)

@Jubeh Thanks for the clarification! I learn a new thing everyday :)

And yeah, I have serious doubts about the Atom processor, particularly at "standby", compared to ARM architecture. And not just when it comes to heat; battery life is a huge concern for me.

My Nexus One can get quite toasty too :(

Is that really Android 2.1? I thought Eclair got rid of the App drawer thingy.

Is this going to be on Steam? :(

@Spaceshipped Dual core Snapdragon processors don't exist. What you're wanting is Tegra 2.

@Outsider "Here's a little inside baseball on why yours truly typically works alone at night: when in control, I give writers some, erm, creative mandates. Such as watching an entire Justin Bieber / Sean Kingston music video to contribute to this caption contest... but not telling them when exactly the Sony Dash and Sony Ericsson X10 make their respective cameos. Blatant abuse of authority? Probably, but as we sow, so shall you reap."

Ross Miller...You are a cruel, cruel man.

Damn it, H.264 is not open. It's the furthest thing from open, actually.

http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2010/01/html5-video-and-h-264-what-history-tells-us-and-why-were-standing-with-the-web/

"One reason why a lot of this isn’t known is because patents can be selectively enforced. And because it’s still early in H.264’s lifespan it’s extremely advantageous to lightly enforce the patents in the patent pool. MP3 and GIF both prove that if you allow liberal licensing early in a technology’s lifespan, network effects create much more value down the road when you can change licenses to capture value created by delivering images and data in those formats. Basically wait for everyone to start using it and then make everyone pay down the road. (Three words: unpredictable business costs.)

The other problem is that the Internet, because of it’s global nature, hides many of these costs. Everyone – and I mean everyone – uses tools from parts of the world where there are no software patents to transcode and edit videos. (One of the world’s largest free software downloads after Firefox? VLC. 111M last time I checked.) This grey area for tools means that these heavily patented formats gain much of the same advantage as free formats – lots of free tools and tons of ad-hoc support from free software people – but with the ability to still enforce and monetize in parts of the world where patents are enforced. It’s actually a brilliant strategy, even though the outcome is that the true costs of patents are hidden from the view of most people."

Jobs omitting this little tidbit strikes me as complete maliciousness.

Well, how many Blackberry handsets with physical keyboards were sold last year compared to Apple handsets? Wasn't the Curve the best selling phone of last year (and the year before)?