@Technologist: There are many more consumers that don't give two shits about those 3 things (with the possible exception of multitasking - "why can't I listen to Pandora while I check my email?") than there are of those who do.

@Jagster: Can you post a link to a video? I've seen countless demos but never saw Bing do voice Turn-By-Turn.

@scrapplejoe: From what we've seen and heard, most of the sexy ones are coming to AT&T.

@Bea Arthur: Heart.

@joeytrace: You have to *hold* the camera button for a few seconds before it unlocks and takes you to the camera app.

@Dr. Evil Genius: Guns of Summer: I had a Dell Axim Pocket PC running WinMo5 back in 2006. I loved that thing to death. Never had problems with it. No viruses, no lag, just computer-in-your-pocket happiness.

@Dr. Evil Genius: Guns of Summer: Kin was a side project. MS knows that although only 170 smartphones were sold last year, 1.2 billion handsets were shipped. That means that in the future, when most phones become smartphones, there's a potential market of 1 billion smartphones/year, ripe for the taking.

@Drummertist v.2: Even if an iPhone comes to Verizon next year, you'd be wrong.

@Dr. Evil Genius: Guns of Summer: Even if it is June, I'd agree with you that it'd make it more likely to fail, if they weren't releasing on two of the 4 major US carriers, and several more carriers in 16 other countries.

@Dr. Evil Genius: Guns of Summer: Well I thought "Windows 7 Phone Series" was pretty stupid, as well as "M$", "Android and iOS are perfect already", WP7 is "bug-ridden and virus hoarding", and my favorite, "a 4 month waiting time is too little, too late".

@TheKickBackKid: Thanks; I have my moments.

@Sporkotica: $arca$m: Confusing the Internet since 1991! ;)

@Dr. Evil Genius: Guns of Summer: I disagree, wholeheartedly. First half of 2011 does not (necessarily) mean June. Not everyone's contracts end this holiday season. They'll be fine.

@Arggh! there goes a...snake a snake!: A quick look at my post history should clear up any suspicion of trolling. I'm actually surprised that the outrageousness of my post didn't make it obvious I was being sarcastic.

@Dr. Evil Genius: Guns of Summer: I was actually being facetious. I guess my post wasn't outrageous enough for the sarcasm to be obvious.

Jesús Díaz crying wolf, again. Nothing to see here; carry on.

Another M$ FAIL! Just like Kin, I'll be waiting for them to hold a funeral procession for Windows 7 Phone Series!

@vinod1978: 5 million in 6 months? Well sound the alarm and run for the hills! Laptops are clearly being outsold by the iPad.

@Odin: I'm with you on this one.

I wonder how early (or late) in 2011. I was going to wait until early 2011 anyway to let all the cool devices show up, but I'm not waiting much longer than maybe February. In that case, guess I'm staying with AT&T.