Living room, meet 10 Million streaming tracks; 10 Million streaming tracks, meet my living room. :D

@revdrkevind: What's this "if your ISP allows it"?? Heading home in a few hours to update and am hoping I don't run into any major surprises.

@Se7en_speed: Not mentioned in the body of the review, but there's a block in the Why It Matters section that lists specs and price.

@d1zzle: We all appreciate you censoring #3. There's a lot of stuff going on in 3 that NOBODY but nobody wants to know about.

@JohnnyricoMC: Heck, we're tired of futzing with finding our content in HD— much less 3D!

Design over function. 100% Apple.

@OMG! MSKati!: I

@buttnugget: Nintendo owns the standard d-pad. Microsoft had to find a way to differentiate this enough that it got around the patent.

@NarcoSleepy: The following assumes that by 'them' you mean the video chat features. And that you're assuming carriers will hate them due to bandwidth consumption.

@macmanwa: I wish I could quickly provide a source for you, but yes, I did find explicit confirmation at one point that Microsoft built the Updater with the express purpose of controlling update rollouts. How often it is used remains to be seen.

@urbanrio: Microsoft doesn't have to go either route. They built in automatic update and can control when OS updates are pushed out.

@MikeLanglois: Wow. Those are some fantastic ideas! What's more is it doesn't seem at all far fetched to make those features happen.

@Algerad: I'm curious how the quality of apps on other platforms compared at their respective launches.

I just read how iOS 4 handles multitasking. It sounds like WP is very close. Microsoft already supports 'pausing' apps. They call it tombstoning. They just needs to develop APIs for background services like Apple did.

@crd22: Metro tombstone = win! Thank you for this.

@showbiz2: Although an excellent point, if the hardware is spec'd for reading ebooks, the performance as a general purpose tablet *may* be abysmal.

@Sidetalker: It certainly looks fine for a product image to sell a screen protector.

@Onizuka-GTO: What? Companies hire good hardware designers? Why should they? Apple has done all the leg work!

@Augureone: I think he was referring to the craftsmanship of the mockup. That is to say it isn't a photograph or professional quality render of the device. It looks more like it belongs in a "photo realistic" icon set than promotional material.

Is it me or does this look nothing like a "phone out of the 90s"? IMHO it looks like the last of the Sony cassette Walkmans. The number pad would be for tying the design in with their remote for their Google TVs...