I take back every nice thing I said about WP7. I appreciate that Microsoft is trying to make a fresh start and I commend them for doing that with WP8 but they should have done that with WP7. My heart goes out to all my WP7 smart phone brethren. This just looks like Microsoft being Microsoft. So much for new…

Yeah, I'll buy one when they pay me to take it off their hands.

I'm sorry but the referenced piece in Time is completely and utterly pointless and stupid. Nothing personal Kat, my beef is with Time not you.

Brian, I have to say, without any intentional brown nosing, that your piece is quite poetic. As a fellow music lover I can appreciate how the Sonos system seems to enrich your life.

Kudos to you John, on an insightful and succinct piece that brings us all back to reality.

Typical Nokia hubris!! I own an E71, love the hardware, love some of the "enterprise like" bells and whistles i.e. SIP phone setup over company network Asterisk server. But, can't get threaded text messaging.

Well written piece Brian, I have to complement you on a succinct summary of Nokia's current dilemma. As a Nokia user I agree whole heartedly with a lot of the comments posted here: Nokia makes extremely solid hardware that packs some really good features. I like that I can set up a SIP connection on my phone and use…

@wætherman: Spoken like a truly ignorant twit. You obviously have no idea about the reality of how engineers work. A good chunk of my time working as an engineer goes into battling management for more time, more safety, more testing, proper procedures etc. on all my projects. Granted, my work is not nearly as…

@AreWeThereYeti: Honestly, I'm no WinMo fan but Microsoft has a reputation for providing exceptionally well built dev tools. If they play their cards right, WM7 could still be a late comer to the party. And same could be said for MeeGo, if they provide the right dev tools it just might fly.