So what's gonna happen to all those phones?

Free Zune Pass + Xbox Live Gold for all Windows Phone owners. Kinda like how Amazon bundles all kinds of cool stuff with Prime.

WWII in 3D Blu-ray shouldn't be in Gaming

It probably helps that most programming languages are English based.

I totally thought this was regarding the Google self-driving cars when I saw the headline.

Me too. Still a really solid phone. Not bad looking either.

Bing Maps is a nice platform, but to really get the most out of it you would need to be using either Silverlight or the .Net Framework to write your code. Not something I can see Apple doing any time soon, especially in an iOS environment.

I'm so sick of companies picking a random piece of Apple's market strategy and copying it, thinking it will make them just like Apple. It doesn't work that way.

Does it let you delete freaking songs from within the app? That's one feature I couldn't believe the stock music player lacked. Sometimes I get tired of a song and just want it GONE.

The tablet sounds nice, but the whole "Nexus" program is so weird. Especially now that Google owns a handset company. We only get 1 phone a year that is pure Android. It's like they're admitting that most of the Android phones that come out don't have the optimal consumer experience. Wouldn't you want most of the…

What are you using this on? Touchscreen enabled desktop? Prototype tablet that MS gave you? I would be interested to see the percentage of PC uses that have any kind of touch capability on their main computers. I'm betting it's pretty low. And Microsoft went and made their next OS entirely for them?

Yeah please don't kill the Zune music player for windows. It runs circles around both Windows Media Player and iTunes.

Same here. Every time someone sees me bring up Everything and find a file in 2 seconds, they ask me what it is and where to get it. Windows 7's search is nice enough that I don't really need Everything at home, but at work it's a must.

Yeah, no-spending days are easy. Try to shoot for no-spending weeks. I used to be able to do that all the time when I lived by myself. Not counting gas to get to work and the scheduled bi-weekly grocery store trip.

So the battery gets drained because of a bunch of always-on subsystems. Tesla's solution is to attach another always-on subsystem so they can watch the battery. Amazing.

Yep, and the new net-top might actually cost more than the used (more powerful) PC. But yeah, I used to be one of those people who left their computers on all the time, and about a year ago I started aggressively turning them off. It's surprising how much of a difference it makes.

The whole "use a cheap older computer as a media center / home server" sounds great but it will cost you over time in power bills. I liked the "turn a net-top into a server" articles that lifehacker used to post back when net-tops where a thing.

This should read "Is HTC working on more crapware to put on their phones?" and the answer is always yes.

So in the age of do-everything smartphones and tablets, they are going to start selling dedicated music players? Unless they achieve something similar to the Kindle Fire where it is so dirt cheap that people don't have a reason not to buy one, they might as well call these things Zunes.

Finally a comic book about Superman.