According to Engadget, the pillow has a small depression to keep the phone in place when charging, so it's not as free-form as you'd expect.

So, you've also caved a cabby's skull in because you thought he gave you lip?

Yes, WM6.5.3 tried to make things more finger friendly. However, look past the Today screen and the hexagonal grid of icons and the old, stylus-driven interface is still lurking there. Could you hit the Start button with your finger (not your fingerNAIL) without accidentally touching, say, the Favorites option…

They believe that NFC is the way forward, because they can't be bothered to open a scanner app, line up the shot, make sure it is in focus, take the shot and wait for the code to be parsed.

Unless my memories of a Compaq iPAQ serve me wrong, it was kinda impossible to interact with fingers alone, AND it looked like a rearranged Windows 95, Start button and all.

...which required a stylus to use, and generally looked like Windows 95 on a tiny screen.

Microsoft will never be sued by Apple over touch interface patents, because they had already signed their own 'patent truce' way back when. In fact, WP does use Apple-patented interaction paradigms.

Which is what I said; I assume he meant the Play Store when he said "Android is the hands-down winner" because BOTH Amazon and the Play Store sell *Android* apps.

"In terms of app ecosystems, Android is the hands-down winner."

So, it's like Samsung releasing a rectangular smartphone with uniformly rounded corners, with a user interface that contains icons that have squares with rounded corners as a main motif...

When you say 'Soviet Camera', I (and probably many others) think LOMO (yes, I know they make many products, but I'm referring to THE 'Lomo'), and we all know that those aren't really prized for image fidelity.

My mother swears I once managed to fit my pinky into a sharpener when I was young.

It's apparently a meme in the PRC at the moment. The faux-Japanese appears to be an innovation, however.

They only used the sky-crane on Curiosity because they had to, due to weight considerations. Insight is significantly lighter, so they can just go back to a less complicated system with less possible points of failure.

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Thankfully, Kotaku Fix still works.

In that it's clearly laid out, minimalist in style and the main design element is typography?

Giz has never been one to shy away from any sort of controversy (see: buying a stolen iPhone 4 prototype). I'd say they post whatever the hell they want.

While I am not intimately familiar with the trend, I do believe from casual observation that a notable proportion of photos taken using smartphones and uploaded to photo-sharing services (tumblr, instagram, etc.) are indeed of food.