European Central Bank already has this. It's called TIPS. https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym...

Windows Phone 7 is an awesome product? If had to choose between WP7 and Windows Mobile, i'd choose Windows Mobile...

Sure... and they will piss off the telcos that are paying them to use mediaroom... Also, about xbox, operators don't even want their xbox thing... i know that at least 2 operators(one of them is a very very big) who are developing mediaroom apps to act as a client to cloud games platforms(like onlive) Unfortunately, MS doesn't like this, so they are having problems (MS has do add gamepad drivers to their custom wince build used in mediaroom)

Just to add: I payed $500 for my android(the same thing is also true for an iPhone) smartphone upfront... then i pay an average of $10 of calls/SMS plus $7.5 for a mobile internet package... I would be very dumb to subscribe a $2200 plan over two years just to get my phone for free... $2200 is roughly $91 per month, I bet most(like 90%) people don't have the need to spend over $90 per month of mobile communications...

Americansand their shitty mobile market. We (Europeans) buy phones... and we buy mobile communications packages...Two different things... When you say "iPhone is $2200 over 2 years", it sounds very ridiculous to me... if you have plan that costs you $2200 over two years, then or you talk to much on phone to justify that price or you're dumb... Buy a fucking phone... then subscribe to whatever plan that fulfills your mobile communication needs... and not more then that...

"Dual core devices are not new. The HTC Wizard had this in '05. However, the phone had separate cores so the radio could do what it needed to while the OS was able to do what it needed, both cores running at a fairly low clock speed. The device had a pretty amazing battery life though."

That's not dual core... All current smartphones use that... One Application CPU that runs Android/Symbian/iPhoneOS/whatever and another CPU inside the modem that runs the GSM stack on a RTOS... Only very low end phones run the GSM stack on the app processor...

Netflix uses MS PlayReady DRM... Microsoft provides an implementation of a PlayReady client in ANSI C... Android has a NDK to write native apps.... So, what's the problem here?

As usual, TFA doesn't mention Symbian, the world's number #1 smartphone platform anywhere in the world except US... Not that i'm not saying that Symbian is better than any of those platforms, i'm just saying that Symbian IS(like it or not) the market leader.

Without diving into the specifics, I don't see a problem here. The iPhone was hugely innovative, and there was a lot there that was genuinely new. While in general I'm not a big fan of patents (often the 'innovations' covered are trivial), in this case I think that Apple sort of deserves to profit from their R&D. Clearly, some of the HTC phones are knockoffs.

Well, i see a BIG problem... Apple's cell phone patent portfolio is very small, the only thing they have is some UI/multitouch patents. On the other hand, companies like Nokia-Siemens, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericcson and Huawei have a huge amount of cellphone patents, if Apple doesn't cross-license its tech, they will be screwed for sure... Also, i bet HTC has more patents than Apple...

The Cellphone doesn't need to know the SS7 gateway(aka pots gateway), that's SIP proxy job... However you may ask how does the cellphone get the registar and proxy addresses, and the anwser is:or via a field in DHCP or a field in the PDP activation context..

"(...)so basically this announcement means that they are open sourcing their low end crappy OS which has pretty much failed in the smart phone space." ARE YOU SERIOUS??? Symbian is the leading(not the best, but surely, is the leading) Smartphone OS... Actually, there is more Symbian smartphones in the world that Android+iPhone combined... If you don't believe me, check the numbers... (Worldwide, not only US numbers) Just because Symbian is not popular in the US, doesn't mean it ist't popular at all... To you guys, US people, the concept of smart phone is new, i know(mainly because of your crappy cell phone market) but in Europe, smartphones is really not a new thing... I had my first Smarphone 6 years ago... A Nokia 7650(Symbian)