Week In Review 28W2009
The N97 reviews are in and they’re not easy on Nokia. My opinion is the N97 should’ve came in at the sub 500E price point. At 700E people just think “yeah, I can get an iPhone 3GS for that money…”. I, while going through the UI realized Nokia removed the soft keyboard which just made me realize I have no interest whatsoever on the clunkyness of an hardware keyboard on a phone.
Japan is paving the way of the future as usual and NTT is lauching a HSPA femtocell. WiFi ? We don’t need no stinking WiFi!
Google with a small bang announced they’re ok with Exchange on GooglePhones and with a big bang the Chrome OS vapourware. It’s going to be very open source so Google expects the community to very helpfull.
On rather a surprising twist on a consumer case against Microsoft, the judge ruled for Microsoft because IP addresses don’t identify persons. This, if upheld, will of course mean all ongoing RIAA cases against babies, grannies and single mothers must be thrown out. Meanwhile, a judge in Spain believes sharing copyrighted material is fair use as long as it’s not commercial. Meanwhile, Sarkozy is trying to reinstate the HADOPI law. So the score is USA crazy, Spain k3wl, France evil and PirateBay sellout.
On Evil news, BT is droping Phorm. That’s means no more sabotaged web pages for you brits!
