Those renderings do look very nice. After seeing this http://9gag.com/gag/20351, however, I have to say I've gotten pretty skeptical of renderings.

That's a pretty damning video, it would be funny if it wasn't so sad. The original nokia video should qualify as false advertising.

wow. talk about misleading.

I really hope WinMo 7 doesn't go very far. The touchscreen-enabled web has been significantly better since all they've really had to target is Webkit and Opera. MS is going to have to allow at least one third-party browser, or get IE9 ported to ARM, fully standard compliant very quickly. Otherwise all the iPhone/Android targeting sites aren't going to work so well on Windows.

How is this impressive? Which part of this hardware/software or form factor is impressive? Can anyone please point it out to me, after reading Engadget user comments going gaga over this device and I am really confused. I can't help but think that these bloggers are paid to rave about this device.

Note: I am not a mac fanboy in any stretch of imagination or don't own an iPad.

Impressive in that they look really good and have good hardware specs.

Impressive the same way that super expensive sport cars may be impressive to people. At the end they are cars, but cars that drive 300+ km/h. ;)

I will argue that looking good is subjective because their form factor looks a lot like a big sidekick which has been around since 2002. As for good hardware, they have the same hardware as Nexus One which has been available since the beginning of this year.

To draw your analogy, its like two cars being released 4 months apart, the new one looks hideously ugly with same speed as the old one - but getting raving positive reviews (without anyone even touching or driving it).

I am pretty confident that these are paid posts and staged leaks.

If you hang around these gadget blogs enough, you'll notice that anything new will get a few comments saying "Ooooh this looks hot, it's just what I've been waiting for! I'm gonna replace my xxx device with this as soon as it comes out." ... Good for them, but it doesn't correlate at all with actual market success.

As you just said. It's subjective. What doesn't look impressive for you, may look impressive for others.

> How is this impressive?

* It's a big lineup (up from one offering)

* They look good (something the Dell Mini 3 didn't)

* Specs are good

* They are carrier-unlocked (I am guessing here)

Too many phones have been lost in the last few days in my mind.

I think the 'leak' is now an official part of the PR curriculum.

I guess a Dell engineer was drinking at a bar when a bunch of product renderings fell out of his pocket.

Q4 2010, seriously ? Seems more like a leak of vapor to me...

Q4 2010 starts in October, it could very well be they have a few of them now but volume production is still months away.

Fabricating hardware is not a very fast process, typically a volume shipment lags prototyping by a significant amount of time.

Looking at these if I were Apple I would not be too worried, but RIM has a bit of a problem.

I just want an Android PDA(no phone) Is there any of those in the works?

There are several. Here's one you can buy from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Archos-32-Internet-Tablet-Android/dp/B...

There are many others that you can buy directly from China.

FM radio??? Good God, why?

Many gyms have lots of TV's in front of the bank of bikes/treadmills etc. Each one tuned to a different channel and a FM radio frequency below it. This allows you to listen to the sound from the show you are watching.

Why not? A lot of people enjoy listening to radio shows, and I'd guess that using a build in FM radio draws a lot less power than streaming a radio show over the internet. Plus it won't cut into your bandwidth quote for people who have to worry about that.

Probably because it's built-in into one of the radios. If the hardware is already there, I am all in for supporting it in software.

I guess it depends on where you live. I'm in Europe and in my part of the world public radio is pretty good and without ads. I can't stand radio stations that airs ads every few minutes or just have mindless jingles.

At my old job we had a visitor from your headquarter, some head of department from TI. Someone asked why we didn't include FM radio in our chipset and his reaction was the same as yours. He was a bit surprised when he asked who of us still listed to radio and everyone put their hand up.

I was recently at a baseball game and realized that I really wanted to hear the stats that the announcers usually have when listening to a baseball game on radio. Wish I had a iPod Nano.

NPR is worth listening to.