Windows Mobile is not dead

Following iPhone OS (Apple), WebOS (Palm), and Android (Google), Microsoft has finally modernized its mobile platform (Windows Mobile). Windows Mobile is a new stripped and completely reworked mobile OS, taking some cue's from the wonderful Zune HD interface, but also adding many new features. The new UI (user interface) completely removes the classic (and sadly boring) windows feel, and replaces it with a streamlined, ultra useable, no gloss/shadow, simple recipe of shear usability. I love where this is going. What do you think?

Grab the preview here (engadget).

How It's Made: Google Nexus One

Alright Google, you got me. I love this kind of thing.

Google has been putting together a series of short films collectively called Nexus One: The Story. Now in case you missed it, the Nexus One is the Google phone. Yeah, there are a lot of Android phones (DROID, G1, etc.), but the Nexus One is the first phone that Google has directly collaborated on the actual hardware and design. The company manufacturing the device, HTC, worked closely with Google to fabricate the perfect Android phone in Google's image.

Check out all of the videos after the break.

The Future of Personal Computing: Closing the gap between smartphones and laptops

Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis for consumer technology at market research and analysis firm the NPD Group gives an interesting view of the past several years of personal computing in his article Switched On column on engadget.

Laptops are getting smaller, faster, and cheaper while phones are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Much of the smartphone's usability lends itself to rather new technologies such as multi-touch, which weren't around just a few years ago. I'm counting the days until a keyboard and mouse are completely optional accessories.

Read the article here.