Best slider QWERTY smartphones

Microsoft is scrambling to release an update, perhaps Windows Mobile 6.5? You'll see why as the competition catches fire in our list of the best slider QWERTY smartphones.

If you can get hold of one, the new T-Mobile G1 is a breath of fresh air in the smartphone market, and needless to say, high-end smartphones at mid-range prices fit well right now. That said, the T-Mobile G1 is still waiting for a couple of key software upgrades from the Android community, such as full Exchange support for road warriors. Other than that, it's pretty much the most versatile first-generation smartphone ever introduced. No wonder Microsoft is scrambling to release Windows Mobile 6.5. As you can see from the list below, Microsoft used to own this segment. Oh well, a hard kick in the ass never hurts.

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25 Features You Definitely Won't See in Windows 7

For this week's Photoshop Contest I asked you guys to imagine some Windows features that we're not likely to see in Windows 7...

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iPhone Bug Crashes the Phone When Malicious Video is Played

Piergiorgio Zambrini, the author of the ZiPhone unlocking tool, has allegedly come up with a way to crash iPhones remotely via a simple video. By playing the video, an iPhone would shut itself down, and iPods and Apple computers are also vulnerable.

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BlackBerry Storm to Appear On November 14

According to a tipster working at Verizon, the BlackBerry Storm—Research In Motion clickity-touchscreen rival against AT&T's iPhone and T-Mobile's G1— will appear on Friday next week, November 14. This is the reason of the new Verizon's $30 data plans, which will be obligatory starting on that date:

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Cow Dies Needlessly to Coat Eee PC in Horrid Leather Modding

There's just no excuse for this leather-clad Eee PC 901 mod. No excuse at all. No—not even the fine workmanship which means it's got an arguably professional-grade finish. A cow died needlessly for this, remember. Daisy, I think she was called. And it's just a tiny, crappy netbook. If you're going to mod anything into a leather-clad version we want to see a 150-inch plasma TV in shocking-pink nubuck. That would be a worthwhile use of skin.

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