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Turn away from the economic calamity, wintery weather, and winter funk that has gripped many of us.  Instead, turn into the fantastic news of the past week.  Of course, by “fantastic” I mean “completely full of hooey.”  Here is what caught my eye from the land of make believe this week:

• Sony’s pricey Vaio P: the non-netbook that we wish behaved like one?
• Verizon’s B1G1 or BOGO if you like; either way, I don’t get it.
• Windows Mobile 7 not until 2010 a.k.a. Granny gets a new hip next year.
• iPhone flashing?  Adobe is streaking the quad.

Sony, maybe calling it a netbook would help?

I am not so sure what Sony was thinking with the Vaio P.  No doubt, its feature list is exciting, but pricing it out (way out) is only going to bring down our excitement.  The netbook niche is on fire—come get in on the action, not confuse us with a misplaced portable.  Just saying.

I hear the Japanese version is sweet (faster processor).  Maybe we should just all move there? 

What the heck am I going to do with 2 BlackBerries?

 
Q: How did you two meet?
A: It was a cold February day, and I was just trolling through Craigslist and read this ad about getting a BlackBerry phone for half off.  So, I said, heck yeah and e-mailed.  We arranged to meet up at the Verizon store on Main Street.  I told him I’d be wearing a purple scarf.  So in walks this hunk and it was love at first sight.  He SMS’s me when he got back to his car after we bought the BlackBerries on the Buy One Get One deal.

Are there whole sections of the population that share that example of how they met?  I just don’t get it.  Are there that many couples that go out and buy phones together?  Are the Verizon stores becoming the Roman bath houses of the 2000s? 

Are we supposed to think, “Hmmm I want one so I’ll find someone and drag them to the store with me?”  It just seems so silly.  Sell them at 1/2 off and let’s call it a day, huh Verizon?

Windows Mobile thinks 6 is good enough

Shawn Ingram reports that we won’t see the next point-upgrade on Windows Mobile until 2010.  Wow.  Clearly not the reaction from a company that is concerned about stemming losses to open platforms like Android or the app-tastic iPhone.  Seriously, what is MS on?  Nurse, I’ll have what he’s having, please.

Yes, we are finally getting more and more leaks from 6.5 but from what I’ve seen 6 rears it oh-so-ugly head just under the skin, much like Touch-Flo by HTC.  The new stuff on WinMo 6.5 looks to address touch issues with the OS but I am not sure it up to par with Android at this point.

And besides, we’ll all be driving flying cars in 2010 so who’ll have time for smartphones?

iPhone hearts Flash?

Appletell brings us the latest on the love/hate fun with Apple and Adobe over Flash in the iPhone.  We all want them to figure this out and bring Flash (and Hulu!) to the iPhone but I just don’t know about these two.  Maybe with Jobs out of the picture it will happen.  Jake Gaecke says Adobe is working collaboratively with Apple on it and is going to figure it out.

I think the best part of the post for us crackheads is the last bit Jake ads in:

But there’s still the argument to be made that the iPhone is not powerful enough.  I actually have a good solution for this, iPhone multicore.

Gold, Jake, gold.  So lets build on Jake’s idea.  June’s announcement will be two new iPhones: the iPhone Nano and the iPhone Multicore.  The Nano will be a fun mass-market version that removes the data except via Wi-Fi while the OLED screen equipped Multicore will do multi-tasking, cut and paste, Flash and all the things we love.  And it will look hot.  And be $500.  And it will get us the girl/guy and ride us off into the sunset.

We can dream right?

See you next week, crackhead.