Bendable Media

I talked to WGN-AM 720′s Greg Jarrett about Microsoft’s prospects with Windows Phone 7, which will hit AT&T Wireless and T-Mobile stores in November.

The amount of coverage given to an infomercial orchestrated by a master pitchman continues to amaze me. But I will say this: not only is it good for Apple, it’s good for me.

Of the iPhone 4 cases available now, most are priced at less than $30. The iPhone 4 bumper, now free, cost $30 before Apple admitted its antenna woes.

If we are buying so many smartphones these days, why is the phone industry smarting so much? In a year marked by the re-emergence of Motorola and design savvy of HTC, we are witnessing notable hardware departures from Microsoft and, gasp, Google.

The momentum has swung so strongly toward Apple’s iPhone and a host of truly compelling Android-based smartphones (Motorola Droid X, HTC Incredible, HTC Evo), that the only reason many BlackBerry users stick with the device is because they don’t like using touch-screen keyboards.

Even if you consider the iPhone 4 the best smartphone on the market, 2010 will be remembered as the year that Android broke through and reached its own level of critical acclaim.