Females Flip for Flip Phones

A recent Sprint survey provides some interesting data on women and their mobile phones. 72% of the women surveyed prefer a flip phone, with only 1% choosing a smart phone. Gee, I'm in the one percentile... I feel so special.

Microsoft: Plays for Us

The boys at Digital Music News were the first to cover the Microsoft Zune news, but Engadget’s finally calling it like it is. Here are my personal favorites from their post “Zune: what we know, think we know, and don't yet know”:

What we know (for sure)

• The Zune media device will be drive-based, and have WiFi.
• The service and device will not be PlaysForSure compliant, meaning you will not be able to use your Zune player with Napster or Vongo, for example. This will be an entirely new system. Microsoft will continue to support and develop for their PlaysForSure initiative, but all things PlaysForSure are handled by two entirely separate division that will not have any crossover.

Whoa... do you people realize what this means for all of those poor smucks who’ve rallied around Plays For Sure? They’re now f&(ked!

What we think we know (and are pretty sure of)

• Microsoft will buy your way out of iTunes in order to convert you to a Zune user.

Gee, it would be nice if they buy your way out of Napster, Urge and Yahoo, too, since any tracks you bought from them won’t work on the Zune device.