The one place that has let me have a phone is my mother-in-law’s attic, so I present to you the Motorola Digital Personal Communicator for the BellSouth Mobility Network.

History

The DPC was introduced in 1989 as a lower-cost option for those not wanting to drop the change required for the 9800X.

Cheap bastards.

Hardware

The DPC features a orange 7-character segment LED display, set in gray plastic above a back-on-white keypad. Beneath the standard layout, are the following feature keys:

• RCL
• PWR
• STO
• VOL
• CLR
• FCN
• SND
• END

Button presses are firm and solid, but not so hard that bruising will occur.

The battery pack is pretty large. With it attached, the phone is difficult to pocket. Without it, it doesn’t work. Here’s a shot comparing the battery to the iPhone 4S:

The antenna pulls out of the top of the phone to extend for better reception. This action is smooth, and feels good, unlike the hinge for the speaker. It doesn’t flip open smoothly at all — it feels quite cheap.

The lines formed in the side of the case make it easy to hold on to the phone, despite the phone’s weight. It is nowhere as slippery as the iPhone.

Software

This review unit does not power on, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the software is rather simple for a day in age where iOS and Android rule the roost.

Editor’s Note: Photos for this review taken by Kevin Lipe.

• People really want a nice dock for their iPhones.
• Kickstarter seems like a legit way to raise butt-tons of money.
• My $29 Apple iPhone dock is a piece of junk.
• I wish we all cared so much about things that actually matter.

The wallpaper is from here.

In an interview, Windows unit President Steven Sinofsky said that the first ARM-based machines running Windows 8 should show up around the same time as the first Windows 8 machines running traditional PC processors from Intel and AMD.

Sinofsky also said that the Windows on ARM machines will come with several Office apps–Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote– that have been tuned to run in a very battery efficient manner. But Sinofsky said that although those applications will run in the traditional Windows desktop, they will be the only programs allowed to do so, other than components of Windows itself.

“There are no other compiled dekstop apps that are available,” Sinofsky told AllThingsD. All of the other apps for Windows on ARM will be the new-style “Metro” apps.

No compromises.

via Behind Companies

I’m pretty sure the iPad is holding the knife in this scenario.

We believe you should have control when it comes to sharing your personal information. We also believe that actions speak louder than words. So, as a clear signal of our commitment to your privacy, we’ve deleted the entire collection of user uploaded contact information from our servers. Your trust matters to us and we want you to feel completely in control of your information on Path.

In Path 2.0.6, released to the App Store today, you are prompted to opt in or out of sharing your phone’s contacts with our servers in order to find your friends and family on Path. If you accept and later decide you would like to revoke this access, please send an email to service@path.com and we will promptly see to it that your contact information is removed.

Good move, but I don’t see how it could have played out any other way.