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7 features to look forward to on Windows 8 only giving 4 for now
1. Metro Interface
Gloriously refurbished, the Metro interface is the top and best feature of Windows 8. If its interface confuses you, then a quick stab at the new minimalistic design will turn you into a fan in seconds flat. Windows 8 has been designed for touchscreen devices. It works well with laptops and desktop computers but practically flies on a tablet. Metro also means quick and easy application porting from mobile to “desktop” environment. The video below demos Metro in full.
2. Windows Store
Windows 8 is jumping onto the app store bandwagon and not a second too late or,depending on your point of view, five years too late. Any applications will have to be downloaded from the Metro store, as Microsoft refuses to allow third-party vendors to offer Metro downloads from external sites. Featured apps will be chosen by users, Microsoft will work with developers to fix buggy apps and the submission process is a simple click for approval.
3. Windows Live Skydrive Cloud
Loving the cloud means chucking your content into the SkyDrive, Microsoft’s answer to Apple’s iCloud. Photos and documents will have an unlimited amount of storage space, but Microsoft will limit all other media to a 25GB maximum. Hotmail, Office365 and other Live products from the big “M” will now reside alongside the Skydrive Cloud systems.
4. Bye, bye start menu
The look of Windows 8 is pilfered from the Windows Phone 7 OS for a very good reason: Removing that extra layer of irritation associated with legacy operating systems. The start menu has been a great addition to our lives since Windows 95, but the time has come to move on. Metro will now feature the “charms” menu, a “start menu” of sorts which can be accessed from any page. We no longer need a home in the corner of our screens. Instead we have a living set of tiles which can be navigated in moments. Put simply, who has time for the start menu these days?

Best 5 cell phones
Apple iPhone 4S
Best all-around smartphone
The iPhone 4S isn't the king of cell phones, but it's part of the royal family nonetheless. Even without 4G and a giant screen, this phone's smart(ass) voice assistant, Siri, the benefits of iOS 5, and its spectacular camera make it a top choice for anyone ready to upgrade.

HTC Sensation 4G (T-Mobile)
Best phone with T-Mobile 4G
Its excellent design and user experience, coupled with its solid performance, make the HTC Sensation 4G one of the best Android phones yet and a top pick for T-Mobile customers.

Motorola Brute i686 (Sprint Nextel)
Best tough phone that isn't a smartphone
The Motorola Brute i686 can take a longer dunk in water, but is otherwise identical to the Brute i680. It's not the prettiest phone on the block, but it's incredibly durable with great call quality to boot.

Motorola Droid Bionic (Verizon Wireless)
Best dual-core phone with LTE
The Motorola Droid Bionic is everything you want from a high-end smartphone. It's sleek, fast, and powerful, with features that will please both consumers and business users--if you're willing to pay the high price

Samsung Galaxy S II (AT&T)
Best phone with a gorgeous display
With its dual-core processor, vibrant display, and great performance, the sleek and powerful Samsung Galaxy S II rises as AT&T's top Android smartphone.

Android 4.0 is designed to be more approachable than its precursors, opening up Google's operating system to a broader market. But that shift toward the mainstream market is hobbled by techie-focused marketing messages.
The design of Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich, manifested in the Samsung Galaxy Nexus due out in November, indicates that Google is trying to aim Android for that broader market. It's designed to be more physical, with touch actions letting people do what they want without having to hunt through the interface for the correct commands. Google wants Android to let people interact more easily with other people without the phone getting in the way.
But the techie vibe that saturates Android marketing obscures that mainstream usefulness. That vibe risks alienating many people in the mainstream market before they even have a chance to find out about Ice Cream Sandwich's abilities.
Nerd central
Here are examples of what I'm talking about.
Let's start with the names. Perhaps "Android" is intended to make people think of their little digital helper, but deep down, it carries a message that the product is more about gadgets and gear than about people.
The "Nexus" name is more of the same: it sounds like Venn diagrams and link analysis, not about humans connecting. Verizon's "Droid" is even worse, especially when compounded by ads with that electronic robot voice. R2D2, one of the original droids, is disarming and kind of cute, but Verizon has made Droid seem like something only a Cylon could love.
Also too nerdy is the video introduction to Ice Cream Sandwich. It's got Android mascots racing around on Tron-style lightcycles in a black void marked off with grid lines. Is this a character you feel a personal connection with?
Overall, here's the impression I get: Android is for people whose rooms are lit only by the glowing blue LEDs shining through the transparent cases of their overclocked PCs.
To be clear, I'm not dissing nerds here. Google is a famously nerdy company, and part of the reason I like a lot of what it does is because I'm a pretty nerdy person, too. Nerds are great early adopters, and they carry disproportionate influence in setting the technology trends that the mainstream adopts later.
But nerds are a niche market.
Apple's shiny happy people
Let's compare this to the other extreme: Apple.
I've watched innumerable Apple demos and promotional videos. They star flawlessly complected, ethnically diverse, middle-class people who frolic in the surf, enjoy productive careers, and show off their children's soccer medals.
It's over the top, of course, but I can't fault the company for its overall message: you will enjoy life more with our products in it. The ads and promos are about people with their devices, not about the devices themselves.
Sure, Apple shares some specifications when it's time to boast about a device being thin, with nice-looking photos and the ability to play hours of video. But the specs are sprinkled judiciously through the marketing materials, and they're always subordinate to the primary message.
Siri, the iPhone 4S's voice-operated assistant, could have been a freaky fembot in the wrong hands. Apple gave the utility a bit of personality, with a female voice and some snarky answers, but it's nothing that looks to be on the creepy side of the uncanny valley.
To be sure, the iOS vs Android rivalry is real, and naturally different companies will try to distinguish their products to attract attention in a crowded market. If Google starts aping Apple ads, it'll make Android look more like a clone and less like a product comfortable in its own skin.
But I think if you want a product to be a success with the mass market--a success beyond just unit shipments--you could do worse than learning from Apple's approach.
Android putting people first?
There are encouraging signs that Google understands what it takes to reach the next level.
"People are at the heart of Ice Cream Sandwich," Google Chief Executive Larry Page said in a Google+ post. He was referring specifically to ICS's new contacts manager but also to the company's effort to infuse all Google properties with the human interactions enabled through Google+.
And Joshua Topolosky's interview with Matias Duarte, head of user experience for Android, shows the growing awareness that smartphones should be for "regular people."
Google conducted extensive studies of people with their smartphones, Duarte said, and discovered something the company didn't like: "With Android, people were not responding emotionally, they weren't forming emotional relationships with the product. They needed it, but they didn't necessarily love it."
It's to Google's credit that it's achieving this awareness about how its products are perceived and how they need to evolve.