Pogue does some good reporting here. He even mentions the Android memory issue, which is even worse than I thought on Nexus One. Only 190 MB available to apps. I assumed most of the 512 MB of internal RAM was available, which would have been too little, too. But 190 MB is just a joke. I keep coming back to that great Jobs quote: “Baby software.” It’s not just about games. It’s about the level of software possible. It’s about the lack of potential for truly amazing…

Yeah. Animated wallpapers. Killer feature. 512 MB of RAM, as opposed to iPhone’s 256. But everyone continues to fail to mention that that 512 MB is ALL YOU GET for loading all your apps. You can pop as many 32 GB SIM cards as you want on this bad boy; none of that space can be used for anything other than music and videos. In other words, this phone is no more advanced in its memory architecture than my Treo was three years ago. And no one is going…

The tablet speculation is heating up, as expected. Between now and January 26th, it’s going to be really crazy. Two recent articles caught my attention recently. One, from MacInquirer, is poking fun, but will probably end up being incredibly accurate: [Apple Tablet Specs Mystically Revealed](http://macinquirer.com/files/e3b1cf90bc2fb7faec39de4298fd6455-135.html#unique-entry-id-135)The other, from John Siracusa, is well-thought out and practical. In other words, it’s not full of crazy nerd wishes that not only will not come true, but shouldn’t.  [Antacid Tablet](http://arstechnica.com/staff/…

More pundits are coming around to the fact that the Nexus One is nothing special. The latest from Jeff Bertolucci posted on Macworld: “It’s a me-too smart phone, not one that’s going to turn the cell industry on its ear.”Rather than admitting that Google has no power to change the world of smart phones, though, Bertolucci instead expresses hope that Google has something more up its sleeve: Ad-based calling plans. That’s right, instead of paying full price for cell phone service, you can listen to ads…

So Gizmodo has the scoop on more details for the upcoming Nexus One phone from Google/HTC. My favorite quote: “They’re not going to save us from the ‘making money off of hardware’ culture we’ve got right now, so this is basically just another Android handset, albeit a really good one” Which is exactly what I said [a few weeks ago](http://jcieplinski.posterous.com/googles-nexus-one). Nexus One is just another Android phone. It’s not some revolution in handheld computing, a break from the tyranny of the…