Dear readers, friends and followers of the::unwired! As every year, on behalf of the::unwired, I want to wish you a very merry Christmas! While it was quite a busy and tough second half of the year for me, it was nevertheless a pleasure to work for you and trying to find the latest news, testing devices, software and services and just being part of a great community. I want to say thank you, dear loyal readers, for visiting the::unwired another year and making the site a great Microsoft Windows Phone and Google Android resource. Thanks for all your input, thoughts, feedback, tips and E-Mails! Furthermore I want to thank all contributing editors and helpers in the background for their hard work!

Last but not least I have and want to thank all supporting companies, manufactures, carriers, developers and advertisers for their support, namely Microsoft, O2 Germany, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, HTC, Huawei, Nokia, and Samsung!

And as every year, now this is a real the::unwired tradition, I would like to recall John Lennon's great Christmas song "Happy Christmas":

So this is Christmas - And what have you done Another year over - And a new one just begun And so this is Christmas - I hope you have fun The near and the dear one - The old and the young A very merry Christmas - And a happy New Year Let's hope it's a good one - Without any fear And so this is Christmas - For weak and for strong For rich and the poor ones - The world is so wrong And so happy Christmas - For black and for white For yellow and red ones - Let's stop all the fight A very merry Christmas - And a happy New Year Let's hope it's a good one - Without any fear And so this is Christmas - And what have we done Another year over - And a new one just begun And so this is Christmas - I hope you have fun The near and the dear one - The old and the young A very merry Christmas - And a happy New Year Let's hope it's a good one - Without any fear Happy Christmas by John Lennon

I'm more or less off-duty now and soon on the way to my family! Have a great Christmas!

Merry Christmas and cheers ~ Arne