Yes fellow Windows phone lovers, we have hit a milestone today: we have been blessed with our very first gaseous joke application, dubbed MyFart for a bargain price of $0.99 in the Windows Marketplace for Mobile.

No more shall we be envious of the iPhone crowd, though they still out number our flatulent vaporware (snicker), we have finally struck back with our own puerile program and we assure thee iPhoners, this is just the beginning, for we smell victory.  Prepare for the fartocalypse! 

(Too much on the last one?)

Update: See George's earlier review of a similar app called, wait for it, Jack the Ripper.  Brilliant.

So tell us, how does this sound for a dream WM phone?

• 800x400 Tetra-VGA resolution
• 3.9 inch Projected Capacitance Touch technology with 95 SVI
• WCDMA / HSPA: 900/2100MHz. HSDPA 7.2 Mbps + LTE
• Scaled integrated WM architecture
• WLAN: 802.11b/g + WiMax
• Dynamic distributed 4mb cache
• Optimized multimedia protocol (RiGB, Tif, Xled)
• Connectivity: Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz + CDMA 1x
• An integrated object-oriented protocol
• 624mhz Snapdragon main processor; 412mhz Xtel Preprocessor
• BlueTooth 2.1 (EDR, GAP, GOEP, SPP, HSP, HFP 1.5, PAN, BPP, AVRCP)
• 1GB Pseudostatic RAM (PSRAM)

...all for running the yet unannounced "WM6.5 MultiMedia Ultimate" set for a Q2 wide release.

If you are like most people who read this and other tech sites, your jaws should be on the floor upon reading those specs. You may now lift your cracked chins, my little Guinea Pigs. Not only is that phone made up, but so are some of those "specifications". Why the cruel joke? As it turns out, you fell in line just like a bunch of nerdy researchers predicted you would.

Read on to find out why spec hounds like, ahem, us have skewed perceptions of device reality.

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