I agree, I used to have the Desire HD and my wife the Legend...And you know what the Legend was the 'better' phone in my opinion. Sure on the spec list is may not fare that great like with the iPhones but in actual day to day use it was a brilliant smart phone...
Did they really need half a decade to come up with a clone look alike of the Macbook Air? My 4Gb 256Gb Air was only like £100 more, comes with much more quality software as standard and has better screen, weight, battery life etc. Whilst a slightly faster processor is nice, it really isn't that big a deal in this market segment.
I wish it would happen...I am one of the 5 people that bought a WebOS device and really like it. Also a delight to develop for. But there were no deals made with the networks, nor other hardware providers. They should get that sorted and it would be a nice alternative. It is good to have choice.
Where we live there is no signal from any of the providers. I've been using the Sagem Femto cell for Vodofone Suresignal for a year now and it is absolutely brilliant. Don't understand why the other providers done bring it out. Just plug it in your network and off you go.
Family and friends that are on vodafone I've set up on it so they have receptions when they are here, others that aren't on Vodafone are switching when their contract is up to also get a box.
Whatever the reason, I can confirm that the 4S, Siri, handsfree on in-phone mic works very well in a convertible. Surprisingly well considering the amount of ambient noise. Further more it also works well in a noisy comms room, it can 'hear' me better than I can hear the other person in a conversation.
I had a little blip on Thursday evening which is now explained. Been connected from Satursday/Sunday for 48 hours non stop uploading iTunes Match stuff no problems...
I didn't have the choice, my plasma came with the 'smart' features and I couldn't buy it without. Whilst it wasn't the reason to buy it, unlike good image quality in both 2d and 3d, it is actually quite handy. Wifi is built in and is wireless N compatible.
BBC iPlay on the TV is very useful and it does the higher quality versions for us. And the family chats with Australia using the matched Skyp camera and app is much more brilliant than hunching of a little laptop screen.
Haven't tried DNLA as I prefer my ATV, nor the lovefilm subscription as I just get the bluray delivered to play on the Oppo.
Anyway the point is I am not complaining it has some additional features on it.
Richard, I think you are the one not getting it. Resolution in that context does not relate to the amount of pixels being display ;)
And yes I agree, these are not the BEST HD TVs for 2011 imo. I agree the VT30 is better whether is better value for money is a different matter though. But what's up with the small size of these sets....Mine is a Samsung 59" plasma :) still for image quality bettered by the Panny but even more so by the Pio Kuros, but thousands less.
And I just bought my 65" plasma, I should have waited for the iMac 65" :)
Nice perhaps in some dodgy student diggs, but who wants to watch TV on such a small screen. Well unless you are the first poster who thinks 32" is like the cinema...
Upgrading the ATV range to include SIRI and a PVR done ok make much more sense to me. Can't wait to get rid of my Humax and Toppy doesn't seem to bring out quality HD gear suitable for the UK anymore.
Has the register now got the same demographic as the jeremy kyle show or what?
For this to become useful it has to become part of the standard, as such Apple won't be able to keep this for themselves just like they have done with many many other patents.
Further more when it does become part of the standard then surely it will become 'easy' to move your electronic sim to another handset from another manufacturer that also implemented this standard?
Gosh there is a so much unfounded hatred here, chill and try and be a nice person...
Can't stand unions, they are only good for giving those useless idiots at the top a decent salary they would never have gotten through a days hard work. Waste of space that lot.
When just looking top down I can see the resemblance, but then this thing is huge and thick around the back. Looks like the size of my laptop in the early 90's. Wow. I also think the silly thing to do is calling it a Pad. I mean how much more attraction do they want to draw.
Mine easily lasts the day if not longer, must be one of the lucky ones. Then again the battery meter is as unreliable as the petrol gauge in a car, so I don't pay attention to any of that and just use it. I wouldn't be surprised if the fix is regarding the battery meter display.
That is 3-0 then. No doubt the fandroid will come with further conspiracy theories on how the judge has an ipad or iphone blah blah meh meh. Just go and develop something original and create some non-frand patents Samsung
You are so missing the point. Small company creates huge success, large company thinks I want some of that and copies what small company has instead of using its large resources to invent something new. Large company did not even consider that small company would dare to come after them to protect what is theirs and is protected. So now not only in Europe, but also in Australia.
Ultimately the consumer wins when big company wakes up and decides to use its resources to create something of their own instead of copy what others have already done. That in turn puts small company on its toes again. Everybody is a winner.
I can't see the point of postponing due to S Jobs passing away. Got to say, the specs (lets face it the only differentiator Android phones have) are rather meh. All this focus on how it may look, I do like the irony of that though :)
To educate the mass market why one app should and another app should gain access to the rights when asked. Most 'normal' users that I know, i.e. those not working in IT, just find that screen a nuisance and automatically click through. One shouldn't present geeky stuff like that to the masses and some trusted vetting on apps is very much needed.
Yes some of the specs may impress an 8 year old, but it is a bit pointless as all of them still use tinker toy Android on it. There just isn't a comparison, google still screws up your contact photos, still can't deal with peoples names containing prefixes, spaces, hyphenation and post fixes. It just isn't production quality stuff.
Move on nothing to see here other than the boring guy in the pub who insists on listing the spec difference between the ford focus he drives. Nice if you are the mundane person but for the rest of us nah....
The problem is, this is not limited to civil servants. I bet it is 80% of those in IT don't get it either. TUPE imo has really lowered and contaminated the skills pool.
Upon further testing it doesn't change all password, the keychain stays secure and unaccessible and requires the old password. So effectively it 'only' provides access to unsecured items on that computer.
It is a poorly implemented bug as well since it a) doesn't ask for the current password, but b) doesn't ask for the new password to be entered twice. So the joker in the office with bad spelling can cause some real trouble :)
Not good and I hope they fix it. But you can only change the current user (just tried it myself), so until that fix ensure your machine is locked when you leave your desk for jokers of colleagues can cause a bit of troubled fun.
You can't change other users passwords, unless anyone is so stupid to work under an administrative account....Which probably are a lot of users :)
Don't get all this stuff about batteries, if they fail you get them replaced. Yes there was a bad spell with the Santa Rosa based Macbook Pro, I had one, and are on my third battery. Each and everyone was a free replacement from the Apple Store, walk in with a 'failing' battery and walk out with a new one. With Dell and Sony previously they classed it as a consumable item.
Don't forget that Thunderbolt is great for an external display screen as well and it charges the Air through it as well. Really nice to get a multi-screen solution with USB hubs etc when you 'dock' with a single cable :)
So Samsung is threatening to block the sales of an unrealesed phone to which they haven't seen nor explored but are certain it breaks their patents in Korea.
ROFLMAO Is that really the best they can come up with? Also if that is that intrincis than surely they should have been protecting their IP for years already with everyone else on the market, or pencil up some licensing deals.
Lets wait and see what they actually come up with, until such time it sounds like empty threats to me. What is next, the Samsung CEO is going to get his dad, and the army and the whole universe to beat up Apple's dad? Sounds like sore losers clutching straws and spending money with lawyers that is better spend on their own original designs.
were let in on this 'secret' ages ago. But the fandroid are famous for hearing and not listening, who cares they dont have the true web experience, they prefer to tinker anyway.
This was always going to be the USP for RIM, but despite getting what they set out to get they still have missed an opportunity. It only works when within range of the phone, heck in some of the hotel suites that I am staying in the connection doesn't work from the bedroom to the lounge, let alone in my house. Does one have to carry two devices all the time to be able to do mail?
Interesting you say that. Update doesn't show anything, nor does manually connecting to the download site.
Care to enlighten anyone what update you received?
PS. The official supported installation process is to update, so doing fresh installs off your own back, stuff goes wrong and you 'blame' Apple for it? Sure something might not be right, but at least do it the supported way. My network is absolutely fine and fast, can't say I noticed any slow down as it is instant with its devices incleading airdrop.
another Android device that doesn't get updates. What is the news here exactly? Android users surely must be glad with their open system and have all the functionality bettering Apple that they don't require updates...
Funny that, finally Symbian looks like it is useable (based upon the pictures and videos I've seen), shame they implement these oh so necessary UI tweaks 4 years too late and after they put the nails in the coffin...Daft buggers those Fins.
Sounds like you've been talking to an unknowing customer service rep.
We have three smart phones, and two iPads, all on Vodafone and work quite happily at the same time. Yes I know as sometimes I forget to switch on the Wifi.
Suresignal is most definitely what keeps me with vodafone. Finally I can use the call allowance on our phones at home, don't have to forward at the bottom of the road to my landline etc. It even improved my quality of life as now I can confidently work from home.
I really don't get RIM, they've got huge resources and for many years now they still haven't been able to establish something as simple as an implementation of the IMAP protocol for mail.
For a not so large business, let alone consumers, having your own MS Exchange and BES infrastructure just doesn't make any sense. Yet many would like our own email provider and keep our email in sync across our mobile phones, tablets, laptops and desktops. Yet with the company that is renowned for being the ultimate email device you cannot do that.
Not on their phones, and now the tablet only works if it is in bluetooth proximity to basically explode what's on the screen of the phone.
What planet do they live on, this should really have been the ultimate corporate gadget. But hey if I have to carry two devices into every single room I go into to make it work that is just daft. Also I wonder how many corporate blackberrys are actually 3G devices. Browsing will be stupidly slow on that thing. I still see lots and lots of people with their pearls, hmm software version is too old to support bridge they can't do it either.
Come on RIM get off your lazy backside, and implement some native IMAP two way synching in addition to your BES/BIS integration and you may open up a lot of other markets.
I thought they had a winner in the Playbook, and then it can't do email? What on earth were they thinking.
And further more, BB might be great and the best email device if you have your own BES server, but if you don't you are stuffed. If you don't it is the worst email device ever. Two way sync over IMAP anyone? Come on BB get with it, any device on the consumer market is better at email than you are.
it is normal to have to switch on/off functions all the time in order to get some decent battery life? Nah, mine is the one that you you have to manage to the n-th degree in order to keep it working.
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Re: Downgraded Desire S or upgraded Wildfire S ?
I agree, I used to have the Desire HD and my wife the Legend...And you know what the Legend was the 'better' phone in my opinion. Sure on the spec list is may not fare that great like with the iPhones but in actual day to day use it was a brilliant smart phone...
I like the CD for a computer but...
I wouldn't have a montrosity like that in the living room, too small a screen and too big a bezel and stand.
Looks nice, but...
Did they really need half a decade to come up with a clone look alike of the Macbook Air? My 4Gb 256Gb Air was only like £100 more, comes with much more quality software as standard and has better screen, weight, battery life etc. Whilst a slightly faster processor is nice, it really isn't that big a deal in this market segment.
I wish...
I wish it would happen...I am one of the 5 people that bought a WebOS device and really like it. Also a delight to develop for. But there were no deals made with the networks, nor other hardware providers. They should get that sorted and it would be a nice alternative. It is good to have choice.
Re: Re: Wouldn't be without one
Which will be great, but they aren't now and haven't been for years.
Oh finally
I'm loving the system in our RR, and would love to have it in the lounge so I can play game whilst my wife is watching her soaps....Can't wait.
Wouldn't be without one
Where we live there is no signal from any of the providers. I've been using the Sagem Femto cell for Vodofone Suresignal for a year now and it is absolutely brilliant. Don't understand why the other providers done bring it out. Just plug it in your network and off you go.
Family and friends that are on vodafone I've set up on it so they have receptions when they are here, others that aren't on Vodafone are switching when their contract is up to also get a box.
LOL @ Eliza :)
Whatever the reason, I can confirm that the 4S, Siri, handsfree on in-phone mic works very well in a convertible. Surprisingly well considering the amount of ambient noise. Further more it also works well in a noisy comms room, it can 'hear' me better than I can hear the other person in a conversation.
David 45
You are even more daft than your spiteful message, it is for design you dummy even in your spiteful message you are not slating them for that ;)
Yep
I had a little blip on Thursday evening which is now explained. Been connected from Satursday/Sunday for 48 hours non stop uploading iTunes Match stuff no problems...
Didn't have the choice
I didn't have the choice, my plasma came with the 'smart' features and I couldn't buy it without. Whilst it wasn't the reason to buy it, unlike good image quality in both 2d and 3d, it is actually quite handy. Wifi is built in and is wireless N compatible.
BBC iPlay on the TV is very useful and it does the higher quality versions for us. And the family chats with Australia using the matched Skyp camera and app is much more brilliant than hunching of a little laptop screen.
Haven't tried DNLA as I prefer my ATV, nor the lovefilm subscription as I just get the bluray delivered to play on the Oppo.
Anyway the point is I am not complaining it has some additional features on it.
LOL @ Richard
Richard, I think you are the one not getting it. Resolution in that context does not relate to the amount of pixels being display ;)
And yes I agree, these are not the BEST HD TVs for 2011 imo. I agree the VT30 is better whether is better value for money is a different matter though. But what's up with the small size of these sets....Mine is a Samsung 59" plasma :) still for image quality bettered by the Panny but even more so by the Pio Kuros, but thousands less.
Oh no
And I just bought my 65" plasma, I should have waited for the iMac 65" :)
Nice perhaps in some dodgy student diggs, but who wants to watch TV on such a small screen. Well unless you are the first poster who thinks 32" is like the cinema...
Upgrading the ATV range to include SIRI and a PVR done ok make much more sense to me. Can't wait to get rid of my Humax and Toppy doesn't seem to bring out quality HD gear suitable for the UK anymore.
What is it with you lot
Has the register now got the same demographic as the jeremy kyle show or what?
For this to become useful it has to become part of the standard, as such Apple won't be able to keep this for themselves just like they have done with many many other patents.
Further more when it does become part of the standard then surely it will become 'easy' to move your electronic sim to another handset from another manufacturer that also implemented this standard?
Gosh there is a so much unfounded hatred here, chill and try and be a nice person...
ignoredeal with unionsA union is a pyramid scheme
Can't stand unions, they are only good for giving those useless idiots at the top a decent salary they would never have gotten through a days hard work. Waste of space that lot.
Blimey
When just looking top down I can see the resemblance, but then this thing is huge and thick around the back. Looks like the size of my laptop in the early 90's. Wow. I also think the silly thing to do is calling it a Pad. I mean how much more attraction do they want to draw.
I must be lucky
Mine easily lasts the day if not longer, must be one of the lucky ones. Then again the battery meter is as unreliable as the petrol gauge in a car, so I don't pay attention to any of that and just use it. I wouldn't be surprised if the fix is regarding the battery meter display.
Great for dSLR backup too
Still use mine today for dSLR photo backups. Great multi-use devise :)
@AC 15:03 Large/Small perception
Not trolling much, more like rubbing it in :)
I'm serious about the large/small company, it is all relative
Employees - Samsung 200k, Apple 50k
Revenue - Samsung 133Bn, Apple 65Bn
Assets - Samsung 113Bn, Apple 75Bn
Do I need to continue? Apple is small compared to Samsung
PS. 3 nil now :)
Get in....again
That is 3-0 then. No doubt the fandroid will come with further conspiracy theories on how the judge has an ipad or iphone blah blah meh meh. Just go and develop something original and create some non-frand patents Samsung
@Craigness
You are so missing the point. Small company creates huge success, large company thinks I want some of that and copies what small company has instead of using its large resources to invent something new. Large company did not even consider that small company would dare to come after them to protect what is theirs and is protected. So now not only in Europe, but also in Australia.
Ultimately the consumer wins when big company wakes up and decides to use its resources to create something of their own instead of copy what others have already done. That in turn puts small company on its toes again. Everybody is a winner.
Fanboys 2 - 0 Fandroids
Come on get in. Innovate and be original Samsung, stop being a bullying copycat.
Announcing what?
Announcing healthy estimated earnings. Wow I can estimate lots of healthy things, what a lot of twaddle.
Poor reception?
Yes such poor reception...try and order a 4S see if you can get one ;)
Wonder what the reason it
I can't see the point of postponing due to S Jobs passing away. Got to say, the specs (lets face it the only differentiator Android phones have) are rather meh. All this focus on how it may look, I do like the irony of that though :)
The challenge is
To educate the mass market why one app should and another app should gain access to the rights when asked. Most 'normal' users that I know, i.e. those not working in IT, just find that screen a nuisance and automatically click through. One shouldn't present geeky stuff like that to the masses and some trusted vetting on apps is very much needed.
That list is funny
Yes some of the specs may impress an 8 year old, but it is a bit pointless as all of them still use tinker toy Android on it. There just isn't a comparison, google still screws up your contact photos, still can't deal with peoples names containing prefixes, spaces, hyphenation and post fixes. It just isn't production quality stuff.
Move on nothing to see here other than the boring guy in the pub who insists on listing the spec difference between the ford focus he drives. Nice if you are the mundane person but for the rest of us nah....
Can't take it serious
Can't take these points serious, but mildly funny though...
The problem is, this is not limited to civil servants. I bet it is 80% of those in IT don't get it either. TUPE imo has really lowered and contaminated the skills pool.
Last point I promise
Upon further testing it doesn't change all password, the keychain stays secure and unaccessible and requires the old password. So effectively it 'only' provides access to unsecured items on that computer.
Oops forgot
It is a poorly implemented bug as well since it a) doesn't ask for the current password, but b) doesn't ask for the new password to be entered twice. So the joker in the office with bad spelling can cause some real trouble :)
Not good, but...
Not good and I hope they fix it. But you can only change the current user (just tried it myself), so until that fix ensure your machine is locked when you leave your desk for jokers of colleagues can cause a bit of troubled fun.
You can't change other users passwords, unless anyone is so stupid to work under an administrative account....Which probably are a lot of users :)
Batteries sigh
Don't get all this stuff about batteries, if they fail you get them replaced. Yes there was a bad spell with the Santa Rosa based Macbook Pro, I had one, and are on my third battery. Each and everyone was a free replacement from the Apple Store, walk in with a 'failing' battery and walk out with a new one. With Dell and Sony previously they classed it as a consumable item.
Don't forget that Thunderbolt is great for an external display screen as well and it charges the Air through it as well. Really nice to get a multi-screen solution with USB hubs etc when you 'dock' with a single cable :)
Hmm right
So Samsung is threatening to block the sales of an unrealesed phone to which they haven't seen nor explored but are certain it breaks their patents in Korea.
ROFLMAO Is that really the best they can come up with? Also if that is that intrincis than surely they should have been protecting their IP for years already with everyone else on the market, or pencil up some licensing deals.
Lets wait and see what they actually come up with, until such time it sounds like empty threats to me. What is next, the Samsung CEO is going to get his dad, and the army and the whole universe to beat up Apple's dad? Sounds like sore losers clutching straws and spending money with lawyers that is better spend on their own original designs.
Us apple users ....
were let in on this 'secret' ages ago. But the fandroid are famous for hearing and not listening, who cares they dont have the true web experience, they prefer to tinker anyway.
Oh I love Fridays
Then again
If Samsung is not no longer allowed to sell their lightweight useless but for fandroids highlighly specced phone, Motorola could be right :)
Still a case of the highest specs dont make the fastest phone. iPhone 4 has got that cornered well and truly :)
Yup indeed
Your list AC @ 13:34 of specs perfectly illustrate your point. Specs don't make the device...
You do know that...
USB ports on a Mac have been able to supply the higher voltage in the USB standard for the last 4 years in prep of charging the iPad etc.
Mine is the 2008 MBP with an optibay to run dual SDD/HDD and a single connection DVD rewriter. It is not a problem that exists on Mac...
Agree with most of the post
Expansys is just not competitive, very simple. It is not the customer demand, it is the customers aren't daft enough to spend their money with them.
I agree
This was always going to be the USP for RIM, but despite getting what they set out to get they still have missed an opportunity. It only works when within range of the phone, heck in some of the hotel suites that I am staying in the connection doesn't work from the bedroom to the lounge, let alone in my house. Does one have to carry two devices all the time to be able to do mail?
Come on RIM it is 2011.
Update after 10.7
Interesting you say that. Update doesn't show anything, nor does manually connecting to the download site.
Care to enlighten anyone what update you received?
PS. The official supported installation process is to update, so doing fresh installs off your own back, stuff goes wrong and you 'blame' Apple for it? Sure something might not be right, but at least do it the supported way. My network is absolutely fine and fast, can't say I noticed any slow down as it is instant with its devices incleading airdrop.
Ah well
Where I live you'd need a long power extension lead and network cable as no other property is within at least 200m.
I know it is not perfect security, but I do wonder why in a more densly populated area one would need a femtocell in the first place.
Another day
another Android device that doesn't get updates. What is the news here exactly? Android users surely must be glad with their open system and have all the functionality bettering Apple that they don't require updates...
Does anyone read the article?
it is not even a mis-quote, it doesn't even use words like as bad as...It merely states that it exceed the occurence.
Boy aren't we a sensitive bunch today.
4 years too late
Funny that, finally Symbian looks like it is useable (based upon the pictures and videos I've seen), shame they implement these oh so necessary UI tweaks 4 years too late and after they put the nails in the coffin...Daft buggers those Fins.
How do you conclude that
Sounds like you've been talking to an unknowing customer service rep.
We have three smart phones, and two iPads, all on Vodafone and work quite happily at the same time. Yes I know as sometimes I forget to switch on the Wifi.
Suresignal is most definitely what keeps me with vodafone. Finally I can use the call allowance on our phones at home, don't have to forward at the bottom of the road to my landline etc. It even improved my quality of life as now I can confidently work from home.
And here we go again
Gosh the updates are very slow aren't they. So LG has delays, and then the networks will delay for another year. Brilliant.
why are they so stubborn
I really don't get RIM, they've got huge resources and for many years now they still haven't been able to establish something as simple as an implementation of the IMAP protocol for mail.
For a not so large business, let alone consumers, having your own MS Exchange and BES infrastructure just doesn't make any sense. Yet many would like our own email provider and keep our email in sync across our mobile phones, tablets, laptops and desktops. Yet with the company that is renowned for being the ultimate email device you cannot do that.
Not on their phones, and now the tablet only works if it is in bluetooth proximity to basically explode what's on the screen of the phone.
What planet do they live on, this should really have been the ultimate corporate gadget. But hey if I have to carry two devices into every single room I go into to make it work that is just daft. Also I wonder how many corporate blackberrys are actually 3G devices. Browsing will be stupidly slow on that thing. I still see lots and lots of people with their pearls, hmm software version is too old to support bridge they can't do it either.
Come on RIM get off your lazy backside, and implement some native IMAP two way synching in addition to your BES/BIS integration and you may open up a lot of other markets.
Oh dear
I thought they had a winner in the Playbook, and then it can't do email? What on earth were they thinking.
And further more, BB might be great and the best email device if you have your own BES server, but if you don't you are stuffed. If you don't it is the worst email device ever. Two way sync over IMAP anyone? Come on BB get with it, any device on the consumer market is better at email than you are.
So you think...
it is normal to have to switch on/off functions all the time in order to get some decent battery life? Nah, mine is the one that you you have to manage to the n-th degree in order to keep it working.
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