Re: When contemplating the latest generation of high-end smart phones I feel myself..........
I use Subsonic on my HTC Desire HD and stream all my music and extensive DVD collection to my phone via my own PC. 3 gives me unlimited data and VM give me 50Mb/5Mb down/upload. So with a decent phone connection I'm laughing...
With 40 apps running on my phone, it is becoming sluggish.
Re: When contemplating the latest generation of high-end smart phones I feel myself..........
Be nice if HTC offered 2 versions. One as is, the other 2-3mm thicker with thicker and therefore higher battery capacity. Could be done with the right design and a swapable back case perhaps?
Oh and for those interested the HTC Desire HD comes in at a benchmark score of 2596, just below the Samsung Galaxy S.
Re: Astonishing that such thin films have so *many* layers of cells in them.
People often don't realise that bacteria builds skyscraper layers of membranes many layers thick. So whilst the top layers die from exposure to chemicals, light, etc. the under layers remain untouched. Which is why you need to scrub hard!
What you do is the 'competitive exclusion' method. Once the bacteria you want dead is gone, you spray known good bacteria in its place. These out compete with other species by sheer numbers.
People use this method in waste control plants and in the Aquarium/pond hobby to greatly reduce disease causing bacteria. Works too.
Be kind of cute to see a nurse armed with a ray gun killing a room of bacteria! :)
I've a few old Hi-Fi magazines and its amazing how much CD players cost in the 1990s and what golden ear reviewers said about the amazingly good quality of £300 CD players, £200 headphones, etc.
Technology has moved on in the last twenty years and those expensive devices have got so much cheaper and much improved. But still the Hi-FI reviewers of today claim you only get a decent sound out of a CD player costing £300 and a pair of headphones costing over £200...
But if you zip up a number of compressed files, then you can't really display that web page building up over time. The browser would have to wait until the last byte is downloaded before it could display the page?
Typical Ni-MH is ~1.2V so 4x give 4.8V which is just within the USB 5V spec to work and unlike alkalines they keep their rated voltage steady until exhausted.
If you have to use Alkaline (bad choice use Lithium instead) then place a 1N400X diode in series and that'll drop the voltage by 0.6V to give you around 5.8V at first but very quickly drops down to 5V and falling rapidly, alkalines don't keep a steady voltage.
I see Maplin sells the Rolson Emergency Phone Charger too BTW.
But this device doesn't like giving out more than 200mA before it packs in due to current drain abuse. I known, I've taken them apart to get the specs of the DC-DC converter.
A 9V pp3 battery is not efficient. Apart from only rated at 200mAH, there will be a 4V drop across the regulator. This is power completely wasted. The Regulator needs at least 2V across it to work. So it wastes a lot of the battery.
Much much better to use 4xAAA, 4xAA or 4xC or 4xD rechargeables Ni-MH batteries in a 4 cell holder from Maplin and a pp3 clip soldered onto an appropriate USB socket..
If you want to be clever, add a 150ohm resistor across the +D,-D pins too.
A decent set of AAA will give you 1000mAH, AA will give you around 2500mAH, C will give you 4000mAH, D will give you 10,000mAH.
ASDA sells a tiny black 4xAAA holder with various USB sockets. You just need to short the diode it has if you use rechargeables.
Better still buy a pack of Maplin's Hybrid AAA and you'll have 5V at 1000mAH on tap at any time as these Ni-MH cells only discharge very slowly so you can keep them in a drawer for 6 months without losing power like normal Ni-MH!
I've been down this route with my HTC Desire HD phone. :)
Personal I'd hope the reviewer had a recent full ear test by a qualified audio technican and a doctor had cleaned their ears out as ear wax distorts the audio spectrum of the listener.
No? So how does the reviewer know if they're hearing is working correctly?
Takes quite a bit of energy to make 100% pure water and keep it that way.
Take sunlight and water with all its life forms and minerals in it and you'll get an algae or bacteria bloom which will clog those nano-tubes in no time flat.
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Just wait untill someone tries to hang a picture up - BANG!
Re: I knew it
Go to any Stationery shop, buy till receipt paper. I believe that is covered with Iron Oxide. :)
Re: Google Calling the Kettle Black
I assumed he ment using the Search button?
Short memories
The EU will never allow it or has The Register forgotten about the Browser choice issue with XP?
It's a Condor moment...
Keep up.
The role of the Nazca Lines in Peru has been discovered.
The tribes at the time worshipped the large Condor bird.
So of course they had to make their images large so these big high flying birds could see them and stay around.
No aliens, spaceships or other high technology other than a broom and some string required!
Re: RE the battery
No, the next step is to offer a OLED screen. That'll save some power. I can see people setting up dark colour themes in order to save more power.
Re: When contemplating the latest generation of high-end smart phones I feel myself..........
I use Subsonic on my HTC Desire HD and stream all my music and extensive DVD collection to my phone via my own PC. 3 gives me unlimited data and VM give me 50Mb/5Mb down/upload. So with a decent phone connection I'm laughing...
With 40 apps running on my phone, it is becoming sluggish.
Re: When contemplating the latest generation of high-end smart phones I feel myself..........
Be nice if HTC offered 2 versions. One as is, the other 2-3mm thicker with thicker and therefore higher battery capacity. Could be done with the right design and a swapable back case perhaps?
Oh and for those interested the HTC Desire HD comes in at a benchmark score of 2596, just below the Samsung Galaxy S.
Re: Feature needed...
Maplin sells a rather nice T shaped 5way Mains strip that has a 3 pin socket bang over the centre.
Powerlines work well with it. :)
Re: How many people use these things?
My mate fitted a pair of 500Mb AVs and throughput is 120Mb/s.
As the article says they add the upload/download speeds together to beef up the numbers and the encryption takes up a fair amount.
So you don't get 250Mb, you get half....
Oh and the new ones don't work with the old 85Mb/s versions.
Plus CFL lights interfere with the signal and these devices hate being plugged into Mains multiway strips.
Lastly they hate Mains filters. So plenty of problems to get over...
Re: ......
Try putting on it a HD movie of 6GB and see how fast it works...
I'm amazed at how little knowledge people have about class speeds when they use SD cards.
Re: Yeah, but how much faster is this Class 10 card...
The SD standard only goes up to class 10. That is 10MB/s.
This card should be called class 80 if we lived in a rational world!
Mac users will....?
<Switches off SMUG mode>
;)
Re: Astonishing that such thin films have so *many* layers of cells in them.
People often don't realise that bacteria builds skyscraper layers of membranes many layers thick. So whilst the top layers die from exposure to chemicals, light, etc. the under layers remain untouched. Which is why you need to scrub hard!
Re: Could this be the new bleach
What you do is the 'competitive exclusion' method. Once the bacteria you want dead is gone, you spray known good bacteria in its place. These out compete with other species by sheer numbers.
People use this method in waste control plants and in the Aquarium/pond hobby to greatly reduce disease causing bacteria. Works too.
Be kind of cute to see a nurse armed with a ray gun killing a room of bacteria! :)
Re: Fidelity issues?
Quite honestly a huge proportion of the adult population can't tell the difference between a 128Kb/s MP3 and a FLAC stream....
The human body ages and my ears are definitely not getting any better with every passing year.
Can people try to remember most of us don't have Bat hearing any longer as much as we would like.
*If something is popular, then people are using it and buying it for some reason. Get over that fact. :))
I've a few old Hi-Fi magazines and its amazing how much CD players cost in the 1990s and what golden ear reviewers said about the amazingly good quality of £300 CD players, £200 headphones, etc.
Technology has moved on in the last twenty years and those expensive devices have got so much cheaper and much improved. But still the Hi-FI reviewers of today claim you only get a decent sound out of a CD player costing £300 and a pair of headphones costing over £200...
Odd that... ;)
Re: How about containers?
But if you zip up a number of compressed files, then you can't really display that web page building up over time. The browser would have to wait until the last byte is downloaded before it could display the page?
New protocol is the way to go.
Re: Yes but...
So pay the money and buy .sc off the Seychelles?
It's been done before. :)
Hmm as this was hand drawn, I can't see the benefit of a blu-ray release as it'll be hard to make out any more detail surely?
I guess the Japanese want something different to show off their new super-hd system? Perhaps they're tired of showing off Thunderbirds and Stingray?
But a DVD version with cleaned up graphics will properly make me buy it when it's in the £3 Tesco shelves?
Not terribly accurate
Typical Ni-MH is ~1.2V so 4x give 4.8V which is just within the USB 5V spec to work and unlike alkalines they keep their rated voltage steady until exhausted.
If you have to use Alkaline (bad choice use Lithium instead) then place a 1N400X diode in series and that'll drop the voltage by 0.6V to give you around 5.8V at first but very quickly drops down to 5V and falling rapidly, alkalines don't keep a steady voltage.
I see Maplin sells the Rolson Emergency Phone Charger too BTW.
http://www.maplin.co.uk/battery-powered-emergency-mobile-phone-charger-222899
But this device doesn't like giving out more than 200mA before it packs in due to current drain abuse. I known, I've taken them apart to get the specs of the DC-DC converter.
A 9V pp3 battery is not efficient. Apart from only rated at 200mAH, there will be a 4V drop across the regulator. This is power completely wasted. The Regulator needs at least 2V across it to work. So it wastes a lot of the battery.
Much much better to use 4xAAA, 4xAA or 4xC or 4xD rechargeables Ni-MH batteries in a 4 cell holder from Maplin and a pp3 clip soldered onto an appropriate USB socket..
If you want to be clever, add a 150ohm resistor across the +D,-D pins too.
A decent set of AAA will give you 1000mAH, AA will give you around 2500mAH, C will give you 4000mAH, D will give you 10,000mAH.
ASDA sells a tiny black 4xAAA holder with various USB sockets. You just need to short the diode it has if you use rechargeables.
Better still buy a pack of Maplin's Hybrid AAA and you'll have 5V at 1000mAH on tap at any time as these Ni-MH cells only discharge very slowly so you can keep them in a drawer for 6 months without losing power like normal Ni-MH!
I've been down this route with my HTC Desire HD phone. :)
Shame. As a consumer it was nice whilst it lasted.
But I feel sorry for the couple of dozen companies and hundreds of people on the islands that will be made redundant due to this 'fix'.
It'll hit the islands hard....
Personal I'd hope the reviewer had a recent full ear test by a qualified audio technican and a doctor had cleaned their ears out as ear wax distorts the audio spectrum of the listener.
No? So how does the reviewer know if they're hearing is working correctly?
Sorry, how can you tell if the lid is open?
Just looks like a blob.
It'll be 3-4 years before we see domestic Lithium batteries using nano tech to double their current capacity.
Just remember, double the capacity, you double the charging time...
It'll be interesting to see hi-res OLED screens as these will have significant battery savings.
Black and dark themes will come back into fashion as they'll use much less power.
Eh? Exclusive? So the fact that Maplin has this in all its stores (see http://mobile.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?moduleno=615474 ) doesn't count?
Hmmm...I wonder how much RAM I'll have left after my 1GB HTC Desire HD boots up with ICS? With Android 2.3.3 I've got 730MB free at start.
However at this precise moment I have 92MB free as I type this.
Some of us have lots of apps in our phones. More RAM means less reloading from SSD which is power intensive.
Roll on 2GB Android devices...
Is there a PC demo?
No demo, no purchase here.
Let's talk about the process chaps?
This process will use pure water then?
Takes quite a bit of energy to make 100% pure water and keep it that way.
Take sunlight and water with all its life forms and minerals in it and you'll get an algae or bacteria bloom which will clog those nano-tubes in no time flat.
Pretty obvious they are hidding an imposed cap-limit from their customers. Auld Scots saying if it smells of sh#t, it probably is sh#t...
Re: Great!
So why when I try to import a 20 page Word 97 document does it turn into a 40 page document?
I've yet to see a single Word document turn into a ODF file without serious rework...
So we'll stop buying cheap fruit, clothes, shoes, coffee, chocolate too?
Heck EVERY industry uses this form of cheap labour.
"Jaw-dropping" ? Oh I see what you did there. Please don't...
missed
So no one else noticed that the sinewave graph is hopelessly inaccurate?
Well let's hope the scientists didn't wipe up the entire species like the scientists did when the arm waving golden frog was discovered.
Chyrid Fungus is deadly.
Gone but not forgotten
Just go to the Wayback machine site and look it up.
It is all archived for your future enjoyment...
Daft claims
So they claim to be able to compress already compressed files?
Yeah - right.
Please get the use of 'LED TV' right.
It's not a LED TV if it is just edge lit. Perhaps you need to understand the technology a bit more?
Also, 4 HDMI sockets? Pictures show 3...
Can we get a kobo v Fire Tablet review now?
We need to be careful. Didn't anyone watch Inferno episode on Doctor who?
Someone had to state this....
Destroy this chip now. Skynet mustn't happen!
You've got it in one.
x10 the battery means x10 the amount of current just to keep the charging time the same as the old battery.
If they want to half the charging time, they'll have to double the current!
Can you imagine a cellphone charger with huge car battery-type thick cables running out to it?
The only thing they can do to avoid this is to dramatically increase the voltage of the battery.
Expect 50-100V cellphone batteries...!
Ah that's why all Star Trek/Stargate/<fill in Sci-Fi series here> Phasers can be turned into bombs on demand then!
Oops again
So basically Sony has done another 'Trinitron grill line' thingy like last time?
Once you've noticed it, you keep on noticing it.... :)
Amazing how the same technology mistakes keep making a come back!
err how?
How can these be classics? Surely the game needs to be over 20 years old to get in that category?
Give me a decent modern 3D Elite or Sentinel from the BBC Micro era!
Why is this News?
Are you guys slipping into Sun-Mode?
Gee so many AV android apps missed out. I wonder why?
Maybe they would have made the commerical apps look bad?
If you're gonna do a review at least use some of the most popular about app detectors?
Even ES Security Manager was missing.
Maplin and PC World will be glad.
But if you want good solid unbiased advice, go to Maplin, they're not on commission!
Should we be worried?
Phew, nothing to worry about then. It's far too small to be Mondas!
Can't beat Half-Life...
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