Posts by Andrew Livingston 8 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Oct 2007
Us 2G users had a bunch of new problems introduced with 2.0 and neither of these updates have fixed any of them.
Cell phone location triangulation in maps doesn't work (at all) any more, text entry makes Safari throw itself around the page as the autocomplete rendering decides it should be at the top corner rather than where the text box is, backing up takes hours etc etc.
Apple seem determined not to add proper bluetooth profiles, a camera worth a damn (with a flash) or MMS etc.
If the networks are the customers now and make them add more functionality, then GREAT!
Because I want that stuff. That's the three things that annoy me about my iPhone every day.
One would suspect that if the phone is subsidised properly now like every other handset you'll have to sign a legally binding contract to eighteen months of service in store before you take it away, so you won't be able to to "buy the handset for £100 and stick your £35 a month sim in it."
Frankly if O2 allow me to upgrade in the middle of my existing 18 month iPhone contract and only want £70 - 80 for the new handset and restarting my contract I will be pretty happy with that. Very few phone contracts would give you any subsidy at all until the full existing 18 months was up and would make you sign for another 18 months there too.
Now all we have to hope for is that the thing isn't as bloody ugly as the leaked pictures suggest (and that it's got a camera flash, please god…)
As everyone else has said, complete carp.
Freeview is a failing platform? How? Because a couple of minor channels died? It's percentage of viewing hours continues to increase rapidly, in both Sky and non-Sky households.
Sky would revitalise the platform? This is the same Sky who are having to remove their channels from Freeview because they're loosing money (indeed, it's worth noting that Sky News has NEVER made anything but a loss in it's entire history)?
Digital switchover won't achieve the same level of coverage (roughly) as analogue? Simply nonsense.
How did this get published? Seriously?
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