Posts by Dan 55 15447 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
It's €69 on prepay... hopefully it won't be operator locked.
Here's a walkthrough video by Movistar. You can turn on automatic subtitles in Spanish (first level of mangling) then get them automatically translated into English (second level of mangling).
It does if you expect huge blocks of colour and icons to randomly fly in from the sides or your desktop to disappear to be replaced by something else because your OS deigns to map movements on the trackpad to relatively change the mouse pointer's position (okay till now) and, at the same time, as absolute gestures as they would be used on the touch screen, if you had a touch screen.
So if you slide your finger in from the right-hand-side of the trackpad to the centre you move the mouse pointer left and get the Charms bar too.
It's utter crap. Windows 8 cannot be objectively considered by any measure to be interpreting the input correctly and "work[ing] just fine."
That's because you know you've dialled it wrong and tapped the switch hook before re-dialling, whereas with push-button phones you often don't realise before you're connected. How do you know? You just know. It's a proper UI, there's not many of those about these days.
I'm convinced BT's entire national network is set up to understand pulse dial phones just for my parents' phone, by the way.
There's media.navigator.enabled in about:config if the pop-up asking you if you want to give permission isn't good enough but that's just to give you a false sense of security, what it really does is it flag your IP address for "enhanced data non-collection".
With the XBox and PS concentrating on brown space marine simulators and Nintendo forgetting what made it decent in the first place, the future is a Steambox or a PC under the telly running Steam. You can have your fix of shooting monsters in the face, have decent indie games which innovate, and if you want interactive telly it also runs XBMC.
What, when they made a range of phones to meet different price points which had different USPs, good hardware, and an OS which was back on track (as Belle demonstrated despite the internal turmoil), the biggest app store, finally had MeeGo out and a transition strategy to it, the biggest market share and delivered phones like the N8 which is only now, 2.5 years later, finally being equalled in other flagship phones?
And then the burning platform memo came out.
AFAIK none of these corporations has said that they must lie about NSA backdoors by law and any queries should be referred to the US government. That would probably be the best way to show trustworthiness (if it could be shown), talking about Alzheimer sufferers and children or the privacy of iMessage, FaceTime, map searches, location details and Siri requests are just more lies amongst many.
After all, that's much easier than providing a utility to reflash everything back to stock. See also: Same loss of guarantee for Xperias and a half-hearted attempt to put-out the AOSP firmware for Xperia phones.
Mind you, I imagine Sony's internal politics makes Nokia's look positively efficient.
It's a cross between Nokia's Evolve theme (which came out first with MeeGo/Symbian Belle/Asha) and WP (which came out second), but sadly as Apple are third they get to pick the short straw every time for each icon's design.
The only thing new they've brought to the table is a white background, but, hey, battery life isn't important.
Does anyone really enjoy wrestling with Android's text cursor? AFAIK only Hacker's keyboard has got cursor keys.
Unsurprisingly as it's Google there's full network access, this is better version of the stock keyboard.
Exactly, nobody asked for 100% security or 100% privacy. Most people realise both are unattainable.
I really doubt that this has increased security at all but it's certainly rolled back privacy. What the US should be demanding of its administration now is to say which group of people were put in prison for an terrorist plot and what evidence was used to put them in prison. They seem unable to do this. Wheeling out Obama to say something nice while he's off to see the Chinese president (ha) isn't enough.
A fanboy doesn't need to go AC.
Optical drives are good to have if your hard drive borks or you want to install a heavyweight piece of software. Well, it shouldn't be necessary to go into details on this website. Taking Apple's enthusiasm for minimalism and feature-removal to its logical conclusion, we'll end up with Apple Pis where you pay a premium for the nice cover and then a premium for a stack of boxes hanging off the side.
COL: "Hello, this is China Online... How can we help you today?"
Customer: "Yes, I'm trying to get to the Internet but it's not working."
COL: "I'm very sorry to hear that. As you know the Internet is a separate service and COL is not responsible for its content or its maintenance. We'll raise a support ticket with the Internet and you should have your service back shortly."
Customer: "Is there an estimated time for a fix?"
COL: "Tomorrow at 12:00am exactly. Have a nice day."
Tried the ExQuilla plugin for Thunderbird? The Exchange Server needs to have EWS enabled, so it's got to be Exchange Server 2007 or later.
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