aye
indeed, if there was someone to take the call at 9.30 then there would either be someone paged OR someone in a contracted different timezone to fix it. We have a contractor in the US and Singapore for out of (UK) hours work.
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just about the only good thing about this phone is the fact it is on virgin for £23/18 months with 1gig data and the keyboard. Cant say I like android 1.5, too many bugs for my liking - mainly when syncing to cars (wont sync with my BMW or ford convers+
Shame as I really wanted to like this phone. Battery life is crap too, maybe a day and a half at best. The home capacitive button is annoying as hell, so easy to brush it.
Im not sure why you say "bloated". If you use many of the hacked firmwares out there then you have a mighty phone. And by hacked, I simply downloaded the activesynce, the modem driver, firmware and away I went 6.1 -> 6.5. My ancient by modern standards omnia will happily run tomtom, surf the web and use flash-lite, play just about any film or music going with coreplayer, sync to exchange, download my own IMAP emails from 2 separate accounts, store all of the contacts separately not in one mush, use OS maps courtesy of memory map (with onboard GPS of course). Oh and tether quite happily to my netbook for HSDPA loveliness. A good days use and there is still 50% charge left for the next day all on a 2 year battery.
I also have an old iphone (the wife has it) and a new LG touchmax (eve) android phone. I bought that as the KB was great on it. I hate the OS. It is slower than the omnia, more of a faff to do everyday tasks on it, the batterylife is horrific - I dont care about 3G/HSDPA bug, fix it! Give me an app to fix it! It wont sync with either of my cars (common fault in forums).
Dont get me started on the iphone, its capabilities as a true smartphone are laughable.
That being said. All that make winmo6.5 great have been removed from wphone 7. No more tomtom as im not buying it twice. No more memory map, same as. And no chance of removing the bloat added by the service provider. Unless a good hacked firmware comes out then im avoiding like the plague.
let me see. I'd like android to sync to my BMW 530 and my ford galaxy. I'd also like the battery to last longer than one day without it being off all the time. Be able to plug it into my PC and act as a memory stick without faffing about clicking here there and everywhere just to get pictures and music off. Plug into my netbook to tether without arsing about with a rooted app.
All of which possible on my omnia but not on my lg touch max (eve)
That being said, this winmo/phone 7 looks like a stoooopid idea. It takes all the good bits of 6.5 and throws them away. Great move, i'll ignore it.
It is called extremes. Whilst my house is in public view, it isnt being gawped over by potentially hundres of thousands of people. Got a nice car in the drive? That might get noticed by someone wanting that car.
Got a TV in the window that can be seen? Maybe the local thugs want to see the layout of your windows.
Sure someone could go along and take a piccy if so interested but with google doing the job for you then why not use that instead?
Cant say I want my house on street view.
I love my omnia. It is a fantastic phone and it multitasks quite happily. Then again I have flashed it with winmo 6.5 and HTC touchflo is running on it and ive pruned out all the services I dont actually use - oh and upgraded the "phone" part too so the battery life is better (and probably illegal too and frying my brain).
Messaging? Fine, 2 email accounts syncing? Yup - shame it wont "push" but a minor inconvenience. Tomtom running on it? Yup. mobile opera? yup. Music and video? Yup - although I did buy coreplayer which does a far better job. Tethers 3G? Yup - great for the netbook on the train if I am really doing some work.
Contract is up next month so im getting an omni pro. For the amount of minor corrections and surfing I do, the foldup bluetooth keyboard is overkill really so a small thumb pad is better than the screen keyboard.
I can tell you havent used a windows slate. Awful things with dire battery life. And android phones? Dont make me laugh, try using it in a modern car (ours wont sync properly in the BMW 530 or the mondeo convers+) . Have you been able to use an authenticated proxy over wifi yet - which sort of makes it useless in any normal business environment?
Its horses for courses, if the ipad works then great, but simply saying "its apple, trash it" is silly. No-one seems to have the perfect solution yet.
I wonder if you need to say the right things at customs. "yes im working with a new exclusive plastic in the UK. I wouldnt want anyone to steal the secrets!" then you get free USB sticks (for my linux machines) and free cameras (for my MAC). Not to mention girly company.
so you wouldnt want to (say) open up a browser and maybe have a document open at the same time so that you can keep notes on the holiday you were looking at? Or have a spreadsheet open so you can add up the cost of buying a new car over different plans. Perhaps some random 3rd party app that tracks your current carb intake whilst you plan your menus?
Multitasking is more than just word+excel+powerpoint+paint
It saves you money because all your *clients* use later versions of office. And regardless of open office, filters, conversion programs you will always find a super mangled 2010 word table that will not play ball. Then you need to get them to send a pdf, get it over to the one machine licenced with arobat, export to 2003 and hope the fonts and formatting is still intact.
I have office as much as the next man but I need to deal with clients that use it unfortunately.
My old x2 550 BE is an absolute corker. Not only will the other 2 cores unlock but the whole kit and kaboodle will happily run prime overnight at 3.4GHz . No extra voltage applied either. Core 0 and Core 1 are stable up to 3.7 but 2 & 3 stop after 3.4
No idea what it failed (10% overclock on "failed" cores cant be a reason - surely?) on to be sold as an X2 but whatever it is, I havent found it yet!
2000 people? Of what age demographic? I dont expect my grandma to surf the web but in my office of 20 people *all* of us surf the web. I get 1gb of traffic 300 mins and 300 txts for £29.50 on TMobile. I can even internet share (as I have done) with my netbook (it will act as an access point too if I trust the people around me - wep only) I can generally get a decent HSDPA signal on my omnia, 3G isnt too backbreaking when it needs to.
do they class Email as internet use? Weather updates? Twitter plugins?
I see countless people using various cheap qwerty phones, my wife picked up a cheap Samsung B3310 to go online with (virgin mobile again with 1gb monthly).
crap survey really.
We cant use opera/firefox here for two reasons. One, our MMS uses IE. Plain and simple. Two, GPOs dont really work for firefox and the buggers find ways around it. We whitelist applications installed to stop pocket browsers too. That being said, I do at least run IE8 (installed with GPO and IEAK rather than WSUS as we can then use mandatory profiles with generic installs and no nag screens).
Still, its not hard and DOES seem to work.
there is a distinct difference between moral and legal. This guy did nothing illegal. I bet you can use google to search for child pornography. Should we arrest the google owners? MSN will no doubt have links to bomb making sites encouraging people to blow up others. Should they be locked away too?
They went about it the wrong way and paid the heavy price for it.
Since I hacked my omnia to run 6.5 on it ive not looked back. It is user friendly and quick. Plenty of apps work and it sync's nicely with exchange. When I first got it from TMobile it was a car crash, too much crap on there that you cant change and an out of date firmware that sucked battery life.
I can see the appeal. I store my HTPC in a box in the living room that is ventilated and sound proofed. I currently run the IR dongle via USB out of the box. Now I would love to put all my other AV equipment inside this soundproofed ventilated box but the remotes stop me from doing so. I have tried the wireless remote senders but these things generally only come with a few channels and disrupt my wireless kit (not many free channels near me - im naughtily using a japanese frequency)
If this was only £30 then i'd bite