Posts by Chris 171

Firefox for Android now runs on EVEN OLDER, slower kit

Hmmmm

Still not Opera is it...

Not today, likely never, thanks.

Nokia: Ship's now stable, all we need is passengers

Symbian...

Bring it back quietly I say & make the 808 available easily in the UK. Better that than sullying Nokia hardware with Android in my eyes. Or an N8 eqivalent with Pureview, that would sell too.

Its clear why Elop did what he did, cant help thinking though that even if the Symbian devs were still fired there was enough life left in Belle for another flagship device or two .

Maybe then when WP is actually up to speed with the competition, people can see a clear & simple upgrade(?) to the latest WP device, that does just what the S^3 devices can do right now and have been doing for the last 2 years!

Google drops standards-essential patent claims in Xbox slap fight

Good news for now....

Until the next lawyer finds a hole and it will start over again.

You Americans like litigation tooooo much!

Samsung confirms Tizen-based mobes to debut this year

Maemo, MeeGo

Well there's a turn up, I wonder if the devices will have expandable memory and normal SIM cards?

Steve Jobs' Apple yacht freed after family settles the bill

Marine designers...

Must be pissing themselves, I've been given a cheap RC yacht for Christmas that's got better lines than this. Tho in black it at least might look a bit meaner.

So essentially it's a floating pile of i devices with a mirrored bow, makes it marginally more useful I suppose...

Apple said to be testing 46, 55-inch big-screen TVs

Rumour I hear...

Looks like an ipad.

Smell that innovation!

Instagram back-pedals in face of user outrage

Seed sown...

Photographs regardless how digitally mangled will always be somebody's.

Essentially fraping your own userbase on content that harbors personal feeling is just stupid.

Flickr has it right, even if it's not cool because you have to pay for it.

New Year's resolution: Don't use Instagram, it'll sell YOUR photos

Hahahahahaaaaa haaaaaaaaaa

Delightful! Like people didnt see this coming from the off..!?

Just as Flickr have started pulling the stick out of their proverbial too. That said, Flickr could do without a megadump of hipster chintz (seems from what Ive seen to be the alt repository of choice), there are enough eyebleeding HDR images already as it is.

Flickr had all this in the palm of its hand for years, heres hoping for a resurgence.

Tim Cook’s 'One more thing': Apple TV rumor-stoker

apple cant get the content...

As the studios wont let them have it, hardly surprising given the 30% kerching machine that is itunes, why would a company want to make it that easy for a competitior to make money...?

It wont be anything other than a giant wall mounted ipad, with stupid connectors, friction stir welded into permanent never to replaced place.

No thank you.

'Microsoft to make its own Surface phones' - mutterings

I too struggle to understand why we're not yet lusting after a Nokia tab.

I'm thinking N8 design cues on a 7 inch device.

I'd buy one anyway.

Long-suffering Virgin Media victims see no end to vid PURGATORY

Not just video

I stream audio at 192k for a majority of the day - guaranteed glitches at least 3/4 times an hour on a 20meg connection.

Wondering if it might have anything to do with them prioritising thier own streaming services?

Either way VM, you shout about having the best network....

Make it so!

El Reg mulls Forums icon portfolio shake-up

More options to berate apple please, many more.

And didnt there used to be a ROTM icon? or is that the bizarro 'your foster parents' one nowadays?

What a clockup! Apple's Swiss clock knock-off clocks up $21m fine

Toot Toot!

Here's a coal spark in your eye apple, let's hope some reality lensed safety specs are on their shopping list.

Microsoft Surface Touch keyboards self-destruct – and more

Easy Solution

Let Nokia design/make a Surface device.

Amazed their not using Nokia's hardware / materials experience more.

Apple is granted a patent on the rectangle. No, really

Signs...

That apple really are going slowly mad.

Virgin launches TV Anywhere streaming

It works in Opera!

Surprised me that one, just a few login circles to negotiate and the streams pours fourth, in not to shabby quality either.

Very glad also to see the Sky sports channels included, roll on the Droid app and playing recorded content direct from the box.

Beep! NASA here, a 400 tonne spacecraft is about to buzz your house

@twisst

Has been serving me well for ages.

twisst.nl if you don't twat.

Most memorable pass included Endeavor, as it was trailing the station prior to returning home. Science, brilliant! Especially when viewed from your own back garden.

Windows Phone 8: Everything you need to know at a glance

Re: Sounds great.

Orange told me earlier the 920 will be available from them mid Nov.

If true, then Win Pho me up.

Tethering

As in infrastructure mode?

The only failing of my N8 is it will only do ad hoc.

Facebook trial: Tell everyone where you are, have a Wi-Fi peanut

Boiled down..

You want some more?

Bitch

Apple must apologise for its surly apology on its website on Saturday

That's better.

Though the print copy doesn't really identify as coming from apple enough in my eyes, needs the logo for maximum efficacy.

I wonder who rode roughshod over the presumably sensible advice, re not posting the arcing pacifier that was the first 'we were talking out of our ass' clarification?

Not that I'm complaining, but I am wondering if their seemingly bullet proof shoes are getting a bit threadbare by now.

Bonkers.

EE 4G LTE review

Bristol is Broken - EE 4G related?

Currently getting no data via my 3.5G EE signal....

Anyone else?

Microsoft Surface popped open, poked, prodded

Where's the Nokia slab?

That's something I want to see torn down if their allowed to build one.

Great work on the colour descriptions btw.

Apple CEO: Microsoft Surface 'compromised, confusing'

Well it would be to Tim....

Wouldn't it?

Shit moves about on the screen without me using my eleven finger multi touch input man! This = Confusement.

Where's itunes = Compromised.

Obvious really.

Surface tablet's touch cover is ZX81 REBORN

I Swype

But I can see the attraction of a real keyboard /stand combo.

Looks like an interesting bit of kit from a productivity point of view.

Judge GIVES APPLE THE FINGER in multitouch iDevice patent case

What's the score now?

apple have clearly run out of ideas (see recent product releases) by resorting to this kind of lame ass litigation.

Almost looks like their running around in circles.... Oh...

I really really despise how apple do business.

Apple's skinny new iMac line: Farewell, optical drives

Incredible...

These are not computers, they are things. A lamp as an example.

Do you need extreme thinness from a desktop device? at the cost of losing functionality? Big fat no on both. More functionality in the same size box as before please.

Can't even rip a CD on a machine over 2 feet across.... that's some 'design' right there.

Apple unveils iPad mini, upgrades its big brother

apple innovation harvest low this season..

Same stuff with different measurements, same bland OS.

The side bezel looks a bit thin too but then apple know ergonomics right?

The competition are already way ahead with unique designs to really start drilling home the benefits of a well resourced R&D dept. Will the fanbois notice? Doubt it...

A flat near featureless slab is not my idea of good tech.

Finally, I sincerely hope 'education' via ipad poking is a very small fad, what a sorry state of profiteering... apple essentially stealing kids dinner money to aid their quest for cash. Sick.

The hoarder's dilemma, or 'Why can't I throw anything away?'

WEEE Sequestration?

Is effectively what we hoarders are doing from where I'm sitting.

Surely we can get a grant from the EU or similar for this planet saving service we provide?

Nokia puts Symbian out to pasture ... why not release it into the wild?

Big Shame....

Having only experienced Symbian via my N8 it has indeed been an extremely usable device, I can't see whats so badly wrong with it personally & do hope it lives on somehow.

Heres hoping this announcement drops the price of the 808 even further as I still want one!

iPad voice app back after patent spat: Mute kids get 'voices' back

Sensible result.

It's this talking apple malarkey that's catching my attention more.

From Dr No to Skyfall: The Reg's one month of Bond

Re: Surely that should be...

He uses his real name cos he's harder than Chuck Norris!

They may be cheese but I do like Bond.

Connery & Moore will not be surpassed for me.

Apple: Blue-shirts can fix iOS Maps in their spare time

So....

Thats the apple store & coffee shop POI's fixed then... Now what about the useful stuff?

Logic dictates working in a circle, does not a good mapping company make.

Nokia pumps up Lumia browsing with Xpress

I'll stick to Opera thanks.

Heres hoping the wait is not too long for Mobile & Mini on WP8. I dont want to use any other browser.

EE sets October date to power up UK 4G network

Lumia range...

Orange didn't know of a Lumia 920 when I just called....

Tim Cook: 'So sorry for Apple's crap maps app - try Bing or Nokia'

Re: Steve must be turning in his grave

Tim may has well of done, he name checked Nokia.....

This sure is a different kind of apple showing itself.

Nokia lops UK Lumia prices ahead of Win 8 phones

Re: Nokia Maps

Offline maps are definitely staying & I expect shouted about quite loudly when WP8 gets launched.

The comment is there as a slight dig at the the most amazing phone manufacturer in the world (shyeah right), who can't find their arse from their elbow currently.

Nokia have the best mobile mapping solution by miles, kilometers, linguine or any other measure you feel appropriate.

Last remaining reason to order an iPhone 5 disappears

Click Bait Articles

What of them, its all apples fault anyway...

If they didnt continually shout so cringingly loud about their "revolutionary" 'fast' 'thinner' 'fast' 'amazing' 'revolutionary' 'fast' idevice, then they wouldn't be getting this from the media. Although, the apologists are now even more visible than before so thats no bad thing I guess.

Any company releasing something so laughably shit deserves a peg drop or 10, it just feels better when its apple.....

Apple begs ex-Google bods to fix crap maps app

Re: Open Street Map

Nah, let apple think its only Google they have to worry about...

Motorola, Samsung smash Apple's touchscreen patent claim

No Comment...

But apple replied?

iOS 6 maps can't find Sydney Apple Store

Re: idealized google maps

This is why Lumia & Nokia will be getting people around instead...

Apple scrambled to hire iOS 6 maps engineers DAYS before launch

Giving it to the competition on a gilded platter

I see very little mention of Nokia / MS here...

I'll resist the temptation to mention Symbian to heavily, with my main point being.. Lumia with Nokia maps blows even dedicated sat nav devices out of the water.

WP8 launch should start with a video...

A car with a Lumia on the dash directing the car to the venue, shift time a bit to get in all road types, nice places on the way, all shot of course with a Lumia... I dunno maybe show someone riding bike in, walking too yes, don't forget public transport either.

I thought the icloud would be apples Achilles heel but hey, they couldnt have chosen worse fail considering the new competitions massive strength in the exact field.

And they'll be made by Nokia and therefore drop tested.

Who'd a thought it...

This is the real popcorn moment.

Apple's brilliant plan to fix iOS Maps: Get YOU to do it

Re: So....

My primary concern is raw content control, not apps per se.

apple have owners by the balls in itunes, that's the real elephant in the room of ever there was one.

Show me the money!

Sorry but no, never by fuckery will that software ever install on a digital device of mine.

So....

This also means that trip data from phone owners (knowing or not) will be used to improve the mapping?

IOS Spy in your pocket - no thanks.

http://maps.nokia.com or of course, any Nokia phone with this already baked in.

Fanbois do yourself a favour, get yourself a ladder & get out of the walled garden, the Blight problem is serious this time. If you stay you'll be lost forever.

Apple iOS 6 review

Re: Is it just me..

I don't know, I didn't go into app store.

/PF

Re: DND silences incoming calls, either while its switched on or at specific times

re Battery save mode, Symbian does exactly that.

Even the fanbois are struggling to shout about the new iphine and its joyous software.

The market is changing it would appear.

Good.

Amazon cosies up to Nokia for Google Maps alternative

Re: Navigation

My experience of Nokia maps / navigation on the N8 has been great. Certainly pans the TomTom.

Offline maps for a start (worldwide pretty much if you want to DL), fast routing, free traffic info, tons of useful POI, lane guidance etcetc. 20k miles use so far and its only got lost once in an industrial estate.

Flickr also uses NokNav now for far finer positioning than the previous pos thankfully.

The best digital maps I've used.

Windows Phone 8 stands a chance as Apple, Android dither

Re: How do they compare to an N8?

You can do more with the N8 than any current Droid/fruit based device.

Nothing comes close on the call handling, the camera, the hard baked GPS, USB on the go, FM transmitter etc etc...

The Lumia 920 is getting there but I think the next upgrade again will be the one to best it.

Ten iPhone 5 challengers

Re: 808

Totally agree tho its gonna be a great buy if there are a few more price reductions.

I've really enjoyed my N8 and until Lumia has full fat PureView I won't be changing.

Symbian ftw

Ding dong, the Ping is dead! Apple brings in Facebook for iTunes

Hahaha haha hah.

Like it up bitches.

apple are sure as hell testing the congregation.

fb stalking, lightning adaptor and more shit headphones for what? Another row of static icons?

Sheesh...