Posts by Chris 171

Nokia drops Lumia 900 price to $0 in response to bug outrage

The 808 Pureview is Nokia's flagship product.

Not this (still rushed) abomination of a move to market with an OS that can't do shit all when compared to S^3.

Hands on with the Huawei Ascend G300 low-cost Android phone

Will it...

Do infrastructure mode wifi for tethering?

'Unibody' iPhone 5 said to debut in October

Finger sharpeners

Needed for your Blackberry for sure... Touchscreens not so much thanks to Swype.

Oh... Feel the typing pain for a while yet fanbois.

Facebook to acquire Instagram for $1bn

Targeted hipster purchase.

Everything has a price I guess but the headline figure does seem a bit silly.

I'm* an instagram user, because I'm worth it.... (to advertiSers)

*third person obviously, I like a Rolleicord and Ektar for my square format fix thanks.

Apple has 7.85in 'iPad Mini' in its labs

Re: ipad is too big & wrist bendingly heavy already.

Really? And it's not on a rest / stand for 99% of the time?

Ergonomic disaster when hand holding any tab for more than a few mins imo.

Think of the children....

ipad is too big & wrist bendingly heavy already.

So a smaller one doesnt surprise me, meh all the same.

Mines the one with a Tablet S in the pocket.

Sony to serve Ice Cream Sandwich to tablets

Ad Hoc Wifi !?

Though I very much doubt it..

Anyone rooted theirs to get it?

Testicle-boiling new iPad ignites fanboi fury

Re: Did anybody consider the option

Option two please, its a laughfor both sides Shirley?

ihot

Pushing the envelope into the fire here....?

SuperHi resolution direction does puzzle me, your carrying a lot more energy around for a silly number of pixels..? I'd rather have better/more functionality and extended life. Magic, thanks.

Apple New iPad Wi-Fi only

Ergonomics of Tab

They're neck and wrist killers when hand holding/laying flat, yet doesn't often get a mention..

I'd find mine pretty awkward if not for the small keyboard thankfully available with Swype too.

SF iPad launch subdued as Apple fans wise up

Ritual?

Woz surprised me with that one. Interesting choice of word.

iPad 3 benchmarked

Re: @AC That was me

Hoist by my own petard for not quantifying my post there.

The 6 month promo cycle thing, I was slinging all of the i devices together. its like their living on an infinite loop or something....

So what if AN Other OEM makes a ton of models? let the people decide what's important to them in a device. Symbian Nokia & Asus still punting kit well above apple tech levels for your example. I bet they look nicer inside too, not that I needed another bugbear..

Sent from my Tablet S using Opera Mobile & Swype, listening to raw web audio not via itunes.

#winning

TuneIn Radio Pro

Most reliable radio streamer I have found on Droid, works very well on my Tablet S.

Not sure on the record requirement though, most stations I listen to auto archive anyway so its not enough additional bells to warrant a purchase from me.

Nokia internet radio also excellent in a similar vein & if your weird enough to still be using S^3 of course.

iPad 3 'first tablet' with Bluetooth 4.0

Whitetooth more like I suspect.

See title and the way apple only like talking to themselves.

Orange 3G data network goes titsup

Back up in Bristol

Orange T-Mobile working first, straight Orange a few mins later.

Still a bit slow tho as you'd expect, there will be a whole fuck ton of emails being sent by phones right now.

'The new iPad' revealed: Full specs, rumor scorecard

Re: Eminently Predictable...

Well, that would be true if I was taking about the PS3 but seeing as this is a thread about tablets. The Tablet S is a good bit of kit. A different bit of kit, and why I use one.

Agreed tho, the Rootkit was fuc^ing stupid.

Eminently Predictable...

So a Meh from me.

Buy apple if you want, I like Sony.

Nearly one in 10 Brits 'fess to shower phone faux pas

N8 bog snorkelling special.

Poigniant timing seeing as I couldnt have got a better bullseye when killing mine last Friday.

Alarm not turning off, then trip, slip, splosh, fu*k, dead.

Still, the repalcement arrived on Saturday & updated to Belle immediately so all is not lost..

MySpace no longer crying a river with 1 MILLION new punters

Figured it was due a comeback

Whilst Soundcloud has taken a lot of the more 'bedroom' producers away, I still see decent names names using MySpace & it seems a lot cleaner than in the past.

Best place for a skillful* musician to share their wares along with gigging info, back catalogues etc in my opinion.

*Skrillex not included

Samsung shows third-gen Galaxy Tab

This is why I rate the Sony Tablet S...

This Samsung is just another addition to the endless stream of variable sized rectangular slabs with nothing to hold on to & no soul.

Yuk & balls, Sony all the way & it fits in a Crumpler 7" Gimp case too

PS, the S can be rooted now apparently, not that Ive done it yet.

Eight... HD camera smartphones

Footage quality...

From any device depends entirely on the person / thing holding the camera steady. And after that its the glass in front of the sensor.. Ergo.

My N8 has been on all sorts, bamboo boom, stuck to an aircraft window (great images flying over clouds at sunset) , strapped to my bike (shaky), made up a kitchen timer rotating timelapse thing, will probably put it on a kite at some point too. Best converged communication device I have ever owned.

So yes its big thing is the camera but the results of particularly timelapse stuff is superb. I'd also much rather fire off thousands of shots on this than a DSLR. 4K HD from a phone! :-)

Sorry to go on about it...

What to buy if you don't want an N8?

And why I suspect its not reviewed, write video to external memory. Switchable focus modes on video, excellent glass, better sound than many camcorders etc etc. All in free and easy formats, throw it where you like. Kinda embarrassing for the competition.

Boiled down the death of Symbian is as result of Nokia taking the apple user lock in route and that sucks hard. I'm only buoyed by the hint of one final S^3 successor to the N8.

Crippling the most useful phone OS so soon to pander to the market that responds best to advertising is a crime.

Orange San Francisco 2

Infrastructure Wifi for tethering?

Im looking for a cheap driod device purely to use for tethering, Ad Hoc is no good to me, will this run in infrastructure mode?

Virgin Media broadband goes titsup for 3 hours

Taking their own advice..

And switching it all off and on again....

Though what ever they did has certainly fixed the glitching I was getting on web radio so not all is lost.

Sony teases DotSwitch multi-screen tech

NFC

Is my first guess.

Easy pairing / device id for a myriad of uses, and with data up in the cloud its possible to throw data to a consumption device of your choosing (given reasonable connectivity), even if you are using multiple form factors to engorge your eyes and ears with the same 'content'.

Virgin Media to push out nimble new broadband speeds

Hands up for the jitter

I have seen no reason to move from the 10meg service as it does what I need (especially when these speed bumps keep coming) but the glitching Im getting of late when streaming radio at 192k is becoming a pain! My 3G is better ffs and that aint right!

Not all the time & at various times through the month so I dont think Im being throttled but quite why Im seeing these drop outs I dont know... 20 Gig a month average download doesnt strike me as excessive either, or is it?

Moog goes boom with itty-bitty bass synth

Bristol knows Bass

Have no doubt a few units will be heading this way, as it goes down here, 'if your chest ain't rattling - it ain't happening!'

Bring on the structural damage #bassmusic ftw!

Android Market tops 400,000 apps, climbing fast

Markets

After 3 months with a Droid tab I have found precisely one app that has impressed (Opera & Swype excluded as std on any device for me).... TuneIn radio fwiw, all others I have come across are just buggy, generally superfluous & as mentioned above, the big G know enough without having my bank details too.

Symbian on the other hand... All good from a years experience and I have spent money, it may not have the headline numbers but maybe that makes it easier to find the good ones?

Some of the shit people download tho (regardless of OS choice)... Baffling, then again if there are nuggets that will pay £4.50 a week sub for a screensaver on their phone, an app that farts for a quid seems like a bargain.

Microsoft mum on leaked Phone OS plans

hardware ready...

Well yes, its called the N8/9 (as in what can be crammed into a shell)....

I've kinda supported the merger in the past but the new software can't handle hard tech that's a year plus old? That's a big ball drop there...

Apple's TV killer 'on shelves by summer 2012'

Can't see it...

Probably because I'm looking at it wrong or something..

The modern TV is the last bastion of a man and his settings, not that I'd ever get an apple one. I like being able to change the contrast.

In any case, in reality its just another shop window to the 30% margin that is itunes, that's all idevices are these days, a credit card interface.

Sony to update Tablet S for PS3 controller gaming

Its Landed

Update came OTA last night & all seems to work well.

The controller needs to be connected to the Tablet first via USB, then unplugged to enable the wireless connection. Pretty sure it stays paired after that but you'll need the cable first.

On screen controls can be turned off too (settings button appears in the taskbar), giving a nice uncluttered experience when gaming although the arrival of a widescreen game or three on the PS store will be a welcome addition to really make it stand out, as from what i can see were all in 4:3 at the mo. Any iteration of Gran Turismo please Sony.

You also get a battery indicator icon in the notification area & the controller will charge when plugged in.

As an aside, you also get limited control of the tablet itself, opening apps, a mouse pointer in Opera (limited to the web page only), moving around the home screens etc. Dont seem to be able to browse & play your music/video from the lists though as there seems not to be a way to highlight the track you want to play. Music plays fine from the homescreen widget however allowing you to pause, skip tracks etc.

I guess the whole point of this is for the gaming side of things & at that its perfect. If updates can come to allow full control of the whole device then we're really cooking on gas, will be interesting to see how the update cycle continues. Its a very lovely bit of kit.

Sony Tablet P split-screen Android fondleslab

P has prior art..

As in the Vaio P from 2009 - Guessing the people that bought that will be the market for the Tablet P, Japan probably being the biggest market?

Cant say I even considered it as I was already hooked on the Tablet S but there you go, good to see something different :)

2011's Best... Premium Tablets

Tablet S

So I went & got one when the price dropped by £50. 2yr gtee with John Lewis too.

Its great in places, bit lame in others.

Main bad is that AdHoc wifi is not available so cant tether to a phone (Rooters dont seem to be having much luck either). Wifi also very keen to turn off when the screen locks, despite telling it to keep it on.

Shape is truly great though & whilst there is no glass to be seen, it feels solid enough. Proper screen size for video too, also taken a decent drop with no hint of damage. Battery life is a non issue.

I/R remote app is brilliant & works my Tivo box better than the std remote with no lag between key press & screen action. Swype has also added a far better input method than the stock keyboard that just looks way too big after being used to typing on a phone.

As a web consumption device its a great bit of kit, with Opera of course, altho the stock browser aint half bad when it comes to playing flash video in full screen.

Most important of course is that there is no i on it anywhere & thats good.

Chrome passes Firefox in global browser share

Flip that graph on its head...

And you'll have the average inteligence of each browsers clientele.

Opera deserves more but then, if people are stupid enough not to see its benefits thats their loss not mine..

Need for Speed: The Run

Distance driving.

Im with Insane Reindeer, just lose the police entirely for me, I just wanna drive!

Last NFS I played with any regularity was on the Wii & I doubt I'll be returning, Im entrenched in GT5 as it goes.

Tho saying that, the Cruden Simulator at the bottom of Weston Pier just makes any racing game anemic. It the only good reason to visit but I promise if you like driving you wont regret it. Want one!

'Apple's iPhone 4S ate our SIM cards'

Nice!

So that just leaves fanbois with an 'i' then? what can you do with one of those?

iDoorstop & iPaperweight spring to mind in my admittedly provocative mood.

Sent from my Nokia phone

Mobile operators warned on 'unlimited' data gouging

This is why...

I use Opera,

I have 500mb limit and often find myself streaming Web radio to ensure I get my monies worth.

Just pissed that this Tablet S won't tether with my N8

Beer for Friday.

Nokia Lumia 800

Empty shell compared to the N8

I have played briefly with samples of the 800 & 710 and it has the shiny shiny but no where near the customisable grunt I get from my current device.

Read/write from/to external USB memory being a big one.

Symbian may seem complicated to some but you can really make it do things that other phones just wont. Maybe its just me who like messing with settings & trying things out? FM transmitter too, proper useful.

Maybe the N8 was/is the pinnacle of what a phone can do & its all down hill from here in to the phones for nuggets sphere who like shiny over function, but I sincerly hope not.

Only gripe is that Orange take an age to release OTA updates, but other than that, boss!

Gonna take a lot more to prise me away from S^3

The Great Smartphone OS Shoot-out

Symbian

Just adding my voice, you may have been surprised.

No hardship to just throw one in to the pot for shits & giggles cos its dead anyway right? tsk

All the tested are 'me too' devices in my eyes. S^3 walks its on path & I welcome its foibles with open arms. Its good to be different. Supported for another 5 years, that'll do for me.

How far we have come in the previous five years is more important. Whole ecosystem will be different in 2016 as I see it & until then, N8+Opera=Win

Nokia CEO talks up Windows 8 tablet 'opportunity'

Hah!

Obvious to me from the get go of the whole Elop adventure.

Purposefully expensive, 'a la apple', Nokian hardware running SW compatible with the most used PC architecture on the planet, Sling in XBOX compatibility and this will sell by the Jub load.

Complete & utter no brainer.

MS hardware so far has been an embarrassment to tech. Only problem will be getting the Nokia designed/made ones to break, apple are still king there.

Manufacturers testing wider cars for swingbellies

Pandering to the width?

Not really the way it should be but the way the developed world is I guess.

A wider track will certainly aid handling however, if ironically, the weight can be kept down.

Mines the compact one with good tires & super diesel.

Opera updates Jesus phone, BlackBerry browser versions

Good update (as they always are).

To those people, using anything other than Opera mobile/mini for browsing 99% of the web on their mobile devices, pray tell why? Sod iphone anyway, its being regularly updated for the rest of us whatever your platform of choice.

Guy in the Sony store couldn't believe the difference when I installed Mini on their Tablet S during a demo, said they were still on a 512k line so seemed appropriate, use it, you'll like it!

/fanboi

Sony Tablet S

HDMI..

Not really a killer for me as DNLA kit seems to have filled the gap, tho considering there is an HDMI port in my phone, it really should be there.

Recession being as it is I have held back from getting one, pretty convinced they will drop the price closer to Christmas & if not then January. £400 is just a little too much, £299 will see these things flying out.

Concerned there is no Gorilla Glass on the front & it does feel plasticky but either way, its not an ipad & should keep the Mrs happy (and off my laptop).

Farewell then, Sony Ericsson

Bye indeed.

Good reliable phones I have found, had a few models. K700, K750, camera on the C902 was great (probably due to the lens cover). The W995 was my last device before reverting back to Nokia. N8 just pans everything now hence my choice.

I wont miss the silly connectors though..

Apple shifts Lossless Audio Codec to open source

Sony

ATRAC Advanced Lossless was nice, tho I dont think it was unspun when they ditched the format a few years back. Afterwhich I just decided on 320 mp3 for everything, if I want the full experience I'll put the CD in the CD Player. Handy thing, physical media :)

Apple plans big solar farm to clean dirty datacenter

Roof?

That would surely work, wouldn't just want to find a easy way to clear a tract of land for future datacenter expansion would you apple....

Tsunami Trojan: First Mac attack based on Linux crack

Props for the Hokusai

That is all.

A rapid first hands-on: Nokia’s Windows phones

Can't think of a title.

Still a little meh that the top phone is just a N9 in disguise but agree that with the timescales concerned its good to see these devices in the market now.

I wait with interest for the leaked details on the proper 'designed' for winpho models, before I'll even consider ditching S3 (I like playing with settings as it goes).

As an aside, sent an email to Mr Elop earlier this week & got a nice reply back at 7am the next morning, yeah he's had to bone a lot of people and thats always controversial but this whole Nokia/Microsoft tie up is all good in my book, for the not too distant future anyway.

The public are set to get some very nice devices in their mitts.

Leaked Nokia WinMobes ready for midrange scrum

Winpho N8

Or similar is what Im waiting for, you have to hope Nokia will garner some flexibility in the standards set for other OEM's.

A Nokia tablet will be interesting too, as that cant be far off either.

Still, Im a happy S^3 user & I'll be sticking with until it expires I think, despite its foiballs its a pretty capable OS.

Apple's iPod: ten years old

Sony...

Didnt catch up for a few years (04) with the NW-HD1. So SonicStage was an arse but no more limiting than itunes at the time DRM wise, sound quality was way ahead however & it still works too.

The X1060 was alright too but then I defected & got a N8.