* Posts by Robredz

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Dixons hits back at McAfee's £30m antivirus sueball: Your AV didn't work on Windows 10S

Robredz

Re: Windows 10S...as useful as a chocolate teapot

And why not, bet more than a few 70 year olds wuld love Assetto Corsa, and new incarnations of Doom.

Out of time: Huawei, LG unveil watches nobody wants to buy

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Autowind mechanical does the job, you can get them from China foir a tenner if you are a skinflint.

Say goodbye to landfill Android: Top 10 cheap 'n' cheerful smartphones

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Then there is JiaYu

A JiaYu G4S with 2 Gb RAM, and 16 Gb of storage, 720p Gorilla Glass 2 IPS screen dual sim both 3G, 13 MP main camera with backlight sensor, anmd up to 64Gb Micro SD support but no 4G can be bought from China if you are willing to take the risk. for around £130, Amazon around £150 (some on there are the quad core earlier version) Winning feature with that one is the 3,000Mah battery, that still shows 60% after a hard days use. qith two sSIM cards active Shocked my son by benching similar to his Nexus 5 at "7,000 odd in Antutu, but he is in battery panic and on the charger by lunchtime. There are other cheaper JiaYu phones also, along with otheer good Chinese brands. An option if you need dual sim, as in why carrty two phones when one will do?

Say goodbye to the noughties: Yesterday’s hi-fi biz is BUSTED, bro

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Stop

Life in the old dog yet

For music a good [air of floorstanders, even the old Tannoy Dual Concentrics powered by a valve amplifier will sound better than many modern systems, fed from whatever source.

a Sheffield Labs Gold CD on a Cambridge or other decent sounds as good as a 24 bit 96Khz sampled file from a device to many. A sony Mp3 player sounds OK also played through a valve amp and decent speakers, certainly better than many of the other sound systems.

Is it all up for LANDFILL ANDROID? BEHOLD, the Moto G

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Meh

OK for some but.......

No SD Card and non replaceable battery kills it for me, over to JiyaYu or Faea, or Oppo I go. You can see where the corners are cut 5 Mp camera, etc. Still it will suit many who would otherwise have had to go for a Galaxy Ace or something with 256 Mb RAM from Carpphone Warehouse sim free for £150

Don't crack that Mac: Almost NOTHING in new Retina MacBook Pros can be replaced

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You pays your money and mazke your choice, at least the punter should be told that it has no realistic chance of repair if anything should fail. Mind you if it is a business machine, it will go agaionst tax foir the replacement

Windows 8.1: A bit square, sure, but WAIT! It has a Start button

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FAIL

Re: Last line of the review doesn't seem to have any evidence to prove it...

It's enough to make one upgrade to Linux....

Valve aiming to take the joy(sticks) out of gaming with Steam Controller

Robredz

Re: The chicken and the egg

Touch screen controllers on phones and tablets are mainly pants, no tactility means no real control.

Glowing Nook knocked to under 50 quid for Xmas

Robredz

Re: A hasp! A hasp! My kingdom for a hasp!

Good idea, if jossled on the bus or tube you won't drop it and get trampled trying to pick it up from under all those feet. Kobo Mini is a bit of a bargain, but too small for some I picked up the Kobo Touch for £39.99, and it seems a good device, certainly E-ink ia great for reading unlike the e reader app on my tablet.

For PITY'S SAKE, DON'T BUY an iPHONE 5S, begs FSF

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tinfoil hats?

Now where did I leave that Nokia 3030?

Xiaomi plans global domination with fast smartphones and software

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Bargains?

there are some decent phones to buy from China, just make sure the frequency bands on the phone are compatible with your location, the Faea F1 should be fine on 3G in UK, it has 900/2100 for 3G, but the Faea F2 and othereds are 850/2100, so wilkl be flaky

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Chinese Phones

Xiomi produce a good product, Chinese phones in general are getting better with Xiomi, Oppo, Zopo, JiaYu, amongst othere producing decent phones at a great price, Ones to watch are Faea whose F1 has a Qualcomm quad core CPU, a gig of RAM, OK so only 4 Gig storage, but has MicroSD slot, dual SIM, NFC and a 720p screen for around £120 delivered.

Time has already run out for smart watches

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Stop

WTF

I want a watch to tell the time, nothing more, so my trusty mechanical, as in wind up Aviator Chrono will do nicely. besides it doesn't need charging it winds it self as it is worn.....

Up your wormhole: Star Trek Deep Space 9 turns 20

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Re: No chance

Yes definitely, Boys From The Dwarf, imagine the paroies,and parodoxes if you put Rimmer up against the cardassians, or Shadows. Mr Morden and his Associates, being screwed over by the twisted hologram, and the Shadows being rendered visible by Lister vomiting curry all over them. Meanwhile Kryten gets into the Vorlon computer systems, and sends a planet killer to Mars or someplace

The best smartphones for Christmas

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Linux

I will go for something different

I am still using my trusty HP Pre 3, but likely go to the robot OS next, so i have the Oppo Find 5 and the Umi M2 in my sights

Analyst offers cut-price fondleslab recipe

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Linux

Bought a 7" from Amazon dual core Rocckchips 3066, 1.4Ghz quad core Mali 400 GPU 1 Gb Ram 8 Gb onboard, £64 delivered 3 quid for a case with built in usb keyboard and there you go, none too shabby, a netbook the size of a Filofax, remember them? it has hdmi out usb out so can be connected to the TV like a Raspberry Pi, and stream HD video. OK the resollution is only 840 x 480 or thereabouts, the touchscreen is responsive, but this one will do until a 10" model with quad core comes in around the $100 mark. Stuff olike Temple Run, Angry birds fly sic, on it. dead Trigger flies also, DJpro , and Caustic work fine with low latency; so all in all the Chinese have upped the game significantly.

Would I buty another yes, people who have seen it reckon it is OK, and wanted to know where i got it. So there we go, why buy into the wallwed garden?

Intel plans Core i7 bare bones mini-PCs

Robredz
FAIL

Re: Not just that....

For a cheap cheap solution, an android pc on a stick, with a Rockchip dual core Arm CPU with full HD video capability, , or even a tablet via the HDMI. add a wireless mouse/keyboard dongle, into the tablet USB, and you are good to go

Slideshow: A History of Intel x86 in 20 CPUs

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Meh

Power Users, Circa 1994

I had a 486 DX2 66 (the intel, version not AMD) 8 Megabytes of RAM, and was considered a power user by mates with that spec, at least it ran the software of the day well, and I didn't need to fiddle with Config.sys and Autoexec.bat for Doom and Rise of The Triad. these days I use AMD processors in a build, as I can put a better graphics card in a build whilst getting a reasonable baseline performance. on a budget

20 years of GSM digital mobile phones

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Thumb Up

Obsolete?

I keep an old Nokia 3330 with a PAYG sim as an emergency phone in the motor, well it picks up signal where a smartphone struggles and still gives good call quality. Snake is also OK for a bit of retro gaming.

O2 roaming rates to rise by up to 140%

Robredz
FAIL

O2 = Fail

A well known distribution company uses O2 for data transmission of delivery data for it's realtime parcel tracking system. Guess what? on many routes especially rural, no signal, and an entire delivery run can be out of signal for it's entire duration.

Apple iPad Mini 8in tablet review

Robredz

Re: Sheltered Life

Buy what you want, within your budget, and don't worry, want an I-Pad mini, have the cash? buy one, if you have £100 buy a GooPad, and a 32Gb transflash.m there are plenty of good tablets out there to suit all pockets. most are none to shabby these days.

Sony turned off by CEA's 'Ultra HD' TV label

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WTF?

Here we go again

Well at least the dead pixels will be smaller, but equally annoying.

Google goes ahead, unveils Nexus 4 and 10

Robredz

Re: I'd murder for...

Don't know about the 720p at 4.3, but i would like one of these:

http://www.gizchina.com/2012/10/21/bovo-technology-launches-13-mega-pixel-phone-with-hd-screen/

Full HD 4.5" screen

Amazon lends e-books free to Prime subscribers

Robredz
FAIL

Re: "I wish there was an option to just use DPD or Royal Mail...."

Cancelled my Prime precicely because Amazon used Royal Fail, 90% of deliveries to me wrere late due to Royal Fail

Robredz
FAIL

Re: Slightly longer period

Could be worse they could use Royal Fail, waste of time using an express delivery option if like Amazon they ship Blu Ray and the like with Royal Fail (Mail), you are lucky if you get it within the free economy saver delivery time window.

UltraViolet universal movie format still a no-show

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FAIL

DRM

It's DRM Jim , but not as you know it Captain! So after a year they will offer you another licence to stream it, at the original cost of the Disc and UV copy no doubt.

Argos flyer confirms incoming 32GB Nexus 7

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Buy Class 4 or above, preferably Class 10 you know it makes sense

Robredz

Re: With an SD card you're gimped by the FAT32 file system aren't you?

You could try formatting it NTFS, whether the device will read it is moot.

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Go

Re: Google can

Yes like dual core chips, 8 gb storage 1gig RAM, and micro SD Jellybean HDMI output for 60 quid or so., or 50 smackers gets a 1 gghz A8 or A9 Coretex CPU, and 512 Mb RAM, and 4Gig with Ice Cream Sandwich on a 7". Yes they are coming, and for many or for the kids will be perfactly adequate.

Carphone Warehouse lauds Nexus 7 while eagerly eying iPad Mini

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Re: Never seen

Exactly, seen plenty of people using el-cheapo chinese tablets sourced from ebay, for around £50 you know the ones, 7" screen , Boxchip 1 ghz cpu etc etc, less of a hit if lost or stolen,.

Ok they are no nexus, or I-Pad but they are ok for some.

Google cash brings all the cold TV leftovers you can eat to YouTube

Robredz
Facepalm

Re: Multiplexes?

It woukld appear to be so, with many SD channels on the freeview, and especially Freesat, pushing blocky pixellated sub VHS quality output that is unwatchable on a HD Tv due to the upscaling engine in the TV mashing it up further trying to improve crap, and displaying worse crap.

Nokia pumps up Lumia browsing with Xpress

Robredz

Re: Why aren't others doing this?

Would love another Nokia, just not a Windoze one, that is overemphasising twatter and Facebork, and Symbian is soo 20th Century.

Forget Apple's AirPlay - it's Windows 8 you want, says speaker maker

Robredz
Happy

preferably with an option of 2 phonos also

Major Freeview EPG revamp to go ahead after appeals rejected

Robredz
WTF?

Oh No Not Again

It would be logical if there were more HD channels coming on, but the sparse selection of free HD is apalling, so people are forced onto pay TV for HD.

$3500 will get 13.3in Mac tablet in your mitts

Robredz
FAIL

Why Bother?

Well I suppose a fabboi with more money thath sense may want one, but otherwise beyond the pose value, it's a crock of shit

Nokia out $99 dual-Sim Asha

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Re: Not Symbian

I keep a C6-01 as spare and for use as sat nav, the maps are brilliant; only problem is one of my sons has "borrowed" it as his Blackberry has died, damn and cuss, I would love a Pureview 808 as i have a professional use for the camera facility but as the UK big players won't touch it I cannot afford the coin to buy outright at the minute, and I am not a fan of Windows phones.

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Great Expectations?

If all you want is phone, text and social networking, it doesn't matter what the OS is as long as it works, and the phone is responsive, natural competitors are the cheapo $30 - 50 dollar Chinese phones most of which are dual sim, so Nokia shold beat them on quality and longevity, albiet at more than twice the price, as you can get a dual sim Chinese Android for that coin.

Eric Schmidt: Ha ha, NO Google maps app for iPhone 5

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FAIL

Re: Smart move by Google.

The maps on even a so last decade Symbian Nokia, make Apple's maps look like they were designed by a three year old in a tantrum. Come to think of it, the maps on my Nokia C6 i keep for satnav and a spare are far better, than ones on IoS6

Samsung scribbles in UK Galaxy Note II debut date

Robredz
Meh

Looks like it may fall between two stools, too big for a phone, but not big enough for a tablet, it depends on the pricing from the likes of Vodafone, and o2 .

Chip strip reveals 'handmade' Apple A6

Robredz
WTF?

Re: Can't be "Hand Designed" by apple...

Do they have "Thermal Vortex" (tm) cooling?

What? don't worry I made it up. Thermal Vortex is my copyright and trademark . Apple my lawyers are wathing, just don't claim that cooling system, it will cost you...........

Toyota kills city 'e-car for everyone'

Robredz
WTF?

Re: Gosh. Someone gets it. Finaly

Well yes, when electric cars were slightly in vogue last time around, they came with poles to charge from the trolleybus and tram overhead cables, especiaslly in the USA. well this was the end of the 19th century after all.

Now where is that trolleybus?

Orée outs wood-carved keyboard

Robredz
Go

Chipboard???????

It would disintegrate in a very short timeif made from chipboard once the veneer had worn. What next DIY kit from B & Q?

Seriously wouldn't mind one, but what will it be like for gaming?

Raspberry Pi patch adds warranty-safe overclocking

Robredz
Meh

Re: Why?

Many Turbo diesels are identical in construction, and a manufacturer offers a variety of power outputs at varying price points, it is usually only the ECU mapping that varies the power, so chipping for more power/torque is a relatively safe bet for lesser vehicles, but best uprate those braks as well.

Peugeot 508 RXH estate car review

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Unhappy

Re: Peugeots + electrics =

A 306 would vbe fine and dandy, but newer common rail systems cannot handle bio, VAG group motors, and newer Mercedes Sprinters don't like more than 10% biofuel in the blend, so that rules out chip fat.

4K LCD TV output to outstrip OLED production

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WTF?

Re: Sarcasm

Along with every zit, open pore and blackhead

Asus CEO sounds netbook death knell

Robredz
Linux

Re: So what

What about a dual core netbook running Xubuntu,? am looking for one now to run Mixxx for a DJ system, so bye bye windows. Any ideas of a suitable xcandidate?

Now Apple wants Samsung S III, Galaxy Notes off the shelves too

Robredz
Linux

Re: Oh my here we go.

Looks like that is the end game desire in the impregnable Cupertino Bunker, what next Tractor Beams to draw Sammy phones from pockets to be zapped by a hidden laser in an adjacent I-Phone?

Pure makes rugged radio Move

Robredz
FAIL

They will try won't they

The government want more moolah selling off frequencies in the FM band so they want us to buy power hungry, digital radio to replace the trusty FM we know and love,

Digital has it's plac3e but so has FM

Intel 330 120GB SSD review

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Joke

Re: SSD Mounting kit

LoL Duct tape, Apollo 13?

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