Re: nigel 15
Yers, very good. But before you reach for your pedantry badge, consider that the latest developer preview - the gold master - is what will effectively ship to fanbois anyway. Huzzah!
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If you're referring to the deleted comment, it was removed for the anonymous abuse. Let's stick to technical discussions.
One thing we forgot to add is that the S III is set to get Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, which has had a lot of NFC fixes and is not the 4.0.4 compromised by the team . Anyway, both hacks are significant in terms of security and skill, and a second story is in the works.
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"how is that you glossed over NFC, dual-core processing, a much better screen resolution with motion mprovements and more choice in customization"
If it means anything, this was mentioned in Andrew's previous piece on the new Lumias, published this evening.
No doubt a full review will cover such stuff.
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The article does say malicious JAR files were involved - certainly other people infected tell of Java activity in their system tray before the rooting occurs.
I double-checked with Trevor on this point - because there is little gained in attacking a technology without basis - and he said the thing was originally detected as malicious jars - which spontaneously ate themselves. Flash was not installed on the PC at the time; Firefox, Chrome and IE were completely up to date. Acrobat wasn't in the browser. Those last two plugins are alternative vectors for delivering the malware, leaving just Java. And the mystery .jars.
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"It's probably just rose tinted glasses, but the Reg seems to be getting worse for this"
I'm not sure I can imagine a Reg that isn't rude about a large corporation. If you want to understand where the Apple teasing comes from, bear in mind that a number of Reg hacks are Apple users and we've suffered and enjoyed Cupertino kit over the years.
Plus, have you seen how much Apple charges for RAM? How is that not a tax?
"The other day they were going on about a Samsung Cameraphone that wasn't even a phone"
Which one was that? Did you mean the Samsung SH100 camera-with-Wi-Fi? There's no mention of it being a phone :-)
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Yes, oops. I did intend to fully qualify the USB stick quip by referring to what we'll be carrying in our pockets in the future. Brain fart in the morning. Apologies for the stupid oversight.
Chris W (not Chris Mellor).
Point of order, point of order! Jesus phone is in the bottom drawer at the moment, Chocolate Factory is heading that way. Open sourcers aren't freetards, those are other people entirely.
Some things are here to stay though, like! the! yahoo! headlines! I'm! afraid! In fact I think I saw some rumour the other day that yahoo might ditch the !
I was distraught.
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Someone once branded me a News of the World journo and I took it as a compliment.
In all seriousness, we've always used boffin and we always will. It's a term of endearment. You have to be seriously clever to be a boffin, though, with some kind of doctorate in a real science.
Otherwise you're just an egghead.
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Yeah, we had spotted that - which is why the story is about Android v iOS than Samsung v Apple.
Although Samsung was up 29pc on 2011, Apple was up 47pc, even though Apple dipped from Q1 to Q2 this year - that's the backing behind Gartner's view that people are holding out for the iPhone 5.
However that doesn't change the fact that Android grew and iOS stayed static.
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