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Apple to upgrade to '5G WiFi' this year?

It says 5G WIFI not 5G as a successor to 4G cellular standards like LTE.

Samsung mobes pwned by ANY APP, thanks to chip code hole

Re: Hahahahahahahahahaha

All Your Androids Are Belong To Us.

Australian Police say don't use Apple's iOS 6 Maps

I've been driving down the M6 - joined the toll road and it's been telling me to leave, do a U-turn, drive across fields - did I - no - I had sufficient common sense to realise this did not seem right. If I were driving across Australia in areas where I was warned to take extra water and be prepared enough to be able to purify water 'in the field' I would certainly ask / check directions before leaving, have a backup, have some sense...

Re: Could be interesting

>> Disclaimer: The brakes we installed in your car might not work every time.

Then you would not buy it.

You could apply your logic to anything - how about being an email provider and downtime meant someone did not receive critical information in time resulting in damage / death?

What about people relying on a free mapping app to guide them somewhere - did it not seem strange to be going off course, did they not consult (or have) a normal map as a backup.

The best tablets for Christmas

Re: There is no 'Best' device any longer

The Kindle Fire is the most walled of gardens - so as long as you do not mind driving on Amazon roads and filling up with Amazon fuel that's just great. The iPad is very open by comparison. Basically I see no reason why anyone would buy a Kindle Fire vs a Nexus 7 or even spend the extra and get the iPad Mini. It's roughly the same price as the Nexus 7 but does so much less.

It's like the people who buy Maglites (who are not buying them as 'batons') with standard incandescent bulbs thinking they have a great torch (flashlight for the US visitors) when you can get something many times brighter, smaller, lighter and with a better battery life - for the same or less.

Apple shares take biggest one-day hammering in 4 years

Re: Simples

They should try looking at the p/e ratio - Apple is remarkably good value for a company actually making huge profits. Take out their cash mountain (and yes it is a mountain) and they look a bargain compared to the stratospheric valuations given to companies like Amazon.

They have a huge installed base - even if their market share is slipping (if it really is) the market is growing rapidly so the volumes shipped are increasing. AND all this is before you factor in any new products or services - how about a proper Apple TV, how about a subscription media service... etc.?

Samsung sell you a tablet today and that's it - no onward revenue - Apple sell you a tablet, then they can make money off the media / games etc. you play. I wonder what Apple's profit per iPad is over it's lifetime compared to Samsung - I recon it's 5-10x.

Unlocked iPhone 5 on sale in US, cheaper than UK - but not cheap

Re: I bought

Just checked ebay and even locked iPhone 4 handsets seem to be going for the best part of £200 (around $300) so $30 sounds a HOT deal.

If you think an iPhone is expensive at 8% more than the US price try GAS (sorry meant petrol).

Amazon makes BEELLIONS from British customers, pays pennies in tax

Well you could argue the sales figure was valid - i.e. they did make £3.35 beellion in sales - although I appreciate you effectively pay corporation tax on your profits which are much less.

The problem with Amazon is their low prices mean low profits - good for the consumer in one way but those profits head back to Amazon HQ via goodness knows where and for every job they create I suspect one or more is lost from their UK competitors.

Re: hmmm

Even if it means you paying more as a result - doubt it - easily said but the proof of the pudding and all that...

Ten weird Chinese mobile phones

Re: Quad SIM mobile

Imagine if they made cars like this - anyone else see that Simpsons episode where Homer designed (and built) a car.

Samsung printers have secret admin account

Except when you come in the next day and load it back up, walk away to get a coffee and come back to 500 pages gone?

Re: At least now we know...

Let me guess Samsungs Terms and Conditions totally remove any responsibility for this or any damage caused even though it was almost certainly wilful or at least negligent?

I wonder how happy people would be if their car manufacturer did something similar. Not very I suspect. With all these smart TVs and devices being able to do more it's a serious concern.

Re: Careful Now. Down with that Sort of Thing!

Great - so any models and existing stock up to a few weeks ago are probably vulnerable and will rely on users to update them - can't really see that happening. Perhaps Samsung should offer a product recall?

Ten external battery packs

"You can use D cells with over 10,000mAH too"

But at only 1.2v - you need to look at watt hours to compare like for like - lithium batteries have a much greater energy density so a D sized lithium cell could have more power than a D sized NiMH one.

A 10000mah NiMH battery is also likely to be pretty expensive - the last 'hybrid' ones I saw were about £18-20 for 2 - so to get 10000mah at near 5v you would need at least 4 - so that could be £36-40 just for the cells. Some of these lithium based solutions offer the same sort of output - would be a lot smaller - have a proper 5v regulated 2A output, charging circuitry, capacity indicators and are smaller and lights and cheaper...

Profs: Massive use of wind turbines won't destroy the environment

Re: He is not quibbling over 2%

He's not claiming all the developing world will require as much as Americans but there are a LOT of people in the developing world and over the next 15-20 years their power requirement is likely to increase (as a percentage) very quickly.

Perhaps we should compare power usage 36 years ago, 18 years ago and now to better judge where we might be in 18 year time. Any efficiencies are likely to be swamped by increased power requirements in the developing world and increased population and 'growth' worldwide.

iPhone 5 poised to trounce Android, devastate BlackBerry?

Less choice and options - that's just BS - there is a HUGE amount of stuff on the app store - do the vast majority of people need / want any more? I like it that I can get a car kit / dock / any other accessory you can imagine for my iPhone - Android is comparatively fragmented.

3rd party manufacturers can easily make things for an iPhone 4 - but can they do the same for an Acer this, Samsung that, HTC the other or Motorola something else again = NO.

As for more expensive - really - last time I looked most of the top end handsets were pretty similar cost from Samsung or Apple and here's the kicker - I reckon iPhones last longer (I see a lot of people still using 4+ year old iPhone 3GS than Android handsets as their life expectancy for updates etc. is much higher). So factor in TCO and you may find it's a lot cheaper.

Retina Display detachment

Re: Too thin, too light

What tripe. You mean IF you need Ethernet you carry around a £20 thunderbolt adapter cable that is about 10cm long and probably weighs 20-30g?

I'd rather carry an adapter / DVD drive for when I needed it and not have the extra weight for the vast majority of times when I did not.

Pirate Bay struggling to get on feet after DDoS to the knee

I didn't do it.

WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo

Re: Swapping hard drives

They are selling this as a complete device with a warranty etc. - there are vendors who make plain enclosures if you want that. We have HP servers that only take HP 'branded' drives (even though they are made by Seagate) - but HP warranty it as a solution.

Apple Oz offers refunds for confused 4G iPad owners

It's ridiculous when there is no actual 4G standard and networks in different countries could use different technologies / frequencies.

Apple crushes rivals under its heel in Euro fondleslab sales

Probably the best selling 'Android' tablet is the Kindle Fire yet most people do not know or care it runs on Android as Amazon have stripped it to the core and put their own software on there - it may as be running AmazonOS for what most people would care.

People buy the Kindle Fire as a colour upgrade to the basic Kindle - it's just so 'not' an iPad. I recon a lot of Kindle Fire sales will be lost Kindle sales not lose iPad sales.

GiffGaff boots freetards off mobile network

Why don't networks just be honest - offering 'unlimited' is 'unrealistic' - they should say it's £x per Gb or include xGb data in your plan and that's it. Since when did your electricity company give you unlimited electricity - it's all metered these days.