Posts by ComfortablyNumb

Murdoch hate sparks mass bitchin', rapid evacuation from O2, BE

Lots of sky hate - not sure why...

I'm certainly no fan of the Murdoch empire, but living somewhere that has (until recently) had no real alternatives to Sky for TV, I've got the full package, TV, Phone, Fibre Broadband.

I don't recognise any of the poor service comments - like the poster somewhere above, I spend a fair bit every month, maybe that's why. All of my experiences with Sky customer services (and there haven't been many as nothing really ever goes wrong) have been genuinely first class.

When I moved to them (from O2 incidentally) about a year ago, the change over was simple, and I got 38Mbps from my "upto 40Mbps" service - reliably, all day, every day (and it is genuinely unlimited as well) When I challenged them over charging a long standing customer £50 to have Openreach come out to install it, they waived the fee.

The house move service was also flawless - If I'd have been able to give the 14 days notice they ask for, I'd probably have had the Fibre Broadband on the day I moved in, as it happened I gave them a days notice, and we were up and running again inside a week.

My only complaint about Sky broadband is the router - whether it's the older ones or the new "sky hub", they are utter rubbish, and Sky don't make it easy to use your own kit but it is possible with a bit of effort.

HTC outs Jelly Bean running One X revamp

Hmmm

Some interesting user experiences, mine was one of the very first batch, and suffered with the antenna fault - since that's been fixed, I have no issues with it at all. The battery lasts a full day with ease with lots of browsing, texting, and a bit of calling. I'm yet to find anything that the processor can't handle, and 32GB of storage has proved plenty, despite my initial dismay at the thought of not having a microSD slot.

It doesn't crash any more (although it took HTC 2 updates to fix that for me), has 5 bars indoors when iPhone owning friends need to go outside to make a call, and my data transfer rates on 3G are pretty good (5mbps down/2 up where I am sat right now)

The only thing in the new offering that I'd be interested in is Jellybean - I'd much rather HTC got on with releasing that for the existing One X rather than releasing an incremental update that offers nothing much new!