Posts by VooDooTooDo 9 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jan 2013
I gather that you don't own any mobile phone or an iPad then? They can be bricked remotely with a telephone call to Network Provider or someone that has an iCloud login on the device. I believe Google also implementing a "Find My" like function in upcoming versions of Android which may have a user enabled automatic remote locking function in case of lost or stolen.
Strange that my SKY router performs Gigabit LAN & 5GHz WiFi just nicely! Even with the older routers I had no problems with WiFi service around the house, down the garden, in the loft, on the road outside house, etc.
I always find that SKY will speak to you in the same manner that you speak to them. Treat them nicely & they will treat you nicely & sort you out with good incentives & discounts.
I agree with you there. Any problems have been resolved very fast by SKY & I have been compensated well each time without needing to kick up a fuss. If I changed to any other Openreach network fibre (cannot get Virgin cable)m the actual connection would probably be no different to what SKY give me other than the customer service will undoubtedly be much poorer.
"I should finally be able to get Fibre broadband in March, so I may try and negotiate a good broadband + sports TV deal then, otherwise it'll be BBC+streams. Having said that I have noticed today that my ADSL connection has been up and running for 57 days so I might just stick to that."
That's what I did in December when my exchange went live with fibre (FTTC). Called them up to find line speed after I had placed order (at time of order they could not give me an estimated speed even as the exchange had literally just gone live a few hours earlier) where they told me I would only get 22Mb on fibre when I already got 16Mb on DSL! Told them to cancel the order & refund me the £50 for the Hub2 (as they call it). The cancellations guy looked at my account and told me that he would set the price of the Fibre at the same as I was already paying for DSL, so essentially it was "free" other than the £50 "setup" charge (which is to pay for the router as self install package). When the Fibre went live, I have had 33Mb down & 6.8Mb up from day one (which is not far off the maximum for the exchange as the 70Mb service is not available on it yet for some reason with any provider including BT).
Anybody that buys a PHONE because it is 2fps faster than another, needs to get a life! A phone is for communications, not for playing games. If you want to play games on the move, buy a DS or PSP! You might find that you actually get decent battery life out of the phone then!!!! As for those that play games on a tablet that uses motion to control the "character/vehicle" in public such as on a train etc, need to realise that you look a complete pillock sitting there tilting yourself from side to side!
Funny that the SurfaceRT I bought last week from a UK electronics chain cost £259 including the Touch Type cover. I am actually quite impressed with it as I use it instead of lugging a laptop around onsite to download drivers or patches for machines that may require them as well as to generate invoices using Office. I wouldn't be using a tablet for coding or photo/video editing. I can RDP into machines with it as well.
Unless VM have changed recently, they throttle single threaded downloads as well. I haven't used them for close on 4 years now due to their poor service & staff, but when the 50Mb service was the top tier, they would throttle single threaded connections to 20Mb & you would only see the full service with simultaneous downloads. This was proven using the Newsgroups. Maximum transfer from a single thread was 2.1MBps, but if multiple threads were enabled, the combined transfer speed would amount to 5.6MBps. Even the engineers knew of this and would tell you that the service was working 100% using various speed test sites where they would clock over 50Mb connections. Even a direct link to a server (with no other connections) on a fibre link in the States, would max out at 2.1MBps throughput.
Poor battery life??? 49 hours on battery on my One X (O2's branded JellyBean update that was released last week) over the weekend and still had 30% when I put it on charge!!!! That's after 4 hours of actual usage (calls, emails, browsing, etc) in a low signal area! If thats poor then I would love to know what you class as "good"? My 8X also lasted similar amount of time but with slightly less battery remaining with a little less usage. Friends with me using their S3's had no battery life left at all after less than 30 hours with LESS actual usage and had to ask to borrow my handset to make a call!
Unless you use your device as a video player or have more MP3 tracks than you could possibly listen to in a week on your device, then 16GB is more than ample. My One X has plenty of storage space free on it even with over 200 apps installed (including offline maps for the whole of the UK on Maps Navigation). Takes me less time to hook up the handset to a USB cable than it would removing a back cover and then removing a Micro SD Card & placing that in a card reader! Also data speeds are faster from internal memory than a Micro SD Card.
For those saying that HTC have poor support, who are you comparing it to? The vibration motor failed on my One X just before Xmas. Phoned them on the Friday, phone collected at their expense by UPS on Monday, delivered back to me Wednesday morning first thing all sorted out!!! Samdung couldn't even replace a Galaxy S1 screen within 28 days when I made the mistake of owning one of those for a few months (got rid of it due to all the inherent issues that the handset had & screen failing twice in 6 months). Only company with better support than HTC are Apple with a store visit (15 minute rule).
The main reason that HTC are lagging behind Samdung & Apple is the marketing of their handsets. Samdung are pushing their products down everyones throats on tv adverts constantly, paying for product placement, etc. Apple are living off Jobs' legacy (although no new actual innovations since his death).
I have had my 8X for 6 weeks now and TBH like WP8 a lot. Granted that there are not as many apps on the WP store, but the apps I use on my One X are all available on it.
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