It you're a techie in a tech shop, have you not noticed your shift key doesn't work or was the bile being spewed forth at Apple fans so vehement, that it's stuck under the shift key?

Take a "chill pill" and calm down!

Have you heard of capital letters and punctuation? Thought not.

Expect a message...

Cool - like The Lawnmower Man? Let's get these old Virtuality headsets dusted off!

@Chris 211

I would agree right up the the N95. Although it eventually turned out to be a reliable phone, the initial few issues of firmware were buggy as hell, and the GPS was best not even used unless you had 5 minutes to stand still for it to lock.

That should have been a warning that things were heading the wrong way... But it took me to buy an N97 to realise Nokia had been caught with their pants down, raped and left traumatised and shaking when they should have been designing (and supporting) new phones. A phone that was released at least 12 months before it was ready, and abandoned before I'd got halfway through the 24 month contract I'd stupidly signed into. Prompting me to outright buy a replacement phone, just so I didn't need to use the N97 any more. The N97 ended its days with a Hegazy firmware on it, which is a little better, but it still suffers from serious hardware issues - GPS again for starters. It's now used simless as my MP3 player, thanks to its 32gig of storage MicroSD and Nokia headphones with the built in remote buttons.

Symbian was/is a fine mobile OS. Very lightweight and seriously battery friendly. It could have been a contender, but not when it was managed and owned by a company that had all the manoeuvrability of an oil tanker.

@Steve Evans

One of the handsets I've tried in the last year or so (having a professional interest) was the Nokia N8. The GPS was possibly a little slow but the battery life was excellent and I don't recall having a problem with any of the other hardware features. So I essentially disagree with you on the suggestion that Nokia's rudderless drifting had led to a general deterioration in hardware quality. But then again I never used an N97.

@ThomH

The N8 may indeed be a fine phone, and for those that have bought them, I hope it is, but it was too late to retain me as a customer.

Come to think of it, after the N97, I don't think anything would have retained me as a customer. The whole experience just revealed what can only be described as utter contempt for the end user. Abandoning support for a phone with outstanding bugs that many users are still paying for on excessively long contracts is just disgusting.

Speak for yourself

I have a Xperia Arc, and it sure eats his battery.

BUT

I have on permanent sync 4 email accounts. 3G is always on, sometimes 802.11 too.

Facebook, Tweeter, WhatsApp and Viber are always on too. And it is used as MP3 player - with bluetooth.

I set the apps to syncronyze at anytime. Usually my battery goes until night. 15% at about 21:00.

If I turn most of it off, his battery life grows to something like 60 hours.

Not a lot, but I do hammer it pretty hard. And I have a friend whoose IPhone lives on the charger...

My iPhone lasts two days minimum with heavy use. Android reality distortion field at work?

http://www.bnet.com/blog/businesstips/the-dirty-android-secret-no-ones-talking-about/11199

Just out of curiosity, are you running the device stock or have you rooted it?

If you have to root it, they've failed, end of story.

Or maybe not. Maybe it's okay. This diversity should be encouraged, even if it results in sloppy devices. It's all part of being 'open', after all. Sort of.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/24/google_will_not_open_source_android_honeycomb_on_release_of_first_devices/

There really IS an Android reality distortion field

As it turns out, according to AnandTech, the S2 has great battery life compared to an iPhone. That is, provided you're only using it to make phone calls and create Wi-fi hotspots. Amazing, why did I ever doubt you?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4686/samsung-galaxy-s-2-international-review-the-best-redefined/18

Good luck with your software updates, too. And I mean that with no sarcasm at all. I am actually wishing you luck, because yesterday I saw this:

http://theunderstatement.com/post/11982112928/android-orphans-visualizing-a-sad-history-of-support

Android battery life

I've got a SE Experia Play. Today is day 3 on the battery since I last plugged it in. I'm in a basement here, so the signal's pretty weak - poor wee phone has to work to keep it up. Yesterday I had to use it as a torch whilst fixing a phone system in a room with blown lights. I regularly use it as a web browser and email client (have my gmail synced).

Right now the battery is sitting on 26%. This is Tuesday, and it was unplugged from the mains on Sunday morning.

Sucks to have such a shitty battery. If only it could last until Christmas...

I'm happy for you

It's so touching to see a phone with a single-core processor and last-year's quaint graphics hardware, a phone that's both bigger and heavier than the 4S, get such great battery life.

Now here's a link I hope will put a stop to all the stupid:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4971/apple-iphone-4s-review-att-verizon/15

You can't believe how much faster the S2 is compared to a 2+ year old phone?

Acutally I tried both in the shop, the S2 nailed the 4S to the wall.

k 800i browser

It certainly did have a browser, although it was a bit rubbish! I used opera mini for the life of that phone, worked well, as did the email - not as Nicely as my x10 though (but at least the battery would last a day!)