So could we have a pie chart that doesn't re-use the colours, and as such make it actually readable?
Mobile phone sales slump bites Nokia
Nokia may have plunged down the chart of best-selling smartphone makers, but at least it can console itself with the knowledge that it’s still up toward the top of the broader mobile phone supplier table. ‘Toward the top’ but not ‘at the top’, of course. According to market watcher Gartner, Nokia is merely the world’s second …
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Wednesday 14th November 2012 16:04 GMT Anonymous Coward
As a colour blind person...
The colours don't make a lot of difference to me, but it is refreshing to see a chart where the legend is in the same sequence as the pie slices (if you start at the top and go clockwise in the chart, and left to right, top to bottom of the legend).
So for me, this is one of the more useful pie charts I've seen recently.
Horses for courses I guess.
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Wednesday 14th November 2012 15:29 GMT Bob Vistakin
Re: Wow
Then Engadget should have been called "a bunch of absolute cretins, since microsoft don't make phones" - their business is more along the lines of wrecking the ones that do, like Sendo and Nokia, and then scarpering with the loot just before the shit hits the fan, like this asshole did, as if he thought they'd be able to fix the shite he showed in the only video of him anyone will remember: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QRWa68MtLc
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Wednesday 14th November 2012 17:06 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Wow
How is Microsoft wrecking Nokia? it was Nokia who hired Elop knowing he used to work for Microsoft. They didn't have to employ him.
Nokia isn't the first company with a distinct culture to hire an outsider from another country and then go on to struggle. Look at Olympus, they hired a brit who questioned and uncovered massive debt concealment.
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Wednesday 14th November 2012 18:54 GMT 0_Flybert_0
Re: Re: Wow... so Samsung then
when all I needed was a cheap reliable well built flip-phone for voice .. I could care less about the maker
it happened to be a Samsung replacing a lost LG, serving for 5 years, though the battery was giving out and need charging every other day
I listen to a radio program that reviews and discusses tech issues , this person buys each phone himself and uses it .. glowing reviews for Samsung S3 .. now his main phone .. and the same from 2 people that got one prior to getting one myself a month ago .. it's a great phone ..
Interesting a well, is that main chip is a Quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A9, a.k.a Nvidia Tegra 3
so much for the small screen .. lookin' old iPhone design and lock ins ,, pffffffffffffft
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Thursday 15th November 2012 01:45 GMT David Hicks
Re: Wow... so Samsung then
I am genuinely puzzled. Not annoyed but puzzled. What is the psychology of someone that gives me a downvote for an expression of surprise over some market share figures? I haven't showed favouritism to any one company, or even approval or disapproval of the figures compared to others. So why?
Many, many of the things I say on the internet are objectionable, partisan, foolish and stupid. This time I can see it. Are you, dear reader, the one that gave me the downvote? Could you explain? Genuinely befuzzled by that.
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Wednesday 14th November 2012 21:30 GMT jason 7
The issue? Cost! Pricey! Expensive!
Getting a hint?
I was keen to get my hands on a Nokia Windows 8 phone. I thought as they might want to try to get somewhere in the market they might have priced them decently.
But no, top end prices and exclusivity deals to reduce your options.
Well that's a clever thing to do.
Looks like a Nexus 4 then........
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Thursday 15th November 2012 10:53 GMT Jess
I am typing this on a Nokia N8 (Bluetooth keyboard). It is displaying through my main TV while playing internet radio through my hifi (hdmi). I am logged into several intant messenger services and also have a sip phone account logged in. It makes a PC plugged into the TV redundant. (The other day I was using the N8 as a uPnP server.)
How much of this would still be possible on windows phone?
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Saturday 17th November 2012 17:57 GMT dogged
Everything except (currently) the SIP client. Skype's not SIP. I don't know whether there's a SIP client for WP8 yet so I can't say "yes, it can do that". In theory, there's no reason why it shouldn't.
Everything else is there including uPnP via PlayTo.
Probably not what you wanted to hear because obviously anything Windows is awful and unusable and for children (I always wondered how come it's easy enough for children and ALSO unusable) and crap and evil and sweats like Ballmer and doesn't have Instagram but, alas, true.
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