Posts by hokum
33 posts • joined Wednesday 28th November 2007 15:41 GMT
Re: Is there a GOOD broadband provider?
Sky are good...oh, wait.
Had never actually heard about them forcing you to use their router until now. Can see how that may be a problem for a very small minority but most won't care. Otherwise Sky have been excellent - top speeds, decent customer service and really cheap.
As others have said, you can go to the smaller firms like AAISP and expect outstanding customer service and a high level of technical knowledge, but it'll cost you.
O2 were decent a few years ago but they've dropped their unlimited packages now and since they're soon becoming a part of Sky that rules them out for you too.
Re: Funny
How long ago did you "complain about the same thing with Sky"? Because Sky has been fully unlimited for a while - there is no traffic management or download caps.
Posted in Review: HTC One
Re: No microSD AGAIN
Thanks for telling me what I need. And all this time I've just been thinking for myself.
App data, offline maps, HD video, photos, misc useful files...all things I keep on my microSD. If the phone dies (as it did recently) I can just swap out the card. Plenty of us do not trust cloud storage, plus the 50GB Dropbox accounts are time limited.
We're in the 21st century now where components are cheap. HTC could have included a microSD slot at minimal cost.
Posted in Review: HTC One
No microSD AGAIN
I was well up for getting a One S or One X last time round, but the lack of microSD killed that. Realise it doesn't matter to everyone, but I need that feature. So my money went on a Galaxy S3.
Samsung support
It is pretty shoddy of them not to have fixed this bug by now, but I've had to use Samsung support twice in the last few weeks and it's been excellent each time. Fixed rapidly without any cost.
No Dave!
Used Freesat up until recently, and it is great, but it's shame you still don't get Dave.
The Verge
The Verge is saying they did this and got an order email with the name of the account holder, so BT hasn't really fixed this at all.
Re: Good idea, poorly executed
" I used Apple Lossless (ALAC) to rip my music, as I wanted to preserve CD quality"
"Back to Spotify it is"
Are you not very bright?
Spotify's max stream quality is 320kbps. Google Music converts to 320kbps.
Regardless of your ignorance of these facts it's hardly a good comparison anyway. Spotify has a massive library and makes it easy to discover new bands GMusic is a digital music locker for storing and streaming files you already have. The two work fine side by side as they fulfil different needs.
Dimwit.
Contradiction
"Amazon is happy to run others' applications, and to have its applications (with their associated content) run on Kindles, iPhones, iPads, Androids, or other form factors."
"Every Kindle Fire comes deeply integrated into Amazon's retail experience, which is why I wasn't tempted by the release of Google's Nexus 7"
If Amazon is so happy for its content to be used on any device, why would you have a problem with the N7 or any other tablet?
I'm not knocking your choice of hardware, but this seems like a contradiction to me.
What is it about the Kindle Fire's "deep integration" that's so different to using Amazon apps on A N Other tablet?
Perhaps it's different for the US though. They after all get to benefit from awesome extras like unlimited movie streaming for having a Prime account, while all we get is free delivery.
Re: Apex
I've never been impressed with Apex. It was noticeably slower than stock on my SGS3 and N7. Nova Launcher is far superior IMO. Just as many options but much faster.
Re: "Stealing Ideas"?
Not sure if you're being deliberately misleading or you just don't know anything about Android. Perhaps a bit of both.
The Tab in that picture is displaying the Android app menu, which being a menu for apps is naturally a screen full of icons. Press the home button and it'll go back to the default Android desktop which looks nothing like iOS.
It's the same thing Apple's lawyers tried to pull. Every time they show the devices side by side they have iOS on its normal (dull) home screen full of icons, but bring up the app draw on the Samsung hardware as otherwise the UIs look nothing alike. They also resize pictures to make them look more like the i-gadgets.
Posted in Nokia after the purge: It's so unfair
They're goners
12 months on the outside before MS takes over and guts whatever is left.
They're losing ground in emerging markets, which has until now been their strong point, and cannot be making any money off Windows Phone. Their admission that they've only sold 2 million Lumia handsets since the range was launched shows how much Nokia is struggling.
Windows Phone is going nowhere very slowly so focusing on that was a huge mistake. What was the last Windows Phone to be released which wasn't from Nokia? If there was any new hardware recently it didn't get any publicity. It's a dead platform.
Posted in Samsung 'Galaxy 4S' pic posted
Will Samsung...
...stop making their handsets out of plastic, though? The Galaxy S2 has a gorgeous display but it's a hard sell when it feels so lightweight and flimsy. If they want to charge a premium they should use higher quality materials.
Posted in Archos 35 Smart Home Phone
Seconding the why
I'd rather have someone come up with a universal cradle and/or interface which allows any smartphone to use PSTN...any smart arse engineers out there interested in a new business venture?
Of course, if we weren't forced to have a landline phone just to get broadband we could all just use a mobile as a home phone. Can get basic Android handsets for £50 that do more than this device.
Wi-Fi performance
Wi-Fi does not seem to have any issues, my Transformer Prime picks up a signal just as well, if not slightly better, than a laptop and smartphone in the same location. You'll read a lot about the wireless being poor but this seems to be something which affected the earlier models, UK release is just fine.
Posted in Avast buys Android thiefbuster developer
What about existing customers?
Will those of us who already paid for TheftAware continue to receive updates as normal?
Worth mentioning that the reset-proof feature is only available to rooted handsets.
Conspiracy nonsense
"I guess im a conspiracy theorist for questioning how building 7 fell without being hit by anything."
Yep, and you're an idiot, too. It was hit by debris which knocked not-insignificant chunks from the structure, suffered seismic shock from the fall of the towers and burnt uncontrollably for hours before collapsing.
Engage brain, then post.
@CaptainHook
They probably had been dialling into voicemail prior to Sara Payne, but this was probably a step down for most hacks. I would think it is almost inevitable that back when networks were analogue they simply used a scanner to eavesdrop on calls.
It could be an interesting experiment to recruit the power of the internet masses to trawl the online archives of tabloid papers searching for news stories involving call transcripts, texts and voicemails and log them in a database. Could help show the general public how widespread a practice it was (or is...).
Posted in Akira Blu-ray remastered disc set
Dubtitle
The subtitles on the Japanese audio version of this are 'dubtitles' ie a subtitled version of the English audio not a proper translation of the original Japanese script. Very poor.
Brooks was innocent
Honest guv. See, she wrote a letter explaining: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/05/milly-dowler-phone-hacking-rebekah-brooks-email
"I hope that you all realise it is inconceivable that I knew or worse, sanctioned these appalling allegations. I am proud of the many successful newspaper campaigns at the Sun and the News of the World under my editorship. In particular, the 10-year fight for Sarah's Law is especially personal to me. The battle for better protection of children from paedophiles and better rights for the families and the victims of these crimes defined my editorships"
See? It's totally inconceviable that the editor of the paper knew how her staff were getting their stories, or why they were paying thousands of pounds to people outside the organisation. It's also totally inconceviable that she could have campaigned for laws to protect children (definitely not a way to sell more papers, by the way) while also allowing her reporters to interfere with a police investigation into the murder of a child.
That would be like someone who campaigns against domestic violence getting arrested for beating up their spouse!
Posted in Hannspree Hannspad 10.1in Android tablet
No camera or 3G?
Sounds good. 3G is handy for some, but make it optional. Cameras on tablets are stupid.
Posted in Ten... Core i5 laptops
Moaning AC
"cheaper than an ugly Dell brick"
Haven't checked Dell's prices lately but wouldn't be surprised if you're wrong. However, I do know that you can get a very nice Sony Vaio S with superior spec for roughly the same price, or even a few quid less.
Try again, troll.
@Brian 6
So the cost of a movie should determine its ticket price?
Brilliant logic there, Captain Business. You go have a long hard think about why that's a stupid idea.
The Gap Cycle?
They're terrible books, be a waste of money making that garbage into a movie.
What?
So the touchscreen isn't great (!), the camera average at best, the battery life poor and it has a largely pointless dual core CPU which doesn't even eliminate lag and just makes the UI and video recording a bit smoother.
And this is worth 80%?
Sort your scoring out, chaps, this doesn't make a damn bit of sense at the moment.
Btw, Android phone makers: dual core CPUs are stupid unless you've got an improved battery to cope, and touch sensitive buttons are shite.
Posted in Crysis 2
This week's epic comment fail
CLEARLY Killzone 3 is better.
Obviously.
In your own mind.
Some people still struggling with the concept of opinions, apparently. Still, I'm sure that massive company Sony are glad you're sticking up for them and their mass produced products against those mean reviewers.
Try to understand that while you like Killzone 3, someone else may not be as enamoured. Or, like a simpleton, you could continue to argue with anyone who doesn't give [latest AAA game] a score you think it deserves, as though that somehow impacts upon your enjoyment.
Why did you bother?
"The game itself is remarkable only in its lack of objective, primitive graphics and (critically) infinite variety that allows players to create intricate landscapes for no reason beyond their own artistic merit"
"Quite what drives players to spend hours creating intricate landscapes is a mystery to most of us"
"no doubt to the delight of Minecraft players and the continuing mystification of everyone else"
What a waste of your, and our, time. How about getting someone who has played the game, or at least likes videogames, to write this stuff?
Posted in RoboCop statue fundraiser hits $50k
The best part...
...when the human race is extinct this statue is gonna blow some future archeologist's mind.
re: Nope
"They reserve the right to change their terms and impose a 40Gb a month limit, even on old 'unlimited' packages as I had for 3 years. Going over this limit 3 times (53Gb for me on the third occasion) results in termination."
Maybe on the other packages. Someone at O2 itself told me they could not restrict older Premium accounts.
I exceed 40GB within a week, my usage is typically in the hundreds per month. Never heard a peep from them.
Forcing out current subscribers
The tiny price rises for customers on the new packages indicate what the plan is here: to force anyone on the old O2 broadband plans to leave or swap to the new packages.
The reason being, if you signed up before they had a fair use limit on the 'unlimited' packages, it really was unlimited. I had this confirmed by O2 tech support, who said they cannot impose any kind of traffic shaping or speed restrictions on customers with older accounts, no matter how much you download.
I suspect many current subscribers will now be looking elsewhere, relieving O2 of the burden of true unlimited broadband. So if you're with them at the moment and don't mind paying extra for a proper unlimited package, stay where you are.
Paris 'cos she's got plenty of capacity to handle heavy traffic.
Posted in HTC Touch Diamond
Nice
Very nice. But without a memory card slot it's a no. I'll consider an upgrade when they fix that.
Posted in Dell fills out XPS laptop line
"big tellys are vulgar"
Upgrade your girlfriend as well as your laptop.
