Posts by Dapprman

The MP4-12C has lost virtually every comparison test it's been in, mainly due to a 'lack of soul and involvement', so much so that McLaren are now producing an updated model with the improvements being back fitted to existing cars for free.

Agree there

Among the various issues that plagues the Gingerbread upgrade of the Desire Z is that battery life is much worse. In the 2.2.4 days I used to get back home (with an extended battery) with ~40-50% left, not I'm lucky if I have 20%.

Perhaps in the Apple/Google war Apple have decided to copy Google on more than just the status bar ....

Surely ... It's Astounding ....

Rocky Horror Picture Show is a rock'n'roll movie, not a movie about rock'n'roll ;)

For those die hards there's also Runaways, however you do need to be a fan of the band or of Joan Jett to get most out of it else it's a bit of a drag.

However ...

The author did say he was not using 3rd party apps (aside from HTC sense) and most those widgets are 3rd party. The stock android ones are generally as bad as the email client - rubbish.

I do think widgets are very useful, use 7 myself, but none are stock android ones.

You ought to try being a HTC Desire Z Owner

The official gingerbread upgrade killed the phone, making it slow and causing request UI crashes. Despite all the complaints they refuse to acknowledge the issue. My phone went back twice for OS downgrades - even Vodafone UK told them to return my phone back to 2.2.4, both times they ignored it saying the latest and greatest worked so it must be my fault.

Net result is I'd go HTC again but I'll not let the phone be upgraded and I'd not trust HTC to sort out any issues or their help desk to be useful.

Funny thing is I can but compliment Vodafone UK as they were helpful and ended up sending me a replacement phone. Alas all new Desire Z already come with 2.3.3

Was he ever even interested in the end product ?

Jobs only took Pixar as a mechanism to sell NeXT computers are he tried to force them on Lasseter and co as the tools they were to use.

Can't believe some oen amrked you down

For pointing out you want to use a hands free set - as Android, does not, never has, and probably never will support hands free voice dialling - yes there is a third party product that works well but why the blazes should you have to buy extras from third part vendors to provide basic functionality that should have been there from the start.

(and before anyone accuses me of being anti-android, I've got a HTC Desire Z, which until the Gingerbread update worked well - once I'd found ways round all of Android's short comings)

K-9 is useless on Gmail

Sure it works, if you want a complete new set of folders in your gmail mail box and the lack of ability to delete anything. I ended up dropping gmail from my K-9 config (I have other mail boxes to poll) and just use Google's own crappy email reader instead for that mailbox.

There was an articale here a few months back ...

... that the large excess stocks of their laptops were to be dumped on UK and Europe resulting in many deals - I know there were some serious reductions at PCW that would have made one tempting if I were looking for a new laptop (even with their reputation for being less reliable than many of their rivals).

The advanatge of e-ink

The advantage of e-ink is not necessarily the battery life - though that does help, but the fact that you can quite happily read one with tired eyes, or for long periods of time, some thing LEDs prevent.

Same for me

I initially entered the Sonos world when the new hand controller came out and Richer Sounds panicked, selling the ZP100/ZP120/Old controller set at knock down prices (well 25% off). Never regretted it (was also looking at a squeezebox system at the time). Since then added a S5 when it came out and now a Play 3 for moving around where needed (Richer Sounds did a 20% off weekend a few weeks back).

As to those who those who rate the Logitech system higher - it's a nice system (or at least was - have Logitech dropped most of it now), cheaper, but limited by the range of your wireless router, not the nearest device in the same network, and does not do true zone linking. Also you're not reliant on dedicated software on a PC or flakey versions on a NAS to access your music, Sonos will work with CIFS, SMB, and DNLA.

To those who think the Play3 is a mono device - it's not, but if you have two then you can configure them so they act as a left or right speaker in a pair.

I do agree Sonos can be expensive, but there can also be some good deals out there. Also if you have an android or iOS device then you do not need an expensive Sonos controller or a PC/MAC to run the system.

The usual laptop consumable at a guess ...

Do Apple batteries actually last 18 months, or are they like most other laptop batteries - using the computer plugged in and about 6-12 months the battery is dead ?

Local playback

DId I understand that correctly, it can play music/videos on the phone from other devices ? (i.e. a NAS). If so does it use it's own video codecs, or just the ones default on android ?

@ DrXym

Actually the publishers are now holding Amazon to ransom with pricing - refusing to supply any books unless Amazon sell at their chosen prices - it's the Net book agreement all over again. Amazon have taken the cartel of four to the Euro courts.

Now all gone

so never even got a chance to see what the postage would have been.

Assuming EA still have the source code

If EA still have the code then you do have a valid argument, but if not, then they're not losing money through the site in the main topic. And trust me old titles do get deleted - I know from direct contact that Ubisoft deleted most the back catalogue of Blue Byte Games (I was trying to track down a replacement copy of Historyline 1914-18 for the PC and approached them to find out where I could get/buy a copy from) and the same could be possible for the Bullfrog titles.

Must have been better than the T2 then ...

... I almost threw mine against the wall a few times in frustration, eve regretting some how gouging out a bit of the graffiti area on my VX, which I sorely missed.

A Blade Runner Moment

"I have seen touchcreen phones with TV built in, multisim units running android, winmo 6.5 (which is still a perfectly capable smartphone OS), spin-hinge QWERTY, tablet conversion phones. And woo hoo Apple manages a slab with a touch screen, im sure their design department stretched themselves."

Don't ask me why but for some reason I had Rutger Haur reading these lines to me. Time to ... go home for the weekend

@ Interesting Point

Neither of the countries you mention has a reputation for good food or good food sense (and yes I am aware that around 3 or 4 of the world's top 50 restaurants are in Germany).

Lets be very honest here, most people when going out to a fancy restaurant think of wine not beer to accompany their meal. Add to this the fact that much of the dishes cooked in the show are Italian, French, or Spanish in style/origins and once more wine is the correct accompaniment.

Think it does in landscape

But can't remember.

TBH it's a good app, but I still set up my laptop in front of me and use the main website during the race - and fortunately I also remember not to if I'm watching a recorded race (I do know a couple of people at least who've logged as they've started to watch the race a few hours later

Decent green tea is even less than that

For a reasonable to high quality sencha you're only talking about 20 seconds in the pot. Once the colour of the tea starts to go from light yellow/green to slightly brown you need to remove in a hurry else you'll start to introduce bitterness.

@ Piro

Where did you hear about the Desire Z being dropped - I've just had a hunt around as it was news to me and can see nothing.

It is possible that there's a new model in the offing, after all HTC have been producing keyboard versions of their high end smart phones for a good long time now (I'm on my 3rd of them having gone TyTn -> Touch Pro -> Desire Z)

I understnad where you're coming from, but ...

this is just an app version of the NHS Direct website that has been scaring hypochodriacs for a good few years.

PC ...

Was just thinking the same.

Time to run Blade Runner through Dosbox while waiting

You can configure it

I've just checked and there is a tick box option to split SMSs in to 160 character chunks (it's off by default)