No physical keyboard?
They better put one in, otherwise who would want one of these phones?
Posts by Raz
82 posts • joined Thursday 2nd October 2008 16:44 GMT
@ Derk Monday 7th May 2012 20:43 GMT
You are doing it wrong :)
Forget the house, you need something like a small hothouse. The methane supposedly traps the sun's heat. Then you need a small pond - water has to come from somewhere, and you may fell the need of bathing from time to time.
@JustNiz Friday 4th May 2012 21:05 GMT
The studios do not want people to stop renting or buying optical media, either DVD or BD. They actually want people to rent and buy MORE optical media. That's where they are making their money. Everyone else on the Reg is saying how MPAA tries to stop progress by not allowing online distribution.
This is only Microsoft's move to cut their costs.
Re: I never used Media Player
More like $5 when XP came out. Probably less in newer releases.
Posted in Basic instinct: how we used to code
Re: Ughh... Still shudder when I recall those days
Ha ha, exactly. I started coding a submarine simulator in assembler on Z80 on a Spectrum copy because Basic was too slow and too big. LD A, 64... I ran out of that 42 KB of memory anyway, but I remember that I had removed some code from the BIOS (first 16K) and overwritten it with my code. I could have given an arm for an extension to 128 KB, but by the time I could afford it, a 286 became affordable as well, so I went to 16 bit :)
Re: Anyone remember...
Nokia WAS the best phone manufacturer in the world when people knew nothing better than feature phones. As much as I dislike Apple, the iPhone swept the floor with all phone manufacturers that could not see that the phone becomes a computer. Apple commoditized the carrier, while Nokia and RIM, another train crash waiting to happen, were just too happy to provide one more feature here and there. When they realized what's going on, it was too late, and they did not had the stamina to go ahead with Meego/Maemo, and kept changing platforms like shirts, and ended up with the worst one. Samsung shows that massive money can be made in the Android market, why was Nokia not seeing that?
Re: N900 upgrade path
Yep, I upgraded from an N900 to a Desire Z (T-Mobile G2) and it was great. Now last December I wanted to upgrade again to a bigger screen and dual core CPU, but there are no Android phones with a hardware keyboard that match, so I settled for a HTC Amaze 4G. Whoever (I know it's not going to be Nokia) brings a hardware keyboard to 4.5" plus Android phone has my $650.
Re: economics @ AC posted Wednesday 11th April 2012 21:20 GMT
Theoretically you are right, but there is no way in hell the publishers are losing money when they sell an ebook at $9.99, or even $6.99. AFAIK, on a paperback costing $10, the author makes $1, the rest covers the publisher's costs (and profit).
Printing and shipping and storage costs must be at least $2-3 per copy, if not a lot more. That is the amount that ebooks should be cheaper than paper, but no, they aren't.
Battery?
What about the battery? I saw a spec for One that said that the battery is not user replaceable. If true, one less reason to buy HTC phones...
Re: User storage...
I as well will not buy a phone with no microSD slot. Good by HTC, nice to know you, you made my last 2 phones, including the one I am using, but not the next one.
Re: Bluetooth works fine for handsfree in cars...
The act of talking on the phone is the distraction, not holding the phone. I can (and mostly do) drive with one hand only. I have an automatic.
That being said, I have a BT device as well, that I am using while driving, cause it's the law.
Re: Branding...?
Asus is the THE brand to own in motherboards :) And it was, basically, in the last 15 years.
@Lance3
Thanks, that I got, that LS is emitting a powerful signal in a band close to the weak signal in the GPS band, and that makes the GPS device not able to find the weak GPS signal. But still, the GPS device should listen in the GPS band.
Can someone please explain
The following: "the fault lies with the GPS manufacturers, who have been happily making making devices that pick up signals outside the GPS band"
If the GPS picks a signal, then it means someone is transmitting it. Are the GPS satellites emitting outside the approved GPS bands?
Re: Made in America; Posted Tuesday 14th February 2012 16:10 GMT
If Apple moves it's production to America I will buy Apple instead of Android. Until then, if I have to choose between a Chinese product (Apple) and another Chinese product (Android phone/tablet), I will just get the one that is more open.
I know that Apple writes their software in North America, but so does Google. So there is no difference here. If my neighbours to the south will start making phones though, I will buy them even if they are a bit more expensive.
The merchants are now required to pay to upgrade their POSes, but would Visa and Mastercard pass back to the merchants the savings from having less fraud? I didn't think so. US needs to break this duopoly.
Posted in Galaxy drives up profits for Samsung
@AC Friday 27th January 2012 17:50 GMT
Which matters only if you take your tablet outside. I found out that most of the time my tablet (Asus Transformer) is too bright (on auto setting). I am only using it indoors, both home and office. When I am out in the nature the last thing on my mind is to use a tablet :)
Good riddance RealNetworks! I still remember having to remove your d**n software from a lot of PCs because it was bundled with something useful. Actually I cannot remember exactly why I disliked you so much, but the feeling is still there! :):):)
@Phil.A Wednesday 25th January 2012 08:26 GMT
I don't get what's this thing with affording an iPad, or iPhone or anything? They are not that expensive! They are cheaper than what a decent notebook costed last year. This view of people who can afford an Apple product must be doing well is why some (not very smart) people see having an i... something to be proud of. You are well off, drive in your recent X5. Really rich, change your S-Klasse every year. But don't buy a $500 gadget thinking "I made it!". The world + dog have an iPad these days, how is that something to be proud of?
I was betting on this. I actually got here from theregister.com :)
To all asking for UTC/GMT: that suits you because you are in the ol' UK, while for me EST is just fine. Why not use the Mongolian time, whatever that is, so that everyone will have to calculate something.
Hey Intel, welcome to 2011! Cause the hundreds of thousands of Asus Transformer users that have a keyboard can tell you that a keyboard and a touchscreen works. I don't know what tests Apple did, but keyboard and touchscreen together are great.
I just upgraded from the best overall phone I ever had, a T-Mobile G2 (HTC Desire Z). Having the keyboard was great, I am still thinking if I should sell the HTC Amaze 4G or the G2...
That's a pet peeve of mine. Actually more than that, seeing that I am involved in sw dev. Some of the developers I worked with continuously make me think where the common sense went in this world.
On the other hand, management is pushing for unrealistic timelines and the dev does not have time to properly write error handling (even at it's most basic level of putting up a relevant message) and uses a catch all like "Sync failed".
If I would design a drone, it will not be 100% dependant on GPS. Gyroscopes are very accurate these days and it should be able to know where it is based on that as well. When the GPS and gyroscope are sending conflicting information, it should trust the gyroscope. Tampering with it is a lot harder than jamming GPS, which must be considered as a probability in all conflict zones.
@ Silverburn Thursday 15th December 2011 12:02 GMT
I bet you it was a Toyota. Whatever you say about the American cars you can say about them as well.
@ phuzz Thursday 15th December 2011 11:22 GM
ABS will not make you stop (a lot) sooner. It will "only" allow you to keep the car under control and not wildly spin around.
Yep, it does not look good when the gov't is involved in harassing these guys.
Re: Andrew Lee Robinson
You are right, they seem to believe that whatever a bunch of "scientists" are producing as an effect of government sponsored and self serving "research" is the holy and absolute truth!
I hope it will not be hard to put up a rule in the firewall or to disable the service. If it's tightly integrated with Windows Updates, I will wait for a hack that removes this "functionality" before installing Windows 8. Thanks for the information.
I am still in doubt that even Microsoft would dare to pull a legit app from many millions of users.
Re: Mike Flex
Yes, they lost me when it said it was sponsored by Google. How is this news worthy? It would have been if it was sponsored by Microsoft, but by Google? Come on!
Posted in Motorola Xoom 2 10in Android tablet
Why did they even bothered with a Tegra 2 when the 3 is around the corner? I own a Transformer and even at 6 months old it's better and cheaper then this.
The sheeple will buy the iPad, the knowing Android users will buy the Transformer Prime or whatever Tegra 3 devices will pop up soon, what's the market for this?
No shortage in retail, at least not around here
With all the talk about shortages I was surprised yesterday to walk into the local Walmart and find 1.5 TB external drives for $109, way cheaper than internal ones in dedicated computer stores, where you can find them for $150 and more.
I think the end users don't care so much about these shortages. The prices for computers did not go up (yet), so who is affected, the geeks like me who build their own PCs. A pretty small market.
* around here = Toronto Canada.
Posted in Asus Eee Pad Slider SL101
There's always an app for that in the Android world as well :) If playing video is important, I recommend Dice Player. It will set you back a few bucks or pounds, but it will play smoothly 720p.
MEh
Hue lag, I thought the iPads are smooth? Doesn't look like..
Ha ha, that is why I liked Google, very simple UI and most important (or maybe because of that) FAST. Before 1999 I was using Altavista (and I was in a tech job at that time as well). If you remember, at that time the portal was the big thing, the site with the kitchen sink thrown on the first page, with horrendous times to load. Yahoo and MSN (or whatever passed that day as such) were portals. Slow to load because of a ton of graphics, hard to find the search text box, then slow to show results, because of graphics again.
Google was a breath of fresh air. Fast, clean and relatively accurate. Text only. I jumped as fast as I could, and I was recommending Google to all my friends. Now I dislike their privacy policies and stay away as far as I can, but that's another story.
Switch to Wind or Mobilicity if they are in your area. Way better value. Not as cheap as SA, but not as bad as Robelus. I got a Wind plan for $40 with unlimited calls to North America, unlimited data (they throttle after 6 GB though - enough for me) and unlimited worldwide SMSes. No contract.
Posted in Toshiba outs 7in Android 3.2 tablet
While I hate this resolution on the desktop, I find it OK on the tablet, because I am reading a book on my Transformer in landscape orientation, and I see two pages side by side, exactly as a real book, and different from the iPad or other tablets that I have seen used in portrait mode, and as such showing one page only.
Posted in Toshiba outs 7in Android 3.2 tablet
Right, I have an Asus Transformer and I use it with and without a case that practically doubles its thickness, something like http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/462071880/For_ASUS_Transformer_leather_case.html
I don't find it that much different in handling, but weight is absolutely more of a concern.
@LOL123
I think the point is to cut out Visa and Mastercard, and their overpriced services. On small transactions it is not unusual that the processing fees are reaching 5-10% of the value, huge amount for most merchants. If that gets cut in half, the merchants will get behind it. I don't really see what is the advantage for the user.
The Apple fans are as rabid as this guy. Just read above.
Posted in HP dumps Apotheker for Whitman
I just hope it's not Fiorina 2... But why do I care? I never had stock, I never worked for them, it's just one of the few companies that I used to respect...
How did they synchronize the two clocks, to be able to tell the difference in travel time?
What? Say again?
I thought that someone has killed a policeman in New Zealand, and I did not know what Georgia (the US state, that much I got) has to do with that. But it seems that the guy is in Georgia, and NZ did not find anything closer to protest. Sorry, my mistake. Never mind, just saying. Got my coat.
It's your data until you put it on their systems. You have the choice of not putting in there, which is what I suggest you do. Zuck will never change.
Another HP goodbye
I admired HP in the '90s. It started to go down with Fiorina, now it just rolls downhill... If the printer business is going to be less profitable (and it is, with the access to data anywhere there is not so much need to print stuff) HP will become 10 times as small as it is now.
@Sean Baggaley 1
You are wrong, at least on the "grid of icons" argument. I have seen this type of UI for the first time in the early 90s in Windows 3.0, and I am sure it precedes even that.
I have seen, and probably many other tech support people have the same experience, users that did not know or like to use the Windows menu system and wanted to have all their documents and applications one click away, so I cannot remove from my mind Windows 98 and XP desktops choke full of icons. I mean, the whole screen is a grid of icons, probably 24 tall by 40 wide or something, with shortcuts to hundreds of Word or Excel files, like this http://www.tipsinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/many-icons-cleaning-with-broomstic.png
Maybe those types of users are still around, but I am not doing tech support anymore :)
So no, Apple did not invent this UI.
The guy with the cloned card will go to a store and buy a TV. The real owner will see the transaction, will call the bank and will ask for a refund. The bank will do a chargeback to the merchant and give the money back to the real owner. The merchant is out a TV. How is the bank loosing again?
Hmmm, for now it seems that the German consumers are suffering, not the USAians.
For the record, I'm Canadian.
The low power machines are both cheaper than ever and low power. I just bought, for a gift (I would not use such a slow machine), a brand new 15" laptop with 2 GB RAM and 320 GB hard drive for the low price of $280 CAD, which means 177 pounds for you across the big lake.
This notebook is using though a crap CPU more suited for netbooks, and AMD C-50 or something, I would rather have a Celeron inside.
@NoneSuch
Why are not the other browser makers doing the same?
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