Posts by Mark Zip
7 posts • joined Saturday 14th February 2009 00:12 GMT
Re: So is it any good? A: Mixed → # ↑
Posted Thursday 14th January 2010 11:16 GMT
In Googlephone sales off to a sluggish start?
@AC
Pros:
* Amazing screen, really gorgeous. Capacitive touch responds quickly and easily.
* Speed. Fast, fast processor means no lag
* Tight integration with Google services. Gmail app is excellent, Maps is good, Calendar is fine. Synch works flawlessly.
* Voice enabled in all text fields. Yes, it's a bit odd to be talking into the phone all the time, but when it talks to the servers back at the Chocolate Factory the results are remarkable. And improving apace.
* Google Voice: If you do not have a Google Voice account, you do now. Use it for voicemail or forwarding. Also texts or emails you when you have a new voicemail. I think this might be the real killer here. You can make it use google voice to make all calls, international calls only, etc.
* "Open" . Easily rootable if that's the way you swing. Also highly customizable out of the box.
*The famed multi-tasking.
*There's an app for that.
*Tethering. I think this has been more difficult to do this in America than in Europe, so this might be a bigger deal for us here on this side of the pond.
Cons:
*Idiot bifurcation of 3G signals in the US means that we can only use it on T-Mobile 3G here. It will, of course, talk to the ATT EDGE network when you are outside of the admittedly limited T-mo 3G coverage.
*Flash Storage: Pitiful. Only 512 on board and it ships with a 4 gig card. Will address up to 32 gig card. But the N97 has 32 gig on board and can address a 16 gig card.
*Speaker: Weak and can sound tinny at times.
*Camera: not good enough. Not a patch on the N97 or even N95
*Small UI issues with Android 2.1 Some people don;t like pressing buttons.
*Screen has trouble in direct sunlight, of course. Also doesn't work too well in the cold when you are wearing gloves. ;-)
*You need an app to use some of the MS Exchange calendar services.
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Also: call quality is OK.
@HughNoble → #
Posted Thursday 1st October 2009 23:29 GMT
In One thumb up for MS Security Essentials in early tests
MSE does not have a version for XP 64 bit.
They offer 64 bit versions for Vista and 7 only.
Lame, I know.
Not working for 64 bit XP Prp → #
Posted Wednesday 30th September 2009 15:50 GMT
In Microsoft Security Essentials shakes up consumer antivirus
Support pages confirm it, not available for 64 bit XP. Vista and 7 64 bit *are* supported.
But no mention of this on the System Requirements page.
WTF?! XP 64 *is* still an officially supported OS.
Site illegible? → #
Posted Monday 13th July 2009 23:41 GMT
In Apollo 11 moon mission reincarnated as website
Fun idea. But are they using historically correct technology to make that website? Tiny blue-gradient letters on a black background make the captions almost completely illegible. They may be the smartest guysin the room, but someone needs to send a Saturn V up the designer's bums...
Once again the US customer is hosed → #
Posted Sunday 3rd May 2009 10:23 GMT
In Vodafone shows off HTC's second Android phone
(paraphrasing) "Available free on a 35 pound a month account, which includes 600 minutes and unlimited text and data" Using today's rates, that's $52.00 . And the phone is "free"
@ Paul Ross: As for "wait for the Pre"... (AFAIK, it's only announced for the USA so far) I doubt that we will get it "free". Even with a new contract. And since it is not GSM, and is on Sprint, in how many fewer countries will we be able to use it?
When, oh when, will the US drag itself into the 21st century of mobile telephony?
Mine's the one with the burner phone in the pocket
@Jared Earle → #
Posted Saturday 14th February 2009 17:21 GMT
In Twitter attack exposes awesome power of clickjacking
Well, sorry I was not as precise as I should have been.
"Of course, such users have been protected from click-jacking since a couple of days after the original discovery of the exploit."
This sentence referred to the first instances of the clickjacking discussions back in September 2008. http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/260609/adobe_request_hackers_nix_clickjacking_talk
NoScript users were protected by default if they simply checked the "Forbid <IFRAME>" option.
Soon after the clickjacking proofs of concept were published, the NoScript plugin authors incorporated a feature called "ClearClick". This feature works independently of the IFRAME blocking method. http://hackademix.net/2008/10/08/hello-clearclick-goodbye-clickjacking/
Mine's the one with the scripting pockets sewn up...
Umm, NoScript? → #
Posted Saturday 14th February 2009 00:41 GMT
In Twitter attack exposes awesome power of clickjacking
Not even a passing mention of NoScript?
Not even a sarcastic aside intended to preempt smug comments like this from Firefox users with the (apparently not ubiquitous enough) plugin?
Of course, such users have been protected from click-jacking since a couple of days after the original discovery of the exploit.
C'mon, El Reg, our snark-o-meters are in need of more of a workout!
