Posts by Stef 2
83 posts • joined Thursday 11th June 2009 14:19 GMT
Posted in Google Nexus One
Android is open
Google apps aren't - ie you won't get the source code to Gmail you will get all of the OS itself.
Posted in Google Nexus One
UK cost
Mine cost a total of $578.64 - no V.A.T. to pay and no duty.
Apparently it's not applicable to phones but is to accessories so you could get stung because of the adapter - I wasn't. 3 days from ordering to delivery - and mine was engraved.
Posted in Google Nexus One
I achieved!
From checking on forums whether you get stung by the Customs or not is down to luck - I was lucky!
Posted in Google Nexus One
Leeloo Multipass
Yep, true multi-tasking - mine has 32 apps running at this very moment.
Posted in Google Nexus One
I couldn't resist
I got mine - with free engraving - within minutes of them going on sale online and I've been delighted with it.
Nice to see a review that doesn't endlessly try to compare it to a certain fruit-themed toy-maker's proprietary tat too!
Or...
just buy a nearly-new G1 from a well-known online tat bazarre for around £150.
Posted in Twitter 'airport bomb hoax twit' charged
"(I Want To) Kill Somebody"
To quote from S*M*A*S*H's (I Want To) Kill Somebody:
So i'm a hyprocrite
Cos i don't believe in capital punishment
But here's my paradoxical quip
"The people who prescribe to it are
The people who should subscribe to it"
It's not that i want them dead
Its just this world be be a better place
If they never existed
I want to kill somebody
Margaret Thatcher, Jefferey Archer,
Michael Heseltine, John Major, Virginia Bottomley
Especially Gill Shepherd's got an appalling unemployment record
I want to kill somebody
Update with today's control-freak politicans/police chiefs at your leisure.
RegFail
Staggering user stupidity becomes "Google is evil"? - Get a grep, Reg!
Posted in Steve Jobs re-invents the portable telly
The iTampon
Like all Apple products, it has strings attached.
No USB.
No Flash.
No SD card slot.
No multi-tasking.
Overpriced and U.G.L.Y.
Posted in Chris Morris jihad film good to go
Balance
For a moment I was starting to revise my opinion of the Reg readship upwards, until Anonymous Coward graced us with "Past Mistakes".
Tool.
And, yes, Chris Morris is God.
Que?
I've had one since it was released, lag is virtually non-existant - and it's not like I don't have a lot of apps installed! Have a look at the battery usage information, see if some app is hammering the system unduly.
Multitouch IS in the OS
it's just not implemented in Google's apps.
Grauniad
I wonder how much coverage this will get in the Guardian - they've excelled themselves in their prostrations before the Alter of Jobs recently.
I'm sure this is unrelated to any iThing monetisation screen that might be in the works...
Posted in Avatards rush to name sprogs Pandora
Pandora Svensson anyone?
I fully expect the Register to be picking up stories from Sweden's The Local when the tax authorities start refusing parental requests for Avatar-inspired sprog naming.
Posted in Chinese stamp on Avatar
Meanwhile...
in the UK, Mandelsnot rubs his hands together and looks on with envious eyes...
Very Moore-ish
As time goes on, better components cost less.
The superior hardware of the Droid/Milestone cost less than those of the iThing 3GS.
And the Nexus One, which is better than the Droid, costs less than the Droid's parts.
Expect next year's superphone to cost less to build than this year's.
Posted in Steve Wozniak, your time is up
Here we go yet again
Myslewski - your stories are getting increasingly desperate, why is that, couldn't you get a job at Google?
The walls of your dark and dank tiny apartment aren't covered with newspaper clippings about Google, are they?
It is called
business.
What do we get?
"What do the libraries get?"
What are libraries for?
This will be better accomplished by Google.
Thank you and bon nuit.
Well done
Bravo to Google - the UK and US governments continue to suck up to China, Google had stood up to China rather than turning a blind eye.
Now let's wait for TheRegister's resident anti-Google hack to try and spin this to make Google look more evil than Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Thatcher, Reagan, Bush, Blair and Mandelsnot put together.
Posted in Nexus One bits and bobs cost $174
The iNevitable comparison
The iPhone 3GS's components unsurprisingly cost less yet an unlocked iPhone (and good luck finding one!) costs about twice as much as the Nexus One.
Allow me
May I be amongst the first to entreat the BPI to join Mandelsnot in fucking right off?
Posted in Naked scans: Net cries nude-o-geddon
Inevitable, really
I await 'proof' of Lady Gaga's penis.
As I sit here with my Nexus One
My heart bleeds, it really does, for Big Telecom and Big Media.
OH BOO HOO.
But if the snow is that bad...
how will the Daily Mail ever get delivered?!
Millions of hysterical paranoid racists won't be able to get their daily fix of.. well, paranoid hysterical racism.
Clearly, "Nu Labor" are to blame.
Posted in HP probes 'racist' webcams
What about the eyeless?
WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE EYELESS?!
Posted in 2009's Top High-End Touchscreen Phones
Top smartphones - except for...
"Controversial" - as in wrong?
As any tech blog will avow, the Motorola Droid/Milestone is a clear winner.
No Dream
The Google Nexus One is the HTC Passion - the Dream HTC's name for the G1.
Despite what the media may portray...
Apple are number 3 - not number 1.
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1224645
Nokia 42.3
RIM 15.9
Apple 12.9
HTC 4.5
I'd expect those figures to change radically over the next year though!
Google's way forward is open
Apple's obsession is not one of openess and sharing - which has annoyed the majority of developers who are receiving very little for their work whilst Apple gets most of the credit - and cash.
Now developers have a far better option open to them - and a small green robot to welcome them.
Focusing on your target
As part of my motorcycle training I was taught not to focus on the idiot car driver that's inevitably pulling out on you, but on your escape route - you do tend to head towards whatever you're focusing on - so his theory makes total sense.
Also, footballers are stupid.
Posted in Chocolate Factory does url shortening
Grow up
So much knee-jerk Google bashing - if you're really that scared then go home and play your gramophone records, nice and safe from the world outside.
Meanwhile, the rest of us will make informed decisions on a case-by-case basis.
Personally, I prefer tinyurl which allows a full URL preview before you redirect - a feature I'd think Google would likely incorporate eventually.
Posted in Hackers root Motorola Droid
rooting
All Android phones are unlocked in the way that Jobsian devices never are and never will be - but you can do more with a rooted phone, things that most users don't care about, mainly.
Also, it makes us folks with rooted phones feel (justly) rather superior.
Boys for the Jobs
Why not open a MacDonalds in the school whilst we're at it?
Mind you, that's where the best pupils from Hounslow will end up working anyway, if they're lucky.
Posted in Tesco iPhone priced, dated
Non, non, no
Non-upgradeable storage
Non-removable battery
No multi-tasking...
Still, it'll keep the uninformed masses content for a while at Xmas, in the adverts during X-Factor.
Facebook?
I've seen a Tweet about that.
Executions over here?
Do you really trust the police and government that much?
Posted in Android 2.0: what to expect
Nom
I've seen some of those features in Cyanogen's 1.6 ROM, be interesting to see if 2.0 will fit on my G1, it's reportedly too big.
Google Maps Navigate
It is an excellent phone with superb software, but instead of Nav (effectively turning the phone into a TomTom killer as well as an iPhone killer) it comes with Motorola's effort, MotoNav - for reasons unknown.
Not that it's impossible to hack it - like I have done with my G1.
Or you could wait until April and get the HTC uberphone with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor...
Yes, but
I'm okay with the trade-off, what I get is worth more than what I give them.
The UK government, on the other hand...
Heil Jobs
It's his world ^H^H^H^H^H^H app. store, you just live in it.
Mall Cops
Given that in the US Big Media representatives have turned up at private home with bogus documents and conducted illegal searches, it looks like Swedes will soon be getting a taste of 3 Strikes justice as well. The Social Democrats don't look so bad now, do they?!
Compare and contrast
Sucking cock/eating pussy?
I think we know what sort of country Mandelson wants.
Aaaaaaaanyway, having lived in Sweden I can confirm it is wonderful.
Fucking wonderful.
*sigh*
Because...
Italy isn't enough of a laughing stock already?
Working for you
Just like Mandelson, you pay for them but they work for Big Media's interests.
Just like Mandelson, their contracts don't last forever...
Posted in Mandelson to get Nominet reform powers
"Trust us"
"Officials said they believed it is unlikely the powers will be used"
Just like the sweeping Draconian anti-terrorism powers that wouldn't ever be abused.
They'll also leave the door open for Dave and his chums to attack the internet's paid-for-by-advertising model (Google) so that they can suck up to Rupert Murdoch.
Eeeeeeeeeeeeevil
They're both massive control freaks and with Google champing at their sluggish heels maybe they're increasingly finding common ground again?
