Re: ASA - toothless body acting in the interests of advertisers ?

That comes down to the question "what is misleading?" The answer to which is always going to be subjective.

Still, I don't think many people expect toilet paper to be like wiping one's arse on an animal. They could be forgiven for expecting a service they're paying through the nose for to deliver what was promised.

...if promised is the right word, which of course it isn't.

Re: How much does anyone really want?

Quite common and often notice is given of this policy on the menu.

Re: For Future Control of the Direction of Mankind

Hmm... this appears to be written in English, but I'm not familiar with the dialect.

Re: What happened to X-files references

"said it was a cross of the X files and Lost."

And that made you want to watch it?

Re: In my case it's not the lack of will on behalf of the shopper...

Also, which banks actually send out NFC credit cards, and for which accounts?

Re: Security

OK, so what solution did they come up with?

They probably have thought of it, and maybe they've solved it. Then again, maybe they're so eager for us to buy into what they're trying to sell that they're hoping we won't think to ask such awkward questions.

I find your lack of scepticism disturbing.

Re: Lot of hipstery in this thread so far

"I know lots and lots of people who have iPhones and love them -- and exactly four people with Android handsets, only one of whom even likes it."

Oh for goodness sake. Why does anyone, no matter what side of the argument they're on, think this is somehow credible evidence? It's anecdotal nonsense.

Personally, I know more Android phone owners than iPhone owners, largely due to the relative cost of getting a half-decent one. Most of the people I know who own iPhones like them, but then so do the people who've bought Android phones. I would say, anecdotally, that the Android phone owners I know are more technically minded than the iPhone owners. Take from that what you will.

Like... maps?

Best handset of 2011.

This _is_ a tech. website, remember?

Re: And the call quality/signal?

I'd have at least a passing interest in her... features though, and not just for looking at either.

Re: Get a Room

So a review you don't agree with is a bad review? There's possibly an element of that, but this particular article is so gushy you'd be excused for thinking it was written by Stephen Fry.

Re: Obviously A Fanboi ...

I know you've used the troll icon, but... huh?

Re: You bastards.

I've never found a bought bacon sandwich that is as good as a home made one.

Re: I have a friend in Spain

"Any comment on the quality of the bacon used in any Spanish tests?"

If it's anything like the bacon they had at hotel I stayed at in Majorca, it's bad. Imagine someone took a whole load of vaguely bacon like bits of meat, pressed them into a block glued together with fat, smoked it and cut it into thin uniform slices. It's like a sausage pretending to be bacon.

Re: Please Stop !!

What no black market in piggy products?

Alternatively, move somewhere less silly.

Re: Plug in cars ain't green.

"It's a bit like the proposed 'nuclear bomber' developments of the 50's and 60's where the Soviet Union spent a lot of money trying to get a nuclear reactor into a place before realising you couldn't do it!!"

Yes they could. They just couldn't fit in/get it to lift any radiation shielding.

Re: I miss the days of Tomorrow's World crazy technoutopianism.

You and me both.

Re: --> helping rich Brits

Idiot.

Re: Plug in cars ain't green.

Large scale power generation is always more efficient than small local sources, e.g. using an internal combustion engine. They may not be totally 'green', but they are greener.

Re: Team Register?

And let the raging hoards of fanbois know exactly who to direct their wrath at? Oh yes, you'd like that wouldn't you?

Re: No Galaxy Note II?

'people want to call the Notes "Phablets".'

These people need to be hunted down.

Re: Just me

They so do look like iPhone clones!!! Don't you know Apple invented touch screens, user interfaces, rounded corners, the colour black etc? Typical fandroid!

Re: Pricing and not pretty

...and I just paid £200 for a Nexus 7. £500-700 is utterly ridiculous for a phone.

Re: Quality

A possible answer to b) He's already got through the one for eating. This one's for show.

Re: Wholemeal?

White bread from a bag: now that's wrong. Personally I believe more or less any traditional bread type is fine, so long as it's of good quality. I'm rather partial to bacon in an oven bottom muffin myself. Perhaps I've been oop-narth too long than is good for me.

Re: You get what you pay for

Send in... the tro-o-o-o-olls.

Fair enough

Then the marketing bods need to get used to quoting approximate storage space. We're in the land of "up to" here, but at least people won't have reason to grumble.

Re: Rural not such a bad option

My thoughts exactly. Urban areas are more or less saturated with fixed line networks, many of which have a wireless hub on the end. Why pay more for a mobile contract for each device? Also, those cities are the ones where HSPA+ signal is excellent. You're not going to be downloading full length movies, but HD clips from YouTube are a breeze.

Whereas, there's a sound business case for reliable 4G signal in rural areas and a line of 4G-WiFi routers*.

*No doubt they'd rather you got a contract for every PC connected to the internet, but it's not going to happen.

Re: never ever

...a radio that may or may not become a genuine standard. I'm still hoping DAB dies out ASAP.

Re: "To suit all budgets?"

That, surely, is a better investigation for a reviewer: out of all the sub £100 gadgets, which ones aren't going to fall apart in a week?

Honestly, El Reg, you keep doing this. No one has any bloody money, so we need to know how to squeeze every last penny.

Re: Maple Syrup?

Only in terms of cost.

Re: Memo from the desk Tim Cook

That made me think of this quote from guess who:

"...when the Editors of the Guide were sued by the families of those who had died as a result of taking the entry on the planet Tralal literally (it said "Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts often make a very good meal for visiting tourists: instead of "Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts often make a very good meal of visiting tourists"), they claimed that the first version of the sentence was the more aesthetically pleasing, summoned a qualified poet to testify under oath that beauty was truth, truth beauty and hoped thereby to prove that the guilty party in this case was Life itself for failing to be either beautiful or true. The judges concurred, and in a moving speech held that Life itself was in contempt of court, and duly confiscated it from all those there present before going off to enjoy a pleasant evening's ultragolf.”

Re: Iran and NK make a trade deal.

@AC 1: Fair point, although there were at least people around Bush to stop him doing ultra-stupid things like invade Iran or try to destroy Al jazeera. If one of the Kims ever thought they could get away with invading South Korea again, I have no doubt they would.

@AC 2: I'm not sure the word "innocent bystanders" can always be applied but yes, they do like their proxy-wars.

Re: Iran and NK make a trade deal.

At least giants aren't likely to pick fights with each other. They have too much to lose.

Smaller, poorer, desperate nations (run by crazier people) may see war as a route to definite gain.

Re: Core i5

Never mind the battery, what's the heat output going to be like?

Re: Still too expensive...

Besides greed, the screen is probably the biggest factor that keeps the price up.

Re: If you're going to put pictures like that into a phone review...

Interesting idea Helena Handcart. However, in the real world...

Re: A solution in search of a problem

It probably comes with Polaris Office. The GSII does. LibreOffice for Android should be along at some point too.