Revolutionary my arse
What happens when the share price starts to slip? Seems a majority of the Media is underwhelmed too, interesting times ahead.
And those headphones that took 3 years to design? Long.
Posts by Chris 171
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iPhone 5: skinny li'l fella with better display, camera, software
Mio Spirit 695 LM satnav review
Monday 10th September 2012 21:37 GMT
Nokia Maps
The above on my N8 has made my previous device look a bit Fisher Price. 15k miles and counting.
Offline maps, huge poi database, clear visial lane guidance, nice lady voice who also warns of cameras, traffic info/rerouting too and all for free. Public transport update the most recent I think.
Plus of course, I only have one device in my car also handling music and the inevitable pita call concurrently.
Gets a bit warm when I'm also shooting images/video with it but hey.. I take a charging cable.
Lumia has a big trick up its sleeve in the mapping content Nokia has.
Windows 8 to grab iPad market share wrested back from Android
HTC's 4G patent beef could get iPhone 5 BANNED in US
Apple to launch streaming online radio service?
Listen up, Nokia: Get Lumia show-offs in pubs or it's game over
Apple eyes $$$ iDevice adapter bonanza
Nokia tears wraps off new Windows Phone Lumias on steroids
Mozilla dumps iOS, pulls Firefox Home from iTunes Store
Sony: Our Xperia S tab COPIED Samsung's slab ... on price
Sci-Fi fans blow stacks at copybot attacks
Sony Vaio 11 Duo hybrid PC hands on review
Curiosity parks for a day, looks back in wonder
Amazon: Time for a new Kindle Fire, this one's sold out
Thursday 30th August 2012 21:16 GMT
I'd prefer the Amazon till over apples.
But then, I bought a Sony Tablet anyway so I'm just weird.
I said when the Fire was announced that Amazon could be disruptive with it. I wonder which patents apple will try to sue under? These next ones from Amazon could really upset the idiot money applecart if they're half tidy.
Burglar steals $60,000 of computers from Steve Jobs' home
Sony Xperia tablet snaps spied on web
Friday 10th August 2012 11:28 GMT 
I like Magnesium.
Certainly more svelte than the current iteration (not that I'll notice as its on a stand most of the time) very very good Droid tab though. This update should hopefully attract even more of the discerning apple haters.
Surprisingly, my Tablet S had another update to ICS that arrived this Wednesday - Sony it would appear, are changing.
Woz: Cloud computing trend is 'horrendous'
Pasadena to party hardy as Martian landing looms
Judge rejects Apple's calls for Samsung censure
Sony slides expose saucy Xperia slate
Tuesday 31st July 2012 16:30 GMT
Looks good!
Really really happy with my Tablet S, good that Sony are continuing with the folded shape too, makes holding in portrait orientation much less wrist damaging.
The sound quality is also excellent via headphones/external speakers, battery life continues to surprise me.
ICS update brought more to the table & utilising Swype for text input really speeds things up. Ive always thought that they nailed the size with a 16:9 screen, just seems right in the hand, far less unwieldy than the 10"ers & for video it is of course perfect.
Sony have indeed done stupid things in the past but their small(ish) portable devices continue to offer genuine advantages over their competitiors. Was a little sceptical over the lack of Gorilla Glass but proved wrong, buff the thing with a microfiber cloth & it looks like new even after 9 months of daily use.
Plenty of time left on my two year warranty too....
Japanese fanboi builds FrankenPhone from 'bits of iPhone 5'
Monday 30th July 2012 21:01 GMT
Re: Any phone manufacturers with the headphone slot at the bottom?
Your all forgetting prior art means zip in this game.
Bits of paper ffs....
Will be interesting to see how the new port affects sales if true, how its sold too, if true of course.
Veering off slightly.. Bigger screens on smart phones are now null in the face of shrinking tablets tho surely? Just another black mirror slab.
Where's the things we promised in Earth Final Conflict?
Apple mulls over investment in Twitter
Judge: Apple must run ads saying Samsung DIDN'T copy the iPad
Giant super-laser passes 500 TRILLION watts
Yahoo! Poaches! New! CEO! From! Google!
UK judge hands Samsung win for being 'not as cool' as iPad
Watch out for the GIGANTIC ALIEN JELLYFISH, warns space boffin
Door creaks and girl farts: computing in the real world
Friday 6th July 2012 11:44 GMT
Re: For music alone, long live the CD...
Maybe not super ears but your right, most probably couldnt, or dont care.. they were happy with 128k for long enough....
With a decent separates system lossy files really are obvious & Im not ready to give up the happy feeling I get from the physical ownership of music just yet either.
Friday 6th July 2012 11:18 GMT 
For music alone, long live the CD...
In the real world I like the music I buy to sound the best it can, nothing like a big fat .wav as far as Im concerned.
Granted this then gets broken down to a 320kbps mp3 for mobile use but at home on the system, I want it all.
apples fault entirely of course, you dont need to buy CD's when you can DL from the horror that is itunes.. apparently....
Did your iPhone 'just stop working' - or did you drop it in your BEER?
Thursday 5th July 2012 11:45 GMT
Re: alt-tab functionality
Hello fellow Tablet S owner!
Echo your post in its usability, thankfully Mrs doesnt like touchscreens so its all mine & sees more daily use than any device before it.
As for Apple patents... what a cunch of bunts, especially the people that approve them without looking at the world outside their desk.
Apple iGlasses
What is the Nokia Secret Plan if Windows 8 isn't Windows gr8?
Chrome hits iPhone and iPad, storms to top of download chart
Google claims Chrome is the world's most popular browser
Google blocks MP3 rippers from YouTube
Intel to target TV viewers with facial recognition ad tech
Facebook needs Opera - to rescue it from dependence on Apple
iPad chargers can open beer bottles
Nokia's 41Mp cameraphone shoots towards retail
Wednesday 2nd May 2012 10:28 GMT
Re: Decent OS, screen, and GPU needed first!
Wrong...
Its a 41mp sensor that scales images back with clever software to around 5mp. It will also shoot at 38mp if you want it to. It also has better glass than any phone before it..
In a phone yeah its maybe a bit much but whatever. They've built it, this is good tech.
Opera retires Unite, widgets in latest browser cut
Thursday 26th April 2012 12:18 GMT 
@anon 11:55
Im guessing you dont use it from that comment. You take care now...
Unite was interesting & tested it a few times but found no use for it with a web accessible NAS in place. Widgets too seemed not to fit properly, extensions should still fill the gap nicely though.
Above all, its still the fastest page rendering browser by a country mile, with the best bookmark / speed dial sharing across every web connected device I own. I also trust Opera as a company far more than every other browser provider out there.
I aint changing - Opera ftw!
Austrian village considers a F**king name change
Moody's downgrades Nokia to near-junk status
Monday 16th April 2012 22:16 GMT
I'll buy a Windows phone...
When/if it can do everything Symbian can. From what I've read it's gonna take a while.
Elop must have known this right? This whole saga is starting to smell worse by the day..
Just make phones that can do tons of different things wrapped up in some lovely hardware. Not that hard is it? Nokia did it with the N8/9 already ffs, 808 just takes the biscuit on the mobile tech front too.
Phones are phones, 6310 as an example but these are converged devices. Make better, you don't need to copy apple, just skin Symbian on the quiet.
Nokia on 'brink of failure', warns analyst
Wondershare PowerCam
Thursday 12th April 2012 17:33 GMT
Tilt Shift Effect
Has been hijacked from special tilting lenses arcitectural photographers use to keep a buildings verticals, vertical (not on a path to convergance) when shooting from a low angle.
You can also repurpose these lenses to get a very very shallow Depth Of Field across a narrow strip of the film plane, which gives you the illusion of miniaturisation thanks to the majority of the image being out of focus.
As above, context is key and a high vantage point almost a necessity. Added to a jub load of contrast and saturation to further fool the eye.
Digital attempts to copy the true lens based effect are bollocks, tho I'd be lying if I said I hadn't tried once in post process. Much the same with HDR, once only WA enough.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
