Posts by James 51

Re: Buy a smartphone? In enterprise?

If they disable the usb port, how does it charge?

Re: Will Nokia be properly supporting the N1 tablet?

Would be interesting to try to stick Windows 8.1 on it.

Re: > [Apple] just made its wares more attractive to lots more businesses.

Was talking to someone who was supporting the sales people from another company. He said that every time a new iphone or ipad came out this person had to have the latest model with the biggest capicity. Not because they needed any new features but so that person could impress other sales people by whipping it out at lunches. They had a mac too for being on the road but in the office there was a desktop PC sitting there.

Re: More photos kept back >-(

Might be a throw back to the first photos from Mars were they got the colours wrong and are checking them for glitches. More likely they are trying to maximise the impact of the photos and say this was money well spent, please keep funding space exploration.

Re: What's the need they're trying to fill?

Usually I don't feed the trolls but here you go:

A: Depends on your friends. If they're business people who want to be productive on the move then things like the passport and the classic might. Otherwise, trying to be cool is what got them into this mess in the first place.

B: If you're a business person or a big IM/Facebook user then yes. The Hub is still the best messaging centre of any handheld OS. Most android apps will work natively too.

C: Haven't used maps much but it's hard to image it being worse than apple's offering.

D: Up to you really.

E: The Passport has a voice based assisstant and it's rolling out to other handsets with the next update but haven't tried it yet.

F: No clue.

G: You get documents to go for free which is office compatible and there's a few other office apps available.

H: Dropbox is baked into the OS and there's plenty of apps for other cloud based services.

Just my 2p but Nokia lost their way thanks to bad managers and trying to be no.1 in the US instead of settling for being no.1 in the rest of the world.

Out of curiosity, can you cache shows to view off line the same way you can with a kindle fire?

Re: Profit margin

BB10 provides a good experience. The keyboard shortcuts in the likes of the Q10 are very useful.

Re: Android OEMs are copying Apple in all the wrong ways

"Sony is great for NOT supporting its phones at all. The Sony experience I had was a terrible one. No updates, a lot of crapware, full of bugs in the firmware and fast deprecation."

Pity about that. the Z3 compact was the first phone since the xperia mini pro that tempted me to buy an android handset.

The title is too long.

"Re: CommoditisationThere is a small demand for expensive ballpoints made of exotic materials, but they don't write any better."

Actually there's a noticeable difference between a 7p ball point from the stationary cupboard and a nice £20 or £30 pen from the likes of Lamy. If you use a fountain pen (particularly if you’re left handed) it’s definitely worth spending that few extra quid. Never tried a Mont Blanc so can’t tell you if the silly money stuff is close to being worth that (in terms of the writing experience).

I've lost count of the number of times I've heard stories about technology being invented by someone at a company but it's sat on to increase ROI on existing product lines. The market doesn't exist to push new technologies, it exists to accumulate money.

Didn't Regan try trickle down in the 80's? How did that work out?

Re: Why supply-side / trickle-down failed...

"They get rich by investing wisely"

So what do you call it when they 'invest' large sums of money in nominally politically incompatible parties and politicians?

Re: Reel 'em in

You beat me too it. As I was reading it all I could of was don't feed the trolls.