http://www.reynholm.co.uk/intranet/resources.php

Love the fact that that it encourages you to go into the intranet and play...

Trouble is, it doesn't actually tell you a lot.

Example.

I had an iphone last year. I like it.

I need a new phone now, but I don't want to pay for it.

Ooh look Android Shiny - Blackberry shiny. Which was cheapest - Ooh blackberry newest and shiniest and cheapest I'll go for that.

Now if that person like BB, that's great, however if they come under the "newest and shiniest and cheapest I'll go for that." brigade, then same will happen at end of contract.

I assume there must be a lot of "newest and shiniest and cheapest I'll go for that." around, as otherwise, why would anyone buy a windows phone :-)

So if you have this problem, you take it back to apple and they exchange it for a handset that works.

What's the problem here exactly? Oh there's a couple of people that took a gamble, that they'd buy the phone cheap in another country, and now can't use their warranty. Well wasn't that the gamble?

If it's affecting an iphone sold in the UK, then your sale of goods act covers you, not of merchantable quality and DURABILTY.

Job's'a'goo'dun...

Brazilian Deforestation leads to unexpected consequences

Paris Hilton, becase we've seen she does...

People still have landlines? How extravagent!

Hang on, this is actually good, not bloatware

The basic lookout is not that bad.

Whilst I appreciate that organge (and t-mobile) routinely put bloat on phones, this is actually a decent idea!

WIth the power of the mac mini, and the advantage of a seperate monitor, there is now very little reason to get an Imac. Before you had to, as the mini wasn't powerful enough and the pro was a fortune. Now the imac makes no reasl sense.

Why not go with the Amazon model.

Do you want your TV to cost £100 more, and show no adverts, or £100 less and show adverts?

Sky for free with more adverts, Sky for £100 a month no adverts.

I got fed up with paying sky and seeing adverts, so I don't have sky, or Virgin for that matter, I don't care about the freesat/freeview adverts, as I'm not paying to see them...

Have to agree

My 2 32GB ones have gone back and another Nexus 7, perhaps the cellular one will be joining the 16gb nexus 7 in our house.

Too heavy and too wide for childrens use.

Too limited for adult use.

The fact that it was cheaper than a Nexus gave it a head start, but it's lost that advantage now.

Not how it's done.

Apple (whoa there haters, lets talk just about the stores) have shown how retail can be done successfully. Nice place to shop, Easy place to shop, lots of ability to try before you buy, and get hands on. Plus in apple's case there is not an undercut in the products online. Main issue with Comet/Dixons/Curry's etc etc is that they don't add ANY value. Their staff tend to know very little about the products and be very un-interested in selling them (and why should they they are on low pay, however they may find that was preferable to a closed down comet) The store does very little to help. Aside from some TV's all playing the same video, which 9 times of out 10 they can't tell you how it's getting there (is it hdmi?) and is not something you can compare from one tv to another, there is very little to be able to use in the store that adds to actually going there. Want a washing machine today, great you can't have one, all the ones in the store they can't sell, and the one you want is on 2 weeks back order....any value add there? Can you ring the store and ask this? Well you can if you can fight your way through endless 0870 IVR..hmm any value? Demo's can I go and see an android tablet being demonstrated, nope. Hoover? nope....So perhaps someone in these bricks and mortar stores needs to think why I, or any other consumer would want to go into one? Hint, it's not to place an order on a PC in the store, with someone who types more slowly than I do by a factor of 10, and who won't allow me to compare to 100 other stores for delivery/price at the same time. If I can do that in my Lunch break, I'm not going to waste my time coming to your stores.

So if there is no reason to go to the store, then guess what...people won't..

Arrived yesterday, not impressed

There seems to be quite a lot of issues with it, that should have been ironed out when it was available in the UK, support teams are a bit "we only get it yesterday..."

Screen is noticeably brighter and larger than the nexus, but the device as a whole is also much bigger and heavier.

£199 32GB KFHD vs £199 16GB Nexus 7, KFHD wins.

However if the rumours are true, and the new nexus 32gb is £199, then I'd go for the nexus, it does more, is more portable (if you don't want portable, when why bother with a 7" tablet) and is easier to use one handed.

It's kind of about the apps....

I've spent a reasonable chunk of change on apple ios apps, possibly slightly more than I did on Symbian ones, and Windows CE ones before. I kind of like the fact that I get more out of my apps, since some of them were bought, oo about 6 years ago.

However, having got a Nexus 7, as I wanted to try something a little more portable, I think it's a great bit of kit I've started to look at the Google and Amazon app stores. With the N7, the kids use it at home, so I don't have to fight over my ipad. However as more and more things move digital, it would make sense to get some English and Maths apps, and other educational apps (for 9-15 year olds) that would improve their maths, English, perhaps some physics, chemistr,y biology etc. However whilst there are loads on the Ipad/Iphone, there seems to be none on the android/amazon stores. So I could get the kids a couple of NExus's, or a couple of Amazon Kindle Fires, but unless all I want is them playing angry birds, it might have to be an ipad mini as the apps aren't there.

However being as I'm buying two of them, I'm looking at and lets compare apples with apples

2 x Ipad min 32gb 8gb is 269 so 16 is 369, 32gb is 469...whoops hang on, that's the same price as 2 Amazon Kindle FIre HD's. Which I know doesn't have NFC..(who cares) and doesn't have GPS..would be nice, but kids don't care.

So do I pay twice the price for 2 ipad minis, or just hope that someone realises that the Android app store needs improving and more educational apps...

Great Device, Great OS. shame about the Apps and the App store

I love my Nexus 7, I loved the voucher I got to use with it.

I hate the Play Store.

I hate the Amazon store a little less as it gives me a free app a day, and some of them even work.

However many of the Apps look terrible on the Nexus 7, and I can only assume even worse on 10" tablets.

Plus many many many of them, just don't work.

BBC Iplayer anyone? Nope..

Flash, nope.

Skype..sort of.

Notespark - no app.

1Password - only reader.

PvZ HD..nope only Standard Def here...

And that's not counting the ones that install crap on the device, and try and get you to buy more stuff by popping things up. Makes smurfberries on iOS look tame.

At £159 the google nexus is a steal. At £50 less than a "proper" ipad, for thr 7" version, why one would anyone bother?

Free but for $99.99 worth of crapberries

Trouble is they've run out of gullible fools who are prepared to spend real money on a virtual game, just to speed things up.

Apple has closed the "it was my kid" loophole. Google the same, even WOW with it's once fanatical base of fans is having trouble convincing people to pay for a game, and then pay again next month, and the month after.

The only one that seems to be holding it's own, is xbox live, but perhaps that's because the price makes the online part work for a number of games.

or get a full-fat smart phone for less money - t-mobile vivacity

S40, wow, so last decade.

If I can buy a t-mobile vivacity, unlock it, and get a 5mp camera, better screen and better apps, for half the price, then how can you possibly say "the Asha 311 has much to appreciate. It’s cheap," It's not even that.

You've already done a <£100 android test which has several phones that beat the pants off this.

If I want cheap for the "but as a backup or travel phone or your young’uns first handset" I want it either sub £30, or rugged and water proof.

This is neither, You can pick up loads of S60 and S40 phones cheap on ebay, why...simple nobody wants them, there are better phones about now.

If you really want a backup emergency phone, then I'd take a 6210, which has days of talk time, and weeks of standby!

Admittedly, the Nexus 7 needs a 3G version for true data portability, an absence

Oh no, you mean for some reason I can't link it to my smartphone and share it's data connection, oh woe is me.

Perhaps it then does need 3g, as opposed to noone really needing it if they can tether it (or someeone else is paying the data charges)

So if I come up with a top 10 list, can I wax lyrical about some stuff that's been sent to me, whilst not really explaining why they were picked over more obvious better candidates?

PS3-Xbox 360 (Why blu-ray when you can have 1080p digital media?)

Sony Amp, Vs Onkyo amps, cheaper with rae reviews.

Ikleen vs Roomba, Roomba gets the rave reviews, and can be picked up for nearly 100 less than the ikleen, plus has a 30 day, I'm not happy send it back guarantee, that the ikleen doesn't....

Perhaps we should just list...top 10 things I can see from my desk.

top 10 things I saw on the way to work.

10 top things I wish people would send me for review...

Where's the HD Hero?

Given that people have dropped it over cliffs, off cars etc, why is it not in the list? Especially as you can get the lcd back with it and it's still cheaper and lighter than most of these cameras!

You can buy another mede8er or similar and a hard drive for less than this. If it included ethernet and was about £150, it would be interesting, at £410, much less so.