Re: Question for the Windows Phone executive

Works on the Dell Venue Pro, "Anonymous Coward". Troll fail.

Re: So they've created

It should run full-fat Win8 without issue. The Acer Iconia W500 runs it in 1GB of RAM, after all. And a worse chip.

What part of the "Express" part were you too stupid to deal with?

Re: blimey...

More evil than Google?

More evil than Apple?

More evil than Oracle?

Highly unlikely, in all cases.

If you want evil-free, you're shit out of luck. So pick your evil-of-choice and shut the fuck up.

"Silly play bricks"

I'm counting up the number of people who consider themselves too stupid to use a launcher but I can't tell from your comment whether you think you're stupid or whether you're just following the herd.

Please clear this up for me so that I can get an accurate count.

Re: dogged is not available at the moment, leave a msg after the beep....

Who did you find?

Re: Still down

Back up as of now.

Worst. Reporter. Ever.

Here's what Paul Thurrot has on this -

[quote]This week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was widely reported (including right here in WinInfo) as having said that he expected to see as many as 500 million Windows 8 users by the end of 2013—a fairly impressive feat given that the product will have been on the market about 15 months by that time. Microsoft PR contacted me to explain that he never actually said that, but wasn’t able to provide a video or transcript of his speech, nor tell me exactly what he had said. But the basic gist of it—since, again, no one seems to be able to provide this very basic information—is that Ballmer was simply reiterating a statement the company had made previously in its Windows Store blog, that there would be more than 500 million Windows 7-based PCs ready to upgrade to Windows 8 by the time Windows 8 ships. And the credible Todd Bishop says that Ballmer actually said the following in his speech: "With something like 400 million to 500 million users expected in the next year, the best economic activity for people building machines, and the best economic opportunity for people writing applications, will be around Windows." Point being, Ballmer was talking about Windows generally, not Windows 8 specifically.[/quote]

Yes, I know BBCode doesn't work but it's a nice delineator.

Gavin, do you get this crap from Google or what?

Re: @Stoneshop: Microsoft *must* be on dangerous ground messing

That's true. I used to work for Motorola years ago as an RF engineer, designing logic and faultfinding on GSM base stations.

They have a LOT of IP in the field of what you'd call BIOS on a computer and plenty regarding packet-switched network design and implementation, fault diagnostics and network maintenance.

On the software that makes a phone work?

Not so much anymore. They don't even use their own OS these days, or make their own chips. So yeah, Moto have a lot of IP. Almost none of it is relevant against a software company.

Re: What is the difference between a smartphone and a featurephone?

Since IE and Messenger are both baked in, that doesn't happen.

If your video stops playing while you take a phone call, I'd call that a feature.

Re: Ian 62

Ian - I don't think it's possible. Tagging is a link to a facebook profile. If you don't have one, it can't be linked.

The AC above is either a troll or just stupid.

Re: What is the difference between a smartphone and a featurephone?

It can. YOU can't code it, though.

If you can check email while playing music, multitasking is happening. WP can do that because the music player has native access.

It can multitask. It just doesn't let any old idiot with a copy of Visual C# Express fool around with its nethers. If you feel that makes it less than "smart", that's your decision.

Re: Baidu

Android phones are going to be pointing at Google

In China? Very, very unlikely.

Re: Germany

Because German patent law is brutal and German courts are regarded as sympathetic. It's like suing in Delaware or East Texas.

Re: The Cabal?

This isn't USENET.

Re: Bej'Asus!

I think you mean "Acer". Asus make great kit. The only people who hate it are Apple fanbois.

You could offer yourself to Motorola as an expert witness in rendering this patent invalid but if nobody mentions your prior art in court, it's as if it never existed.

So basically, if this offends you so much, telling us is just pissing the wind. Contact Motorola.

Re: Durr

You've said it's untrue without any reference at all, no evidence, no supporting links, no indication of exactly what is meant to be untrue, nothing.

That makes you a dick.

Re: MS vs. non-MS

Yeah, google are lovely fluffy bunnies who love everyone, especially YOU. Riiiiiiight...

Motorola have certainly sued over patents though. And this case was brought against Motorola, not Google.

Agreed. I've resurrected my Razr V3xx for weekend use (don't need smartguff outside work) because it has a three day battery life and still does pretty much everything I want.

The thing about good old-fashioned phones is that they're brilliant phones. Smartphones tend to be mediocre at many things.

"Extremely long copyright terms"

I'm a little concerned by this "extremely long" descriptor being bandied about.

Suppose you wrote a book. Suppose it was never really huge being a bit visionary but years later, somebody noticed how awesome it was and it got huge. HP Lovecraft is a good example here. However, suppose that unlike Lovecraft, you survived.

If copyright terms were as short as I've seen mooted here, you would quite literally never earn a penny on your creative genius. You would die in poverty (like Lovecraft) while everyone else had a great time reading your book on their Kindle.

Something about this strikes me as really, really not fair.

Is that wrong of me? Does that make me a copyright fascist? It must be horrible to be the one making that kind of call.

Re: Lots of love

My mum does that. Always freaks me out.

@rhdunn

Your comment indicates that you believe that the Metro interface is more than a glorified app launcher.

It isn't. Use it as a launcher and it's fine. No real interference at all.

Re: Not a snowball chance in Hell

the Android smartphone is the new PC.

Is there a House Rule against posting while high?

it's not. Engadget have the press release. It's way, way more boring.

Re: Most possible solutions to these problems will be outstripped...

If you're volunteering, I can kill you pretty painlessly.

Re: Just make sure

Disqualified by the hugely underwhelming Samsung Focus.

Re: Epic Fail

Before they are discovered, they can wreak absolute havoc on your life, career and finances.

Always terrifying how many of them there are.

Re: General consensus

"we all seem to agree"?

No, not so much. "we" all pretty much hate everything MS on principle and "we've" become a little self-reinforcing club, like Apple cultists or conspiracy weirdos all telling each other how "right" "we" are.

That's cool though. It could be hilarious if "we're" wrong.

Re: Some surprising omissions

Try North Wiltshire. 1bar of 2G outside from O2, nothing whatsoever inside or outside from anyone else.