Re: Oh dear..

They just won't turn it on?

Re: This is what happens when marketing people

Um, that's a pretty silly point. The whole point is that software people are good at making software, not good at making business decisions or doing marketing or customer service or UX design...

Software created only by software people with no input from anyone else is one of the reasons open-source retains a bad reputation... applications which are tremendously powerful but entirely unintuitive!

On the other hand, people leaving fake bad/good reviews for whatever reason is also important. In some cases (say Tripadvisor) it could potentially sink your business if a few people decided you were their target for the week.

A real review of a real product by a real person is not too bad IMO - reviews are not the same as YouTube comments.

Never tried Netflix on the Wii (we use the PS3), how is it?

In general I agree but 5Gb is not much even for a music player. If you were left with 8Gb I'd not be too bothered.

Re: I have a Lumia 920 (in Yelllow)

And of course someone who claims to like something you don't must be being paid to say that.

Re: Wireless charging

>>Not to mention on airplanes, where you aren't going to see them provide mains sockets or USB leads are you?

Yes they already do, similar to trains. But not as standard on economy.

Re: Not quite... :-)

I'm a bit sad, but also relieved, to hear that.

Carry on.

Re: Cue the +1ers farming votes.

Two badges surely.

Re: Where can I check my upvotes?

Ta for that. Wow:

In total, your posts have been upvoted 4747 times and voted on by Linux/Android users 4034 times.

Re: Awarded to user handle instead of account?

I didn't know you could have multiple handles for the same account!

Does this kind of ignorance lose me my badge ;)

Steve, please tell me that wasn't a troll. It'll make my day if someone that stupid reads the Reg.

Re: Barely one day?!

It depends a lot how much you use the phone. My Lumia 610 lasts multiple days with everything turned on but I don't use it very much. You'd guess someone reviewing a phone is a pretty heavy user so I'd take that with a little salt.

Re: Porn Apps

Do they even allow porn apps?

Re: I have a Lumia 920 (in Yelllow)

Got to love fanbois downvoting someone simply because he likes something they don't.

Re: Wireless charging

Well the article said it's a feature you don't know you want until you use it...

Carrying a cable is a minor inconvenience, carrying a mains charger a bigger one if you're not going to be at a PC.

However I read MS are teaming up with companies like Starbucks to provide wireless charging points. If THAT happens, the idea makes a lot of sense... ubiquitous charging in the same way as ubiquitous wi-fi.

Re: Apps

It's true that lots of key stuff (GPS, FB, twitter) is built in but while I don't really use apps much, clearly games and so on are a big deal.

Re: blame the network ?

The battery thing doesn't seem to be a big issue for real-world users - otherwise it would not be the norm - which really surprises me.

@J. R. Hartley

Pricing it cheap gives the impression it's just another cheap tablet. Pricing it at a premium price point gives the impression it is a premium iPad competitor.

Although:

>> I completely despise Apple

Basically means you're not worth listening to, anyone who holds such an overzealous opinion of a hardware company (unless it's purely due to human rights issues or something) is an idiot.

Re: Quality? I recommended a colleague buy a Nokia Lumia 710

If it's a specific fault to a minority of handsets and they'll replace it free, what exactly is the problem? Every product has some faulty units.

Re: Get some, already

"Most people who, uh, get laid regularly aren't interested in the constant sexual innuendo"

I think you'll find they are. Maybe you have a rather flaccid libido compared to normal men.

Re: slightly higher than they think OEMs" Indeed, that is precisely what they have done in fact.

Why would MS want to price it at the budget end? Android already have the crappy low-end of the market sewn up and Apple have proven that it's about margin not bulk sales.

Re: 80% for the best 10" tablet on the market?

>>Perhaps you could enlighten those of us fortunate enough to not own an iPad, and explain where it is better?

Since you can't even ask a simple question without feeling honour-bound to demonstrate what a fanboi you are, I think I'll save my time writing a proper answer you won't read.

Yeah. Although to be fair, Psy is at least a bit different to the other dross.

It's still better than Bieber's song!

Re: Slight discounts but nothing compared to shopping in the US

If it's way cheaper it'll be way crapper. You want a moderately cheaper one :)

Re: 80% for the best 10" tablet on the market?

Yes but it's not an iPad :)

Also you are as biased as you claim El Reg are - you list only things the Nexus is better. The fact you don't list a single negative shows you're biased.

The sales figures make it clear which people prefer, and it's not what you want them to.

The fact you think the iPad has been killed purely because newer tablets out-do it on the technical side just shows how little you understand about people.

Re: What are they on?

>>SQL scales very well. It had problems ten or fifteen years ago but today I don't usually see any problems. Even with 100s of TBs of data and thousands of concurrent users.

It scales well on a single server, and a powerful single server can do a hell of a lot. The problem is when you want to split/mirror that DB across multiple servers in different locations.

I still maintain the number of people needing NoSQL are very few - doing something because Google does it is really dumb because even giant DBs are nowhere near what Google is doing.

Re: cynical?

What are you on about, the films of LOTR were great.

@dogged

No I do not have him confused with Lewis. The two were friends; Lewis preferred to be overt with his use of Christian message in stories (it's pretty blatant) but to say Christian themes are not commonplace in LOTR simply shows your ignorance of either LOTR, Christianity, or both.

As a Christian and LOTR fan you'll have to take my word for that :)

Re: Prints harming

I worry about that too. On my iPad I noticed the screen is absolutely filthy when viewed from an angle, but all the smudges are totally invisible when viewed straight-on. With a laptop, you'd far more often find you were looking at the wrong angle, surely?

Re: One thing

I agree, it's possible MS could bring touch-screens to mainstream like Apple have done with other stuff... not a new idea but making it popular.

Re: Pointless

The only place it would be useful is on the train, which is the one place it won't be possible anytime soon.

Since Tolkein was a prominant Christian (as is pretty obvious from the books) I imagine this is likely to be the case.

AFAIK most TVs have wired networking, not wireless. Which makes it pretty hopeless unless you buy an adapter.

Perhaps I'm out of date with the current generation of smart TVs though and wireless connectivity is the norm, like with games consoles?