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17 posts • joined Thursday 8th July 2010 10:21 GMT

BXL
Happy

Re: no mention of the elephant in the room

Not any more. Our Marmalade SDK is now supporting native x86 C++ apps on Android. It was relatively painless to convert from using the ARM tool-chain to the x86 ones.

BXL

Re: 10 years is not enough!

and then hopefully Thailand can take a turn, then Kenya, Hong Kong and Egypt..etc.

BXL

Re: @Bush_rat re. the take-photo-button

I'm pretty sure that the iPhone doesn't have mechanical shutters, they take up a large amount of space. Pretty much all camera phones, and a lot of compacts, uses electronic shutters. The only phone I know of that has mechanical shutters was the old Nokia N93. The Shutter noise is generated by the phone, in some countries, (Japan ?), it's a requirement by law to have such a sound.

BXL
FAIL

No, mine did it a couple of times already.

BXL

Yup. I've ordered BT Infinity 24 hours after I've found out that the "doubling" has been delayed by a minimum of 6 months. I'll be getting a slower service from BT but it'll be £10 a month cheaper and BT have not lied to me yet.

BXL

Re: When contemplating the latest generation of high-end smart phones I feel myself..........

I don't think the One S has an SD card slot either.

BXL

They were waiting on Android 4.0 (ICS) which less resolutions dependent than the older versions. Apple can get away with iOS as they can get away with keeping the same UI regardless of the screen resolutions and due to their pixel doubling of older iOS apps.

BXL

How to solve your problems on Android...

1. Install a different email client.

2. Install a different keyboard.

Try doing those actions on an iPad.

BXL
Stop

I'm pretty sure the sale haven't gone through yet

so don't assume anything.

BXL

Hold the power button for 10 secs

to reset. SOP now I think.

BXL
Happy

Aren't those 2 things incompatible ?

BXL

You are not going to get one if you haven't got it by now

Got mine within a few weeks of the announcement. Also, not just any developers will get the free phones, only the ones on the pro development programmes.

BXL
FAIL

iPad2 has just been announced

Since it will be out in the UK 25th March, the Xoom will be DOA.

Posted in Infinity Blade
BXL
WTF?

The review reads a little on the negative side

and then you gave it 80%! Most games would be proud with that.

BXL
FAIL

Got one of these

It's not ready for prime time. Slow and buggy, I've hit a bug where my drives will disappear from the device every single day until it has been rebooted. I don't know what the iPhone one is like but the Android's application is useless.

BXL

Suppliers do "pay a fee" to sell their products

It's usually call a "co-marketing" fee. See the numerous complains about supermarkets forcing their suppliers to pay them money for putting products on the shelves.

BXL
FAIL

£250!!

They know where they can stick that.