WTF

I want a watch to tell the time, nothing more, so my trusty mechanical, as in wind up Aviator Chrono will do nicely. besides it doesn't need charging it winds it self as it is worn.....

I will go for something different

I am still using my trusty HP Pre 3, but likely go to the robot OS next, so i have the Oppo Find 5 and the Umi M2 in my sights

Bought a 7" from Amazon dual core Rocckchips 3066, 1.4Ghz quad core Mali 400 GPU 1 Gb Ram 8 Gb onboard, £64 delivered 3 quid for a case with built in usb keyboard and there you go, none too shabby, a netbook the size of a Filofax, remember them? it has hdmi out usb out so can be connected to the TV like a Raspberry Pi, and stream HD video. OK the resollution is only 840 x 480 or thereabouts, the touchscreen is responsive, but this one will do until a 10" model with quad core comes in around the $100 mark. Stuff olike Temple Run, Angry birds fly sic, on it. dead Trigger flies also, DJpro , and Caustic work fine with low latency; so all in all the Chinese have upped the game significantly.

Would I buty another yes, people who have seen it reckon it is OK, and wanted to know where i got it. So there we go, why buy into the wallwed garden?

Power Users, Circa 1994

I had a 486 DX2 66 (the intel, version not AMD) 8 Megabytes of RAM, and was considered a power user by mates with that spec, at least it ran the software of the day well, and I didn't need to fiddle with Config.sys and Autoexec.bat for Doom and Rise of The Triad. these days I use AMD processors in a build, as I can put a better graphics card in a build whilst getting a reasonable baseline performance. on a budget

Obsolete?

I keep an old Nokia 3330 with a PAYG sim as an emergency phone in the motor, well it picks up signal where a smartphone struggles and still gives good call quality. Snake is also OK for a bit of retro gaming.

O2 = Fail

A well known distribution company uses O2 for data transmission of delivery data for it's realtime parcel tracking system. Guess what? on many routes especially rural, no signal, and an entire delivery run can be out of signal for it's entire duration.

Here we go again

Well at least the dead pixels will be smaller, but equally annoying.

DRM

It's DRM Jim , but not as you know it Captain! So after a year they will offer you another licence to stream it, at the original cost of the Disc and UV copy no doubt.

Oh No Not Again

It would be logical if there were more HD channels coming on, but the sparse selection of free HD is apalling, so people are forced onto pay TV for HD.

Why Bother?

Well I suppose a fabboi with more money thath sense may want one, but otherwise beyond the pose value, it's a crock of shit

Great Expectations?

If all you want is phone, text and social networking, it doesn't matter what the OS is as long as it works, and the phone is responsive, natural competitors are the cheapo $30 - 50 dollar Chinese phones most of which are dual sim, so Nokia shold beat them on quality and longevity, albiet at more than twice the price, as you can get a dual sim Chinese Android for that coin.

Looks like it may fall between two stools, too big for a phone, but not big enough for a tablet, it depends on the pricing from the likes of Vodafone, and o2 .

They will try won't they

The government want more moolah selling off frequencies in the FM band so they want us to buy power hungry, digital radio to replace the trusty FM we know and love,

Digital has it's plac3e but so has FM

Now how about it here

Great move cobbers

Windoze 8?

The interface may be fine and dandy for touch screen and tablet, but we are a way off ubiquity for office workers wandwering around with a tablet and headset in a corporate environment. take Housing management, or transport, they are just getting to grips with virtualisation and Windows 7, having loads of legacy apps that have 16 bit code that Win 7 won't run. The wannabee execs no doubt prance around with tablets, but in that market the fanbois want I-Pad, not a borked Windows tablet.

Back to the penguin and Xubuntu, at least you can customise it it's quick, and hasn't got the Linux equivalent of Metro, Unity.

Twatter?

Can't be arsed with twatter, better things to do, as for PhysogBook, I don't bother with it either, people ask my kids, why isn't your dad on Facebook? they opine sadly that he is a boring Linux fanatic who doesn't believe a thing Microsoft or Apple says. it is becoming a regular offender in relationship breakup on Jeremy Kyle, my other half tells me

Likely some of these will be too slow on write for full HD in pro camcorders so check write specs with care imho

Well if it makes them happy in their sad empty lives then why not?

Nice backdoor for the Spooks of MI6 and NSA/CIA to listen in or watch through the backdoor then, let alone other randomers after those valued passwords and bank details, people are daft enough to store on their device,