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So in summary, me pulling out an iPad to play a couple of games to pass the time while I sit on the bus on the way to my mate's house where we'll spend the day playing on his PS3 or playing Borderlands = the death of the PS3.
Ahem.
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Make something that's rubbish, and people won't buy it. The Desire Z was rubbish - why did HTC have to make that the phone that got only the 800MHz processor when the standard Desire and the Desire HD both got 1GHz chips? Why did the Z only have a 3.7" screen, when the HD had a deliciously large 4.3"? The keyboard was the only good feature the Z had, and even the build quality of that was dubious. The price premium for this cut-down but keyboard-enabled phone was ridiculous.
Ultimately, when they offer us something that's not good enough, we're either going to lower our standards, or buy something completely different. Had they given the Z a decent size screen, a decent CPU, and sold it at a decent price, they'd have sold at least one more. As for the Motorola, I didn't know it was available in the UK. Motorola's marketing team should be shot and dumped in the sea.
Four downvotes for Gregianos, but really, what's not to love about the Dell Streak? Yes, it's a bit big, but you get used to that within a few days, and once you're over the shock, you're left with a device that's just a luxury to use. It's big, fast, powerful, stable, and anything that can benefit from a larger screen absolutely shines on its 5" display. There's nothing on that list that I'd swap my Streak for. And why you featured the Galaxy Ace rather than the Streak defies any understanding.
It's probably a factor worth considering. At Cineworld, an afternoon showing is £7.10, while the evening showing is £8.30. Seeing it in 3D adds £2.10 to the ticket price, and the glasses are an extra 80p. Basically £3 extra, or between 30 and 40% more to see the film with fancier effects.
Personally, I love 3D. I just wish it didn't command such a premium.
Single mother, two kids to look after, she treats them to an Xbox. The 11 year old asks to use XBL to play online with his friends, she obliges, he does all the work with her overseeing because she doesn't know how to do it herself, and doesn't understand techology terribly well. If any questions arise, he bullshits her, and she's too trusting to know any better.
The bills come, she doesn't bother checking them properly, or at all. This is really stupid of her.
She kicks up a fuss, no-one cares, so she kicks up a bigger fuss, everyone laughs at her. She hires a solicitor, who, despite the cynicism from you guys, /might/ actually be able to help. You see, I've studied US Civil Law at length*, and by the terms of it, a contract can only be formed with a responsible adult aged 18 or over. Since the kid is 11, he's by no means a responsible adult, and so any contracts of sale he initiated are arguably null and void, and she might be entitled to a refund afterall**.
* That is, I've watched Judge Judy a few times.
** Well, maybe. There was an episode once about this sort of thing, and I'm pretty sure the plaintiff won.
An 8GB MicroSD card (which is what these things have, buried under some plastic and tape, and protected by some screws) costs £12. A 16GB card costs £17. That's at retail, after delivery. What it means, is that HTC could've given its customers 100% more storage, for 1% more on the price.
And this is largely why I went for an Orange San Fran. HTC used to be good, but now they just treat their customers with contempt.
Or:
£300 for a Pentium Dual Core or Athlon X2 laptop, with easily enough power to decode 1080p MKV without dropping a frame
£80 for a 2TB harddrive
£0 for XBMC . Google if you're unaware of it.
£100 for an Orange Sanfrancisco. It's a phone that does a billion things, but the one we're interested in is the XBMC remote control app, which you really should search Youtube for footage on, since it's awesome
£480 for something considerably more flexible, capacious and, frankly, flash. At £600, this is really far too expensive considering how little you get.