Posts by N13L5
447 posts • joined Wednesday 20th April 2011 04:58 GMT
Re: Torn between them all
There are some Android phone apps, that make the phone part dominant, has beautifully done large buttons for phone use and many options and styles...
Trying to remember the name maybe 'phone screen' or something like that...
Anyway, not too hard to make the surface of a flexible system less flexible (or twiddly).
The other way round is impossible, sadly
Re: Torn between them all
I have a Galaxy Note II... I never concerned myself with the disjointedness between Google's Android and Samsung's various overlays, ranging from mildly useful to just bloat.
You need need some personal power and enough will to take control of your device and banish anything you feel is disjointed or otherwise annoys you. Android allows this, unlike M$ or Apple! I recommend you download Nova Launcher for starters. Then the Iconpack Simple Text (for samsung the black version, cause using black backgrounds saves much battery on amoled displays)
Then just remove anything from your home screens you don't want or use. place widgets and icons for the stuff you do use, and you've made the device YOURS.
Now, if your complaint is too many menus, you kinda need menus anywhere you want to choose options and actions. You can't do without them on any phone or computer platform in existence. If the look of menus bothers you, I can only recommend to use widgets that allow you to set frequently accessed settings. But otherwise, you'll just have to live with it.
Personally, I find few applications have menus that are so badly done that they're worth a complaint. Those that are really that poor, just uninstall and get something else.
Not what I was waiting for either
Can we get OS choices anytime soon, Nokia?
You're like a restaurant offering a single dish. These are modern times, people like choice and they don't like to downgrade their software options. There are no onsite CAD and measurement taking apps on windows, there are no Pro-level audio recording, sequencing, synthesis apps on Windows the list of not available stuff goes on and on. Some of the app types they do claim to have 'available' are so barebones, they don't deserve the name.
Some people say: "soon they will have the same quality apps as iOS and Android" That'll be great, but "soon" is certainly no reason to buy a device now, cause it'll be discontinued long before the great apps happen there.
No replaceable battery and no SD slot is also a downgrade. A terminal downgrade.
And while I don't like Samsung completely dominating the industry, they dominate because they actually read what people want and build their products accordingly, offering things like SD slots and replaceable batteries of high capacity and a variety of operating systems. Samsung is like a big bakery, any size or flavor of bread or cake you want, they probably have it.
Would be hilarious if Jolla becomes bigger than Nokia in a few years
If Nokia hold on to Elop / Winblows much longer, it might happen!
Schmuck Journalism... meh
Unless we wipe ourselves out in ww3, there will most certainly be 5G, 6G, 7G and so on...
I've rarely read something so wrong headed.
Obviously, this is written for the benefit of some existing power, who doesn't want people to even think about anything past 4G.
And of course, Samsung has its own purpose in teasing us with it.
But this article.. whatever.. :P
Posted in Google pools cloud storage
Re: Google+ Photos used to be Picasa
yeah, I guess the author of this article wasn't aware of Picasa, which is indeed widely used...
Not sure the forced rebranding helped Picasa, but I guess G+ is the only thing Google really cares to grow.
Just for clarification: storing pictures larger than 1600x1200 is still "free", it just counts against your total storage limit. I thought I'd add that, cause I find 1600x1200 to be an unacceptable resolution as a 'backup'. Its fine to show pictures to people on your handy or tablet, of course...
Posted in Seagate CTO hangs up his hard disks
So you're the guy who...
...allowed all those clattering drives to go into sales instead of fixing that?
...allowed different drives to be sold under identical model numbers, like a 2 platter drive with good speeds sent off for reviews, but customers who buy one, have a crapshot of getting a 3 platter drive instead, running 30% slower. (Seagate Barracuda 2TB "ST2000DM001")
Seagate...
The Samsung "relationship" can be ended very simply by Samsung selling its shares. They will not be interested in screwing up their own business to aid Seagate.
Next thing, customers don't like the effects of the extreme consolidation in the HDD market one bit, with its inherent price fixing (500GB drives today are more expensive than they were 7 years ago, never returned to pre-flood levels).
Adding Seagate's sleazy business practices, their heaps of clattering, unreliable drives, I think you will find few customers who want them to become dominant in SSDs.
Its similar to Microsoft: customers instinctively don't want them to extend their monopoly to tablets and phones, so they stay away from the product, inspite of the massive evangelizing Microsoft has paid for.
The only thing welcome will be additional pricing pressure to the overall market. If Seagate forces down prices a bit, people will happily buy more Micron, Intel and Samsung drives. OEMs will be a vector for Seagate though, since most spec sheets fail to list the brand of SSD used, you might end up with one without knowing it.
Re: I don't get the this Landfill Android meme
"Landfill Android" was obviously created by some wanna-be competitor...
For Microsoft's marketing department, for example, that kind of thing would be a natural... remember the roidrage attempt to malign Android...?
I think at this point in time, a lot of Microsoft employees would find a fitting home in a landfill...
They have lost the ability to get anything right, partly by being inept, partly by purely following corporate agenda instead of customer needs.
A Sony phone with this year's hardware!
Maybe Sony is learning new tricks!
cool, I'll look into this for my wifey; her last phone died to water exposure in a monsoon rain...
Re: Why does the good Lord tempt us all like this?
From your post, I presume Shuttleworth is some higher-up at Canonical?
Anyway, with Ubuntu on our phones, whatever spyware there is won't last a week before someone distributes a way to cut that cancer. All we need is Canonical to complete it enough to go on phones, any imperfections will be fixed soon after.
Re: So Fugly it's mother would feed it with a catapult
Can we get this with Ubuntu sometime soon?
Well, I'd consider a purchase with Android, but Ubuntu would be preferable...
Posted in Flat mobe battery? Just light a fire
Re: But you can already get.....
ah a proper human/machine interface
Posted in Flat mobe battery? Just light a fire
Nobody in their right mind would buy a phone without replaceable battery.. :P
Posted in Review: Nokia Lumia 520
Re: I'll check it out.
Really...
He talked about how "cute" the phone is, and the dual-tone paint job err, what?
Then he said "People friendly" Windphone 8...
What's people friendly about Windphone? I can't even arrange things the way I like....
Ohhh he must mean that all your semi-random facebook contacts automatically get merged with your actual address book?
And his coining of the "Landfill Android" phrase shows bias if not outright shilling for M$...
So, if you prefer fogging, propaganda and spin over plain facts, then this was definitely a nice review.
Re: Android Malware and Number of Infected Devices
With Apple, iOS is the malware, since they will pass on your data to any government that asks...
Re: damn percentages again!
Your point?
An unqualified 'all statistics are faked' statement...?
Ubuntu! - waiting for that because....
Got tired of getting walled in and pushed around by Apple when iPhone 3 was new. now i just go for the best specced Android phone until Ubuntu comes out on high end hardware.
Sadly, Google is trying to force users into the cloud by removing SD-card slots from all its recent products. But the cloud is not always fast, available or even reliable, unless you never leave your hometown.
I resent Google for this purely self-serving act.
For users its rather unhealthy in times of re-emerging fascism pushed on us with the poor excuse of needing to protect us against terrorists, when we really need protection from Banksters, Corporate interests and hijacked governments.
Got tired of getting walled in and pushed around by Apple when iPhone 3 was new.
Now i just go for the best specced Android phone until Ubuntu comes out on high end hardware, which so far ends up meaning Samsung.
Sadly, Google is trying to force users into the cloud by removing SD-card slots from all recent products. But the cloud is not always fast, available or even reliable, unless you never leave your hometown.
I resent Google for this purely self-serving act.
For users its rather unhealthy in times of re-emerging fascism pushed on us with the poor excuse of needing to protect us against terrorists, when we really need protection from Banksters, Corporate interests and hijacked governments.
Posted in DataDirect in job slash bloodbath
Re: Double-digit growth?
Should they ever expect to continually grow?
Nope That's what's wrong with the economy.
Just take a 'mere' 10% annual growth as an example... Adding 10% every year results in a logarithmic curve reaching the vertical after a number of years. Even 10% is an impossible expectation.
Interest based debt-money is the driver of this unsustainable growth trap. We need a different monetary system to fix the needless boom and bust cycles.
But since there's some very powerful people profiting from this debt-money scheme beyond your wildest dreams, that's not going to happen without some cataclysmic event.
Nobody ever changed the monetary system in a history littered with failed FIAT currencies. Not because its not possible (see Austrian currency systems examples) But because there are certain people with a very strong interest to keep it the way it is, because they are getting stinking filthy rich off everybody else's hard work with their "legal" ponzi scheme - and they get to exert control over everything.
Posted in DataDirect in job slash bloodbath
Re: Marketing VP?
Its how they teach you to word things in B-school:
Just stilted enough to make optimism sound like already achieved facts.
He's matching every press release ever written, pretty much.
He missed a duplicate word left over from excessive editing though -1 :)
Posted in IBM pours $1 BEELLION into flash SSDs
lil bit late already, IBM?
I think this move by IBM is a reaction, not forward thinking, like their blog suggests.
There must be massive pressure from their customers by now to get their act together on speeding shit up.
Re: "or just "because it's Microsoft"?
Microsoft would be a good enough reason if your memory goes any further back than a couple of months.
What with their abortive product changes, they look like an out-of-control car playing ping-pong with the guide rails.
Add them screwing all their Music customers who PURCHASED DRM music, by simply turning off their DRM servers after a few years without compensation.
A company that pulls off a theft like that once, you know what their view on their customers is.
As for the OS, for me, its enough that I can't customize it, cause Microsoft insists on forcing their garish tile look on me.
I still think Elop is a trojan horse, responsible for the destruction of Nokia.
Facecrook will never get on any phone I own..
I don't trust their privacy and frankly, I find checking my FB page once a month is completely sufficient.
Re: I always use my phone for Google's GPS when I'm in California
If you say "California's highway system is hideous" because its ugly, I agree...
But driving all over it is cake and requires no Nav at all.
Something that happened a few days ago:
I was walking down the street, and some woman stood on the sidewalk, looking this way and that, making an impression of being lost. As I drew near, she asked me for help with the following words: "Do you know where number 52 is? My nav said its right here, but this is the wrong number!" I said: "did you check in which direction the house numbers go up or down on this street?" She replied: "no, but my nav said it was right here!!" She looked exasperated, like "how can this nav just be broken..."
So, I had to actually explain to her how to find the house number using her own brain.
And she didn't look like a dull, McDonalds eating, Fluoride contaminated water drinking zombie, to the contrary, she looked bright and educated.
Makes you wonder if we've not gone way too far on our tech craze...
Re: Wow...
There sure seems to be no shortage of paid Microsoft shills on every forum...
A very low-cost measure for M$, with rates around 0.01 - 0.025 cents per word or so...
You can just see how many shill posts the poor slobs have to write to feed themselves.
Looking in the mirror every morning must get more and more difficult with that kind of job.
Re: We Fail
Those morons need to offer another OS...
I don't even bother to compare Nokia's hardware specs anymore, because I know I don't want M$ on my phone no matter what.
Posted in Facebook prepares to dominate Android
Re: Zuck off
Facecrook own my homescreen?
Go die in a fire...
Someone ought to travel over to Poland and Ukraine and point out to them how crappy Microsoft products and policies are.
Re: Morons at Vodaphone
British people are really being abused by carriers....
Too hard to set fixed prices for a 2 year period? laughable!
They manage to do it in about every other european country as well as in the U.S.
Just burn them down...
Posted in Review: Sony Xperia Z
Poor Sony.. just can't get out in front in this race
They don't have the nice position of Samsung, where the sheer volume can make a more expensive to build device extremely profitable.
And since they're not doing so well overall, they can't seem to justify producing a potential flagship loss leader stuffed with everything good and expensive that would only turn a profit if they managed to sell 10 million or more.
Posted in Review: HTC One
Re: No microSD AGAIN (Auto-sync over wifi)
Android phones have lots of auto-sync options over cable or wifi available, including apps from the phone manufacturers, but that is not a valid alternative to an SD card:
1) you talk about "waterlogged SD cards", that's wrong to boot, Samsung's SD cards are waterproof.
2) you are usually not near your computer when something happens to your phone, so your latest photo / video will not have been synced.
3) if an iPhone is full, while you're on vacation, you're stuck! you can't quickly put an empty SD in, to keep taking video or whatever.
4) safe backup isn't the only purpose of an SD card: I have one SD card I keep Music, Audio books and electronic books on, I have several SD cards to record video on, which I can swap out as needed.
5) I also travel with more than one battery, which is great when traveling, you can actually use your phone without worrying that it will be empty when you get to your destination and need to make a phone call.
So, HTC is copying Apple's worst non-features here...
Posted in Review: HTC One
Re: No microSD AGAIN
yeah, I like HTC, but at the same time, I gotta say: boykott that crap with no SD card and no battery slot.
If we don't teach HCT now, next thing they'll follow Crapple on trying to eliminate the SIM card, cutting still more of our freedom on how to use our phones.
Kudos to Samsung for always including SD slots, and an S4 model with dual SIM card slots!
HTC, I've liked some of your metal cases for years now, yet your other priorities are all wrong, leading me to always buy something else.
How do we know you're not just making this up and shilling for Intel?
So why...
...are the ever more massive amounts of irrational capital all tied up in derivatives, instead of chasing one or more of the new memory technologies?
Since 2007, central banks around the world have been pumping gigantic amounts of cash almost exclusively into private banks, who then pass it on to their hedge fond partners and subsidiaries to go gamble with, rather than making loans (to each other or to companies)
You can't tell me they're suddenly all too smart to make (potentially) bad bets, as they continue to gamble ceaselessly . . . ?
Re: Innovation?
Yeah, an up to date iOS, where nothing really changed from the 'wall of icons' concept, except that they break your jailbreak every time, so you have to waste hours and hours to get your phone back to working the way you want.
Apple's way or the highway...
I'll take the highway any day.
Posted in Windows Phone 8 support to end in 2014
Re: Backwards Compatibility
"Those who enjoy death riding Microsoft's mobile efforts." That was funny...
And any upgrades won't exactly help you, if your phone by reason of some odd, heretofore overlooked lacking hardware feature can't be upgraded, like every single WindPhone7, for example.
Buying anything and counting on upgradeability is like playing russian roulette.
I'm sure WindPhone8 OEM's really don't appreciate this news echoing through the media, cause it massively raises their chance of sitting on a lot of inventory people won't buy.
Finally, I now believe that Elop was recruited by the NWO people to ruin Nokia via WindPhone OS, to punish Finland for refusing to join the new, totalitarian EU dictatorship being built as we speak.
Nothing is what it is anymore, everything is what it can be made to look like!
In fascist states, banks and corporations have all the rights and individuals have none.
We should have read about that before we let the TV lull us to sleep 50 years ago.
The EU has rules in the Lisbon contracts, that allow uprisings to be put down by killing everybody. Sounds identical to what Assad has been doing with much lamenting in the press.
Funny, given that uprisings are generally to be blamed on those in Power. When they get to legally kill those who are protesting, the U.S. and the E.U. are no different than Russia under Stalin, Germany under Hitler or Syria under Assad.
Nothing is what it is anymore, everything is what it can be made to look like
more pseudo statistical spin from Gartner...
Nobody I know has forgotten that the Galaxy line are Android phones.
If Samsung started selling the Galaxy line with Bada, Gartner would quickly find out that enough people remember Android after all, cause sales would come crashing down.
Gartner shouldn't forget that people who are ignorant to the point they don't know the name of their OS are usually also (rightfully) scared of buying the wrong thing, so they ask someone tech savvy among family and friends.
Quite a few people I know would like to see a Samsung line of phones with Ubuntu though...
Re: I get the feeling this idea of getting rid of SIMs is a solution looking for a problem.
The day Apple and other's have their way, we will have to rely on their goodwill and decisions how and when to let us switch providers.
Contracts that limit our ability to use a phone on different providers are not going to be too far behind.
Basically, this makes the day they only offer phones without SIM card slot is the day I will stop buying them.
This may take a few years of offering both, but the control freaks at greedy corporations will eventually push this through, unless we get enough people to boycott phones with that nonsense.
Yet another paid shill addicle?
Under Gates, at least to some degree, Microsoft cared what its customers wanted.
Now, the equation has changed:
Microsoft doesn't give a crap what its customers want, and hence, Customers have stopped giving a crap about Microsoft.
Its not Market developments unseating Microsoft, its their own awfulness and incessant scheming for tollbooths and other purely self-interest driven actions. The pinnacle of this behaviour was Sinofsky, coming to your desktop as your master, telling you how to do things, rather than the obsequious butler he should be.
Not really good news
I just hope this isn't the beginning of the end for standardized, open computer systems anyone can assemble from their choice of components, topped off with an operating system of their choice.
As for reliability concerns: Since ASUS started making boards with beefed up, high-end voltage-regulation components, I haven't had any problems.
I never turn off my system. Windows uptime is often several months. So obviously, its reliable. And I don't just browse the internet and do spreadsheets, I use a large variety of applications, some of which use CUDA, also digital audio recording and other content creation software.
I'm not trying to advertise ASUS, but I stopped buying intel mainboards after some glitchy boards in the early 90's, when I used to be in the business, and most the alternatives of the day are all history now.
As for the PC sales decline, I think there are simply way too many 'good enough' computers owned by businesses and consumers. The benefit of new vs old is relatively small, so people buy sort-of computers they can carry around incessantly.
What!? El Reg?
"Elop is an experienced media-savvy executive who always choses his words carefully"
I can't see how you can write this sentence, after Elop nearly downed Nokia, first with his gigantic 'Osborne' blunder and then continued with numerous other mistakes in corporate communication.
Then, he goes on to say "Nokia couldn't differentiate against other Android makers" and a few sentences later: "Nokia has enough technology to differentiate themselves" (and that in regards to Windows Phone, which allows no differentiation at all)
confusion reigns supreme
Re: Chrome
I don't actually want my browser to display pdf files. I want them downloaded.
Re: I'm no expert, but...
If only Apple actually made the best phone, I'd buy one...
But they are seriously behind on iOS, display ratio, connectivity, storage expansion, battery options, and last not least, the fact that you need the aptly named 'Jailbreak' to even have a moderate level of control over the item you purchased.
Re: It's not surprising
Its not surprising, cause Apple phones are kinda feature limited.
I'm certainly no Samsung fanboi, but if you are interested in certain freedoms not offered by Apple or Microsoft, you can't get around Android.
And if you are interested in more options than Apple's one-size-fits-all concept, but still want the highest quality and latest hardware, you just can't get around Samsung.
Of all the other makers, Sony, HTC, Moto etc, only HTC comes close to matching Samsung's specs, Sony is usually more than a year behind, though they just vowed to up their game, which they must, if they want to get anywhere.
Then there's Microcruft with the garishly colored tiles for the color blind. And the whole thing locked down worse than Apple. You might as well voluntarily check into a FEMA camp now.
Re: Didn't this used to be called Vertical Integration?
Yeah, and Samsung has it, while Apple just lets other people manufacture and assemble...
Making their walled software garden was a lot cheaper to build than advanced factories for Apple... now we'll see if that comes back to bite them, before their own hardware efforts come to fruit.
I think the chart is mostly good, but doesn't seem to manage to tally Microsoft's expenses fully.
The interpretation in the article gets a few things completely backwards. Like the thing about Google "moving in the same direction" They are not. They did not buy Moto for that purpose. At most, they're trying to have a trimmed down Moto survive by making the occasional Nexus device, without stepping on the feet of their other OEMs. Google engineers fundamental things, infrastructure... they will remain at the center without needing either a factory value chain or a walled garden.
Google has an advantage with consumers just by virtue of being less asinine than Apple and Microsoft.
People generally don't like corporate control freaks telling them how to do things and what they aren't allowed to do.
Bearer of false gifts for every last man, woman and child.
The interest is there, to get every last person set up with an electronic leash and locator.
Infect people's minds with our retarded 'unfettered markets' religion. Interest bearing fiat money is the new God, mainly allowing a criminal global banking cartel to get carried by everyone else.
Crappy but super-cheap new tablets shall be the ultimate spreader of corporate advertising and misinformation.
Behind every colorful message is hidden: "obey" remember that movie? its real...
please Microsoft, go die in a Fire...
I can't watch it anymore...
Selfish and incompetent at once is a sad, ironic combination.
It must be the great mental vacuum at Microcruft preventing its spontaneous combustion so far.
Proof positive that retardation is not devoid of benefits.
