Posts by calonddraig
12 posts • joined Saturday 13th August 2011 17:58 GMT
A4
13 inches would more than fit an A4 sheet. I spend a lot of my time reading academia, most of which is distributed as A4 PDFs that just don't work on a kindle and are hard enough to read on a tablet. Unwieldy or not, if they're selling a 13 inch Ereader, I'm having it.
Re: The welsh lobby
By the same token, and based on percentages of speakers, the best thing the English could do is drop that impeding language called English, and all go and learn American, Simply isn't global any more, to be forced to learn a backward language when a new superset of it (American) exists.
Get used to it, other countries exist apart from England, and the dream of English imperialism is dead. Monoglot or bilingual, why should we let our language die because it might offend the English? Many English people can speak French, but do we suggest that they stop speaking English because they can speak something else? No. Let people speak what language they are comfortable speaking (or in this case reading!)
Local Tin
I wonder if they'll be using this on bog standard PC hardware, or if those home-grown MIPS clones they brought out a few years back will get a new outing in locally designed boxen?
Apple will be salivating on lawsuits already...
*Snapdragon even!
Since when did Samsung make Dnapdragon CPUs? That would be Qualcomm...
...Get your facts straight and don't try to keep the Apple and Samsung inextricably linked in articles - it gets tiring!
RISCy business for ARM
Intel could do a lot worse than buy up or licence the MIPS architecture. Direct competitor to (and architecturally similar to) ARM, and unlike ARM, has already made the jump to 64 bit some time ago...
Posted in Kobo Mini 5in compact e-reader review
Size is everything... bigger please.
Great, an even smaller eyestrain-inducing device. Most of my reading these days is academic papers and expert periodical literature - most of which comes in A4 sized PDFs. I would _love_ an ereader with at least a 10'' if not A4 sized screen that could display these natively without a lot of fiddling. And I would be happy to pay up to £200 for it. Why not a tablet? Two reasons, battery life and eyestrain from a glowing screen.
Posted in RIM sets date for BlackBerry 10 reveal
Re: RIM and Nokia
I think RIM are in a much stronger position than Nokia, at least they didn't sell their soul to the devil and tie their products to another company and OS (I.E. Microsoft). If BB10 on phones can indeed run android apps, as has been claimed, and is seen, at least by the public, as being more secure than android, it will go far. It may well also become the much-hyped 3rd ecosystem ahead of WP8. As for clunkyness... I hope not - after the lengh of time it's been in development.
Strangely enough, I remember another company about 15 years ago which was commonly believed to be on the verge of total collapse. People even suggested that the only way forward was to licence clones to Dell. They turned their business around and are currently rather popular...
The thinnest storage for your ultrabook... use the A: drive.
Might be best if they pick a different name to market it under... A-Drive smacks too much of floppies for my liking.
Posted in Free apps suck your power: researchers
"Among the 21 apps tested were browsers, photo uploaders, newspaper apps, mapping, Twitter, browsers"
..."You said Browsers twice..." Reply: "Well, I like 'em!"
HTML5 anyone?
This sounds like an attempt to create a technology for writing 'apps for the web' rather than using the web it's self - no thanks. Let HTML5 mature and avoid this nonsense. This is simply an attempt to introduce native apps to the cromebooks in retrospect.
