Re: 75%? (@BarryShitPeas)

Well it explains why they gave it a over generous review and score.

What saddens me is they we will have to suffer even more deluded WP idiots and shills now...

Re: Beware, beware the ides of March

This "news" has everything about the Facbook IPO. It's all about making investors feel happy that Google won't overtake Facebook in the same way Facebook killed MySpace.

I wil bet money that Google (and G+) will be around long after Facebook is a baren MySpace-like wasteland...

" ram-it-down-your-throat approach with a 'f**k-you' response"

Want to expand on that? As clearly if Google were forcing everyone into G+, the userbase would be huge.

Surely the point here, is they AREN'T forcing people into it.

Re: I said it before...

Indeed, Apple are scumbags... But then didn't we already know that? Using slave labour to make their shiny things.

Re: 75%?

Indeed. It's really a 55% but Microsoft's influence over inflates the score.

Anyone that's USED one of these will know it's littered with problems, ranging from usability problems (try using the keyboard with telephone banking), to hard locks that require a battery pull (ooops, no removable battery, hard reset....) Added to the well documented sluggish UI, dire app selection, reception problems, it's a turd of a phone, which considering Nokia are promoting as their flagship is not good.

My advice, steer well clear of Windows Phone. This time next year it's going to be as relevant as WebOS.

Re: I uninstalled it ages ago

Seems all clear and above board, clearly it wants to know where you are, and you need data connectivity, and you don't want the screen turning off whilst watching a movie trailer.

The only weird one is the vibrator, I doubt it would be malicious, only pleasurable if they take advantage of that and give me a party in my pocket...

Re: Google Calling the Kettle Black

Opera Mobile works just fine here.

For this tripe, you have earned the Shitpeas dickhead of the week post.

Congratulations.

Re: On the one hand...but on the other...

Video here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/video/2012/may/09/google-self-driving-car-video?newsfeed=true

Re: On the one hand...but on the other...

What this article fails to mention, is that the car has already clocked up #140,000 miles with no accidents in California...

Re: Misleading

Indeed:

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AORCL

https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:GOOG

Google's didn't really change over the last week, but Oracle's continued to slide. I think that pretty much sums things up. Oracle so far are the losers, and the liklihood of the Judge calling API's copyright-able after the EU have just ruled they aren't are pretty much non-existant.

Watch Oracles stock fall further than that happens....

Re: I'm guessing

" the world's best selling console"

Errm, you do realise the Xbox360 is now firmly in last place this generation?

I'm guessing you are American and have been brainwashed by Microsoft's cherrypicked US-only NPD numbers....

Congratulations for winning the Shitpeas EPIC FAIL of the week award.

Re: Dear Jorma :- I am curious.

The ONLY thing that will save them, and one that's universally accepted in both the tech and business sectors, is that Nokia adopt Android..

Wasn't it only last week, we heard the following from the retail sector:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/04/17/uk-nokia-telcos-idUKBRE83G08Z20120417

"No one comes into the store and asks for a Windows phone," one executive an a European carrier told Reuters."

"If the Lumia with the same hardware came with Android in it and not Windows, it would be much easier to sell," he said.

They are in do or die territory right now. It means swallowing pride, or going bust... I'm guessing the Microsoft contracts, and the big Microsoft "bung" (under a different name) they just received prevents them from doing so.

Re: There's room in the Last Chance Saloon... (@Barry)

Well I would say Windows Phone on a BB handset, as from where I am sat, it would work better as a door wedge than a Playbook. You mileage may vary....

Re: There's room in the Last Chance Saloon...

They have already driven past last-chance saloon holiding the map upside down infront their face.

Had they accepted their problems six months ago, they could have been launching Android 4.0 handsets and watching their shareprice recover. Like Nokia, they are too stubborn or too ignorant to see this thou.

6 months time, we will be lucky if RIM still exist.

Re: .....says

HTC never gave me any phone. It came from a large online retailer.. If you are going to stalk my post history, at least get it right....

I think I pissed off quite a few cyberturfers in Reading the other morning when I worked out their game... I'm guessing El-Reg already know their games from ip addresses, it's just a shame they don't crack down on it, I guess it makes them money no to...

Re: Is Windows Phone 7 fit for anything?

I had a Windows Phone, it was given to me as a review unit, and it was utter shite, really not worthy of any useful purpose.

It might have looked quite nice, but it wasn't actually useful.

Re: Is Windows Phone 7 fit for anything?

You can tell it's a weekday, all the Microsoft Reading employees downvoting me...

testcase?

As Opera is VERY good on sites that bother to adhere to web standards.

Re: I'm confused

PS3 has been selling at a profit for about 2 years now.

Wake up.... Besides which, consoles are always loss-leaders, and the real money is gamie royalties and licensing.

www.edge-online.com/news/sony-ps3-now-profitable

Re: Amazon Kindle Touch touches down 2 years late

The only people that were saying touch wasn't a big deal, WAS Amazon. Now it's the best thing ever.

It's like Apple saying Android's desktop widgets aren't useful, or notification bars are rubbish (ooops forgot OS5 copied them, notification bars are now essential).

I use both the touchscreen and the buttons on mine, depending upon the situation. I find the touchscreen swipe better most of the time, but occasionally, like reading in bed, the buttons work better.

Nothing to do with China.

Apple were using dubious tricks to try and buy the name in the first place.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/02/27/how-apple-snookered-proview-to-get-the-ipad-trademark/

Doesn't look good for Apple.....

idiot alert

What you fail to grasp, is that all the stuff being retired is being done because there are better alternatives.

In the case of Picasa, it's G+ photo storage, in the case of GTalk mobile, it's GTalk for Android and so forth.

Whilst the spin doctors may be pretending this is all useful stuff, it's not, it's all redundant...

Why?

Because if you really try hard enough on Android you can get a virus...

YOu can't simply "get" this, you have to REALLY go out your way.. It's a shame this article is so biased that it fails to mention that rather important fact.

Re: foolish

Errm they do..

You can't get this malware, without first finding it, then downloading it, then getting this warning and accepting it...

http://i44.tinypic.com/xdaw50.png

If that's not security, I don't know what is.

What's NOT on, is how the media are portraying this, and how Sophos are destroying their credibility in the process.

FUD at it's most extreme is perhaps the only way to describe this.

Re: what devices are supported?

Is your PS3 a mobile device?

Re: Patents dear boy, patents

Apple's push email is already an infraction on a Google patent. Hasn't push email notifications been disabled on iPhones in Germany, with the rest of the globe soon to follow?