Re: I really get tired of this bemoaning 'evolution instead of revolution'

Actually, people who have the money to buy a high-end phone probably have the money to buy a decent all-in-one type remote, a la Logitech Harmony :)

Re: Follow the money

Please don't give them ideas!

@Rocket888

Exactly, at first I thought what a terrible idea, and this is going to punish everyone who can control themselves/drink modestly. But 50p per unit is going to do nothing to the majority of the country who enjoy a 2/3 unit pint which already costs at least £3.50+

Re: It is even slower than you say

You just showed you didn't understand it fully - the intention is this compression would be used only on the server side, and the decompression is no more taxing than existing algorithms (the same in fact), so unless you're running your servers on batteries, this would not affect battery life in any way.

It doesn't need a data connection at all, other than to initially download the thing.

Re: Target Acquired?

Bringing your business to it's needs doesn't sound too bad, in fact, it sounds quite a good thing. However, if it was brought to it's knees, that's a whole different story.................

Re: No Dave!

Dave? You mean Top Gear TV, right?

Don't get me wrong, I love Top Gear, and when I was on Freeview, Dave was one of my most watched channels, so I thought I would miss it when switching to Freesat a few years ago, but actually, there's only so many Top Gear repeats one can watch. I'd love it to be on Freesat, but it's not a factor anymore.

Re: U nit

D'OH! Egg on my face. Oh well, still not bad, given how close people normally are to their cabinets.

Graph below of up/down speeds against the distance from the cabinet with VDSL2 (ie. BT's Infinity product):

http://i55.tinypic.com/2qd2wkp.png

I wouldn't exactly describe 60Mbps/22Mbps at 2km from the cabinet a white elephant.

Re: You paid WHAT for a DVI-HDMI adapter???

"It still seems ludicrously expensive to me for what is, after all, two connectors and some wire."

Yeah, and I don't know why this iPad is so expensive - after all, all it is is a load of metal, plastic, bit of silicon, all mashed together into a rectangle with rounded corners.

Re: Dangerous?

Yeah, sometimes you can get it a bit wrong...I dunno, like something splashing down in the sea off the south coast when it was meant to comfortably land in the Hampshire/Sussex countryside :)

Re: I lost interest here:

You're all getting tied up in definitions - if you want to take the pedantism to the extreme, by the definition quoted, you could call anything on the internet "cloud computing", because it all uses hardware and software resources/services over the internet. In fact, The Register is a cloud provider*, because we're using their hardware and software, which provide a service to us over the internet.

* it isn't, it's a fecking website

iTunes and the App Store itself, by definition, are stores. Yes, you can stream films from one or the other, or iCloud, or whatever it's called these days, but that isn't the "cloud" in the way most people who actually know about IT think of it. I agree it's a wooly definition, and actually I don't like the whole term/concept - it's giving a fancy name to stuff we've really done for years, but in a less marketable way.

Re: I lost interest here:

iTunes and the App Store are not cloud services - they are shops to buy music/films and software from.

Yes, because I just love adverts!

Re: 386?

But didn't Apple invent both the 386 and the 8080? And all other chips in between, and ever since?

I'm sure I read a patent application just last week about it.

@ Refugee from Windows

Indeed, but there is a difference between picture *quality* and simply whether you receive a picture at all. If the 1's and 0's can't be made into anything, the result is no picture, or at least severely broken up picture. That's not picture quality.

@ Dave Bell

"I also had to install an amplifier and use the higher-grade co-ax cable. The jump in picture quality from the aerial upgrade was obvious"

Ah yes, that old Monster Cables trick - with better cables and a stronger signal, the 1's and 0's are even higher quality 1's and 0's = better picture quality! Ummm......

Re: Your holding it wrong.

"You're"

Sorry, I couldn't resist either

Re: erm

Well quite, hear hear... batteries should be ever lasting, only ever needing a charge at the factory during manufacturing. In fact, I'm annoyed that I have to refuel my car every couple of weeks, now you've mentioned it!!

If you have a physical key that you push into a barrel and twist to start it (which I suspect you do), then no, you're not affected.

Re: A poor excuse

Quick off the top of my head thought; introduce an artificial 30, 60, or 90 minute delay in the process of programming a blank key - probably 2 extra lines of code. Yes, a bit of a hassle when you've lost your key, having a wait a short while to program a new one, but hardly the end of the world. What thief is going to want to sit and wait that long while the car does it's thing?

Re: Poor haters

But it isn't anything new - there *are* other phones out there, ignoring whatever OS is on them, because it seems mentioning "Android" suddenly polarises people (oops), which achieve virtually equal performance, equally good battery performance, in equally slim designs, but they've been on sale for months.

Like you, I'm not an iPhone lover, but neither am I knocking the new one - good design, bulletproof build quality, good innards, but let's stop calling the thing technologically special, let alone revolutionary.

Re: Why several models?

@Philippe and John 172

Aerials, antennas, sure, I did consider that, but the range of frequencies the models already support with the aerials they're fitted with (ie. GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900, 2100), the LTE bands in question are within these ranges anyway.

For example, going into more detail, why can the A1428 antennas support LTE bands 4 and 17 on 1.7-2.1 GHz and 704-746 MHz respectively, but not the LTE bands 1, 3 and 5 on 1.9-2.1 GHz, 1.7-1.9 GHz, and 824-894 MHz respectively, which the A1429 can? They're all in the same ranges, what's the problem?

Re: Tool up and go to work

Am I the only one who questions whether someone really develops for HTML5, when they go against all normal convention and puts the 5 in quotes? It's HTML5, not HTML'5'.

@ Lee Dowling

Unofficial tyre, I call bollocks... next you'll be claiming you saw them refill the washer fluid with tap water, and the OBD flashed up saying "NEIN, NON-MINERAL WASSER ALERT!!"