Posts by Groz Bat
22 posts • joined Friday 13th July 2007 14:17 GMT
wtf?
Wacky
Posted in Sharp intros 5in ARM-based netbook
Might just buy it!
The sub-500g sector is getting more interesting!
I was thinking of getting Sony's 500g Vaio, but the Sharp is a third of the price and might just do the job!
Posted in Smera tilting e-car debuts in Paris
Crosswinds?
I'd be interested to know how it can handle overtaking a juggernaut on the motorway in a strong sidewind.
Posted in Shuttle X 5000TA
Crap review
What a profound lack of imagination the reviewer has.
This is a unique device, not just another PC or laptop. It will surely find new market niches. I imagine Simon Cowell might buy one for his fridge door.
Posted in Philips Streamium NP2900
No future in this solution
This is a niche product with a declining future.
The coming trend will be for people to store all their music on their mobile phone and connect speakers wirelessly to the phone if they need to.
Current mobile memory cards can store 16GB, and 32GB is not far off.
Posted in Toaster used to recharge gadgets
Perspective?
That bowl of fruit looks awfully small compared with that slice of bread.
Posted in Finally launched: Nokia's iPhone beater
VOIP oip
Has anyone got VOIP to work on a Nokia anyway? My Nokia E51 comes with Nokia's preferred VOIP app Gizmo preinstalled. But it's unusable, with awful sound quality and terrible latency (delay). Skype is the same on the E51.
"Graham Lockley
> Ironic really, of the all the mobile platforms its the MS one that is most open :)
S60/Symbian is open source (or will be shortly). I can't see MS going open source for a while yet :)
The guy who wrote this article needs to cool it a bit, probably
It doesn't matter that Chrome does nothing new. The fact that it does it faster could make a big difference for some apps.
Some revolutions are due to quantitative changes rather than qualitative changes.
Although that remains to be seen in the case of Chrome, of course :)
Smartphone are a dumb idea?
My Nokia E51 works fine, unless I install stuff on it! Even Nokias own Internet Radio app rebooted my phone regularly until I kicked it out. Another radio app screwed up my address book, so I had to reinstall the whole phone software.
Do people really want installable native apps screwing up their phones? I don't think so.
Which really calls into question the whole idea of "smartphones". Feature phones are getter smarter all the time. And they run benign Java apps which rarely, if ever, crash a phone.
Even PCs are are "dumbing down" to become more reliable and user-friendly. Many of the simple cheap computers inspired by the EEE pc are aimed at the new paradigm of running all software "in the cloud" and installing only sandboxed "managed code" such as Java and Flash to run internet apps such as Google Docs.
Posted in How Chrome puts the skids under Nokia
Alas,
Chrome has no keyboard shortcuts access my bookmarks.
So its IE for me still.
(FF is too slow to start up)
Still, I can't wait to see Chrome on my phone.
Better than nothing
Java may still have a way to go, but its still the only real cross-platform game out there.
I have Java bus timetables from my local bus company on my phone. They work on just about anything.
And I know that Java's not going to crash my phone, unlike some native apps.
Even Nokia´s official radio player app reboots my brand new Nokia phone on a regular basis.
Totally inappropriate "punishment"
I depend on the internet for banking, paying bills, email, running my life in general.
You're saying that BT have the right to cut me off if my teenage son sends a song to his mates?
Posted in Atom-based Eee PC to hit UK in June
No problem
Asus can't make enough eee pcs to keep up with demand anyway, so tempting them to wait for a better product maybe stops them getting frustrated and buying a Macbook Air or something.
Posted in Asus launches tiny PC
At last...
...an ultra-light laptop that is actually *cheaper* than a normal one!
Crucial questions:
1. Can I listen to BBC radio with it?
2. Can I access and listen to MP3s on my home network?
I want to listen while I'm taking a bath :)
Apple trademark clash?
Apple own the trademarks iMac, iPod and iPhone. I wonder if they'll accept someone calling their product IANUS?
Posted in ARM finds friends for mobile Linux
Confusing
So how does this fit in with - or compete with - the LiMo (Linux Mobile) Foundation?
I notice that ARM and Samsung are involved in both initiatives.
Posted in Apple to dial x86 for iPhone?
Why?
Does nnyone know what advantage will be gained by using Intel's chips instead of ARM chips?
And can anyone fathom out why Apple don't support Java for 3rd party apps on the iPhone?
Posted in Britannia triumphs over Johnny Metric
Bob a job
In the light of this victory against the EU, let's start a campaign to go back to shillings and pence :).
Or even better, let's have the guineau as the official unit of currency.
Posted in Apple rings in changes with iPod Touch
Locked down = Non event
Presumably the device is closed for 3rd party software developers like the iPhone.
I thought Una Paloma Blanca was grossly offensive
Jonathan King's song sucks - so what's new?
