Posts by Jess

the definition I would use

If it can easily run multiple applications at once, I would define it as a smart phone. If it can only single task, I would call it a feature phone.

I wouldn't call the early iPhones smart phones.

HTML email only?

Presumably the nature of these emails is obvious to anyone using a plain text email client (or one configured that way.)

re: Acorns...

I think you will find a lot do.

Especially since a lot of people have returned to the platform since RISC OS became available for the Pi.

Neither of those started on seven, you dolt.

Ah because they renamed the system Windows Phone from Windows Mobile with version seven, that resets the count.

How Clever.

Nokia gifted most of their Symbian sales to Android.

Quite how they expected to retain Symbian fans, I totally fail to see, when the OS obviously targets the iOS market.

But of course don't Microsoft get a nice patent income from Android, that they didn't from Symbian?

They probably do better from that than pushing out No-Win with a partial (?) subsidy.

What if the current Android manufacturers offered a choie on Linux Phones?

Would it not be possible to offer the same handset with Android, Tizen, Ubuntu, Sailfish or Firefox? Ideally with easy reflash if you don't like the one you are using.

Baby out with the bathwater.

BIS (and the good text input) is the main reason I keep my 9700. What I would like to see the back of freezes and the need for daily reboots and the limited number of apps I can install. But if I would be losing the two things I like, what is the point?

If they provide it as a cheap or free upgrade to my 9700..

.. I'll give it a shot.

But I'm not going to buy a new phone for a new unknown system. (I expect 4 years from a phone)

Maybe MS were right not to bother about their OS being any good on a desktop.

Thought probably not right to aim squarely at the iPad rather than at Android.

It would be a lot better if they sold apps

Providing a different route for software authors.

Will BBOS10 be available for my 9700

If it is then I will likely stay with them. If not, well when it needs replacing in a few years, I guess it'll be a Samsung with Tizen.

Anyone who can afford a 3D printer, could afford a 920

So providing they haven't got any prejudices against NoWin. (e.g. upset about a previous OS being dropped like a hot potato) there could be a market, and given how bad things are for Nokia smart phones, any market has to be good.

Otherwise they will just wait a few weeks until an Android firm does the same.

I reckon RISC OS has a much brighter future than RT

A quarter the cost, and not tied down.

Re: Beginning of the end me thinks.

Beginning?

Phase 2 or 3 at least.

I like the form factor

Could be used with old PC cases.

However, it is a bit more expensive than the Pi and doesn't run RISC OS (yet?)

re: stick to the business they have

If they had have done they, they might still have some credibility left. When they pulled the plugs, Symbian was on the way up. The N8 was a very popular phone. It has its flaws, but they surely wold have been fixed far more simply than throwing away your most of your market and starting chasing a different one.

WP is more akin to iOS, due to its lockdown. Symbian is more akin to Android.

There are 3 type of buyer. Nokia fans. They will keep them. Symbian fans, they will go to Android. And general users. If they lose their apps, are they going to stay with the company that caused it? (Especially since the new OS comes from a firm with a proven history of abandoning phone OSes, and i heard a runour the WP9 is on the cards soon.)

The N8 was a really good hone. I can't really see any phone other than the 808 being anything but a step down in many ways.

I used to have a BW licence

I don't watch enough TV to justify a colour licence. I had a b/w portable, for the odd occasions.

I didn't bother to renew it when I realized the TV hadn't been switched on for over 3 months, and I wasn't going to be home for the next few months. And also it had become very difficult to purchase a b/w licence after the contract went from the post office.

I got so many letters accusing me of being a criminal, I simply got rid of my (b/w) TV, and then threw them in the bin.

I have a monitor on the DVD/media player.

I quite often legally use iPlayer for offline programs. Had I not been accused of being a criminal by letter, I would have made the effort to buy a b/w licence, because I consider that a fair price for my consumption, however since it is not a legal requirement, after that they can get stuffed.

Had they not made it so hard to purchase a b/w licence I wouldn't have even thought about doing without TV at home in the first place.

Just tried VK

Having just disabled my FB account for a bit, and having finished listening to the Michel Thomas method Advance Russian CDs, I thought I'd give it a try.

It actually seems far better than facebook. (A bit like facebook was before it went crap, but with sensible search facilities.)

If only it had some users I know.

I hope it is good.

It sounds like the best chance of a suitable replacement for Symbian, given the reports I have heard of the N9. Though the new BBOS also sounds interesting.

Wouldn't Samsung be able to offer the same phone with Tizen or Android (or Ubuntu even)?

I wonder how many of the MS (and other) patents are essential and core functions?

i.e. could they offer a free Android, with an enhancement pack sold via the store.?(Which would be included in the higher end phones, already)

Dated and cheesy

Why would they be putting WIndows 7 on the things, when tablets appear to be the only thing Windows 8 is good for?

It would be interesting to see the price difference between the android and the win offering, and is it possible to buy Windows for an android device?

20 seconds from off to usable desktop on my laptop (Not from suspend)

but it is a Raspberry Pi velcro-ed to an Atrix Lapdock (Running RISC OS).

BIS is a two edged sword.

On one hand it is a very cheap way of being online.

On the other handwithout it, most apps are cut off the internet, even if you have wifi available.

The time it went down, I lost a day's work because I didn't get a message,

When I went to Belgrade, there was free wifi everywhere, but the BlackBerry was cut off from BIS, because it knew I was in the wrong country. Fortunately I had a few apps that could use wifi directly, but the big loss was Google maps. (One of the reasons I now have an N8 as well, downloadable maps.)

If everything fell back to wifi (or APN, if wanted) when BIS went down, then it would be a really good system. But as yet, most of it doesn't (The facebook app does though.)

I'm very dissapointed with the 9700

From the stability point of view. It is always freezing for seconds, sometimes tens of seconds. I have to reboot it daily. Build quality is pretty good.

The only ay I can see myself staying with BB (I also have an N8 that I am moving over to.) is if they provide an OS update to the new OS for my phone.

I doubt that will happen.

Licence

The earlier chips were cloned by various manufacturers without any licences. (i.e. they were different internally, but behaved the same.)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2001/mar/08/onlinesupplement5

"Originally, Acorn planned to use Intel's 286 chip in its Archimedes computer. But because Intel would not let it license the 286 core and adapt it, Acorn decided to design its own. "

Surprised the article didn't include this.

Free?

If it is anywhere near as good as it is on an N8, why the hell is it free?

If\when I move to Android, I would quite happilly pay £20 - £30 for something that works the same as Nokia maps on the N8. (Free updates, free downloadable maps, works offline or with only wifi).

Giving it away is a stupid move, as far as I can see. (Though less stupid that killing your cash cow, of course.)

http://here.net

I'd heard of it, and it looks very good. But it's free and online, and not an app like Nokia maps on my N8.

I don't need an internet connection. (Google maps was useless on my Blackberry in Serbia, despite free wifi everywhere. Hence going to back to Symbian.)

And how will giving away the only thing they have left help them? They need to sell it.

Elop Nokia, a win-win situation for Microsoft.

The destruction of Symbian and Meego in Nokia is a win-win situation for microsoft.

Obviously in the unlikely event that WinPho captured most of the former Symbian market, the win is obvious.

However Android is a more logical step for Symbian fans, the other is to hold on to Symbian as long as possible and hope one of the Meego resurrection plans works.

The figure imply that those who have given up on Symbian have mostly gone to Android. Which is still a win for Microsoft, because of all the patent revenues.

Of course whether he was a Trojan or not is a matter for the Finnish Government to investigate. I would think Hanlon's Razor is probably worth remembering though.