quick - contact RIM for a comment on their first award for the playbook!
Reg Hardware Awards 2011 Winners
CES 2012 Week More than 28,500 votes were cast by Reg readers during December 2011 when we asked you all to name the best - and the worst - tech products of the year. We asked for your thoughts on hardware and software in the Lifestyle, Mobile, Computing and Gaming categories, and we also wanted you to name and shame the …
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Friday 13th January 2012 09:41 GMT quarky
Half of the population...
..are more stupid than the average person.
I had an iPad2 and gave it up for my playbook (well not mine, they are both company devices). I have no regrets at all. Sure, it doesn't have the cool apple logo on the back, but it has a proper browser, portable form factor (I don't need a man-bag to carry it around), decent mail client (sideloaded android application), and of course, my kindle software. Sure, it doesn't have 200 different fart applications, but it is a great functional tablet for less than half the price of an iPad. I wonder how many people who voted for it have actually used one? Obviously not many given the sales figures.
Still, if we are judging on logo rather than function...
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Friday 13th January 2012 10:41 GMT DuncanL
3D is a "free" feature like media playback and USB support
I think pretty much every TV above the base cheapest models and supermarket specials now does 3D; whether you want or or ever use it. The presence of 3D support doesn't have a detrimental effect on normal performance so you can just ignnore it - and many\most people do.
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Friday 13th January 2012 10:41 GMT Anonymous Custard
Antique code show gold
Most pleased to see Elite getting gold for the antique code show, although slightly confused as I don't think it's actually been featured in it (yet - hint hint guys!).
Nothing like a bit of Thargoid shooting to relieve work frustrations - check out it's modern homage Oolite for a real updated blast.
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Tuesday 17th January 2012 13:27 GMT PoorLumpyPony
I would say: Zen
Zen internet
They are expensive and cap download but its by far the least heinous ISP I have ever had to speak to and they let me use the Router of my choice (that really shouldn't be a plus but Sky and a couple of other ISP's won't even consider it even if you are happy for them to not 'support' your router).
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Wednesday 18th January 2012 13:25 GMT Peter Gathercole
Orange Broadband
sent me a pre-configured router, but also included the set-up info for another device.
I had actually already deduced that the standard BT set-up (I'm not in an LLU area) worked in my already installed router, and got the thing working two days before the 'official' start of service date.
Previously, I was a Virgin ADSL (not cable) customer, and they encouraged a 'bare wires' service with no router when I first switched to ADSL 10 years ago.
I never intend to use a service that does not allow me to install my own router, and even then I have a separate firewall between the ADSL router and my internal network just so I can be sure that if the ADSL router is compromised, my internal network is still safe.
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Friday 13th January 2012 11:51 GMT Anonymous Coward
Caught red handed
"the Mobile category saw Nokia's Lumia 800 smartphone gaining positive votes to a degree far in excess of its share of the market. Ditto its operating system, Windows Phone 7, in the Smartphone OS of the Year award."
All from Microsoft owned IP addresses no doubt - que the usual corporate shills...
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Friday 13th January 2012 12:07 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Caught red handed
"I disagree so you're a shill." You should at least wait for evidence before casting aspersions - you're just being lazy. Don't bother going on about past instances - irrelevant. Don't worry about looking like a 12-year old who spends too much time texting either - the spelling checker on my browser accepted your mistake with queue too.
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Friday 13th January 2012 14:29 GMT dogged
I doubt they got many votes
Put it this way, if they're as unknown as the usual Reg commentard would like to make out then nobody will have remembered to nominate them for the usual hate.
Alternatively, one could argue that "popular" != "good". A quick look at the pop charts can be cited as evidence unless you truly believe that a billion X Factor fans and Rebecca Black can't be wrong, in which case there's not much hope for you.
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Monday 16th January 2012 17:14 GMT Avatar of They
not sure you get the point.
Surely 'selling' numbers and people voting on these forums don't match up.
Half of china own them (and sales count), but can't gain access to a free thinking website to vote on it. And I dare say a lot of people buy one, can't afford anything else as it is a massive cost and then regret it to some extent or just keep it to stay in the crowd / peer group.
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Friday 13th January 2012 14:51 GMT Peter Simpson 1
Windows "ribbon"
Yes, I know, I'm about four years late to the party, but I have just had the "pleasure" of being "upgraded" to Office 2010 here at work (forced upgrade because I couldn't read the files being sent to me in the new default 2010 format, natch). What an unmitigated pile of $#!+! And I have been told I'm to get a Win7 PC this year as well. The thrills never stop!
Whose brilliant idea was it to make the user interface as different as possible from its predecessor and to require more clicks to do the same thing? In what world does that count as an improvement?
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Friday 13th January 2012 17:07 GMT MJI
Ribbons - you work round it - shareware ect
Thought I would set up for newsgroup access, no menus - downloaded Thunderbird - that has menus set it up very quickly from never seeing it before.
Word - I found a downloadable menu for it which gives me the normal menus - sort of.
Excel - never use it beyond viewing CSVs.
Found a shareware bitmap editor as well.
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Friday 13th January 2012 16:57 GMT Anonymous Coward
No kidding - Vaderphone is plain stupid!
I live in the US and travel to the UK. I'm on Verizon because of coverage, and just got a Droid 2 Global, which also does GSM and comes with a Vodaphone SIM. OK, so I check the pricing for service in the UK - £1.20 a minute. I contact them and say:
"OK, I see the pricing for UK to US calls, but what is the pricing for a call WITHIN the UK? "
"£1.20 a minute"
"WTF?"
"Well, you are using the international towers..."
NO I AM NOT - I am using the same damn towers everybody else is. So rather than Vodaphone getting the nod, which had their rates been competitive they would have since they will bill directly to my Verizon account, they get NOTHING from me - I'll get an Orange PAYG and be done with it.
(yes, I know - I have to get my phone unlocked to take any SIM.)
AND Verizon/Vodaphone locked the GSM side of my phone in hardware so that I cannot use US GSM sites.
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