* Posts by Manu T

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Samsung may try to block next iPhone in Europe too

Manu T

No they're not

A Galaxy S looks like the twin brother of an iPhone 3G(s). Albeit a large and thin brother.

Compared to an iPhone 4 there's a very noticable difference.

Many websites in their review also suggested the same e.g.:

"The glossy black plastic and metal-effect bezel both echo Apple’s second/third-gen smartphone; the irony, of course, is that the Cupertino company has now moved on with the almost retro lines of the iPhone 4, and the Galaxy S feels a little indistinct in comparison." (source: slashgear.com)

And there are a lot more who suggest the same (another example from s Dutch website: "Opvallend is dat iedereen die de telefoon voor het eerst in zijn handen krijgt vrijwel meteen zegt: “Goh, het lijkt wel erg op een iPhone”. --> translated as: "Everybody who gets the phone in their hands say: "Gee, this looks a lot like an iPhone") (source: androidplanet.nl)

And just look at: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9000_galaxy_s-review-478p2.php#

The 2 top photo's show the galaxy next to an iPhone 3GS. Even the UI resembles iOS screen filled with icons and a grey bottombar with its 4 icons.

You gotta be blind NOT to see the iPhone resemblance. Remove the 2 imprints next to the bottom button and the samsung logo on top and you'd swear it was a bigger iPhone 3.

9/11: The day we lost our privacy and power

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AFAIK it wasn't a Belgian CA but an American CA with offices in Holland.

Funny thing is that mostly US-companies controll and issue these certificates. Has anyone ' investigeted' them?

Samsung says Apple lifted iPad from Kubrick's 2001

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Blakes 7

Piloti is definitly refering to Orac :-)

Manu T

RE: And?

THe fact of the matter is that in the case of the Galaxy tab they are indeed blindly copying Apple. It's in fact the only fake iPad that's been legaly sold (until now that is) except it doesn't run iOS. But from the looks of it, I wonder why Apple still do business with Foxconn? They could have just asked Samsung to manufacter the damn thing.

This is all Clive Sinclairs fault! Why the hell did he introduce me to computers 30 years ago? Now I'm "evolved" into an antisocial computer-geek who's prime "hobby" is spending time on El_Reg.

Samsung's lovely illegal tablet: Why no one wants to know

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RE: Itunes

The problem with iTunes is this.

iTunes (as the name implies) started as a music library/player application. As such it is brilliant.

Unfortunatly all the other stuff is bolted on. You simply can't drag and drop a divx-movie that you downloaded from a site into iTunes to sent to your iPod/Pad/Phone (or syncing in Apple's terminology). While you CAN drag and drop an MP3 music file into iTunes with ease.

That's the major problem and eventually the downfall of iTunes as a mediaplatform. Divx/xvid is the MP3-format of the movie-industry. So either Apple should (start to) build some iTunes replacement (with the same easy interaction for all sorts of Media including movies and apps) or should concentrate on using the onboard iStore app of all handheld iDevices.

It will probably use the latter (it's easer for them as they already have that) because they can shoehorn all media to their preferred format and enforce customers to buy stuff.

And since they're in it for the money...

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RE: Free

Since Motorola was the first (and I believe the only one) to complain against the Nexus one. And therefore the reason of it's demise. It's good to see Google getting back at them.

Perhaps we will finally see less diversification with all those stupid incompatible Android versions all around. Each with its own set of problems. But pure Android devices that equally get the Android upgrades whenever they're ready (and not a year after actual release).

Im posted before numerously, HTC, SE and Samsung should sell their UI-addons as a seperate product and make their Android phones as clean as possible. But now we're back at the old Windows Mobile situation, isn't it? No wonder iProducts sell like hot cakes.

Manu T

RE: @Bonuse - nope

It SHOULD identify itself either as "mobile" or "desktop".

Identifying as Tablet is BS. Stop abusing these standards, it's hard enough to adhere to them already!

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RE: Acer...

It uses an ATOM cpu. So the thing is dog slow for anything besides reading email.

There are various others like Medialine's tablets. Besides didn't HP brought out a couple of Wintendo tablets?

Who cares. Windows is too bulky for a tablet.

Even Ubuntu blows away Windows as a desktop experience these days.

Manu T

RE: 2 year olds

...case to my point from a previous post.

So if Google wants Android-tablets to break through then they ought to stop targeting infant consumers. They don't have the content nor the simplicity. They can't win this battle if they don't re-consider their proposed market.

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RE: Apple recognise threat

it should have read: "Yet Apple are making money hand over fist on the back of the iPad NOW"

This won't last.

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RE: Don't blame Honeycomb..

Just a shame that setting is 4 clicks deep so most will assume that the browser is broken and go look elsewhere... which is exactly the reason why ppl tend to look elsewhere.

Android isn't enough consumer oriented. They perceive ppl that they are iPad's equal but in reality it's just not as simple.

First Android tablet manufacturers ought to stop making craplets. Make quality products instead of cheap plastic garbage with cheap plastic screens. Ditch the ubercheap models and perhaps ditch generic consumers but look for higher profiled IT users. Secondly Apple created a market because they had Music and media-businesses in their pocket. Google doesn't have the same library of passive consumer content so its pointless to go after the same market.

If they don't see that then Android on tablets will fail.

Manu T
Devil

re: we have iPhones as well, the iPad just integrates nicely.

"we have iPhones as well, the iPad just integrates nicely."

Can you ellaborate? From my understanding these are 2 separate products that don't integrate at all. In fact it seems that only tablets that integrate with phones are RIM's offerings. You can't even read your bloody email if you haven't "integrated" your blackberry with the playbook.

So please explain how the iPhone "integrate" with the iPad?

Manu T

re: Second place is the first loser

"so what exactly needs to be done to make Android based tablets jump out and shout loudly from the moment it's removed from the packaging and powered on for the very first time?"

Make it compatible with iTunes :-)

People don't want tablets, they want iPads

Manu T

RE: Try Again Guys!

"Google needs to do a better job than a concentrated effort with Samsung to make a dent in Apple's bright future!"

Can't agree more. Samsung just sucks! They have no vision, no service, no quality products (and NO a nice screen isn't enough!), no proper after sale support. In fact after my Samsung Omnia SGH-i900 widnwos Mobile device (which they never upgraded to WM6.5 though the H/W was capable enough) misadventure NO more Samsung for me.

In fact when my mom's telly broke down I directed her towards an LG TV instead. Google is sleeping with the wrong partners. Period!

Manu T
Happy

RE: not impressed with android

You forgot to baptise it, didn't you?

Manu T

fast bootup on PC's

"or something for 60seconds. But a real computer takes longer than that to wake up."

Not really.

Timed with a chronograph 39 seconds to cold start (power up) a Windows 7 PC with the SF1200 solid state disk and i3-2100 on S-ata2 port (full boot including antivirus, printerstartups etc...).

An AMD X2 7550 equiped Dell inspirion 546 with ATi HD4350 videocard and 2GB DRRII ram boots up Ubuntu linux from it's WD 500GB blue HDD in 42.5 seconds also measured from power up (including BIOS screen) to full desktop.

I think that's not bad. For todays PC's

Manu T

RE: Specs are for techno-geeks

Things might change now that Google snapped up Motorola.

this means that at least with Google's phones won't need to put a condom over your head to make a phone call. Of course you can always put the condom over the phone :-)

Just kidding. Anyway. Let Apple win this round. Sure after a few years everybody is sick of them and then someone else steps in. It's always the same. I believe the saying goes:

1: All "good" things comes to an end!

2: When you reach the top, the only way to go is down! (Nokia experiences this first-hand today and Microsoft experienced it in 2008 with the dead of Windows Mobile)

Manu T

Yeah :-)

What else do we do in here?

Everybody likes the underdog, isn't it?

Manu T

RE: no..no..no

Euhm... Fisher Price DON"T use metal and glass in their toys!

Manu T

RE: It's all about the badge

I take it you've never driven a BMW?

Manu T
Devil

RE: Price and mass market

1) Mass market = low profit

- incidentally this didn't stop many from the "mass market" to buy ipad/iphones.

2) A phone <> a tablet

- noneteless the rapid growth of Android phones is nothing compared to iPhone's market penetration. Especially considering the profits made on Apple products while e.g. HTC has already a 5$ COST to microsoft on every Android device sold.

3) You described a distinct use for the thing (occasionally surf the web without the hassle of a computer). For that single use you're obviously not going to spend 700UKP (which is a perfectly sane reasoning). But the majority of ipad users perform many tasks with their device, many of these tasks replace their desktop PC needs (email, surf, read books, media consumption, entertain the kids at restaurants etc...). For their diversity of use an iPad is a much better device than a desktop or laptop computer.

- as is proven by another el-reg reader. iPads excel in their simplicity especially for generic consumers (and infants).

I predict that in time there will be a divide between consumers and creators. Tablets and low-en notebook/netbooks will be the mass-market computing products for passive consumers. While desktop computers and high powered notebooks will be for the ppl in IT-production process (e.g. secrataries, accountants) and/or creation (e.g. gfx-design, webdesing, software development). Apple has the best position for the passive consumer market because of their ties with music- and moviesuppliers and unrivaled the success of iTunes-store as a passive media-selling portal. Even today iTunes makes more money from music then from apps but I agree that the apps are more in the spotlight these days. Due to many tech sites "reviewing" every jackshit app on it. Even El Reg does it.

Which imho it shouldn't. ElReg is European it should put European tech at the forefront and not US-tech. But every day there's either an iOS or an Android app that gets reviewed while native European technoly gets neglected. It's a goddamn shame!

Manu T

RE: This is why you might want it

That's because Windwos is bloated.

I've been playing with Ubuntu 11.04 recently (after seeing it on a friend's PC) and I've been very charmed. I've installed it on a spare Dell PC that i had lying around (AMD dual core, ATi HD4350 videocard etc..) and I was pleasantly surprised. it boots up real quick. The desktop just looks gorgeous. It has all the productivity tools that a "user" really need (office suite, webbrowser, emailclient, skype etc...). Is very userfriendly (in fact installing and uninstalling apps is easier than on windows). I even played with proprietary drivers and removed them later as the inbuild drivers were faster than AMD's stuff. All this went very smooth and without any hassle.

In fact yesterday I was recovering data from a crashed Windows XP PC. A dual core E7400 PC with NVidia 9400GT gfx card and S-ata HDD and copied his entire music directory with this Ubuntu-linux in about 10 minutes from one partition to another. I usually take some puppy-linux for such a job but I decided to try it this ubuntu. Ubuntu was ran in Live-CD mode and to my surprise everything worked out of the box even gfx-card accelleration, networking and audio (just like it did on my spare Dell PC at home).

After I re-installed windows XP (the person insisted that I install WinXP) I copied this My Music directory back into his user-area and it took more than 25 minutes using Windows XP file manager!!!

That was a shocking experience. If Linux continue further at this rate then Microsoft might have some real problems in the future to sell Windows 8.

Sure it took over 8 years to reach this state. But this is really good. A fast OS with all the tools required to get the (small) job done. You don't even have to install it. But is you do.. Oh man. If only Windows was like this.

Manu T

RE: Cheap Android are crap

q: What happened to the Windows Mobile in the tablet world?

a: Windows what?

q: Why is Apple the only one that's any good?

a: because they don't make cheap plastic toys with cheap plastic screens.

You wrote yourself. You have a CHEAP Android tablet. Stop comparing a 200UKP product with a 600UKP product. It would be truely bad if the 600UKP device was indeed worse than your cheap tablet.

Also Apple has the music- and moviebusiness in it's pocket. They have a vast library of the passive consumer content that Google just hasn't got. Plus the device is targetted for simplicity. It's the ideal replacement for the bedroom or the kitchen TV. While Google doesn't clearly define what Android really is. Is it for a computer? Is it for a phone? Is it for a mediaplyer? Or is it merely a handheld webbrowser?

Manu T

RE: Hmmm

You mean Apple makes a 126,27% profit

Google SHOCK! Snaps up Motorola phone biz for $12.5bn

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RE: All about the patents?

the debacle of Nexus One was started by Motorola. This is payback on Google's behalve!

Now the following scenarios could unfold.

Either Google kills off Motorola completely and indeed persuis it's initial goal to produce one reference phone which is to be commercially available every year. This phone is to be made by one of it's "partners" (the ones that dont complain that is)

Or Google will eventually downscale it's "partnerships" and become a full-time competitor to Apple with both hardware and OS in their own pocket (just like Apple and Nokia used to be).

This means that the only available "open" OS to off-the-shell ARM-based smartphones will be Windows Phone. The word "Open" here is, open for phone-manufacturors to purchase and put on their devices.

Unless some would be tempted to use Symbian and/or Meego. Perhaps Nokia was bit to quick to disband it's Symbian workforce.

Mango release rumours leave Nokia behind

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Collaborators ins indeed the right term used.

In the past you had Windows Mobile smartphones and Symbian smartphones. Then came blackberry's, iPhones, Andorid and the lot.

So you either had Windows users or NON-windows users. Excactly like in the PC world but less balanced towards Microsoft. So if you didn't like Pocket PC/Windows Mobile, you bought a Nokia (or SE) Symbian phone.

That Nokia now turn to Microsoft as their sugardaddy is indeed PURE TREASON!!

They're litterally telling loyal supporters of European IT-products to fuck off.

Like I wrote before in another post. Nokia's Windows phones WILL NOT have any substancial advantage over other Windows-phones. I expect that at launch Nokia WP7-phones will have a 8Mpixel autofocus Carl-zeis cam-module while currently WP7-manufacturors are restricted to 5Mpixel snappers (some of dubious quality). But eventually other WP7-"partners" will equip their phones also with 8Mpixel snappers. And the advantage of buying a Nokia WP7-phone will be gone. So appart from the Carl Zeis logo and higher price tag eventually there's no reason to buy a Nokia WP7 phone over a lowly HTC 7 trophy (or its successor) or Samsung Omnia 7 (or its successor).

Just wait and see.

This WILL end bad for Nokia. The truth will be revealed by the end of the year. I bet that Microsoft only wants their paws on NavTeq (for as cheap as possible)! But hey, who am I?

Blackberry QNX phone details leaked

Manu T

RE: Quad core...

"One advantage of quad core, is that 3 of the cores can spend 99% of their life turned off to save battery life but unlike a lower spec cpu, can still perform if necessary."

Then why use a quad core cpu at all? Instead of using a quad core at 600MHz and shutdown 3 cores, just use a single core 600MHz cpu. This is cheaper and apparantly sufficient enough for most of the work. I can only think of webbrowsing that'll really benefit from more performance and offcourse games (not that zuma or bejeweled, which are the only playable games on a touch screen phone anyway, really benefit from more performance).

I think that's what Nokia tries to prove with their current 680MHz S^3 phones. They last 2 days and are powerfull enough to record 720p, navigation, browse the web, playback divx/xvid movies with subtitles and do all the stuff you do on any other smartphone.

Perhaps Nokia's RD isn't that stupid after all.

Google failing to pay Android developers

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Happy

RE: The Big Question...

Yeps, though Apple uses "another trick" to achieve this.

They suddenly decides that your app isn't good enough for the appstore and simply remove it themselves. They invent some regulations as an excuse and you get screwed.

Free market, remember >:->

God, I miss Maemo, Windows Mobile and Symbian/QT.

Where are the good old days that you search the web for some new wonders of palmtop-programming? The fun was in the search itself, the satisfaction if finding it and installing on your device. Damn, where's that Delorean... I wanna go back!

Manu T

RE: Yeah so...

This is all our own fault.

First raving on about Android and Google. You see what happens when you put your eggs in the wrong basket.

Should have stayed with Symbian. Especially since QT is also an easy platform to develop for. And that's what all these fart-developpers really care. Easy development, easy money.

The thing is that Android is becoming worse every time there's a new version. Not technically but programming-wise. First M$ demanding 5 bucks on every Android device (there goes the free market), then Oracle making trouble over the Dalvik-engine and now this.

What's next? Some fucking retard sueing Google because their devices have a power-button?

Time to leave folks.

Adobe releases lengthy list of Apple Lion woes

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RE: lol

Flash and Flash player were originally created and invented by MacroMedia NOT Adobe.

It seems Apple fanboys have short memories.

As for alternatives for Adobe's products. There are various alternatives (like Xara's products) especially on Windows (where currently all Adobe development is done). The best known old timer on the DTP scene must be CorelDraw. The program that used to sell new Windows discs like hot cakes. But I seem to remember a similar love-hate relationship with M$ (particularly after M$ decided to undermine Coreldraw's market with their own vector drawing app, Expression Design).

What Apple don't understand is what Matthew Malthouse on his comment "Not quite #" wrote.

Adobe made Apple computers what they are today. if it wasn't for Adobe and Quark then Apple would have been vanished years ago.

Angry Birds, other iPhone games shotgunned by Lodsys

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RE: Oh FFS

Look there's no need for such harsh talk. The system is at fault not the few who make use of it.

There should indeed be calculated a time that a company may have this patent prior to really manufacturing a product with that patent. Or that patent should be either revoked OR sold. Again with re-newed time prior to manufacturing. But i guess it's just not all that simple.

I mean; it might take 3 months to manufacture a product from a certain invention or 3 years or even 9 years. Who's gonna tell who that 3 months is acceptable but 9 years is too long? okay 9 yeasr IS too long. :-)

Perhaps a better system (to at least protect local economy and encourage local competition) is a system of shared patents. Whereby patents can be shared amongst 2 or 3 (US-)companies. Couple this with enforcement of using local workforce to manufacture and sell the final products (perhasp only locally). Thus creating local competition and opportunity for local economic growth.

Ok I admit with such a sytem I'm shielding the US market and US products from Europe (and other economic communities). They can create a similar system. Agreements can be made to import and export (a limited set) of products. And with this we're back to basics. How trade started. This does mean less items in shop for a majority of products but at least US products will be made by US workforce again and European products will be made by Europeans again.

Manu T

RE: Don't ship to the US!!

Yes indeed, but all these non-US companies have the false perception that the US is their "largest consumer market" and is "important to gain worldwide marketshare". Although the average American is loosing income due to the present recession and will "consume" less. Which in turn get diminishing returns from the American consimer markets and hence won't boost profits at all.

The thing is that the US is indeed the largest english speaking community. I mean over 300.000.000 potential consumers (at least 5 times more than the UK). That does count for something. While europeans might have the largest income per head, they also have the most taxes in the world AND that market is divided within several non-english speaking communities. With protectionistic laws between the various states. This not only add costs because of localisation of your product but make it far dificult to adhere to the various (contradicting) laws between states.

The same problem excists in both US and Europe. Average income per head is shrinking due to taxes, higher living costs, their own incompetence to work together, their incompetence to protect their own labourforce and the mess they have created that is only profitable for global companies and currently china but worse for the industrialised world (read: US and Europe/Rusia).

Like I said before: We're doomed!

But we might last a few days longer if don;t ship to the US :-)

Manu T

RE: If you've not made the product....

Come on guys, don;t you get it?

The US patent system is NOT designed to encourage competition. It's originally designed to protect a subset of US companies.

Some guys are using that faulty system for their own good. But sometimes the outside company DOES breach these pattents. I mean come on, the Galaxy S is a pure ripp-off of an iphone/ipad. It even LOOKS the same. They've made it appear excactly so less tech-savvy ppl would buy that somewhat cheaper Samsung product. The Reg-posters (most of them) are aware that a SGS is completely different then an iPhone. But many ppl CAN be fooled! In these cases the patent system should protect US company Apple from an outside threat. (And in my opinion ban the sales of SGS in US unless Samsung make it distinctivly different looking).

The patent system should be revised, agreed, but simply disbanding it is not a good idea IMHO.

Nokia posts massive loss, blames 'ambiguity'

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re: You should buy one

particularly these N9 phones.

'Because I dont see anyone else making these. Sure, they're talking about them but only Nokia seems to make them and get them available to (some) ppl.

Perhaps I should pretend to be a developper and apply for an N950.

Seagate, WD should put a gun to Brussels' head

Manu T

EC again.

What did you expect. Eurocrats making blunt decisions outside their borders. Is this really anything new?

Microsoft poised to make biggest ever buy – Skype

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Joke

RE: Oh Dear

Mr. Davies: has anyone ever thought that Mr. Balmer might be an actual Dalek ;-)

Manu T

RE: Grief

You can't "live" with it because software is INCOMPATIBLE between the 2!!!

So please stop calling Windows Phone 7: "Windows Mobile". It isn't!

Manu T

Doh!

Why are you stil refering to Windows Mobile while that product is depreciated?

By using the wrong productnames in these articles you undermine the credibility of these articles.

To make it clear.

pre-2011: Pocket PC --> Windows Mobile (depreciated OS)

2011: Windows Phone 7 (New mobile OS with Zune-like UI)

Microsoft fails to turn punters on to WinPho 7

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re: The pace of change is usually more stately

sure, with the (false) pretence of being open.

Well, it's at least more open for telecoms and manufacturers to tamper with the devices and lock users in. A fact made worse that once you moved everything from your local stored outlook/PIM to the Google cloud, there isn't any going back (without too much hassle). Not to mention Android gives these companies the same lock-in capabilities that Apple has with iOS but instead of the OS-developer being in control (in Apple's case), THEY are in control. Plus licenses are cheaper (because part of the OS is open source). So you can make a ridiculously cheap crappy chinese device without the "with Google"-banner and away you go. Selling to punters who wouldn't buy a smartphone previously and who are buying one now using a tiny portion of its features. just look at the best selling (cheap) android phones, they're the slow ugly ones.

Android is fighting on 2 fronts. User lock-in through telecom/manufacturer-control and price.

No wonder that every jack-shit produces Android phones. They're cheap to produce and quick to sell.

You're comment "Android didn't have a history of 6 prior versions in the market". It weren't exactly 6 versions but I do remember 3 version at one time on the market (1.6, 2.1 & 2.2) Sometimes even in one manufacturer's catalogue.

Memo gives full details of Nokia staff cull and closures

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RE: blame put on engineers?

Sure, show me an Android phone that can (preferably automatic) record calls. Also when using bluetooth handsfree/headset (like my current Nokia does as does my dad's ancient SE K750i). I have no problem with obtaining a third party app but the phone MUST be hardware capable to do this. And I don't mean recording calls when speakerphone is active. That's not 2-way call recording and definitely not suitable on private calls.

On the same matter. Can someone please compile a list of (android) phones who can record calls (even with a beep every 10secs).

There's the ZTE Blade aka Orange San francisco (Android 2.1) and Xperia 10 (only with Android 1.6). The first one is not avialable in my country.

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3,000 Symbian jobs? WTF?

3,000 Symbian jobs? Does that mean that 3000 ppl actually "worked" on that OS? What have they done? I mean, let 3000 man work on linux and you get OSX, right?

Shouldn't these guys have accomplished much more with such a enormous workforce? I understand that the entire NavTeQ staff is included in there as well, isn't it?

3000 developpers, programmers and what else?

How many ppl are working on Android? How many on Windows Phone? What's RIM's workforce? I guess it too has increased due to their sale of QNX. How many ppl are working on WebOS? Any estimates on that? El Reg?

TomTom sorry for giving customer driving data to cops

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RE: apology and a free speed cam sub

Good for you. I demanded to be removed from ALL of their services, dumbed my TOmTOm and started using the ancient CD-based nav again from my car. Fuck THEM!

Next 170 euro spend will be newer CD's for it instead of an spyware ridden navigation device.

Barnes & Noble answers Microsoft's anti-Android suit

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RE: So, who are Microsoft paying off?

To Cameron Colley: Do you think Europe is any better?

The "industrialised" western world is doomed. Innovation is killed by laws and regulations. It's clear where this is going to.

I good idea is to watch the 1973's movie Soylent Green. This isn't far off and at the rate this is going we will end up with a few corporations dictating everything (including the gruesome outcome they have in store for us)!

The Microsoft mobile reboot needs rebooting

Manu T

RE: android updates

Got a similar thing with Samsung. Unfortunatly my Samsung Omnia had still 6 months waranty when my bluetooth broke down. Samsung declared it out of warranty (suposeldy users abuse while the phone had been used in a protective krussel leather pouch all it's life). As I mentioned to the retail-shop that there wasn't even a speck of usage to be seen on it's screen and casing.

At first i refused to take the phone with me. I had 6 months warranty and expected Samsung to honor that warranty.To no avail. I took it home unrepaired. :-(

My dad uses that phone now. It's not repaired but it still works as a phone except for the broken bluetooth. WIFI still works, GPS inside works just bluetooth is dead. Weird isn't it.

Anyway, another shop sold me the successor to that phone I had. Which I returned after discovering that the most important feature that i required from the previous model didn't work on the brand new kid-on-the-block. I decided NEVER to buy a Samsung product again.

In fact I have even persuaded other ppl to neglect Samsung products as well. My Mom bought an LG TV instead of a similar priced Samsung model. My collegue bought a Nokia C3 instead o/t similar priced Samsung phone. And I had my eye on the LG Optimus 2X myself.

Of course this has nothing to do with OS manufacturer. Both Samsung phones had the then Windows mobile OS which I was content with. Though I never gotten any OS update from Samsung anyway. The same with an Acer Neotouch which I also used to have. In fact the only phones that I owned previously that I gotten official updates for where Sony-Ericsson dumbphones (K750i and K550i).

Apple sues Samsung over Galaxy look-and-feel

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I think Apple is right. The SGS looks a lot like an iPhone 3G(s).

Just look at the top 2 images.

Let's be honest the Galaxy is an exact rip-off of iPhone.

The placing o/t hard button. The screen with the similar looking icons, the dark gray bottom bar with 4 buttons. Every reviewer said so in their review that the Galaxy looked remarkable like an iPhone.

Techradar January: "...the chassis looks decidedly similar too,"

Gadgetreview.org: "Hij ziet er misschien uit als een iPhone-clone, maar daar eindigen de gelijkenissen." (translated as "he maybe looks like an iPhone Clone but that's where the similarities end")

trustedreviews: "Obviously there's the general feeling of homage to the iPhone,"- notice the word "obviously"?

And the list goes on...

As if Samsung is just defied Apple. Makes me wonder how many ppl actually bought one thinking it was a (cheaper) iPhone clone.

Microsoft reveals WinPhone 7 'Mango' details

Manu T

Duel booting WP7 and WM6.5 would be of a great use for me because 6.5 is very useful still

Indeed. It's the only smartphone OS that can access shared network folders on a windows PC without 3rd party software. Just fire up the file-manager, type the name o/t share and off you go.

And other apps can use that trick too. You can stream movies and music with coreplayer. Just type the name o/t share instead of a local file and there you go. There's no other phone (smart or dumb) that can do this so easy. Hell, even WP7 can't do that.

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RE: The message is ..

"In the meantime try an Android."

Sure... show me one model that can record phone-calls (both on the phone and over bluetooth attire? Especially one that's available in my country (which means NOT the ZTE Blade/Orange San francisco).

Manu T

re: @copsewood.... where are you going?

And even more importantly.

Won't this upgrade brick my (samsung) phone?

Manu T

told you soo..

I told you all. In time we'de be crying back for a Windows Mobile phone.

Sure you had to reboot it every other day. While you need this once a week on an adroid phone (huge improvement), once every 2 weeks on a symbian phone and once a month on a iPhone 3G (I've no clue how well th iPhone 4 really is or how much iOS have been improved, but I reckon multi-tasking introduces the unavoidable instability even in that platform. I guess, it'll need a reboot every 2 weeks in future revisions) .

And it's one homescreen, especially in WM6.1, didn't look as flashy but...

1) That one homescreen showed a lot more useful information then any smartphone today bar Nokia's (but these guys need 3 screens to display the same info that WM6.1 did on one)

2) Very good copy and paste accompanied with excellent multitasking. In fact you had to keep switching off apps because multi-tasking was evoked standardly with ALL apps.

3) Well implemented file manager with access to files in ROM and network shared folders on Windows and SMB-compatible systems.

4) You could execute/stream data right from the (network) file-system which used a similar extension-mappings-list as regular windows did.

5) centralized email and messaging application.

6) full outlook sync (including categories, repeating events and contact-pictures). It took microsoft years to condition us to use outlook, do they really think we'll throw that behavior overboard in one cloud... euh... night.

7) UI fully customizable with lots of third party add-ons and/or enhancements (thus more leeway for developers).

And I could go on. In my own case I was drawn to the Samsung Omnia (1) because of it's ability to record phone-calls without beeping. 3rd party apps allowed this feature to be used automatically with every incomming and outgoing call.

The weird thing is that the only smartphone OS capable of recording calls (even when made over bluetooth handset) is that one OS from the same era that nobody seems to like anymore.

I predict than in 2013 a lot of us are gonna miss the old Nokia. Like some of us already start to miss WM. But at least WP7 has the ability to become WM again because it uses the same core (WinCE).

Fired Gucci IT worker accused of tearing up network

Manu T

Don't need to →

You need deep pockets to walk those "many legal avenues to peruse them" in the first place.

So justice is only for the rich and wealthy then?

Gee, and then they wonder why (less fortunate) ppl suddenly become crazy and start shooting in schools, shopping malls, parking lots...

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