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No Donut or Eclair?

It is disappointing that the memory map is so small. Why no Donut? Also its a big put off that Eclair is unlikely to visit this handset.

Okay, so it is a budget Android - but that is no reason for such inadequate devices to come to market and thus sully the reputation of Android, which it will for some. It is when you see this kind of manufacturer behaviour that you can also see why some OS manufacturers refuse to licence their code.

Possibly a tiny win for Huawei and T-Mobile until Android 2.0, and then probably all hell let loose in 2010 as people see their, tiny, investment in technology was so short lived.

The more I find out about this Huawei the less I want to even think about it!

@John Hawkins

Hear hear. Exactly. Totally agree.

Stick me down for a brace of sprightly young fillies in need of some manly insemination.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth ...

.. but this has me asking "Why?"

When has this or any other recent government cared about what its employers, the people, actually think? Why would they curtail RIPA? Or are we witnessing a spot of "not with my toys" between big gov and little gov?

I write this standing by the front door to save the stormtroopers the bother of kicking it down when they come to collect me.

doubleTwist? Anyone?

Oh FFS Palm! Instead of dicking around making yourselves look like the complete prats you are, why don't you do yourselves and your few customers a favour and use doubleTwist ( http://www.doubletwist.com )? "Palm Pre - automatically convert your videos and sync them to your Palm Pre; sync your iTunes playlists and photo library."

This suite allows complete integration with the iTunes library and any other media files scattered around the user's storage. It works with almost every device known to man, I use it to sync playlists etc. to my Android devices, mirroring my iPhone as required.

Palm would do well to put a big sticker on the box to promote doubleTwist. At least that way this stupid tussle would be over and done with in an instant.

Simples.

The crazy thing is ...

... if we all collectively stood our ground and twatted the half-brain neanderthals that stalk our streets at night then there would be no continual problem at all. Where the idiots win is when we all stand back and look on, taking no action, mostly because we fear the law will come down on us rather than the perps.

It is really heartwarming to not only read about this but for the official video to go out into the wild for all to see the comeuppance occur.

And before some bleeding heart liberal pipes up about the need to understand these in-breeds, let me just say that this kind of person does not need understanding. It is their victims that need understanding - the perps need some good old fashioned, but much needed, punishment. Then maybe *they* will develop the understanding that they cannot behave so mindlessly and selfishly.

Is it really that hard to understand?

Android is open source.

Google's own apps that it places on that OS are not open source.

Why is there this persistent notion that an open source OS means that any and all apps developed for it are also open source? They clearly are not if the licence terms of the application say so.

That Google choose to give away their closed source apps does not qualify them as open. In the end, Google have absolute right to issue the C&D letter if they do not want their apps redistributed or incorporated in branches of the Google Android OS.

It really is not that difficult children.

Welcome to a little bit of the 21st century America

How ridiculous that AT&T is only just allowing MMS on the iPhone. I don't suppose they saw it coming. It kind of took them by surprise. They've not bothered looking to see what other nations (nee the rest of planet Earth) were up to?

There is a lot to be said for not living in the centre of the known universe.

@Those fancy batteries

Life threatening? Oh purleeze! ICE vehicles burst into flames too. Statistically a mechanical or electrical malfunction is bound to occur, it is a risk we all take as we mount any vehicle. We can't be worrying about such things or we'd never leave the house.

These speeds and mileage capacities are impressive in that in a very short time of serious development they're getting closer to what an ICE will give on a single charge. Its all heading in the right direction.

What I hope is that Mision (as did the now defunct Vectrix) show the way forward is to develop realistic looking vehicles that come from this century, and not some freak butt-ugly concept pile o'crap.

Good luck to Mission - lets hope that they get the commercials done better than Vectrix did.

Closing the lid is impossible ...

Labour and Conservative parties opened the lid to Pandoras box decades ago. The notion that either of them can close it and take us back to more peaceful times is naive in the extreme. It will take a new political party with great vision to do this - but given the UK's fixation with "celebrity" they would be very unlikely to be voted in.

The problem is that our own society in general and the political elite have all pretty much taken on board the mantra "If it saves one <fill-in-the-blank>". And so we now have the raft of completely disproportionate laws and brainwashing policies that taint parents/grandparents as pedophiles for photographing kids at events. We, as a nation, have actually bought into this wholesale. You can see and feel the effect of this everywhere. We're all either criminals, pedophiles or worse. In the face of this society itself retracts, refusing to participate or volunteer (we're seeing the effect right now), relying on the state's employees to do the job of parents, communities and societies (you try solving a local problem child and see how soon you end up arrested and put in court).

Huge, expensive and utterly futile databases are proposed and actually created. Meanwhile real harm and damage (Climbie, Baby Peter and a host of others) continue to suffer under the gaze and stewardship of those employed to protect and prevent. The answer? More databses, more disproportionate laws - when all that is required is to actually do their job and enforce the commonsense laws that were present 30 years ago!

It goes on, and on. And what party (Labour, Conservative or even Lib Dem) is capable of reversing this? How could it even? Society has responded to the continual ratcheting and gold plating of local and EU laws. We have en masse accepted and bowed down under these like the obedient citizens we are. Our very core values have changed beyond all recognition of 30 years back. The children of the social experiment are now those that are climbing the greasy pole of power. How can we expect them to know the difference, where it all went wrong, what they need to do to remedy? Cameron is one of those children of that age, as are his peers.

Ah! I am ranting .... FFS ... we need a full-blown revolution!!

All together now .... "Power, to the people ...."

will be available through Orange...

Oh well, thats it knackered then.

Orange, that mobile network operator famed for massively affortable mobile data tariffs [not]

@AC - "Forget the iPhone" - Well, you could try, but it'll be there in your face for quite some time yet. Better get used to it before you have an angina attack. "Android will be the dominant phone OS..." a bold bet indeed, but the competition is very much more than the OS, as Symbian and WinMo are finding out. Android manufacturers will also.

@Danny 14 - You're bang on there sir. HTC Androids have paltry integrated memory and Cupcake doesn't allow for live apps on SD. Install too many and the HTC Magic (f'rinst) slows down horribly, even running single apps. WTF? why are manufacturers drip-feeding us integrated memory?

Good luck to Motorola - boo hiss to Orange for getting this, hopefully not exclusive though.

Oh just die will you?

These pair of showers of shit are well past their sell-by date. All that needs be said about them has been said above. So why do they persist?

At least where I live DSG have had the goodness to shut down their high street stores following the rebranding of Dixons to Currys Digital, then shutting the local Currys and now [thankfully] shutting down the rebranded store.

I don't know if they have some kind of psychic aura around them but the hairs on the back of my neck and my irritation gland would swell on any occasion that I had to walk past their storefronts.

Good riddance to bad news, thats what I think. Fuck 'em. Crapheads.

Makes a change ...

.. to see a balanced article on this thorny subject.

Having used both fairly extensively I reckon that I pretty much concur with the article wholesale.

Windows 7 is a massive improvement on that abortion that is Vista. But I cannot help feel that Microsoft is missing something by making the new OS as mixed up and muddled a configuration to buy as possible. OS X by contrast comes in one single flavour and does everything that Windows 7 in its most expensive incarnation can. And then the price difference of the OS is huge.

That said, the migration from Vista to Windows 7 should be a snip for any sysadmins who are currently looking after that bastard OS. The leap from XP to Windows 7 is not too extreme either, given that even in its first Beta form that OS was already streets ahead of Vista in too many ways to mention in a comment.

Meanwhile, I lovin the new Snow Leopard experience. All of the improvements and tidy-ups are superbly engineered, as can be expected.

I suspect that either way the two new OS are #win and #win alike.

Deserving of a nice tall cold pint

And the upgrade path is ...

... to buy another phone? If M$ is serious about competing in the phones OS market then it better wise up and start doing some more copying of the Apple iPhone and Google Android paradigm. In-life updates/upgrades to the OS.

But then this is Microsoft we're talking about., fat and complacent.

@VoodooTrucker

"I pay about $100/mo, so $1200 or £600 or so?"

At today's exchange rate that USD 1000 is GBP 724.94. My iPhone contract works out at GBP 408 per year which is USD 675 in your spendage for 500 minutes, 600 texts and "unlimited" data plus pubic WiFi at certain hotspots.

Good luck with the FCC taking on the inter-mobile operator competition. No doubt they'll be squealing like stuck pigs all the way. You've only got to watch the behaviour of that inglorious cartel, the GSMA, who despise any notion of true market force and prefer premium charging for any kind of roaming for voice and data.

@Andrew Barratt

"Shame that you'd no doubt be shot by the police."

Only for photographing it ;)

@Nick Kew

Read the article again. The simple split has been RIM (Blackberry), Apple (iPhone) and Nokia (assorted stuff) as the top three sellers in EMEA, broken down by sales and ending up (1) Nokia, (2) Apple and (3) RIM.

If you were to take Nokia's mix of so-called smartphones and categorise them properly (as suggested by RichyS you may find that the gap between Apple and Nokia not too large at all.

No doubt some anti-Apple-everything 'tard will come up with a suitable explanation behind the figures to put Apple down in sales below Motorola and Tesco. I'll just go make a cuppa while we wait for the inevitable.

Mines the one with "Bring It" writted on the back

... and why 2012??

What is so magical about 2012 that every single manufacturer seems to be aiming for it? What about 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Its not as if no one knew this tech was coming/wanted/needed. Or is OPEC really involved? Do we really have to hit Peak Oil before the manufacturers put this stuff out on the road?

On the other hand ...

... we could all just wait and see what actually comes out before giving it a good old fashioned highly prejudiced drubbing because its from Apple.

The iPhone/iPod Touch demonstrated that people will actually use this kind of technology in the handheld/mobile space like no other device before it. The browser stats speak for themselves - much to the chagrin of the hate-filled.

It took only two postings before the first AC fuckwit appeared here.

UK.gov's Jobs Search site ..

They have a website for this? AFAIK he was last seen in Cupertino.

Mines the one with "All this gov touches turns to dust" writted large on the back

Same old worthless shite

El Reg, can we have this page laminated and available as a PDF to be attached with all Apple/Microsoft articles. It is totally [un]believable the drivel that comes forth at every single article. Its as if the 'tards on both camps wait with trouser-wetting glee to offer us their embedded prejudices. As if anyone really gives a flying fuck what they think.

"Microsoft airbrushes anti-Apple ad" degenerated into "My cock is bigger than yours" within only a few posts, completely missing/ignoring the salient point of the article in the first place.

Fsckwits. Fail, the lot of you.

@ Geoffrey W

"That isn't a comment on the machines themselves but that's the impression I get watching and looking at their commercials."

Isn't that rather like the Daily Mail film critic who will not see The Antichrist but wants it banned all the same, because of his own impressions on what it might be, as opposed to what it truly is?

Go get yourself a Mac, cross over to the dark side, you'll never want to go back. Expensive, yes. But you really are getting what you pay for in terms of quality and experience.

That said - I remain to be convinced about the whole iTablet notion. It didn't work for Wintel, it is very unlikely - I believe - to work for Apple. But if they can pull said rabbit out of the hat then all credit to them for doing the seemingly impossible.

It is amazing how success brings out the harbingers of doom and the anti-all-things-Apple cronies. Is there some kind of Masonic lodge where they all meet up and compose their nonsense? It is the same old diatribe each time based on nothing more than a personal prejudice. Perhaps these same rednecks wear white robes with pointy hats and go a'burning occasionally? It really is all rather silly

Beer: because the world needs beer, and lots of it too.

Hits nail on head

Sean Timarco Baggaley describes it in one. Well said sir. It really isn't a difficult concept to grasp except for all the anti-anything-Apple that haunt every single Register article containing the word Apple in it.

There can be absolutely no reason on this earth why any company should offer up its competitive edge on a silver platter for all and sundry to feast off.

Palm have had simply years to get into the game. Instead, with the Pre, they come up with some half-arsed idea of a handset and place a key reliance upon another manufacturers product. That they have had to reverse-engineer says it all. It is a wonder that Apple have not set their lawyers upon Palm for committing no end of legal infractions.

So sorry, what is the story?

Apart from being bait for the usual "I hate all things Apple" crowd there really is no story here

"With the notable exception of RIM's BlackBerry devices, it's best to assume that once an attacker has physical possession of the phone he'll gain access to the contents pretty quickly."

Oh, so that'll not be Windows Mobile is any better then.

FFS children, get a life

What about the bloody screen?

Okay, so far we've quipped about the Antipodean upward inflection, the crappy proprietary OS and Comic Sans keytops (although I'd wager these could be changed ...). But doesn't anyone give a monkeys about the use of OLED? That is one gorgeous screen, and OLED seems to vibrant in comparison to backlit LCD that is mainstream at the moment.

I look forward to the day when we can welcome our OLED overlords into every viewing aspect of our lives. That is, until something even better comes along ...

A quiet day at the news desk

That must mean time to recycle non-news shock horror avoid situations that may cause device to overheat.

Really people, the way serious tech is used and abused defies logic. Some plonker even posted on YouTube a video of him dropping his 3GS into a pool (it survived by the way, show me any smartphone that would do that!).

All Apple have done is like any other manufacturer and posted a set of recommendations about use avoiding overheating that is bad for any electronics and battery tech. Like any guidelines they are conservative.

So I'm afraid that all of you regular nay-Tards are going to be sadly disappointed and have to go elsewhere for your satisfaction. You won't be reading legend tales of iPhones spontaneously combusting or giving up the ghost any time real soon now.

Time to get your coats chaps, nothing at all to be seen here.