Who in their right minds...
My current phone is an N8. My next will be an E7. Then I'll hold on to that for a couple of years while I wait for a WinPho or Android to match its power and functionality.
Posts by Dinky Carter
118 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jan 2011
Nokia gives up predicting sales
Billionaire Zuckerberg kills to eat
Sun attempts to ID entire FA Cup Final crowd
Facebook planking game claims its first victim
iOS 5 said to sport over-the-air update facility
Thursday 5th May 2011 15:29 GMT
Apple's misleading claims
From www.apple.com/iphone/features/facetime.html
"People have been dreaming about video calling for decades. iPhone 4 makes it a reality. "
As we all know, phones that could make video calls had been around for years before the iPhone 4 "made it a reality."
Is this not deliberately misleading? (aka blatant lie)
Memo gives full details of Nokia staff cull and closures
Google location tracking can invade privacy, hackers say
Forget China and India, Sweden is tech's superpower
Monday 18th April 2011 12:46 GMT
Japan's hi-tech image is just an illusion
There's nothing surprising about Japan's low score, unless one has never visited or lived in Japan. Despite the techno-paradise image, everyday use of technology is extremely limited there, and the rate of change is glacial. While the cutesy Honda robot may look 2050s, the typical Japanese home is 1950s, as is the banking system. The rail system works wonderfully not because of advanced technology (it's all fairly standard stuff, mostly developed outside Japan) but because the staff actually care about their work. That's where Japan scores: it's all fairly low tech, but nothing is ever broken, dirty or late.
Men at Work lose Down Under plagiarism appeal
Fukushima explained in crap cartoon
Interwebs stunned by musical atrocity
Tuesday 22nd March 2011 10:26 GMT
Dreadful though it is...
... at least she got off her arse and tried to create something. And now she's famous and coining it in on iTunes! And it's really not so much worse that the unbelievable poppy / "R'n'B" dross that's been excreted in recent years by music industry professionals. *They* at least should know better.
Why Nokia failed: 'Wasted 2,000 man years' on UIs that didn't work
Friday 11th March 2011 13:41 GMT
Using Symbian?
I think you mean "using S60".
The very first Symbian device, the Psion Series 5, had an excellent touch screen UI... in 1998.
And you seem to be forgetting the Symbian-derived UIQ, a competent (if not perfect) touch screen UI which predates iOS et al by several years.
Symbian was an excellent OS, killed by Nokia and S60 (I'm wondering how many years it'll be before a Windows Phone has all the capabilities of the N8...)
What sealed Nokia's fate?
Thursday 17th February 2011 14:14 GMT
Symbian IS NOT Series 60 !!!
There is no "Symbian 60." There is the sleek, efficient, feature-packed OS called Symbian with a huge steaming, flabby pile of crud called Nokia Series 60 on top of it.
All the advanced features of Nokias stem from using a very capable OS. All the negative features of Nokias stemmed from sticking with the utterly out-dated, buggy, slow, flickery confusing, infuriating 'UI' called Series 60.
Please understand the difference between the Symbian OS and the Series 60 UI. You're not alone, El Reg often gets it muddled too (with the exception of Mr Orlowski who knows better.)
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I’m not a Trojan horse: Nokia’s Elop hits back at neigh sayers
It's official: Nokia bets on Microsoft for smartphones
Friday 11th February 2011 12:49 GMT 
Nokia's kiss of death strikes again
As an ex-Symbianite I'm too battle-hardened to really care any more about Nokia dumping all over Symbian (smoothering a lean, mean and advanced core with a huge steaming pile of Series60.) But I'm angry about Qt. Yet again, Nokia has taken a wonderful technology, f^cked it over and then effectively dumped it. But for Nokia's meddling, I'm sure Qt would've been officially supported (by Trolltech) on iOS, WP7, Android and BlackBerry by now. But even though Qt on WP7 would've been a potent combination, Qt looks set to wither under Nokia's toxic fosterage.
Memo to Microsoft, RIM, Nokia: Quit copying Apple!
Monday 31st January 2011 09:51 GMT
Don't confuse Symbian with Series 60
Symbian certainly does still 'cut it', being a lean, mean and extremely capable OS. It's Nokia's bloated, buggy, backward Series 60 which is the problem. Ditching it for Qt was a great move, but getting rid of the Symbian is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Gates, Woz, and the last 2,000 years of computing
Tuesday 25th January 2011 13:53 GMT
The 64 reigned supreme
The 64 blew its comtemporaries away hardware wise. Hardware sprites, fantastic sound, bags of memory. Its only realistic rival was the 32k Beeb. The 64 was a techies' machine. Learn some 6502(10) and the audio and video chips submitted themselves to your every whim, as games producers were quick to find out. It's not surprising it remains the best selling personal computer of all time.
As for LEO... my old man coded parts of the kernel on that beast, and then got it to do Ford of Dagenham's payroll in 2Kb. Great to see its story being told.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
