Posts by N13L5

Thats the whole pathetic problem...

people who feel worthless, unless they decorate themselves with the likes of Vertu products and similar crap are 'tossers', seeking to impress similarly senseless tossers around them, at great cost to all those people on this planet that are not completely psychotic.

Its these tossers who buy diamonds and end up financing the illegal diamond trade, responsible for a good share of all the pointless killing in Afrika, just as one example.

raising raw sewage prices

definitely, raw sewage has a higher value - at least you can make bio gas from it...

exactly the problem with downloads

I have NEVER once bought a download, cause I have not seen anything uncompressed.

Certainly I wouldn't buy an MP3 album for the same price as a CD, that's just obviously getting ripped off.

I wouldn't even buy them if they were cheaper than CD's, cause you can easily hear the difference over good speakers.

Far better to buy CD's and then convert to the format of your preference.

don't be surprised about finding M$ campaign memes

These days, many thousands of freelance writers are being hired to offer up skewed forum opinions in just about every comment section of online news papers.

These guys get something like 0.6 cents per word, so they'll write something positive about M$ or any other corporation that can't compete based on the quality of their conduct.

Not a great living for those people, but perfect for any large corporation's need to spread FUD

E-series was always very sturdy

the N92/95/96 had pretty crappy cases, chipped like crazy, and the slide mechanism would get loose, rattly and sometimes get stuck too.

Cameras were good though.

The E-series were much more solidly built, a warhorse for corporate foam whippers to compete with Blackberry

I think the majority of Nokia's phones had solid cases, excellent cameras, ever since the end of the N95 technologically behind.

Apple 'disruption' considerably upped the speed of hardware innovation all around, Now Apple got passed mainly by Samsung and HTC. Nokia fell behind.

If your flagship phones are last year's tech, (N97 etc) you loose street cred, which puts a downer on all your sales.

BMW seems to have a rule to hire freak designers to destroy a franchise

BMW seems to have a rule to hire freak designers to rather destroy a franchise before it could age into a slow decline...?

That thing is so ughh wrong....

I could think of any number of ways to make a decent coupe to the mini line, without trying to turn it into a 3 dimensional Picasso style piece of visual disturbance.

Soon, I expect, they'll come out with asymetric cars, using electronic assists to prevent them from driving perpetual spirals on the road.

"no customer loyalty at all"

How can a company with an endless history of telco-brown-nosing earn customer loyalty?

I wish I could feel better about Nokia than I do, they had good cameras and better support than most. But they sabotaged skype for years, bending over to telco wishes, and I think their last hope is Megoo, not windphone7.

Currently, releasing smartphones with last year's hardware and Symbian Anna on them isn't going to get them anywhere, they'd be better off making 3 versions of the N9 available: one with Android, one with Megoo and one with Windphone7 and see what sticks.

Next phone, try to beat Samsung on their top of the line phone to regain some street cred.

And again - for chriss sakes - let customers decide which OS they want on the thing. Can't be that hard to make 3 bootloaders... better yet, make a multi-boot phone!

If i got my favorite Android apps today, i'll boot my phone into vanilla Android, nokia needs not waste any time adding some stupid veneer on it. If next year, Ballmer pulls of some miracle with Windphone7 that lets me run a holodeck, I'll boot into that, and in 2 years, maybe the killer app showed up on Megoo, and then I'll switch to that. finished.

Its fine if they only support one of them officially, and with the other 2, the user has community sites, after all.

For Blackberry, idk never had an interest in proprietary niche stuff in the first place.

I think for either one, if they want to be taken seriously, they'll have to match/beat Samsung on hardware. That'll get enthusiasts / influencers to take note, and suddenly their lower end phone sales will improve too.

They probably should also recognize that these aren't phones, they are personal computers that can also make phone calls. As such, there is no room for walled gardens other than Apples. you gotta be open and offer MORE choice than others to get MORE sales.

= 1 phone, 3 different OS to choose for Nokia - not that hard.

Of course, one could get the idea Nokia wanted to become a software company... I think beyond working to make Megoo the best it can be, that train is gone for Nokia. Do hardware right and be software agnostic. Else, just close down everything and live of patent royalties :D

yeah, i was thinking that too

its like hey, Java isn't a platform, its a freaking programming language...

Java ME on the other hand, I don't think anybody will 'dump' that while there's still a fairly large chunk of 'dumb phones' being sold.

But you know how these kinds of articles get written, someone comes up with a theory and then goes looking around for supporting data.

Then u stir and cook it for a few hours, and voila: a new opinion piece that looks like invincible fact as much as it can...

Haha, just kidding, I think the author does have a point with some of his statements ;-)

haha very good point...

Moreover, most people probably have drawers full of old phones that last a week they can stick their SIM in for a week..

Of course how will you record the concert with one of those...?

I'm relying on you to post some highlights on YouTube since sadly, I am unable to come myself.

Unfortunately, retarded record companies can't be relied upon to bring out a DVD set I could buy. So user videos are the only thing to preserve some of the greater moments of modern culture.

I think we should have a new law: If the wonderful "Rights holders" fail to preserve what they "own" They shouldn't be able to complain about what the rest of humanity preserves without their help.

head in the clouds...

A lot of people would LIKE us to migrate to web based services.

But a lot of people aren't interested in going that route...

Migrating to web based services means to be at the mercy of a load of intrinsically greedy vendors, the net being up at all times, some provider firm not fouling up and loosing your stuff either by failure or by cyber attack. You're at the mercy of prices going way up once you've all been converted into thin clients.

Then there's the whole big brother thing: what will you still be allowed to use those online computing resources for? Surely there will be more spectacular cases of someone using some outfit's rented computing resources for some news grabbing hack, and soon there will be regulations of all kind on what you can and can't do.

And then, the cloud is the harbinger of that worst scenario of all: rented software.. we know, vendors love it, a continual tollbooth. I prefer the current approach, I buy a package, I use it as often and as long as I like, without getting nickeled and dimed to death.

For corporations, renting software might make sense in a lot of cases, but vendors are only encouraged to offer a reasonable value add while there's still competition from other options like local, purchased software..

I can tell you the answer in regards to HTC, at least...

Have you noticed that HTC was just a little bit behind in early 2011? Suspicious absence of an HTC dual-core phone announcement, when LG and Samsung were bleating from every billboard?

That's cause M$ had told them late last year to put out a load of windphone7 mobiles or else be sued for some Android patent claims. So HTC had to scramble to plug those windphones together, leaving them not enough time to stay head to head with Sammy on high end specs.

In turn, they got a deal from M$, having to pay them 'only' $5 per Android phone sold... nice, huh? that's how out of order the patent system is.

Patent FIX:

Electronics patents should have half the lifespan of mechanical patents.

Software patents should have half the lifespan of electronic patents.

Patents of living organisms should NEVER be granted and be illegal.

I remember that vega review too

maybe two different reviewers? idk

But I'm mainly responding cause of your Skype comments:

For some reason, no matter what portable device I've tried to use, Skype never works quite right.

The biggest problem I had was Skype's failure to keep the client updated as to who's online. If people who are online don't show up as online, you can't call them in the first place.

I've tested this with 3 devices and 3 accounts in the same house. Phone A logs in first and stays logged in.... then phone B and Tablet C start Skype and log in. Neither of them lights up on Phone A for being online, even if Phone A closes and restarts Skype. Everone kept showing as offline. I think after several hours when we had moved on in disgust to watching TV, the account from Phone B finally became visible as online on phone A...

The other problem is, that on at least a number of phones, a Skype call fails to actually RING! You get an onscreen message and no sound, (with the ringer turned to max) examples: Motorola Defy, iPhone 3GS, Samsung i8910. Basically, I've never been able to use Skype on mobile phones, even over wifi, it just fails, and from what I've read elsewhere about it, its the Telcos sabotaging Skype as much as they can.

Since a few weeks, Skype doesn't even work on my Desktop properly... after the last update, there's frequent crashes, and the online status updating seems sketchy too now.

the CP/M of phones lol nice troll

lol you foisted the CP/M analogy on those poor Symbian schmucks... mean, but as an annoyed ex i8910 owner, I say right on!

I really wish your BlackBerry = Linux analogy was correct though.

Trying to find something to justify keeping my hopes up for Meego is difficult...

I think Android is botched up cause it relies on clunky Java code now owned by Larry Ellison... what a horror... Of course, if Google could get rid of Dalvik by writing Pywik as a replacement, things would look a lot different...