It supports USB mass storage now, you can drop and drop files.
Posts by Giles Jones
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Nokia Lumia 920 Windows Phone 8 handset review
Google expects Apple to block its not crap iOS maps app
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I want a SIM free Lumia 920 but can you get one in the UK? can you bollocks.
The 920 will be the last Nokia phone I buy, not because I won't buy any of their phones again but I believe they won't exist by the time I need another phone.
Nokia are just like Kodak, failed to adapt and their cash cow shrunk. With Nokia it is the shrinking feature phone income and with Kodak it was the film market. Both failed to adapt to the new world (digital for Kodak and modern smartphones for Nokia).
The 920 is one of the best phones they have done, but they are just run by complete idiots.
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Fifa 13 game review
US Copyright Office approves phone jailbreaking and video remixes
Everything Everywhere prices up UK 4G
iPhone 5 is the 'most difficult, scratchy device Foxconn has ever made'
Re: LTE tests @Giles
This one?
http://recombu.com/mobile/news/iphone-5-vs-samsung-galaxy-s3-lte-4g-speed-test_M18405.html
Which has been done in the UK. The CNET test was done in the US and their LTE networks may favour the iPhone given it was developed over there. Could be down to a variation in LTE frequency band that makes the iPhone worse in the UK.
Re: Poor choice of materials?
There's plenty of choices. Stainless steel, titanium, magnesium alloy.
But why they persist with metal on a device which is more prone to needing to receive weak radio signals seems odd. The LTE tests of the S3 vs iPhone 5 found the S3 was faster in almost all tests.
Microsoft Surface priced up for Blighty
Slideshow: A History of the Smartphone in 20 Handsets
Re: I started with the Orange SPV
It had very modest specs, the battery life was terrible too.
But the later phones were good (HTC Typhoon aka Orange SPV500), the Windows Smartphone platform was a lot nicer than the touch screen version where you would lose all your data if the battery ran out (they didn't use flash memory storage until Windows Mobile 5).
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HP: PC industry has forgotten how to innovate
Re: HP has forgotten how to innovate
I'd say much of the PC industry has never innovated.
Look at your first desktop machine versus a current model. Different ports, LCD screen and obviously different RAM, HDD and other buses. But it is still more or less the same.
The tablet is the first big jump in form factor and technology in a long time. But the problem is we want things to be large enough to be usable., so the obvious next step (wrist based computing) isn't going to happen.
That horrendous iPhone empurplement - you're holding it wrong
Having flares in your photo is typically a bad thing, worse than having flares in your wardrobe.
Most SLR lenses will come with a lens hood to try to eliminate it, often combined with a polarizing filter.
That's not to excuse the fact that iPhone is sensitive to flaring, but it is likely to be the result of the camera unit they are using, not the phone.
Patent troll targets ZTE
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Steve Jobs is STILL DEAD
Re: Ridicule the Dead Guy
The tech world is a poorer place without the presence of pioneers like Jobs and Gates.
What is sad is the technology companies are now all run by businessmen with no vision. Ballmer, Whitman and Cook. So it's no wonder innovation seems to have stalled in the last few years.
Just how good is Nokia's PureView 41Mp camera tech?
Re: If it was cheap..
You mean it will buy a lot of camera body. You would really need to spend £400+ on a lens and £400+ on a camera body to get anything decent.
Most kit lenses are slow, you won't get anything like f2.0 in a kit lens and the 920 can shoot at f2.0.
A camera is a combination of a good sensor and a good lens. People worry about the body too much and forget that the lens is the more important factor for getting sharp pictures.
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Texas Instruments: Screw smartphones, put our chips in the dishwasher
You'd have thought TI would have learned from the calculator wars or from when Commodore dropped the price of the VIC20, thus forcing TI out of the home computer market.
It's the same old problem as back then, vertical integration. Meaning anyone specialising in just flogging chips it out of the market.
WTF is... NFC
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Apple iPhone 5 review
So what if it was limited?
If feature count was that important then Symbian Series 60 would still be on top. Symbian is pretty advanced and there's tons of features on those phones that people are just getting around to implementing now.
I had my phone reading my text messages to me in 2007.
But guess what? the interface was awful and the interface is the most important thing. If you don't feel at one with a piece of technology then you'll slate it and hate it.
Many people got used to Word 2003 and Word 2007 doesn't remove any features, it is just that they are so much harder to find now. End result is many people hate it.
My first smartphone was the Nokia 9110 communicator which I had in early 2001. Since then I've used all sorts, Windows Mobile devices, Symbian and iOS.
All of them had atrocious user interfaces. Start Menus and fiddly WIMP interfaces, or no touch screen at all (Nokia communicator, Symbian).
Apple took the ideas from these awful devices and made them suitable for the masses. They knew nobody wanted the stylus and that qwerty keys meant the screen had to be tiny. So they knew finger input on a capacitive screen was the way forward.
It doesn't matter what you think about Apple, the smartphones we have today are all because of the turning point of the iPhone 1, it wasn't even a smartphone when originally released either. But everyone publicly dismissed it and said it would fail while secretly buying them to copy the interface. Google's original Android phones looked like Blackberry phones, so you can't really say the iPhone didn't influence the industry.
So they weren't the first touch screen phones, but the first to be a product suitable for the masses, not geeks.