It was tried with the PSP Go and it failed miserably. The other problem is no competition, a single source means no price competition.
Posts by Giles Jones
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Microsoft 'yanked optical drive from Xbox 720'
SUPERCOMPUTER vs your computer in bang-for-buck battle
World's Raspberry Pi supply jammed in factory blunder
The true, tragic cost of British wind power
New iPad 4G data connection will only work in America
What rock have you been hiding under if you think 4G is in the UK?
Honestly, if Apple stalls and releases 3G late (iPhone 1) then people complain. If Apple gives you 4G too early you complain.
Anything using radio frequency always creates problems when deployed elsewhere. So many countries have different TV and radio systems so it's always hard to create a standard that works around the world.
Renault Mégane 265 Trophy 2.0 turbo
Hands on with the Apple iPad 3
Proview demands 'new iPad' sales halt in China
'The new iPad' revealed: Full specs, rumor scorecard
Re: Quite yawntastic
So tell me what ground-breaking features you would add to it?
Top Gear (for instance) are always raving about new cars when they get released, yet last time I looked they still (mostly) have 4 wheels, seats and drive along the ground.
Don't you think a resolution doubling is impressive enough? better than most HD TVs now yet a fraction of the size.
If this was a new Samsung tablet the fandroids would be saying how rubbish it makes the iPad look.
Samsung celebrates iPad 3 day by suing Apple AGAIN
Google's Android 'let down' sinks iPad rivals - IDC
Re: Peole don't say tablet - they say iPad
If you want iOS on a tablet you can only buy from Apple and have a choice of Wifi/3G and a few capacities.
If you want Android on a tablet you have a choice of about 200 devices and all manner of shapes, sizes, form factors and so on.
Choice can be good, but when there's too much choice and you have the money you just buy the one you know you won't be disappointed with.
Yet another iPhone patent lawsuit
So a business should always accept a quote they are given? businessmen generally negotiate deals.
If you're going to sue anyone you sue the company making the most money. This is why they're patent enemy number 1. I imagine there are tons of other companies infringing, they're just not big enough to bother with.
AMD uncloaks (more) next-generation graphics cards
Stolen iPad leads to 780lb crystal meth seizure
Atari Pong at 40: Alcorn talks plastics, pirates and square balls
It never ends: TV exposé tags new Android privacy howler
Lets face it, we never had such a diverse number of applications on our desktop machines. Many apps are just more convenient ways of accessing web sites.
So your desktop machine could very easily be pillaged of personal data without it even needing to ask you. The difference is we didn't tend to install lots of free applications from people we've never heard of.
We simply can't trust people to play nice and so phone OSes are going to need a lot more in terms of restrictions to APIs.
Indiana Jones flicks out on Blu-ray this Fall
Motorola unfazed by Apple photo-patent win
Microsoft drops 'risky' Windows 8 preview on World
Sony exec: quad-core CPUs bad for today's phones
Finally some sense
Cores are today's megapixels. Another marketing tool so sales people can say that their model has something the competition doesn't (even if it is never used).
Multi-core on phones makes sense for very few things. There may be some games that will use it. There's a few music sequencer applications it would work for, but when it comes to using the web the 3G connection is the bottleneck.
Powerful, wallet-sized Raspberry Pi computer sells out in SECONDS
Raspberry Pi signs big-name sellers
Proview's Apple iPad rights war goes global, reaches ESSEX
41-megapixel MONSTER mobe shutters Nokia knockers
Absolutely pointless. Quality will be poor, the compression will need to be high to get more than a few shots in the memory and unless you regularly print posters of your photos then you don't need the resolution.
I can see that it will allow you to crop a photo and still get a good picture, but if your crops look all grainy, distorted and uneven in luminance (vignetting) then really what is the use?
A good camera won't make up for a diabolical phone. Just buy a camera.
Apple wins battle in Motorola patent war
Microsoft Tangos into cheap smartphones
Re: If the lumia 710...
Thing is, you want your product to sell on merit not on price.
Look at the other products that didn't shift until they were heavily discounted. The RIM Playbook and the HP Touchpad. Many bought them with the intention of hacking them to run Android too.
If you can't sell when priced similar or just under the competition then something is wrong.
Asus peddles three-in-one smartphone, tablet, netbook
Sony Xperia converts flash motors into fancy remotes
Chinese cops bust culinary Apple trademark thieves
Re: I was going to say...
Nothing wrong with protecting your trademark IP and branding.
Without protection for branding and trademarks it becomes very hard to buy the genuine item as it allows the counterfeiters and cloners to dump all manner of fake rubbish on the market.
If you've ever bought anything from China and spent an hour trying to find out who the hell made it (to find drivers or updates) then you'll be glad we take trademarks seriously.
New password-snatching Mac Trojan spreading in the wild
How many people actually download and run Java jar files these days? I have a few for very niche purposes (namely MIDI patch editors). But for the most part I think that the fact that they have resorted to using Java says a lot about the general security of OSX.
If Java was installed by default on Windows I'm sure it could be potentially causing havoc too. OSX Lion doesn't have it installed by default, so only those Lion users who have Java applications would be vulnerable (and only if they were dumb enough to run some unknown Java JAR).
Google adds Do Not Track button to Chrome
Schmidt's $1.45bn Google stock sale compelled by adultery?
Re: "Why does this article read like women in a marriage have no real importance?"
Her input into the marriage financially was negligible. When splitting assets surely ownership should be divided fairly based upon who paid for them?
Or would you give your wife half of everything you own even though she paid for none of it?
Of course the situation is a lot different if there are kids involved, since by splitting up the kids are being denied their usual family lifestyle and they shouldn't have to suffer too much financially.
Adults should have to make their own way in life, not rely on big payouts from ending a marriage, which often become an incentive for doing so.
As for pre-nups, some people think they take away the romance and are quite a cynical thing to get someone to sign before marrying them.
Apple gobbles apps search robot Chomp
I think the problem with iTunes it not that is needs more technology, it needs massively less. It needs to be cut down massively and just turned into an installation tool and sync tool for music like it used to be. It's such a horrible slow pile of bloat.
Leave all the browsing and searching for the web which is a damn sight nicer to use. With the advantage of being able to open tabs and the like.
Court rejects Tesla’s latest libel spat with Top Gear
Re: Re: can you say class action ?
Can you name a battery that doesn't deplete when stood still? a battery uses a chemical reaction which you can't really stop.
Lithium ion batteries (used in most portable consumer electronics) don't like to be discharged completely. When your phone is complaining about being empty there's actually a fair amount of charge left, they just are protecting you from deep discharge.
Top Gear don't like electric cars or diesel or anything that's not running on petrol and they do their best to rubbish anything, regardless of its potential.
Apple vs Bank of China in iPad Shanghai showdown
The case was dismissed due to a lack of evidence. If you can't prove you own a trademark or that your subsidiary doesn't have the right to sell the rights to it then there's isn't much point going to court.
We've all heard of patent trolls, this is a trademark troll. But one which either doesn't have or has lost the paperwork.