No issues here
I'm in in Los Alcázares at the momet. Vodafone 4G is working fine, even using maps on the motorways is no hassle at all. Streaming working fine too.
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They stopped pretending to be Apple and demanding their prices. That would be a start.
1 - Bundle at least the keyboard FOC
2 - Make it a realistic and affordable price instead of completely ripping people off for storage and processor upgrades
3 - Put more ports in. Hardly difficult given all the space around the edges
4 - Sort out the sleep issues that have been plaguing the Surface for years.
5 - Stop completely overstating the battery life.
Oh and .....
6 - Stop pretending to be Apple and demanding their prices.
They just need to concentrate on giving a good service rather than getting involved in shite.
1 - Don't overpay (and then increase non-related charges) for football rights
2 - Don't play the same game as other broadband providers with stupid deals
3 - Retain current customers instead of hitting them with increases then offering a cheaper introductory offer to steal from another.
Just be a good company and money will come in.
Doubt this will ever happen though.
In the UK, their roaming has been excellent. since I left Three (for traffic shaping) Vodafone have been excellent in France, Spain and Italy.
I'm going to Spain again in a couple of weeks so it will be interesting to see if there have been any changes.
Ironically Three used to throttle their data on feel at home but apparently now it's better.
Exactly. I have two of them (one in use and a nearly new spare)
Apart from a slightly better camera and wireless charging, there is nothing actually *that* better with the newer models. Taking away the capacitive buttons that have been there since the Galaxy S is a stupid move, but of course Samsung just copy Apple these days.
Oh, and the Note 4 has a removable battery. Yipeee!
This is everywhere.
Happy ad (McDonalds, fruit juice, cereal bars etc.) = Sun shining and footage completely over saturated
Sad ad (Funeral plans, Cancer charities) = Cold, dark and raining.
Add to that any kids ad pretty much has the black, Chinese and Indian/Pakistani ones first then a normal white UK kid somewhere further down the ad.
I'm sick of it but nothing will change IMO
The form factor is horrible, especially without the expensive keyboard
The device itself is far too expensive
Microsoft can't even get their own hardware to work properly with their own OS
Data slurping .......
Greatly overestimated battery life
I would probably buy it if it was the last PC on earth, but there are far better solutions out there.
It's still better than anything Apple sell though :)
Rebranding is a way of covering up a bad past and hoping punters think you are a new company
DHL > Home Delivery Network > Yodel
Currys > Dixons > Currys Digital > PC World > Dixons Travel > Whatever ......
Travel and holiday companies do it too.
Maybe WH Shit, Boots and Marks & Spencer and "British" Airways should try it as well.
Lipstick on a pig. Simple as that.
The original iphone was crap .....
S60 was out of date and no touchscreen variants at that time
S40 was out of date and also no use for smartphones
S80 was perfect for this sort of thing (Nokia communicator) but got left to die due to lack of development and the high price of the communicator series, which were always way out of spec by the time they hit the shelves.
Symbian UIQ2 was very good but got quickly buried for UIQ3 which was terrible and slow due to lack of RAM on the handsets.
Windows mobile 5/6 was windows mobile. Nuff said.
It's not that Apple did anything brilliant (apart from the intuitive UI which won customers over).... it's just that everything else was pretty much shit. The app store again helped as Nokia Ovi charging $30 for apps was never going to be a winner.
In celebration I dug out my N95 8gb today, beautiful phone and great sound, but it's still bloody awful to use.
Just had a real bad experience with NowTV.
When my first 3 month free pass ran out I paid for one month at £6.99 then bought a box with a 6 month pass. I logged it in the site and got a renewal date in August which was fine. I have now noticed my card has been charged £6.99 every month and all records of the pass have disappeared.
I contacted CS with the proof of purchase and the box serial number but was told a manager would get back to me by email. That was 9 days ago and I'm still waiting. Every time I contact live chat I'm told I will get a response within 24 hours and it never happens. Dealing with Indian online support is about as much fun as dipping your testicles in a bucket of sulphuric acid.
This is a ridiculous situation, and you can't complain as the agent won't escalate to a manager. The first agent today cut me off after 20 minutes of chat so I had to go through it all over again to be told exactly the same thing.
I know it doesn't matter to those in charge as they are hidden away, but treating customers like this is embarrassing at best. Companies like this should go to the wall, not get stronger. Bastards!
No touchscreen
No foldable tablet mode
No replaceable HDD
No upgradeable RAM
Shallow keyboard that is impossible to actually type on
Last year's memory and processor to make Apple even more margin
Stupid touch bar that adds no value whatsoever (except to the price)
You get the idea .....
Apart from the iphone Apple are very much yesterdays news.
Their tablets are failing, laptops are expensive and mid-spec at best and there's been nothing innovative from them for years.
They're just a one trick pony now and when the isheep wise up and realise how poor and expensive the iphone is they will be doomed.
Can't wait for the day. Good riddance. Their wanky hipster patronising staff will have to get new jobs at Starbucks.
Same old same old. Sorta pointless rapping them on the knuckles once all the stock has been sold.
It'll happen again and again and again.
Remember folks, just like DFS sofas 50% off an artificially high starting price is not a saving in the slightest. Until retailers are stopped from increasing the base price then giving a discount to the "normal" selling price then nothing will change.
Mind you, Debenhams have been caught out by this as no-one shops there at full price anymore, they just wait for a blue cross day and buy it then.
Would never fly with them. Toxic company who rip off the British public then send the profits offshore. UK Gov should do something about this but won't as big business dictates the law.
Some day stock market companies like this will put the customer first before profits but it's gonna take something really bad to make this happen. BA came close recently.
I treat them with the same contempt as Marks & Spencer, WH Shit and Boots of Nottingham (Monaco)
Bastards the lot of them.
We have a local buy and sell "closed group" where several people are advertising illegal cigarettes on a daily basis. All that is posted is a picture with no text and the sellers won't communicate on the page and every query is met with a "PM me" response, so it's obvious the selling is not legal.
Every time I report to Facebook it sends an automated message saying the post doesn't contravene community standards, however other FB literature tells me it's against the rules to sell cigarettes on their site.
I have also reported obvious religious bigotry relating to Glasgow football teams which again isn't an issue to them it seems.
Society is a far worse place with Facebook, it's just that people don't see how it is slowly eroding our way of life and allowing certain sections of society a free reign. There may be trouble ahead ......
And still fantastic. Apart from a slightly better camera the new Samsungs are inferior in many ways.
1 - Weird screen resolution. 16:9 is perfect for 99% of phone use
2 - Non changeable battery
3 - Bixby slurpware
4 - No capacitive buttons (easy to find)
If only Samsung would release a new Note 4 many would buy it. No curved screen, a removable battery and no hipster voice thingy shit.
The Note 4 was a huge seller and many still love it, so why go so off piste Samsung ..... oh .... to copy Apple of course.
Lack of investment anywhere outside London, terrible CS, GPRS standard outside the City centre and they wonder why they're losing customers.
They are also very expensive. Three are significantly cheaper with not that worse a service.
For years they have put profits before punters and now it's coming back to bite them in the arse.
I deleted my profile as soon as I heard that slurp had got involved.
I never ever got a job (or even an offer) from being a member, and from what I could see it was full of people blowing their own trumpet and getting "recommendations" from ex-colleagues which seems completely false at best.
I did however get six Nigerian brides so it's not all bad I suppose.
I paid £1800 in 2014 for a top of the range Samsung "smart" TV.
All the literature banged on about how it was the future, integrated services, quad core processor blah blah.
It used to get regular updates for a couple of months then it stopped. The only updates we get now are to remove services. Now TV isn't even supported on it as it's too old. Really ????????
The menus are a confusing mess and it's literally impossible to find anything. No coherence at all.
Next time I'm getting a hi-sense panel and a plug in box.
Yet again I fell for all the Samsung marketing bullshit but never again. Thing is the 1080 picture quality is very good and the 3D support is fantastic. I just wish Samsung would stick to making good core products without all the crap attached to them.
That if you host an elaborate web based scam you can "hide" and get off scot free.
Steal a tin of peas from the local grocer and you get the book thrown at you.
Neither eBay or Paypal are the remotest bit helpful to the genuine user putting blocks and payment holds in place everywhere. Even reporting dodgy listings gets you nowhere,
Horrible company.