It's a shame that Windows Rt is such a lemon because the 2520 tablet is a rather nice piece of kit in terms of design and build, with possibly the nicest screen I'm yet to see on a tablet. It still puzzles me why MS didn't copy Apple and Android and just have WP on larger screens.
Posts by returnmyjedi
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Nokia halts sales of Lumia 2520 Win RT tablet over zap-happy charger
Gov cheerleader Sajid Javid gets nod from PM to park in Miller's spot
Reg slips claws across Nokia's sexy sixties handsets, fondles flagship too
Organic food: Pricey, not particularly healthy, won't save you from cancer
Chinese company counters pollution by importing fresh air
SECRET Apple-Comcast CONFAB BLAB: Movies streamed to TV? – report
Monday 24th March 2014 08:48 GMT
Old Rupes has very little foothold in the cable market in the UK, with the dominance of Sky being predominantly based in the Satellite TV market (which doesn't seem a very good fit for Apple TV). Sky are starting to gain ground with fibre optic broadband but still lag behind Virgin Media (who rule the cable roost and have just started to offer Netflix via their TiVo boxes) and BT with their patchy Infinity service.
Virtual reality? Two can play THAT GAME, says Sony: New headset revealed for the PS4
Straight to 8: London's Met Police hatches Win XP escape plan
Netflix needling you? BBC pimps up iPlayer ahead of BBC3 move
Microsoft's battery-boosting Surface slab cover to ship soon
Samsung narrows counter-claim against Apple in US
British Pregnancy Advice Service fined £200k for Anon hack, data protection breaches
Apple 'hid AUD$9 BILLION' from Australia alone: Report
Thursday 6th March 2014 07:47 GMT
Re: It may not be illegal
The immorality of Apple's actions is made worse by the huge cash pile they are feeding with their tax avoidance. I can only assume that Cook et al have a Scrooge McDuck fixation that makes them want to horde $100bn and counting, while at the same time the folks that screw their iDevices together struggle to survive on pittance a week.
Frenchman eyes ocean domination with floating, mobile Bond villain lair
Boeing going ... GONE: Black phone will SELF-DESTRUCT in 30 secs
HTC One grabs BEST SMARTPHONE gong
Wednesday 26th February 2014 12:38 GMT
In a previous work life my company had Huw Edwards host an awards evening. He was urbane, witty and had clearly done his homework about the company and its bigwigs. The organisers of the MWC clearly hadn't bothered watching Corden's efforts at hosting the Brits for the past five years, otherwise they would have gone for someone more professional. Like Sam Fox and Mick Fleeetwood.
Tab for Xmas, Mr Consumer? Yes please. And Mr Busin... NOPE
Wednesday 26th February 2014 08:52 GMT
My company bought over one hundred iPad 2s a couple of years ago based purely on a scheme dreamt up by the head of sales for all his field staff to lug one around. Just before Christmas they were donated to a charity that provides IT for schools in the developing world.
Whilst they looked rather lovely and weighed less than the laptops before, none of the sales team could use them with customers ageing IT (projectors etc), Excel etc was borked on Apple's slabs and the geolocation software that was indented to keep tabs on the staff showed them travelling from China to Colchester in the space of an afternoon.
We're currently trialling Windows 8 tabs and hybrids against Linux based laptops with far more success. One wonders whether a thorough evaluation of the ipads that the London plod are buying were properly field tested also, or whether the Met chiefs have been watching too much CSI again.
Ford to dump Microsoft's 'aggravating' in-car tech for ... BlackBerry?
Korean credit card companies hit with 90-day, $100m sales ban
Treasure hunters dig up LOST RELIC of dead Steve Jobs
Rotten to the core: Apple’s 10 greatest FAILS
Wednesday 12th February 2014 12:16 GMT
The eMac is the only bit of failed Apple kit that I've had personal experience with. My firm decided to buy half a dozen of them and every one had screen failures, and took Apple at least a year to fess up that there were issues. And I think that's the problem with Apple: not admitting their mistakes.
Wednesday 12th February 2014 12:14 GMT
Re: Good to remember whenever you hear that "Apple can do no wrong" blah blah
And when it's the anniversary of Windows 3.1 or similar then I'm sure we'll get a retrospective. This is to tie in with the massive success of the Mac and all of the lyrical waxing that has been in the tech press over the last few weeks.
Whitehall and Microsoft negotiate NHS Windows XP hacker survival plan
Apple in bid to turn MORE and MORE humans into iPhone-stroking fanbois
Monday 10th February 2014 10:56 GMT
Re: Perfect
There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to why certain screens scratch/crack/survive. My wife has had an iPhone 4 for over three years and there's not a mark on it, despite it living without a case and being subjected to the innards of ger handbag. My last phone had Gorilla Glass 2 and it also didn't have a mark on it, even after bouncing down three flights of concrete stairs.
I'm typing this on a Lumia 1020 with a Gorilla Glass 3 screen which has a handful of tiny scratches on it. Next to it is an iphone 5S which already has a scuffed screen and - coming back on topic - an thick scratch across the camera cover. Which is made of sapphire.
James Dyson plans ROBOT ARMY to take over the world
Monday 10th February 2014 07:26 GMT
Re: In the UK?!
Your caution over buying UK designed products is completely founded. It's a well hidden fact that we are required by orders from the Queen to slip a surveillance equipment into every product we design, from Land Rovers and JCBs all the way down to Sir James of Dyson's vacuum cleaners. Even a block of Cadbury's Dairy Milk has a hidden mic inside.
15,000 London coppers to receive new crime-fighting tool: an iPad
Saturday 8th February 2014 07:47 GMT
Re: Unwise?
My firm tried this on their field based salesforce and their lovely new iPads. In the space of a day the Suffolk based flogger managed to travel from Bury St Edmunds to Ipswich via Boulder City NA and a small town in the Hunan province of China. And this was pre Apple maps. I shudder to think where she would have ended up after that.
STRIPPED DOWN and EXPOSED: Business kit from the good old days
Schmidt gets $100m in Google stock on top of his $6m bonus
BSkyB sees first half pre-tax profit tumble as sales climb
Google close to inking search biz deal with Brussels: report
BBC Trust: 'LA LA LA I'M NOT LISTENING' to this DMI mega-tech FAIL
Want a touch-friendly solar-powered laptop? Apple just patented it
Murdoch's BSkyB stares down Microsoft: Redmond renames SkyDrive to OneDrive
Lloyds Group probes server crash behind ATM, cash card outage
The internet is 'a gift from God' says Pope Francis
Apple: That 'white screen of death' nightmare? We'll fix it... AT SOME POINT
Bing Maps COCKUP: Oracle UK HQ is 'Elvis Impersonators' joint
Apple-aligned firm opens sapphire glass factory. iPhone 6 rumours, DEPLOY
HOT AIR-FILLED Apple fanbois SHUNNED iPad 2 at Xmas
Nokia's Android? It's not for the likes of us…
Wednesday 22nd January 2014 09:32 GMT
Royalty free
I thought MS were going to start dish out WP software licenses for free so that cheapo handsets could compete with Android efforts? As the Normandy device is slated to run a forked version of Android that won't have access to Google Play and the plethora of apps etc available there, what's the benefit over Windows Phone marketplace?
Sniff, sniff, what's that burning smell? Oh, it's Google's patent-filing office working flat out
Apple asks judge to axe ebook price-fixing watchdog
Wednesday 8th January 2014 12:16 GMT
I gave up on the Apple statement after the first sentence. The US is desperately in need of a plain English campaign. I currently work for a US based company and the combination of the ridiculously tongue twisted emails I receive from them and having to fill in US government documents I'm surprised that anyone can be bothered to fill in any form in America (the forms for Obamacare are Orwellian in their double speak).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
