Hmmm, I don't see a problem with charging a premium for this tech. Say the processing power of a mid level Core 2 Duo (running a P8400 right now and that's pretty much the sweet spot for mobile computing power when it comes to me), but 3W power draw for the whole system running at full tilt including screen and radios (which is roughly similar to the iPad and other tablets)... with a 100Wh battery, you'd be looking at over 30 hours of heavy use, and far longer runtimes with more realistic use.
I'd pay upwards of $2K for that, easy.
Hell, if an iPad with a keyboard case (which would contain a nice flat extended battery and have a trackpoint) could run Windows or even just Ubuntu, I'd be looking at scrapping my Thinkpads.
ARM level performance and power consumption with X86 compatibility would open up a whole new world for netbook-type devices. Think 48 hour battery life with your average 50Wh laptop 6-cell...
Google didn't lock down your streak - Dell did. Same thing goes for the Archos thing... next time, buy Nexus or research properly (whether or not a viable root method is available for the device you intend to buy) before purchasing.
Of course, (IMO) this situation shouldn't exist in the first place - Google shouldn't be allowing carriers and manufacturers to lock down phones this way at all... but that's a different topic.:(
While I agree with your premise somewhat, you're confusing a few things.
Google's phones (Nexus) are all easily unlockable and rootable. That's no accident...
The problem is the carriers and manufacturers, who just love locking down their phones to turn them into featurephones with apps... no doubt, Google should be looking for a way to force complete openness on both the carriers and the manufacturers, but it looks like that might be far easier said than done...
Now if only Google would release Motorola's next few phones completely unlocked (fastboot oem unlock, or what was it?)... then I'll buy a Droid 5.
If rooting consisted of entering "su" in a console and then typing your password/PIN or whatever, I'd agree with you - but have you seen the hoops some users have to jump through to get root on their Android devices?
Do competing companies in the mobile computing sector file patents for functionality that's been implemented in dozens of different devices and then sue their competitors with it? In case you haven't noticed, most of the lawsuits we're hearing about in the mobile sector these days are either Apple suing someone or someone else suing Apple in retaliation.
That's a cheap excuse when talking about a company with oodles of alternatives. No need to go Amish, just buy one of the many other brands' products that do nearly the same thing... without the parent companies suing everything that moves.
"What the patent really is going after is the header during a phone call that says "touch to return to call" when you are in applications. I actually think working around this would be pretty easy for any Android device that had software buttons, because you could put the call indicator/return button there... they key is just modifying the UI of the running app during a phone call."
Interesting point - mainly because that's something that hasn't been done on Android yet. Although - there is an "ongoing call" entry in the notification tray when you're doing something else (which I actually prefer to an overlay that gets in the way of certain functions depending on the app layout)... is the patent broad enough to affect this?
On a smartphone, everything's an apps. You just need to differentiate between user/third-party apps and system apps... same thing on Android. Phone app? System app. E-mail app? System app. Browser? System app.
To be honest, I'd be rather surprised to see a smartphone that DIDN'T support this functionality. I'm 50% sure WinMobile had this functionality too, because I used one of those for nearly two years and lacking the ability to do anything else during a call would have pissed me off to no end...
Sure seems like there's a shortage... I asked around whether anyone needed a few of my old ass hard drives on one of the local (German) hardware forums, and received a trade of a slightly castrated Core 2 Duo, 4 gigs of RAM and an ASUS mainboard for just a 500gig 3.5" SATA drive and an 80gigger notebook drive... both well used, of course. A few weeks ago, this wouldn't have been possible, with the hard drives worth pennies and the other hardware worth 40-50€.
Glad to hear the shortage is coming to an end though... I really need to upgrade my NAS. Last time I did that, 1TB drives were in the sweet spot... getting a bit full.
We still need a 9-inch and 10-inch category with decent performance and resolution though... I'd love my Thinkpad to shrink down to 10" while still keeping all the features and the same screen resolution.
Higher specifications? If you're talking about CPU, graphics power, RAM size and hard drive capacity, yes.
If you're talking about other "specifications", such as:
-Decent real world battery life -Fitting in just about any old bag -Being light enough to actually carry around all day without being annoying
Then there's no 15" laptop that comes close.
I'm currently using a 12" ultraportable as my main machine, but would actually consider a 10" machine with the same resolution, internals and battery life (10 hours and up)... oh, and a trackpoint.
It's unfortunate that 10" is dying as a form factor - having a full x86 laptop that fits into a slightly oversized jacket pocket is great... lord knows my Thinkpad won't fit, no matter how hard I try:(
"tldr; Android is basically a web browser that's also a phone, while iOS is a computer that's also a phone."
And you're basing that on the lack of low latency audio capabilities? I'm not quite sure I agree with you - Android has many traits that make it more of a computer OS than iOS... things like the file-system, or real-time multitasking. iOS is more polished and a joy to look at, but actually doing anything on the devices pisses me off to no end. Then again, I'm not saying that Android's way is better - just that it's more like a traditional computer, and that I prefer it to the rather more limited iOS.
It just depends how you're wired and what you're used to, I guess... not to mention I'm not a creative type.:)
"I don't recall Linux winning. Windows to Mac, both are almost as closed."
Open and closed does not only apply to software. Being able to run Windows on a plethora of different hardware instead of just one vendor's hardware makes it much more open...
Don't like MacBook(Pro/Air)s but want to run OSX on a laptop? Can't, unless you're willing to go the unsupported and shady hackintosh route.
Yes, Apple has a good business reason for keeping its OS tied to its hardware, but it DOES make its whole system less open. Thinking otherwise is just lunacy...
Not quite correct, unfortunately - if this were the case, all the issues would be fixed with the advent of full hardware acceleration on Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich... unfortunately, that hasn't happened.
A few Googlers have tried to explain it, but unfortunately, no user (or dev, unless they can work around this issue - which they can't) gives a flying fuck about the technical details - we just want everything to be smooth.
+1. Get a laptop/gear bag that doesn't scream laptop and is small enough to take everywhere. Anything bigger, you leave at home unless you're going to be using it so much that it getting stolen while you're not looking is pretty much irrelevant.
And CIQ *should* be logging SMS and URLs? Sure, these are both completely relevant to network service quality...
Having the entire thing be opt-in would be less questionable, but still not non-shady - at least not unless the data collected is completely transparent and visible to the consumer it's being collected from.
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Can you elaborate? Which optimal frequency? The idle frequency (lowest multiplier)? The max. frequency (full tilt)?
Hmmm, I don't see a problem with charging a premium for this tech. Say the processing power of a mid level Core 2 Duo (running a P8400 right now and that's pretty much the sweet spot for mobile computing power when it comes to me), but 3W power draw for the whole system running at full tilt including screen and radios (which is roughly similar to the iPad and other tablets)... with a 100Wh battery, you'd be looking at over 30 hours of heavy use, and far longer runtimes with more realistic use.
I'd pay upwards of $2K for that, easy.
Hell, if an iPad with a keyboard case (which would contain a nice flat extended battery and have a trackpoint) could run Windows or even just Ubuntu, I'd be looking at scrapping my Thinkpads.
ARM level performance and power consumption with X86 compatibility would open up a whole new world for netbook-type devices. Think 48 hour battery life with your average 50Wh laptop 6-cell...
Ah, but there's a key difference - if you own that Linux server, you will most certainly be able to get root access.
Even if you own your phone, that's not always the case.
Thanks.
"But lets face it when it comes Smartphones as they exist today Apple is the Simpsons. No matter what your ideal is Apple already did it."
Should the Simpsons have prevented South Park from being created? Or Family Guy?
What if Groening had patented the abusive, stupid, beer swilling father character?
Hell, Apple is patenting the equivalent of Homer's hairstyle (or lack thereof)...
Would you say a KOTOR fan will definitely like TOR, even if they've never played an actual MMO?
Google didn't lock down your streak - Dell did. Same thing goes for the Archos thing... next time, buy Nexus or research properly (whether or not a viable root method is available for the device you intend to buy) before purchasing.
Of course, (IMO) this situation shouldn't exist in the first place - Google shouldn't be allowing carriers and manufacturers to lock down phones this way at all... but that's a different topic. :(
While I agree with your premise somewhat, you're confusing a few things.
Google's phones (Nexus) are all easily unlockable and rootable. That's no accident...
The problem is the carriers and manufacturers, who just love locking down their phones to turn them into featurephones with apps... no doubt, Google should be looking for a way to force complete openness on both the carriers and the manufacturers, but it looks like that might be far easier said than done...
Now if only Google would release Motorola's next few phones completely unlocked (fastboot oem unlock, or what was it?)... then I'll buy a Droid 5.
If rooting consisted of entering "su" in a console and then typing your password/PIN or whatever, I'd agree with you - but have you seen the hoops some users have to jump through to get root on their Android devices?
OK, fine - I'll call it a price hike instead of a shortage and we're good again ;)
Do competing companies in the mobile computing sector file patents for functionality that's been implemented in dozens of different devices and then sue their competitors with it? In case you haven't noticed, most of the lawsuits we're hearing about in the mobile sector these days are either Apple suing someone or someone else suing Apple in retaliation.
That's a cheap excuse when talking about a company with oodles of alternatives. No need to go Amish, just buy one of the many other brands' products that do nearly the same thing... without the parent companies suing everything that moves.
"What the patent really is going after is the header during a phone call that says "touch to return to call" when you are in applications. I actually think working around this would be pretty easy for any Android device that had software buttons, because you could put the call indicator/return button there... they key is just modifying the UI of the running app during a phone call."
Interesting point - mainly because that's something that hasn't been done on Android yet. Although - there is an "ongoing call" entry in the notification tray when you're doing something else (which I actually prefer to an overlay that gets in the way of certain functions depending on the app layout)... is the patent broad enough to affect this?
On a smartphone, everything's an apps. You just need to differentiate between user/third-party apps and system apps... same thing on Android. Phone app? System app. E-mail app? System app. Browser? System app.
To be honest, I'd be rather surprised to see a smartphone that DIDN'T support this functionality. I'm 50% sure WinMobile had this functionality too, because I used one of those for nearly two years and lacking the ability to do anything else during a call would have pissed me off to no end...
Sure seems like there's a shortage... I asked around whether anyone needed a few of my old ass hard drives on one of the local (German) hardware forums, and received a trade of a slightly castrated Core 2 Duo, 4 gigs of RAM and an ASUS mainboard for just a 500gig 3.5" SATA drive and an 80gigger notebook drive... both well used, of course. A few weeks ago, this wouldn't have been possible, with the hard drives worth pennies and the other hardware worth 40-50€.
Glad to hear the shortage is coming to an end though... I really need to upgrade my NAS. Last time I did that, 1TB drives were in the sweet spot... getting a bit full.
We still need a 9-inch and 10-inch category with decent performance and resolution though... I'd love my Thinkpad to shrink down to 10" while still keeping all the features and the same screen resolution.
Unless you need more than an hour of non-dimmed use with WiFi and the CPU actually doing anything other than idling, of course...
Higher specifications? If you're talking about CPU, graphics power, RAM size and hard drive capacity, yes.
If you're talking about other "specifications", such as:
-Decent real world battery life
-Fitting in just about any old bag
-Being light enough to actually carry around all day without being annoying
Then there's no 15" laptop that comes close.
I'm currently using a 12" ultraportable as my main machine, but would actually consider a 10" machine with the same resolution, internals and battery life (10 hours and up)... oh, and a trackpoint.
It's unfortunate that 10" is dying as a form factor - having a full x86 laptop that fits into a slightly oversized jacket pocket is great... lord knows my Thinkpad won't fit, no matter how hard I try :(
"tldr; Android is basically a web browser that's also a phone, while iOS is a computer that's also a phone."
And you're basing that on the lack of low latency audio capabilities? I'm not quite sure I agree with you - Android has many traits that make it more of a computer OS than iOS... things like the file-system, or real-time multitasking. iOS is more polished and a joy to look at, but actually doing anything on the devices pisses me off to no end. Then again, I'm not saying that Android's way is better - just that it's more like a traditional computer, and that I prefer it to the rather more limited iOS.
It just depends how you're wired and what you're used to, I guess... not to mention I'm not a creative type. :)
"I don't recall Linux winning. Windows to Mac, both are almost as closed."
Open and closed does not only apply to software. Being able to run Windows on a plethora of different hardware instead of just one vendor's hardware makes it much more open...
Don't like MacBook(Pro/Air)s but want to run OSX on a laptop? Can't, unless you're willing to go the unsupported and shady hackintosh route.
Yes, Apple has a good business reason for keeping its OS tied to its hardware, but it DOES make its whole system less open. Thinking otherwise is just lunacy...
Not quite correct, unfortunately - if this were the case, all the issues would be fixed with the advent of full hardware acceleration on Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich... unfortunately, that hasn't happened.
A few Googlers have tried to explain it, but unfortunately, no user (or dev, unless they can work around this issue - which they can't) gives a flying fuck about the technical details - we just want everything to be smooth.
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+1. Get a laptop/gear bag that doesn't scream laptop and is small enough to take everywhere. Anything bigger, you leave at home unless you're going to be using it so much that it getting stolen while you're not looking is pretty much irrelevant.
And CIQ *should* be logging SMS and URLs? Sure, these are both completely relevant to network service quality...
Having the entire thing be opt-in would be less questionable, but still not non-shady - at least not unless the data collected is completely transparent and visible to the consumer it's being collected from.