This is the sort of thing Google should have pushed for with Android, but after a year of struggling with their OS I've come to realize Google doesn't care about the end user experience. By subsidizing and dumping Android they pushed webOS and MeeGo out of the market.
They don't need caps at the 2 or 4 mark even now. It's just the abusive practices of a tight-fisted duopoly. Consider that the towers go virtually unused between 12 AM and 8 AM. Why not give everyone unlimited data during off-peak hours, the same way they did with voice (unlimited nights and weekends)? Now you see this is about earning more money through punitive overages than about providing service.
Virtually every major network in the western world uses Huawei equipment. Huawei even offered to provide the Australian government with the source code for all their software and drivers. The Australian response was just a racist knee-jerk reaction clouded in a thin veneer of political showmanship.
Uh no, it's not the GPU, which is generally underclocked or goes unused outside of games.
It's the much brighter backlight needed to get through the much higher density transistors driving the display. In fact the article you linked specifically says "twice the LEDs".
No it's not. It only heats up if you're engaging in heavy use with the LTE version. If you fall asleep the device will go into sleep mode and cool down immediately.
I have a Touchpad with CM9. It lags, especially in the browser when you open up multiple tabs.
Worst of all is how quickly it drains the battery. On standby it loses 50 mA+/hour. In actual use it loses 1000 mA+/hour. So it gets less than 100 hours on standby, and 5 hours in normal use patterns. I'm just praying Windows 8 on ARM will come out and be hacked onto the Touchpad ASAP so I can finally have an enjoyable tablet experience.
I'd buy an iPad but iOS doesn't have text reflow in the browser, forcing me to strain my eyes to read forums and comment sections (which the 'Reader' function doesn't work with).
The biggest issue is the inability for Safari or any iOS browser to wrap text. Reading websites on a 10" screen can get tiresome on the eyes, especially if your eyesight isn't that great. I don't know why Apple hasn't seen fit to include the ability to wrap text in Safari. It's the main reason I stay away from Apple products and force myself to use Android tablets and smartphones. Without text reflow reading on a mobile device is guaranteed to give you eyestraight.
It was updated to 4.0 now. Too bad 4.0 introduces frame stuttering into all browsers. Screw Google and their worthless plague of an OS. And screw Nokia for throwing away MeeGo.
I'm so sick of all the Android fanboys talking about how Nokia should've adopted Google's piece of trash OS. Android lags no matter how powerful the hardware, has so many bugs that Google won't address, is terrible on battery life (even on standby), and overall would be dead without Google dumping it for free on the market. MeeGo on the other hand was a truly collaborative effort by skillful and dedicated open source enthusiasts (and not just retards who think they're "hax0rz" because they know how to flash ROMs onto their phone). Despite the years spent in development, Meego was thrown away by Nokia's Elop. The company sold its soul. Despite this the N9 is still receiving major updates, and selling relatively well in the markets it was made available.
I would love to see a 4G, dual-core, 1 GB RAM successor to the N9. Make it available in all major markets and watch it sell like crazy. But no... at the last minute the Nokia executives chickened out. Screw them.
I hope you realize Android is doomed to low-income markets. It's a terrible OS. It lags on even the latest hardware, requires huge amounts of RAM, slows down over time, drains battery much faster than other OS's (*especially on standby*), and overall is unintuitive. Google doesn't care about its bugs.
Let's take a look at what Google is doing with their OS and their own line of Nexus phones. When Google can not efficiently or speedily update their own OS on their own line of Nexus phones before the OEM's, there is a major problem. It is now March and we still have no idea what went wrong with the ICS update for the Nexus S and 4G as Google has been completely silent on the matter for the last three months. Three months without a word from Google does not instill any kind of confidence in their competence of supporting their own OS on just their own line of Nexus phones, let alone every other device with Android on it. Not to mention that this is a long time to strand your users on an OS (rooting and flashing a downgrade is not a viable fix as it voids manufacturers warranty) that is draining their phones battery in less than six hours. There is also a very large problem with Google's customer service for Android and the Nexus line of phones. The Nexus is special in that if there is any kind of software problem the manufacturer (Samsung, HTC) and the carrier (Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon) will refer you to Google to find any kind of help. They are not on the hook, as the Android OS is Google's responsibility on the Nexus line. Problem being that Google does not have any kind of customer service for the Nexus and it's OS other than a forum. This forum goes largely ignored with even the most basic of questions and problems. Imagine if Apple only supplied a forum (no 800 number, no e-mail address, no Genius bar) as customer service for the iPhone. People would flip out. How is it okay for Google to treat it's users and customers in this manner?
Please take a look at Google's forums here: http://www.google.com/support/... Almost every question marked as answered is not actually answered. They are just some reply from another user saying they have the same problem. On the off chance you finally find a question that Google has responded to, it is just some low level employee stating they know it's a problem (offering no solution) or asking for bug reports. In fact it has gotten so bad on these forums that it's Nexus users have resorted to spamming Android's Google+ page https://plus.google.com/104629... in the hopes that Google will finally say something, anything on the issue. There are a lot of ignored and angry Nexus users out there.
Frankly I am tired of paying to beta test Google's android OS and am appalled by their lack of customer service for the number one mobile OS in the world and their Nexus line of phones. Really, all of you should be too.
Because Android sucks. It lags and drains battery extremely fast. No, ICS still lags. Android was developed as a Blackberry clone originally. It doesn't give the UI thread priority, and therefore will *always* lag.
Nokia should have gone with MeeGo. All that work done over the years by various developers who dedicated so much time and effort to MeeGo, just to throw it away... that's pathetic.
Oh please. Look at the number of idiots on here who don't "believe" in climate change, or fantasize about their Randian superiority. One's perceived rationality is merely a facade. What grounds us are statistics and facts, and very few people are willing to alter their beliefs and perception when faced with facts. It just hurts their ego and pride too much.
I took Wellbutrin when I got depressed. Made me lose hair. My doctor didn't believe me, but after 2 weeks of losing more and more hair I stopped on my own. Why wait until I'm completely bald and my doctor finally accepts reality?
Thank god I stopped, because my lost hair never grew back. Sigh...
The heck? I didn't even bother reading either article, because they're both pointless. Your article is a meandering character assassination. The salon article points out how much of a fluff piece it is.
And since when has any part of the US "lived under 'Progressive' rule" for the last 30 years? Seriously! Detroit went under during the Bush administration. If it wasn't for the bailouts the loss of its manufacturing ecosystem would have sent the city into an irretrievable spiral.
What is it with right wing neo cons and their bizarre character assassination schemes? It reminds me of the whole anti-AGW obsession with Al Gore.
Seriously, you are so brainwashed and yet you don't even know it. I just don't get how it happens. What deficiency in the mental process is required? I only see it happen among white people, especially Americans. Is it genetic? I honestly don't know.
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Doesn't even come close to the iPad 3's quad-channel DDR quad-core GPU.
This is the sort of thing Google should have pushed for with Android, but after a year of struggling with their OS I've come to realize Google doesn't care about the end user experience. By subsidizing and dumping Android they pushed webOS and MeeGo out of the market.
They don't need caps at the 2 or 4 mark even now. It's just the abusive practices of a tight-fisted duopoly. Consider that the towers go virtually unused between 12 AM and 8 AM. Why not give everyone unlimited data during off-peak hours, the same way they did with voice (unlimited nights and weekends)? Now you see this is about earning more money through punitive overages than about providing service.
Uh... the point is to prepare for everyone in downtown New York trying to watch HD youtube videos all at once.
Virtually every major network in the western world uses Huawei equipment. Huawei even offered to provide the Australian government with the source code for all their software and drivers. The Australian response was just a racist knee-jerk reaction clouded in a thin veneer of political showmanship.
Uh no, it's not the GPU, which is generally underclocked or goes unused outside of games.
It's the much brighter backlight needed to get through the much higher density transistors driving the display. In fact the article you linked specifically says "twice the LEDs".
No it's not. It only heats up if you're engaging in heavy use with the LTE version. If you fall asleep the device will go into sleep mode and cool down immediately.
I have a Touchpad with CM9. It lags, especially in the browser when you open up multiple tabs.
Worst of all is how quickly it drains the battery. On standby it loses 50 mA+/hour. In actual use it loses 1000 mA+/hour. So it gets less than 100 hours on standby, and 5 hours in normal use patterns. I'm just praying Windows 8 on ARM will come out and be hacked onto the Touchpad ASAP so I can finally have an enjoyable tablet experience.
I'd buy an iPad but iOS doesn't have text reflow in the browser, forcing me to strain my eyes to read forums and comment sections (which the 'Reader' function doesn't work with).
The biggest issue is the inability for Safari or any iOS browser to wrap text. Reading websites on a 10" screen can get tiresome on the eyes, especially if your eyesight isn't that great. I don't know why Apple hasn't seen fit to include the ability to wrap text in Safari. It's the main reason I stay away from Apple products and force myself to use Android tablets and smartphones. Without text reflow reading on a mobile device is guaranteed to give you eyestraight.
Can you imagine an N9 successor with the PureView 41 MP camera? 1 GB of RAM and a dual-core CPU... sigh.
How about a dual-core, 1 GB RAM, 41 megapixel, MeeGo-running N10? That would blow away the competition if sold in every major market.
It was updated to 4.0 now. Too bad 4.0 introduces frame stuttering into all browsers. Screw Google and their worthless plague of an OS. And screw Nokia for throwing away MeeGo.
The Android kernel is such a pathetic piece of trash. Every Android phone experiences massive battery problems, especially on standby.
Uh... no. MeeGo is still in development. The N9 has received 3 major updates since release, one in the last month, that add several features.
I'm so sick of all the Android fanboys talking about how Nokia should've adopted Google's piece of trash OS. Android lags no matter how powerful the hardware, has so many bugs that Google won't address, is terrible on battery life (even on standby), and overall would be dead without Google dumping it for free on the market. MeeGo on the other hand was a truly collaborative effort by skillful and dedicated open source enthusiasts (and not just retards who think they're "hax0rz" because they know how to flash ROMs onto their phone). Despite the years spent in development, Meego was thrown away by Nokia's Elop. The company sold its soul. Despite this the N9 is still receiving major updates, and selling relatively well in the markets it was made available.
I would love to see a 4G, dual-core, 1 GB RAM successor to the N9. Make it available in all major markets and watch it sell like crazy. But no... at the last minute the Nokia executives chickened out. Screw them.
There is nothing "clean" or "working" about Android.
I hope you realize Android is doomed to low-income markets. It's a terrible OS. It lags on even the latest hardware, requires huge amounts of RAM, slows down over time, drains battery much faster than other OS's (*especially on standby*), and overall is unintuitive. Google doesn't care about its bugs.
Let's take a look at what Google is doing with their OS and their own line of Nexus phones. When Google can not efficiently or speedily update their own OS on their own line of Nexus phones before the OEM's, there is a major problem. It is now March and we still have no idea what went wrong with the ICS update for the Nexus S and 4G as Google has been completely silent on the matter for the last three months. Three months without a word from Google does not instill any kind of confidence in their competence of supporting their own OS on just their own line of Nexus phones, let alone every other device with Android on it. Not to mention that this is a long time to strand your users on an OS (rooting and flashing a downgrade is not a viable fix as it voids manufacturers warranty) that is draining their phones battery in less than six hours. There is also a very large problem with Google's customer service for Android and the Nexus line of phones. The Nexus is special in that if there is any kind of software problem the manufacturer (Samsung, HTC) and the carrier (Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon) will refer you to Google to find any kind of help. They are not on the hook, as the Android OS is Google's responsibility on the Nexus line. Problem being that Google does not have any kind of customer service for the Nexus and it's OS other than a forum. This forum goes largely ignored with even the most basic of questions and problems. Imagine if Apple only supplied a forum (no 800 number, no e-mail address, no Genius bar) as customer service for the iPhone. People would flip out. How is it okay for Google to treat it's users and customers in this manner?
Please take a look at Google's forums here: http://www.google.com/support/... Almost every question marked as answered is not actually answered. They are just some reply from another user saying they have the same problem. On the off chance you finally find a question that Google has responded to, it is just some low level employee stating they know it's a problem (offering no solution) or asking for bug reports. In fact it has gotten so bad on these forums that it's Nexus users have resorted to spamming Android's Google+ page https://plus.google.com/104629... in the hopes that Google will finally say something, anything on the issue. There are a lot of ignored and angry Nexus users out there.
Frankly I am tired of paying to beta test Google's android OS and am appalled by their lack of customer service for the number one mobile OS in the world and their Nexus line of phones. Really, all of you should be too.
Because Android sucks. It lags and drains battery extremely fast. No, ICS still lags. Android was developed as a Blackberry clone originally. It doesn't give the UI thread priority, and therefore will *always* lag.
Nokia should have gone with MeeGo. All that work done over the years by various developers who dedicated so much time and effort to MeeGo, just to throw it away... that's pathetic.
Oh please. Look at the number of idiots on here who don't "believe" in climate change, or fantasize about their Randian superiority. One's perceived rationality is merely a facade. What grounds us are statistics and facts, and very few people are willing to alter their beliefs and perception when faced with facts. It just hurts their ego and pride too much.
And how many of the wealthiest people in America are scientists?
It seems only one side benefits monetarily from the partnership.
I took Wellbutrin when I got depressed. Made me lose hair. My doctor didn't believe me, but after 2 weeks of losing more and more hair I stopped on my own. Why wait until I'm completely bald and my doctor finally accepts reality?
Thank god I stopped, because my lost hair never grew back. Sigh...
Well HP claims they'll have a commercial chip out by 2013, so we'll see.
The heck? I didn't even bother reading either article, because they're both pointless. Your article is a meandering character assassination. The salon article points out how much of a fluff piece it is.
And since when has any part of the US "lived under 'Progressive' rule" for the last 30 years? Seriously! Detroit went under during the Bush administration. If it wasn't for the bailouts the loss of its manufacturing ecosystem would have sent the city into an irretrievable spiral.
I bought a 96 GB V100+ SSD for $80 last year. Prices have been pretty stable for the last year or two.
Dude, it took literally 5 seconds of googling to find a refutation piece: http://www.salon.com/2012/02/16/the_right_is_attacking_media_matters_because_it_matters/singleton/
What is it with right wing neo cons and their bizarre character assassination schemes? It reminds me of the whole anti-AGW obsession with Al Gore.
Seriously, you are so brainwashed and yet you don't even know it. I just don't get how it happens. What deficiency in the mental process is required? I only see it happen among white people, especially Americans. Is it genetic? I honestly don't know.