So it managed to buffer how many seconds of data?! before it "broke" - Looks like it can convieniently break whenever he needs to recover video/images from it. Convienient that such breakage was enough to freeze the "buffer" in such a way it could be recovered.
Nice explaination but I'm not buying it... with that said, so what if he is recording everything in public.
They have no poutine at the New Youk Fries in Dubai. They did have fatoosh fries... but now they have butter chicken fries. Do they have poutine fries in the US or are they just trying to appeal to us Canadians?!
I concurr. My wife was the same way - while here in Dubai, she loved to eat KFC, Subway and Pizza Hut simply because it was something she recognized and it made her happy despite eating what is crap food to be avoided back home.
So you honestly think onstar is monitoring and logging the brake pressure, vehicle speed, throttle position and steering angle, constantly? I highly doubt it.
I saw a guy launching a boat with a uhaul truck - complete back end of the truck submerged (including rear diff) and it started to slip in... luckily someone had a strap. I am sure there was no VISIBLE damage done to the truck but would be surprised if the diff didn't get water inside it and fail shortly after.
Drive around and round in an empty round about as fast as possible? Drive it on the ocean beach during low tide? Do +80km/h on a long rough gravel road? Leave it running with the A/C on in the corner of a hot parking garage? Drive on a humid day with A/C on max and windows open? Leave the windows/sunroof open in the rain fog, or early morning dew? Tow it incorrectly (causing early wheel bearing failure or transmission wear)? Take it off-road and smak the oil pan/diff off a few rocks? Take it into the sand dunes? Drive through a corn field and make a mais maze? Jump it on hilly back country roads? Use sunroof as exit to sit up on roof (who notices roof dents)? Make whoopie in it? Do all of the above on the same day.
Mostly, the only reason I rent a car is to drive something fun and different. Even with my driving experience and good driving record, I still do donuts with my car and bend my 4x4 jumping sand dunes and ruts.
What do you drive?? Does your car have SMG/Dual Clutch/CVT 1, if you hit a curb or speed bump head on, you may get damage/wear you will not see right away 2, many cars, especially american crap, this is not true 3, again, this is not true on most cars 4, not sure you guys are talking about the same thing 5, the reason you have a traction control off switch is for slippery conditions, you may have a liability issue on your hands here 6, also not true in any of the cars I have been in
Most rental companies charge a 10% to 30% service charge on fines, tolls and tickets. I would be surprised if RelayRide does not have you covered there. Same with cars returned with no gas or in need of cleaning.
Most rental companies I know don't keep the cars long enough to do any maintenance they pay for - they bring them into the dealer while still under free maintenance and expect the dealers to be responsible for doing any warrenty work.
Except whatsapp does not work like RIM as the communication is encrypted to the whatsapp servers between device and server, not device to device. It would be possible for a compromise in whatsapp service for your personal data to leak. For most users, no big deal.
We realize that we only added the data that was releevant to assist in our computer model comming up to that conclusion. Interestingly, google search queries would be very interesting to mine.
No a troll would be saying more things that are not true. You said yourself that your HD7 is WP7.5. Alot of the points you dismiss you either didn't understand or to a lot of people are valid points. That said I've never bought a Blackberry phone with a newer OS that had less features like WP7 vs WP6. To be honest I don't know what they were thinking as WP7 was a letdown to all the WP6 users and an inferrior product to all the Android/Apple crowd in which it competes. From all the US demographics I have seen, only ~30% of the phones in use are smart phones. Anyway, more of your counterpoints (removed the ones you and I agreed on or were completely lame)
23. No way to stream audio to the majority of car audio systems as the most common Bluetooth rSAP profile is not implemented.
It was on my Optimus Quantum, and is on my HTC HD7 (both are Bell Canada devices) -rSAP is not A2DP, rSAP is deligating your phone's sim (without removing it) over bluetooth so your BMW/Mercedes/High end car kit can use its own phone radio, that since it has a remote antenna away from your head can run at higer wattage allowing you to get coverage in parking garages.
24. Cannot stream audio from video playback to Bluetooth devices as A2DP profile is not implemented.
You're repeating yourself. -Back to A2DP, I read from others the complains may be when playing video
25. No support for full on-device encryption required for secure applications like mobile banking and online payment.
My online banking works just find through https and a web browser. -Maybe he meant creating porn/sexting/or activism. Still, device does not have full device encryption.
29. Cannot be upgraded to WP8 (Apollo) Yeah, I admit that this upset me a little, and is probably the only reason I am not replacing my HD7 with a Lumia 900. -So you didn't learn anything there?!
31. Taskmanager has no option to shut down apps you donâ(TM)t want running in the background.
You can close them through the multi tasking menu. You do have to go back to the app to close it, and it's a little clunky, but it can be done. -Admit I have not used it long enough, but do apps ever lock up preventing this?! When an app crashes, do all apps crash?!
33. Lockscreen need to be activated to show missed call/sms notification. like every other phone I have ever seen? How is this an issue? -Maybe he means like on blackberry, symbian, motorola dumb phones they have a missed call notifier by the clock
35. Tiny fonts in messages is very hard to read for those over 45. I'm late 30s, with awful vision, I have to increase the default font size on almost every thing I use, except my HD7. -I am young and like tiny fonts everywhere... but again, lack of configuration is a downfall. Different phones have different pixel density as they have the same resolution screens
39. Cannot close music player, can only pause. Music player on lockscreen will stay until you reboot. Be careful not to touch it in a meeting.
Why are you playing with your phone at all in a meeting? It should be in your pocket. -You obviously don't work in a role where meetings are often trumpted by emergencies
42. Online and phone contacts are mixed together with no ability to filter. I thought you couldn't save contacts directly to the phone? -That would make it a pretty shitty phone, I believe his complaints were the phone tried to send contacts to the cloud but you have no way to destinguish
43. Search button in dialer does not search contacts for dialing, but search call history.
Search for contacts through the contacts app. That actually makes sense. -Searching for contacts from the homescreen or phone app makes sense - why go though all the trouble to click through menus to look for contacts especially when you need to make an urgent call.
47. Text messages can only be deleted one by one or the whole thread. As opposed to? -selecting multiple individual ones and h
Except they explicitly state in the law: In a pocket of a piece of clothing of a person, and unconnected to any key ring Which is plainly obvious that the limitations exclude unconcealed keys on a regular key ring with your regular keys or else they would have simply said "In a pocket of a piece of clothing"
NOT LIMITED TO means that if you have the key cut in two and stored in two places or some other condition which violates the spirit of the law - not that your walking down the street with bobby pins in your hair or are j-walking.
Take off the tin-foil hat and quit using the moderation as -1 "I dont agree"
Forget your iphone comparrisons, some of us have still choosen not to adopt the iphone due to its list of expected, lacking, smartphone features. It also, has already been adopted over the years and many of the fans have since passed their old iphones on to family members and get sold cheaply second hand - they still run a more modern OS that can do many of the things WP7 phones can't, and will never do.
1. This means there will never be any useful real time background apps, like geo-location apps. What about real-time multiplayer games with voice in the background and you just want to send a quick text. what about voip applications when you want to add something into your callendar. 2. Nevermind Zune will take forever to transcode the media. Sure it will maybe save battery life but seems quite lame either way... I can't store my movies on my phone and watch them on a different device or see them in decent quality when hooked up to HDMI out. 11. MP3 ringtone does not mean it will be a song and make you sound like a douche. Mine for example is like a SELCALL tone like a emergency beacon when a ship is sinking. It makes me sound like a total geek which is good for business yet still is an acceptable ringtone like ring. My wife's ringtone is our daughter saying "mommy, your phone is ringing; mommy, your phone is ringing" recorded when she was under 2yrs old which is also socially acceptable and "cute" 12. Some devices can only provide a network to teather on by ad-hoc. Like up until recently, most laptops did not support virtual APs in infrastructure mode so you could not connect to your hotel internet from your phone. 13. So it's not as good as a iphone for consumers, and not as good for enterprise as WP6. Your locked ringtone by policy can not be done on WP7, but can on WP6 and Blackberry 16. I make my font size smaller on my bberry. Different people have different preferences, and thats why all other smart phones have preferences control panels. 19. Some people like to look at their phone and know exactly what is going on. Why not just log into your mail/callendar from a favourite bookmark in your browser? Look, now Playbook has a mail client too! 20. Blackberry does this still, and many of the things people expect from a smartphone like the ability to transfer files
This is supposed to be a smartphone, right?! Not a dumbphone with a browser and media player... to top it off, WP7 will always be the bag of shit it was, buyers probably won't be able to upgrade and they'd be better off with an old iphone then a new WP7 phone. Sadly, it seems, you loose more going from Symbian or WP6 to WP7 then you gain. With Microsoft's track record of depricating legacy services and the heavy reliance on cloud services I would be surprised if the phone isn't useless trash in 5 years.
Yeah I noticed a lot of features which work on other smartphones like blackberry but dont on the iphone. Like rSAP or removable media. There are some igsignificant complaints like bing search (vs. siri) and cloud services (same like apple/google android) but there are a lot of important ones. I could overlook some major specific shortcomming in that list - however there are many which make it a significant downgrade from my phone. Phone on for alarm?! really?!!?
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Lebanese also speak french and come to France...
In the UAE, there are no muggings or guns. I haven't even seen a police officer with a gun. Or any violent crime.
So it managed to buffer how many seconds of data?! before it "broke" - Looks like it can convieniently break whenever he needs to recover video/images from it. Convienient that such breakage was enough to freeze the "buffer" in such a way it could be recovered.
Nice explaination but I'm not buying it... with that said, so what if he is recording everything in public.
They have no poutine at the New Youk Fries in Dubai. They did have fatoosh fries... but now they have butter chicken fries. Do they have poutine fries in the US or are they just trying to appeal to us Canadians?!
Sorry I didn't get it - did you say tomatoes and they say tomatoes? or did you say toe-mat-oes??
I concurr. My wife was the same way - while here in Dubai, she loved to eat KFC, Subway and Pizza Hut simply because it was something she recognized and it made her happy despite eating what is crap food to be avoided back home.
And also, I am curious if it's more practical to remove valuable metals from the ewaste or the equivilant weight nothern canadian in glacial deposits.
I'd also be curious as to know what is meant by "lost" and how they plan to deal with the tons of arsenic, beryllium and other crap in our e-waste
Except the enviornment implications of even modern reclaimation will likely create a superfund site
So you honestly think onstar is monitoring and logging the brake pressure, vehicle speed, throttle position and steering angle, constantly? I highly doubt it.
Yes, because all cars, even ones without onstar that they rent, have an override to disable the traction control.
Even then, unplugging the ABS relay easily overrides such an override.
Ever turn off the traction control in a rental?
I saw a guy launching a boat with a uhaul truck - complete back end of the truck submerged (including rear diff) and it started to slip in... luckily someone had a strap. I am sure there was no VISIBLE damage done to the truck but would be surprised if the diff didn't get water inside it and fail shortly after.
Drive around and round in an empty round about as fast as possible?
Drive it on the ocean beach during low tide?
Do +80km/h on a long rough gravel road?
Leave it running with the A/C on in the corner of a hot parking garage?
Drive on a humid day with A/C on max and windows open?
Leave the windows/sunroof open in the rain fog, or early morning dew?
Tow it incorrectly (causing early wheel bearing failure or transmission wear)?
Take it off-road and smak the oil pan/diff off a few rocks?
Take it into the sand dunes?
Drive through a corn field and make a mais maze?
Jump it on hilly back country roads?
Use sunroof as exit to sit up on roof (who notices roof dents)?
Make whoopie in it?
Do all of the above on the same day.
Or go off-road.
Mostly, the only reason I rent a car is to drive something fun and different. Even with my driving experience and good driving record, I still do donuts with my car and bend my 4x4 jumping sand dunes and ruts.
What do you drive?? Does your car have SMG/Dual Clutch/CVT
1, if you hit a curb or speed bump head on, you may get damage/wear you will not see right away
2, many cars, especially american crap, this is not true
3, again, this is not true on most cars
4, not sure you guys are talking about the same thing
5, the reason you have a traction control off switch is for slippery conditions, you may have a liability issue on your hands here
6, also not true in any of the cars I have been in
Most rental companies charge a 10% to 30% service charge on fines, tolls and tickets. I would be surprised if RelayRide does not have you covered there. Same with cars returned with no gas or in need of cleaning.
Most rental companies I know don't keep the cars long enough to do any maintenance they pay for - they bring them into the dealer while still under free maintenance and expect the dealers to be responsible for doing any warrenty work.
Except whatsapp does not work like RIM as the communication is encrypted to the whatsapp servers between device and server, not device to device. It would be possible for a compromise in whatsapp service for your personal data to leak. For most users, no big deal.
Features are being removed from smart phones every month as a feature. Look at windows phone. Only ~30% of phones in the US are smartphones.
We realize that we only added the data that was releevant to assist in our computer model comming up to that conclusion. Interestingly, google search queries would be very interesting to mine.
Does it make you any less of a dick (or vagina) because someone else paid you to be one?
There, I fixed that for you.
~your friendly Norwegian Microsoft Developer’s Conference Incorrectly Politically Correcting Department.
If you can, let me patent the processes of suing for patent violations on patents about stupid patents first.
No a troll would be saying more things that are not true. You said yourself that your HD7 is WP7.5. Alot of the points you dismiss you either didn't understand or to a lot of people are valid points. That said I've never bought a Blackberry phone with a newer OS that had less features like WP7 vs WP6. To be honest I don't know what they were thinking as WP7 was a letdown to all the WP6 users and an inferrior product to all the Android/Apple crowd in which it competes. From all the US demographics I have seen, only ~30% of the phones in use are smart phones. Anyway, more of your counterpoints (removed the ones you and I agreed on or were completely lame)
23. No way to stream audio to the majority of car audio systems as the most common Bluetooth rSAP profile is not implemented.
It was on my Optimus Quantum, and is on my HTC HD7 (both are Bell Canada devices)
-rSAP is not A2DP, rSAP is deligating your phone's sim (without removing it) over bluetooth so your BMW/Mercedes/High end car kit can use its own phone radio, that since it has a remote antenna away from your head can run at higer wattage allowing you to get coverage in parking garages.
24. Cannot stream audio from video playback to Bluetooth devices as A2DP profile is not implemented.
You're repeating yourself.
-Back to A2DP, I read from others the complains may be when playing video
25. No support for full on-device encryption required for secure applications like mobile banking and online payment.
My online banking works just find through https and a web browser.
-Maybe he meant creating porn/sexting/or activism. Still, device does not have full device encryption.
29. Cannot be upgraded to WP8 (Apollo)
Yeah, I admit that this upset me a little, and is probably the only reason I am not replacing my HD7 with a Lumia 900.
-So you didn't learn anything there?!
31. Taskmanager has no option to shut down apps you donâ(TM)t want running in the background.
You can close them through the multi tasking menu. You do have to go back to the app to close it, and it's a little clunky, but it can be done.
-Admit I have not used it long enough, but do apps ever lock up preventing this?! When an app crashes, do all apps crash?!
33. Lockscreen need to be activated to show missed call/sms notification.
like every other phone I have ever seen? How is this an issue?
-Maybe he means like on blackberry, symbian, motorola dumb phones they have a missed call notifier by the clock
35. Tiny fonts in messages is very hard to read for those over 45.
I'm late 30s, with awful vision, I have to increase the default font size on almost every thing I use, except my HD7.
-I am young and like tiny fonts everywhere... but again, lack of configuration is a downfall. Different phones have different pixel density as they have the same resolution screens
39. Cannot close music player, can only pause. Music player on lockscreen will stay until you reboot. Be careful not to touch it in a meeting.
Why are you playing with your phone at all in a meeting? It should be in your pocket.
-You obviously don't work in a role where meetings are often trumpted by emergencies
42. Online and phone contacts are mixed together with no ability to filter.
I thought you couldn't save contacts directly to the phone?
-That would make it a pretty shitty phone, I believe his complaints were the phone tried to send contacts to the cloud but you have no way to destinguish
43. Search button in dialer does not search contacts for dialing, but search call history.
Search for contacts through the contacts app. That actually makes sense.
-Searching for contacts from the homescreen or phone app makes sense - why go though all the trouble to click through menus to look for contacts especially when you need to make an urgent call.
47. Text messages can only be deleted one by one or the whole thread.
As opposed to?
-selecting multiple individual ones and h
Except they explicitly state in the law:
In a pocket of a piece of clothing of a person, and unconnected to any key ring
Which is plainly obvious that the limitations exclude unconcealed keys on a regular key ring with your regular keys or else they would have simply said "In a pocket of a piece of clothing"
NOT LIMITED TO means that if you have the key cut in two and stored in two places or some other condition which violates the spirit of the law - not that your walking down the street with bobby pins in your hair or are j-walking.
Take off the tin-foil hat and quit using the moderation as -1 "I dont agree"
Forget your iphone comparrisons, some of us have still choosen not to adopt the iphone due to its list of expected, lacking, smartphone features. It also, has already been adopted over the years and many of the fans have since passed their old iphones on to family members and get sold cheaply second hand - they still run a more modern OS that can do many of the things WP7 phones can't, and will never do.
1. This means there will never be any useful real time background apps, like geo-location apps. What about real-time multiplayer games with voice in the background and you just want to send a quick text. what about voip applications when you want to add something into your callendar.
2. Nevermind Zune will take forever to transcode the media. Sure it will maybe save battery life but seems quite lame either way... I can't store my movies on my phone and watch them on a different device or see them in decent quality when hooked up to HDMI out.
11. MP3 ringtone does not mean it will be a song and make you sound like a douche. Mine for example is like a SELCALL tone like a emergency beacon when a ship is sinking. It makes me sound like a total geek which is good for business yet still is an acceptable ringtone like ring. My wife's ringtone is our daughter saying "mommy, your phone is ringing; mommy, your phone is ringing" recorded when she was under 2yrs old which is also socially acceptable and "cute"
12. Some devices can only provide a network to teather on by ad-hoc. Like up until recently, most laptops did not support virtual APs in infrastructure mode so you could not connect to your hotel internet from your phone.
13. So it's not as good as a iphone for consumers, and not as good for enterprise as WP6. Your locked ringtone by policy can not be done on WP7, but can on WP6 and Blackberry
16. I make my font size smaller on my bberry. Different people have different preferences, and thats why all other smart phones have preferences control panels.
19. Some people like to look at their phone and know exactly what is going on. Why not just log into your mail/callendar from a favourite bookmark in your browser? Look, now Playbook has a mail client too!
20. Blackberry does this still, and many of the things people expect from a smartphone like the ability to transfer files
This is supposed to be a smartphone, right?! Not a dumbphone with a browser and media player... to top it off, WP7 will always be the bag of shit it was, buyers probably won't be able to upgrade and they'd be better off with an old iphone then a new WP7 phone. Sadly, it seems, you loose more going from Symbian or WP6 to WP7 then you gain. With Microsoft's track record of depricating legacy services and the heavy reliance on cloud services I would be surprised if the phone isn't useless trash in 5 years.
Yeah I noticed a lot of features which work on other smartphones like blackberry but dont on the iphone. Like rSAP or removable media. There are some igsignificant complaints like bing search (vs. siri) and cloud services (same like apple/google android) but there are a lot of important ones. I could overlook some major specific shortcomming in that list - however there are many which make it a significant downgrade from my phone. Phone on for alarm?! really?!!?