Is the acronym "DDR" really still applicable? I remember back when it came out thinking we were going to see QDR and ODR come out next and next. I guess the naming convention folks just got lazy and started tacking on revision numbers.
Very good point. When we moved from SDR to DDR, the whole idea was using both rising and falling edges of a clock as triggers for different parts of the memory circuit to reduce read or write times
QDR or ODR might have made sense, but failing that, just call it SDR-2 for DDR, SDR-4, SDR-8, SDR-16 and so on
On a different note, what's w/ the new orange titlebar on/.? The teal one was just fine.
Were you talking about a contract phone, or a phone w/o a carrier? For that price, you could get either a low end Windows 8 phone - w/o any contracts. At $149, I got a Lumia 550 w/o any contracts - is a great travel phone for me, and I prefer the Windows 10 UI to the Windows 8 one even for phones.
Actually, doing a more complete comparison, an iPhone would be a Porsche, a Galaxy would be a Toyota (spanning anything from a Lexus to a Camry), while a Lumia would be a Kia or Elantra.
I have one Android phone - a Moto X. Never had any Samsung phones, though seen them, since a lot of my relatives have them. My main issue w/ those - they have too many pages created, which is really annoying
This is something that both Google & Microsoft have fixed recently: Google since Lollipop, and Microsoft since Windows 10 Mobile. Even with the old Windows 8 phones, there were a few that couldn't be upgraded to 10, like the Lumia Icon. Not just that, on those older phones w/ Windows Phone 8 or Android Honeycomb or KitKat, since the upgrade was a carrier responsibility, those devices ended up as abandonware. Like my old Verizon Ellipsis 7, which I ultimately upgraded to a 10.
Any Windows 10 Mobile device will get updates as long as Windows 10 gets updates. Similarly, any device w/ Lollipop or beyond will get updates: I recently updated my Moto X on Lollipop to something that allows me to store and run apps from the SD card.
Honestly, Intel ought to do some patent swapping deals w/ Qualcomm. When you have 2 models of the iPhone, one w/ the Intel chipset and other w/ Qualcomm, where the latter can be used w/ CDMA networks like Verizon & Sprint, but the former can't, Intel is just shooting themselves in the foot. Just start fabbing the Snapdragon for Qualcomm, and they'll be set.
This makes very good sense, particularly if the enterprise software is Windows based. It makes sense to leverage the code to Windows phones, and use such phones exclusively for corporate use
Probably not so much the instructions themselves, but the fact that Wintel needs to have backward compatibility w/ things like XP, 7, et al, whereas Windows on ARM is just expected to support native code, and therefore can live w/ just 1 subsystem
Very true. Actually, the worst thing Ballmer did was to cripple the desktop version of Windows by foisting on it the Metro UI. The phone actually was fine, but Microsoft should have come out w/ something like that during the Windows Phone 7 timeframe, rather than try to unify the entire OS, which it ultimately did in 10.
Such insight! Such a well thought out opinion piece. After reading it, I realized that Mr. Bamburic is right. How can I use a product knowing that so many other people don't? What will people think about my choice of phone? What an incredible loser I must be for using a relatively unpopular gadget. I'm running out today to replace my Windows 10 phone.
I too have a Lumia 550, amongst my other phones. But there are things that keep it from being a first choice: I use it as a travel phone.
First of all, if you use the phones for things beyond basic calling, you have to check whether the apps for that exist or not. There are no professional VOIP packages that exist for this phone, and it's only recently that it got video calling courtesy WhatsApp. If the people you talk to like to FaceTime, Snapchat, et al, you are SOL w/ any Windows phone. While they support a few popular apps like Shazam, Fandango, Yelp!, most of the apps that one sees advertized exist for Android and iOS, but not Windows. Which is a major factor.
Like I mentioned above, this phone could have some potential in a workplace that heavily uses Microsoft solutions - from Exchange to Sharepoint to OneDrive. But outside that, in the open market, none.
Acquiring Nokia's Lumia line was their big mistake. They should have stuck to the PC model and just licensed the OS to the different companies - Nokia, Blu, HTC, et al. By acquiring Nokia's assets, they turned off the other vendors: as it is, this was a fringe platform, and on top of that, the vendor itself was giving them competition
My car supports neither of these, but it does include an iPod player, which if connected via USB, can play anything I have on my iPhone or iPad. The bluetooth allows me to do the song skipping from my steering wheel if the Lumia is connected, but not see the names of all the songs I switch across (Android is totally unrecognized as far as the screen goes, and can't be controlled from the steering wheel).
It's a shame, b'cos I've collected close to 100 music videos on my laptop, that play on both Android and Windows, but not iOS. Only problem on Windows - Groove does not play music videos, so I can't put them in a playlist: something that Apple music can do. Which makes controlling it from the car impossible.
My other issue - Verizon doesn't support any of the Windows 10 phones - not 550, not 640, not 950/XL
This indicates that they don't really have a clue on how to tackle the mobile space.
Actually, acquiring Nokia's Lumia line was their greatest mistake: they didn't have a clue. Part of the fault was Nokia's as well: they had a plethora of phones in their lineup, compared to Apple w/ just 2 or 3 models per generation, or Samsung w/ something similar. Their numbering scheme left one w/ no clue of what is right for them. Do you want something to just text? Or play games? Or take great photos? What exactly? And those releases, like Lumia Denim, or Lumia Cyan, or so on - what exactly is needed, and where?
But who would buy it? If one preferred Windows 10 Mobile to iOS 9, he'd have gotten a Lumia 950. If one preferred Windows Phone 8 to Android Kitkat, he'd have gotten one of the many Lumias Microsoft sold. Why buy something like an iPhone just to delete iOS and replace it w/ Windows 10 Mobile? That's like buying a Macbook and replacing OS X w/ Windows 10.
Uh, all Windows Phones have an Xbox app that works w/ Xbox games - that's been there since Windows Phone 8. Nothing new here. Maybe Microsoft could make a handheld Xbox remote controller that could double as a Windows 10 Mobile phone.
While this is true, if you look at the phone's app store, you'll find some common phone apps, such as Yelp!, Fandango, Shazam, which are there on Windows Phone/Mobile, but not there on the desktop. So I'm not sure that if the phone was based on, say, an Atom, that it would have been better supported.
It would be a recompile, from what I can see. The code base is common, but Windows 10 Mobile so far is ARM based, so they would have to maintain separate binaries.
At this point, for any ARM based stuff that they have, they should include the capability of downloading and running stuff from any of the Android based stores - be it Google, Amazon or Samsung
I completely agree. Even if Microsoft has shown itself to be incompetent in running its phone line, that doesn't mean that no one else can.
Like I've often said, for business & work related stuff, particularly in a Windows 10 environment, this is a good phone to have. If one doesn't have to have Pokemon Go, one can certainly use this phone in the work environment. If they share the OneDrive account, files can easily be synced b/w the phone & laptop. Similarly, one could take notes in OneNote on the phone, and pull it up on the laptop later. If the email used by the company is Exchange based, then the phone uses Outlook. Granted, all these things could be downloaded by a Galaxy, but a Lumia would come w/ many of these as the default messaging/mail/cloud options. If one has the corporate employee list on Outlook, it would automatically be there on the contacts list. The calculator includes an units converter. Really handy.
Microsoft could do a couple of more things, like include a professional VOIP and video calling app that's integrated w/ Outlook. That would make this complete for corporate use.
The other thing about it - if a company issues Windows phones to their employees, chances are likely that it'll only be used for office work, and not for playing games or snapchat. If I ran a company, I'd issue Lumia 550s to employees to use for just work related stuff.
Actually, if you read the headline, it said 'Windows 10 Mobile needs to...
I disagree w/ it, but there is a great difference b/w that, and Windows 10, which is generally assumed to mean the desktop version of the OS.
So much for "journalism." Even Dice managed to run this site better than that
I agree w/ you on this. The number of tech related articles are really at a minimum: bulk of it is about the environment, politics and social networking.
Precisely! Any Android owner can download and install things like OneNote (probably the only good MS app for phones) or OneDrive. Why buy it from Microsoft? And does this mean that their Surface Phone is dead? Regardless, I still have the Lumia 550, which still works well w/ GSM compatible networks.
Not just that: they have access to his phone, and have presumably broken into it to see who he contacted. And looks like it worked: they did arrest a few people that he contacted. This is unlike the San Bernardino case, where they wanted help in breaking into the phone in the first place.
To know that someone has been using WhatsApp, they'd have to have his phone, since it's something that users choose to use, not something that comes preloaded on most phones.
They also supported the Turkish Caliphate against Russia in the Crimean war. They also got involved in India and sabotaged them just when various Indian non-Muslim kingdoms were ending the Mughal empire and the associated hated Islamic rule in that country. The UK has mostly been a bad actor when it came to dealing w/ Muslims
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Is the acronym "DDR" really still applicable? I remember back when it came out thinking we were going to see QDR and ODR come out next and next. I guess the naming convention folks just got lazy and started tacking on revision numbers.
Very good point. When we moved from SDR to DDR, the whole idea was using both rising and falling edges of a clock as triggers for different parts of the memory circuit to reduce read or write times
QDR or ODR might have made sense, but failing that, just call it SDR-2 for DDR, SDR-4, SDR-8, SDR-16 and so on
On a different note, what's w/ the new orange titlebar on /.? The teal one was just fine.
Were you talking about a contract phone, or a phone w/o a carrier? For that price, you could get either a low end Windows 8 phone - w/o any contracts. At $149, I got a Lumia 550 w/o any contracts - is a great travel phone for me, and I prefer the Windows 10 UI to the Windows 8 one even for phones.
Actually, doing a more complete comparison, an iPhone would be a Porsche, a Galaxy would be a Toyota (spanning anything from a Lexus to a Camry), while a Lumia would be a Kia or Elantra.
I have one Android phone - a Moto X. Never had any Samsung phones, though seen them, since a lot of my relatives have them. My main issue w/ those - they have too many pages created, which is really annoying
This is something that both Google & Microsoft have fixed recently: Google since Lollipop, and Microsoft since Windows 10 Mobile. Even with the old Windows 8 phones, there were a few that couldn't be upgraded to 10, like the Lumia Icon. Not just that, on those older phones w/ Windows Phone 8 or Android Honeycomb or KitKat, since the upgrade was a carrier responsibility, those devices ended up as abandonware. Like my old Verizon Ellipsis 7, which I ultimately upgraded to a 10.
Any Windows 10 Mobile device will get updates as long as Windows 10 gets updates. Similarly, any device w/ Lollipop or beyond will get updates: I recently updated my Moto X on Lollipop to something that allows me to store and run apps from the SD card.
Honestly, Intel ought to do some patent swapping deals w/ Qualcomm. When you have 2 models of the iPhone, one w/ the Intel chipset and other w/ Qualcomm, where the latter can be used w/ CDMA networks like Verizon & Sprint, but the former can't, Intel is just shooting themselves in the foot. Just start fabbing the Snapdragon for Qualcomm, and they'll be set.
Actually, I love Microsoft's ringtone for Windows 10 phones
This makes very good sense, particularly if the enterprise software is Windows based. It makes sense to leverage the code to Windows phones, and use such phones exclusively for corporate use
In your analogy, the Merc would be an iPhone, while the VW would be a Lumia
Probably not so much the instructions themselves, but the fact that Wintel needs to have backward compatibility w/ things like XP, 7, et al, whereas Windows on ARM is just expected to support native code, and therefore can live w/ just 1 subsystem
Very true. Actually, the worst thing Ballmer did was to cripple the desktop version of Windows by foisting on it the Metro UI. The phone actually was fine, but Microsoft should have come out w/ something like that during the Windows Phone 7 timeframe, rather than try to unify the entire OS, which it ultimately did in 10.
Such insight! Such a well thought out opinion piece. After reading it, I realized that Mr. Bamburic is right. How can I use a product knowing that so many other people don't? What will people think about my choice of phone? What an incredible loser I must be for using a relatively unpopular gadget. I'm running out today to replace my Windows 10 phone.
I too have a Lumia 550, amongst my other phones. But there are things that keep it from being a first choice: I use it as a travel phone.
First of all, if you use the phones for things beyond basic calling, you have to check whether the apps for that exist or not. There are no professional VOIP packages that exist for this phone, and it's only recently that it got video calling courtesy WhatsApp. If the people you talk to like to FaceTime, Snapchat, et al, you are SOL w/ any Windows phone. While they support a few popular apps like Shazam, Fandango, Yelp!, most of the apps that one sees advertized exist for Android and iOS, but not Windows. Which is a major factor.
Like I mentioned above, this phone could have some potential in a workplace that heavily uses Microsoft solutions - from Exchange to Sharepoint to OneDrive. But outside that, in the open market, none.
Acquiring Nokia's Lumia line was their big mistake. They should have stuck to the PC model and just licensed the OS to the different companies - Nokia, Blu, HTC, et al. By acquiring Nokia's assets, they turned off the other vendors: as it is, this was a fringe platform, and on top of that, the vendor itself was giving them competition
My car supports neither of these, but it does include an iPod player, which if connected via USB, can play anything I have on my iPhone or iPad. The bluetooth allows me to do the song skipping from my steering wheel if the Lumia is connected, but not see the names of all the songs I switch across (Android is totally unrecognized as far as the screen goes, and can't be controlled from the steering wheel).
It's a shame, b'cos I've collected close to 100 music videos on my laptop, that play on both Android and Windows, but not iOS. Only problem on Windows - Groove does not play music videos, so I can't put them in a playlist: something that Apple music can do. Which makes controlling it from the car impossible.
My other issue - Verizon doesn't support any of the Windows 10 phones - not 550, not 640, not 950/XL
This indicates that they don't really have a clue on how to tackle the mobile space.
Actually, acquiring Nokia's Lumia line was their greatest mistake: they didn't have a clue. Part of the fault was Nokia's as well: they had a plethora of phones in their lineup, compared to Apple w/ just 2 or 3 models per generation, or Samsung w/ something similar. Their numbering scheme left one w/ no clue of what is right for them. Do you want something to just text? Or play games? Or take great photos? What exactly? And those releases, like Lumia Denim, or Lumia Cyan, or so on - what exactly is needed, and where?
But who would buy it? If one preferred Windows 10 Mobile to iOS 9, he'd have gotten a Lumia 950. If one preferred Windows Phone 8 to Android Kitkat, he'd have gotten one of the many Lumias Microsoft sold. Why buy something like an iPhone just to delete iOS and replace it w/ Windows 10 Mobile? That's like buying a Macbook and replacing OS X w/ Windows 10.
Uh, all Windows Phones have an Xbox app that works w/ Xbox games - that's been there since Windows Phone 8. Nothing new here. Maybe Microsoft could make a handheld Xbox remote controller that could double as a Windows 10 Mobile phone.
While this is true, if you look at the phone's app store, you'll find some common phone apps, such as Yelp!, Fandango, Shazam, which are there on Windows Phone/Mobile, but not there on the desktop. So I'm not sure that if the phone was based on, say, an Atom, that it would have been better supported.
I'll second this. Most of the times I've gone to the store to look for things, be it Meetup, Vonage, 8x8, Toy Blast, et al, I've been disappointed.
It would be a recompile, from what I can see. The code base is common, but Windows 10 Mobile so far is ARM based, so they would have to maintain separate binaries.
At this point, for any ARM based stuff that they have, they should include the capability of downloading and running stuff from any of the Android based stores - be it Google, Amazon or Samsung
I completely agree. Even if Microsoft has shown itself to be incompetent in running its phone line, that doesn't mean that no one else can.
Like I've often said, for business & work related stuff, particularly in a Windows 10 environment, this is a good phone to have. If one doesn't have to have Pokemon Go, one can certainly use this phone in the work environment. If they share the OneDrive account, files can easily be synced b/w the phone & laptop. Similarly, one could take notes in OneNote on the phone, and pull it up on the laptop later. If the email used by the company is Exchange based, then the phone uses Outlook. Granted, all these things could be downloaded by a Galaxy, but a Lumia would come w/ many of these as the default messaging/mail/cloud options. If one has the corporate employee list on Outlook, it would automatically be there on the contacts list. The calculator includes an units converter. Really handy.
Microsoft could do a couple of more things, like include a professional VOIP and video calling app that's integrated w/ Outlook. That would make this complete for corporate use.
The other thing about it - if a company issues Windows phones to their employees, chances are likely that it'll only be used for office work, and not for playing games or snapchat. If I ran a company, I'd issue Lumia 550s to employees to use for just work related stuff.
"Windows 10 needs to die" --
Actually, if you read the headline, it said 'Windows 10 Mobile needs to...
I disagree w/ it, but there is a great difference b/w that, and Windows 10, which is generally assumed to mean the desktop version of the OS.
So much for "journalism." Even Dice managed to run this site better than that
I agree w/ you on this. The number of tech related articles are really at a minimum: bulk of it is about the environment, politics and social networking.
Precisely! Any Android owner can download and install things like OneNote (probably the only good MS app for phones) or OneDrive. Why buy it from Microsoft? And does this mean that their Surface Phone is dead? Regardless, I still have the Lumia 550, which still works well w/ GSM compatible networks.
Not just that: they have access to his phone, and have presumably broken into it to see who he contacted. And looks like it worked: they did arrest a few people that he contacted. This is unlike the San Bernardino case, where they wanted help in breaking into the phone in the first place.
To know that someone has been using WhatsApp, they'd have to have his phone, since it's something that users choose to use, not something that comes preloaded on most phones.
They also supported the Turkish Caliphate against Russia in the Crimean war. They also got involved in India and sabotaged them just when various Indian non-Muslim kingdoms were ending the Mughal empire and the associated hated Islamic rule in that country. The UK has mostly been a bad actor when it came to dealing w/ Muslims