Symbian Nokia phones also use this method to select a number elements in a list (messages, contacts, etc...), and they have done for at least three years.
Does this include Verizon (USA), Sprint (USA), AT&T, (USA) T-Mobile (USA), or some other network with coverage across a large part of the USA?
<p>I couldn't say, don't know that much about US tariffs.</p>
<quote>So the word 'open' in Nokia's ad campaign is accurate in that the phone is as open as the customer wants it to be with regards to 3rd party programs Then what's with this "Symbian Signed" stuff? Can a phone owner make a certificate, install it on the phone, and self-sign software to run on the phone, or will the experience include a seemingly endless sequence of "Cancel or Allow" alert boxes?</quote>
<p>You can self-sign software for your own phone by registering its IMEI on symbian-signed.com and signing the executable with the certificate. There's also a method for registering freeware and open source programs with a freeware certificate at no cost to the programmer. I would say that those with the biggest problem are shareware developers who find that the their biggest cost will be a commercial certificate.</p>
You can ask for a free certificate for your own phone (based on the IMEI) from symbiansigned.com and use the SignSis program to sign any application you want. So if you're developing freeware or shareware you make the unsigned application available for download also give instructions on how to generate a certificate and sign it.
Signed applications came about in the latest version of Symbian because of hysteria about viruses being passed about through MMS and bluetooth (even though you had to reply 'yes' to three warnings that the installer app gave you and leave bluetooth on and discoverable). Naturally hysteria won over common sense (reading the warning and deciding if you really want to install something that's appeared in the inbox without you asking for it).
If you never leave Vodafone Live, what you're saying is true. However even with a Vodafoned N80 you can download any program from any web address or install it by bluetooth, wifi, or copying it onto the memory card.
On Nokia phones, firmware upgrades have nothing to do with unlocking. If your phone was unlocked before upgrading, it'll stay unlocked afterwards. Likewise, if your phone was locked before upgrading, it'll still be locked afterwards. A firmware upgrade does not mean the phone will return to its locked state or turn into a brick.
In European countries where the network subsidises the phone, customers can ask their network for the unlock code after a year (by which time it's assumed the network will have recovered its subsidy) and go to another network of their choice. The iPhone is tied to AT&T forever and furthermore tied to AT&T's iPhone tariff.
If you don't want to be tied to a network at all, you can buy phones without subsidy which come unlocked and chose which network you want the service from. Most networks give a discount on their usual tariff if you bring your own mobile.
Finally, if you buy a phone which comes locked to a network, you can still run any 3rd party program you like on it, as you can on phones which don't come locked to a network.
So the word 'open' in Nokia's ad campaign is accurate in that the phone is as open as the customer wants it to be with regards to 3rd party programs, and if they originally buy a locked phone they later have the choice to go elsewhere if they later find a better offer from another network. The iPhone fails on both these counts.
I've done it with Opera 6, you configure the.ini file to ask for the wap filetypes in preference to the html filetypes. I'm not sure whether Opera 9 is different.
Doesn't the broadcaster broadcast the programme in dual (two soundtracks, dubbed and original version)? They might do even if they don't announce it. If your TV has it, try the dual option.
In European countries where they held a 'beauty contest' (operators bid less money but also had to promise to roll out services and coverage) the result was decent services from the start at cheap price for the end consumer. E.g. Norway.
You can easily say the same (i.e. the opposite) about the PS3 and XBox 360. What's new about the them apart from graphics? Should I be impressed with Yet Another Car Race Game in HD?
Mario Party has borders on most screens, probably so Hudsonsoft could reuse the graphics they've already developed for the Gamecube versions with the minimum of fuss. Don't know about Trauma Center.
Nintendo could have enforced widescreen support but then they'd have half the software catalogue they do now. The lack of widescreen support will disappear when games that have been developed just for the Wii instead of ported from the Gamecube half-way through the development cycle come out.
Whilst a decent user interface might be a way of setting Apple's products apart in the computer and MP3 markets, a user interface which looks good and is easy to use is nothing special when it comes to mobile phones.
The Canadian one, available only to people in Canada, sells WMAs and the new MP3s. The US one (which everyone else outside Canada gets, because I'm in Spain) sells only WMAs.
If you see a Mac error page it makes sense because you're not in Canada and can only download WMAs.
If you checked the links to MP3s that posters have given and you get told you're being sent to the US shop, now you know why.
Finally, it might be useful to bear in mind that the world doesn't revolve around the US. Not completely, anyway.
CBC is a Canadian broadcaster. You are not Canadian. CBC sees the MP3 tracks on the site when they access it. You don't, you are redirected to the US shop where there are no MP3 tracks.
It doesn't matter if you are trying to prohibit drinking alcohol or paying someone else for sexual favors, prohibition doesn't work -- all it does is create artificial scarcity which then develops a black market for the product or service. When alcohol was prohibited in the U.S., the mob was created. When incandescent light bulbs are banned, the black market will flourish, unless people see a real reason to switch.
I'm not sure about you, but for the average person, looking for alcohol or sex on the black market is probably worth the inconvenience and possible legal consequences. Looking for incandescent light bulbs is probably not.
You're playing tunes from your Nokia, listing tracks on the dashboard and running the player through the Bluetooth interface in your car? That's a trick.
Not really. The music player has an iPod-style UI and uses headphones or headset (connected by either bluetooth or cable) if available.
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In Spain, a judge has found that a similar site which holds links to films or music is not illegal, saying that they did not host any material and .
http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/293205/0/enlaces/descargas/sharemule/
(in Spanish, Babelfish may help if you don't speak it)Maybe because companies like Dell and others now offering Linux want something nice and shiny for Christmas.
Symbian Nokia phones also use this method to select a number elements in a list (messages, contacts, etc...), and they have done for at least three years.
Does this include Verizon (USA), Sprint (USA), AT&T, (USA) T-Mobile (USA), or some other network with coverage across a large part of the USA?
<p>I couldn't say, don't know that much about US tariffs.</p>
<quote>So the word 'open' in Nokia's ad campaign is accurate in that the phone is as open as the customer wants it to be with regards to 3rd party programs
Then what's with this "Symbian Signed" stuff? Can a phone owner make a certificate, install it on the phone, and self-sign software to run on the phone, or will the experience include a seemingly endless sequence of "Cancel or Allow" alert boxes?</quote>
<p>You can self-sign software for your own phone by registering its IMEI on symbian-signed.com and signing the executable with the certificate. There's also a method for registering freeware and open source programs with a freeware certificate at no cost to the programmer. I would say that those with the biggest problem are shareware developers who find that the their biggest cost will be a commercial certificate.</p>
You can ask for a free certificate for your own phone (based on the IMEI) from symbiansigned.com and use the SignSis program to sign any application you want. So if you're developing freeware or shareware you make the unsigned application available for download also give instructions on how to generate a certificate and sign it.
Signed applications came about in the latest version of Symbian because of hysteria about viruses being passed about through MMS and bluetooth (even though you had to reply 'yes' to three warnings that the installer app gave you and leave bluetooth on and discoverable). Naturally hysteria won over common sense (reading the warning and deciding if you really want to install something that's appeared in the inbox without you asking for it).
There are only two hidden directories, but if you want to see what's inside them you might want have a look at this...
http://br.geocities.com/abilheteria/sysprivate.htmIf you never leave Vodafone Live, what you're saying is true. However even with a Vodafoned N80 you can download any program from any web address or install it by bluetooth, wifi, or copying it onto the memory card.
On Nokia phones, firmware upgrades have nothing to do with unlocking. If your phone was unlocked before upgrading, it'll stay unlocked afterwards. Likewise, if your phone was locked before upgrading, it'll still be locked afterwards. A firmware upgrade does not mean the phone will return to its locked state or turn into a brick.
In European countries where the network subsidises the phone, customers can ask their network for the unlock code after a year (by which time it's assumed the network will have recovered its subsidy) and go to another network of their choice. The iPhone is tied to AT&T forever and furthermore tied to AT&T's iPhone tariff.
If you don't want to be tied to a network at all, you can buy phones without subsidy which come unlocked and chose which network you want the service from. Most networks give a discount on their usual tariff if you bring your own mobile.
Finally, if you buy a phone which comes locked to a network, you can still run any 3rd party program you like on it, as you can on phones which don't come locked to a network.
So the word 'open' in Nokia's ad campaign is accurate in that the phone is as open as the customer wants it to be with regards to 3rd party programs, and if they originally buy a locked phone they later have the choice to go elsewhere if they later find a better offer from another network. The iPhone fails on both these counts.
I've done it with Opera 6, you configure the .ini file to ask for the wap filetypes in preference to the html filetypes. I'm not sure whether Opera 9 is different.
Doesn't the broadcaster broadcast the programme in dual (two soundtracks, dubbed and original version)? They might do even if they don't announce it. If your TV has it, try the dual option.
The same also happened in the UK.
In European countries where they held a 'beauty contest' (operators bid less money but also had to promise to roll out services and coverage) the result was decent services from the start at cheap price for the end consumer. E.g. Norway.
You can easily say the same (i.e. the opposite) about the PS3 and XBox 360. What's new about the them apart from graphics? Should I be impressed with Yet Another Car Race Game in HD?
Mario Party has borders on most screens, probably so Hudsonsoft could reuse the graphics they've already developed for the Gamecube versions with the minimum of fuss. Don't know about Trauma Center.
Nintendo could have enforced widescreen support but then they'd have half the software catalogue they do now. The lack of widescreen support will disappear when games that have been developed just for the Wii instead of ported from the Gamecube half-way through the development cycle come out.
At the risk of sounding like a plug (it's not, it's just I've ordered from them before)...
http://www.mobileplanet.com/
You should be able to find something here.
There's a gamecube homebrew program that plays DVDs... here.
As for the second, try Weezo, here.
Haven't heard anything in the UK or Spain either.
And an open WAP is FON's business plan and they don't mention anything about keeping logs.
Whilst a decent user interface might be a way of setting Apple's products apart in the computer and MP3 markets, a user interface which looks good and is easy to use is nothing special when it comes to mobile phones.
The Canadian one, available only to people in Canada, sells WMAs and the new MP3s. The US one (which everyone else outside Canada gets, because I'm in Spain) sells only WMAs.
If you see a Mac error page it makes sense because you're not in Canada and can only download WMAs.
If you checked the links to MP3s that posters have given and you get told you're being sent to the US shop, now you know why.
Finally, it might be useful to bear in mind that the world doesn't revolve around the US. Not completely, anyway.
If you go to the Canadian site and you're not in Canada it moves you on to the US site.
So we need someone in Canada to verify the story.
Might it not be the case that this error page is a hangover from the days when it was a 100% DRM shop?
It doesn't matter if you are trying to prohibit drinking alcohol or paying someone else for sexual favors, prohibition doesn't work -- all it does is create artificial scarcity which then develops a black market for the product or service. When alcohol was prohibited in the U.S., the mob was created. When incandescent light bulbs are banned, the black market will flourish, unless people see a real reason to switch. I'm not sure about you, but for the average person, looking for alcohol or sex on the black market is probably worth the inconvenience and possible legal consequences. Looking for incandescent light bulbs is probably not.
You're playing tunes from your Nokia, listing tracks on the dashboard and running the player through the Bluetooth interface in your car? That's a trick.
Not really. The music player has an iPod-style UI and uses headphones or headset (connected by either bluetooth or cable) if available.
All RFID passports are compatible and follow the same standard, meaning that all passports issued with RFID in the US and EU have the same flaw.
Perhaps you mean Motorola's UI sucks. Maybe you should try a Nokia?