You will be sacrificing everything for that though, battery, screen, ram, a good SOC. These are only ever low end to midrange at best devices. Any BB user who is not lying to himself would be ecstatic at the upgrade though.
The IT goons as you call us were the ones quite often pushing for the death of RIM.
My and my goon coworkers pushed to have RIM banned from our company. If you have our company buy you a device you can select an iPhone or Android of your desire. If you BYOD same rules apply if you want any support. We aren't total dicks, we just will not do better than best effort. If it a RIM device comes in and does not work out of the box or they have any trouble at all we just suggest they return it for something else.
We have saved tons of time not having to deal with repushing servicebooks, pulling batteries, and restarting the whole BES server. Which is a PITA since it takes out email for all its clients.
On both iOS and Android the telephony and normal OS are quite seperated. It has nothing to do with open or closed source, just that they treat it as yet another device like the touch screen or the camera. I am not sure how BBOS handles it, but to not do it that way would be stupid.
Even ICS needs closed source drivers for GSM/CDMA radios and often wifi. Hardware companies as always are a huge PITA. The big news with ICS is that all Nexus devices save for Sprints Galaxy Nexus are supported via closed source but publicly available drivers for this kind of hardware. The Nexus S 4G(sprint) and the Verizon branded Galaxy Nexus were the two just recently added back into the AOSP fold.
Either this CEO has no idea what he is talking about or does not want to address the elephant in the room. iPhone and Android support of ActiveSync is what did so much damage to RIM. Had BB supported that many people would have stuck with them just to avoid carrying around two devices, one for work one for play.
It also freed IT departments from dealing with restarting the phone, repushing servicebooks restarting the BES server and all the other hassle that went with BES. I know companies that moved to iPhone/Android and either fired or repurposed an full time employee that had been previously dedicated to BES.
I do work in IT, I have been doing it a long time, and it is often the right approach.
When I got into my current job it was a total undocumented mess, step one was to document who was using what machines, since none of the users had any idea we unplugged the network connections from one machine at a time and waited for the complaints to roll in. In less than a week were were able to find out that more than half of the machines were not used by anyone, and were not at the time running any needed service. We did monitor the machines for a week before to see who connected, more than half had no connections at all.
Forcing action now is often the only approach that makes sense.
There seems to be one solution you over looked, just turn off those DNS servers and let the users figure it out themselves. I am sure the loss of name resolution would have been noticed.
Another approach would be to make any requested url return a page that showed only a simple declaration that your machine is infected get it fixed.
Actually calling via the phone is terrible. The quality is crap, the latency all over the place, their is no video, and it still wants to be synchronous.
I agree multitouch is pointless for full size screens, but having a computer with me at all times is very useful. Tactile buttons reduce the screen size, which is a far bigger hindrance since phone calls are a tiny part of what these devices due.
For a similar price ($54,000 so sayeth ford website) you could purchase the following actual performance cars: M3 Porsche Cayman SLK350 5 Series Gran Turismo C63 AMG Corvette
There are many more. I did not say supercar, just performance car. You will note I left out the other redneck ricer car, the Camaro. For that kind of scratch you would think people would want a car that looks like they spent it.
Buying a fancy mustang is exactly like spending $20k to tune up a civic. Both of these kind of folks would be better off just buying a real performance car.
Slashdot Mirror
Big bandwidth does not hurt you if you are not using it. It is just there to be used if you need it.
Telcos sell what people want, BB is not what people want.
If you mean that crappy portrait mode keyboard, then there are android devices like that.
I hate them, and would much prefer a slide out keyboard of reasonable size but they exist.
Here is one example:
http://www.androidauthority.com/motorola-defy-pro-is-the-first-ruggedized-android-phone-with-a-physical-qwerty-keyboard-99976/
You will be sacrificing everything for that though, battery, screen, ram, a good SOC. These are only ever low end to midrange at best devices. Any BB user who is not lying to himself would be ecstatic at the upgrade though.
The IT goons as you call us were the ones quite often pushing for the death of RIM.
My and my goon coworkers pushed to have RIM banned from our company. If you have our company buy you a device you can select an iPhone or Android of your desire. If you BYOD same rules apply if you want any support. We aren't total dicks, we just will not do better than best effort. If it a RIM device comes in and does not work out of the box or they have any trouble at all we just suggest they return it for something else.
We have saved tons of time not having to deal with repushing servicebooks, pulling batteries, and restarting the whole BES server. Which is a PITA since it takes out email for all its clients.
On both iOS and Android the telephony and normal OS are quite seperated. It has nothing to do with open or closed source, just that they treat it as yet another device like the touch screen or the camera. I am not sure how BBOS handles it, but to not do it that way would be stupid.
Even ICS needs closed source drivers for GSM/CDMA radios and often wifi. Hardware companies as always are a huge PITA. The big news with ICS is that all Nexus devices save for Sprints Galaxy Nexus are supported via closed source but publicly available drivers for this kind of hardware. The Nexus S 4G(sprint) and the Verizon branded Galaxy Nexus were the two just recently added back into the AOSP fold.
Either this CEO has no idea what he is talking about or does not want to address the elephant in the room. iPhone and Android support of ActiveSync is what did so much damage to RIM. Had BB supported that many people would have stuck with them just to avoid carrying around two devices, one for work one for play.
It also freed IT departments from dealing with restarting the phone, repushing servicebooks restarting the BES server and all the other hassle that went with BES. I know companies that moved to iPhone/Android and either fired or repurposed an full time employee that had been previously dedicated to BES.
It does not, but these machines were still infected with this and likely other malware. You think these machines only had one infection?
Android is failing its way to the most popular smartphone?
If this can run the OnLive android app it will be able to run all the standard AAA games.
For those kinds of games OnLive is one solution that would work with a $50 console.
I do work in IT, I have been doing it a long time, and it is often the right approach.
When I got into my current job it was a total undocumented mess, step one was to document who was using what machines, since none of the users had any idea we unplugged the network connections from one machine at a time and waited for the complaints to roll in. In less than a week were were able to find out that more than half of the machines were not used by anyone, and were not at the time running any needed service. We did monitor the machines for a week before to see who connected, more than half had no connections at all.
Forcing action now is often the only approach that makes sense.
No, that would be more like what the FBI did. They allowed infected machines to continue to be useful.
Dropping the requests would be more like arresting and removing the person messing with doors.
There seems to be one solution you over looked, just turn off those DNS servers and let the users figure it out themselves. I am sure the loss of name resolution would have been noticed.
Another approach would be to make any requested url return a page that showed only a simple declaration that your machine is infected get it fixed.
How is this handling it right?
Dropping the requests on the floor and teaching these folks a valuable lesson would have been handling it right.
Sense? I think you mean touchwiz. Sense is the HTC frontend.
The american version of the Galaxy S3 includes the bootloader locked verizon unit.
Press the recent applications button, and slide the tile off the screen.
Actually calling via the phone is terrible. The quality is crap, the latency all over the place, their is no video, and it still wants to be synchronous.
I agree multitouch is pointless for full size screens, but having a computer with me at all times is very useful. Tactile buttons reduce the screen size, which is a far bigger hindrance since phone calls are a tiny part of what these devices due.
So your entire argument is how much worse the other guy is?
Please tell me you are trolling. Difference in degree is not much of a difference at all.
So No true scotsman is how you choose to respond? Pretty telling, when you can't even come up with a better line than that.
In the middles ages islam was new, and actually far ahead of being civilized of european christianity. Where do you think we got 0?
For a similar price ($54,000 so sayeth ford website) you could purchase the following actual performance cars:
M3
Porsche Cayman
SLK350
5 Series Gran Turismo
C63 AMG
Corvette
There are many more. I did not say supercar, just performance car. You will note I left out the other redneck ricer car, the Camaro. For that kind of scratch you would think people would want a car that looks like they spent it.
To each their own I guess.
Does bing have a doodle of him?
I bet they both just have search results for him.
So bombing is different if the victims are abortion doctors?
The only difference is degree.
Both of these are groups that oppress women and support the use of violence to spread their own flavor of crazy.
Actually lightning fatalities are about 24,000 a year.
http://www.vaisala.com/Vaisala%20Documents/Scientific%20papers/Annual_rates_of_lightning_fatalities_by_country.pdf
The fact that you could have just used google to find that instead of trying to spread vitriol says a lot about you.
Name one car built in the last 30 years that has no electronic parts needed to run.
After all that it is still a mustang.
Buying a fancy mustang is exactly like spending $20k to tune up a civic. Both of these kind of folks would be better off just buying a real performance car.
It became one a long time ago, Read The Manual, also stated as RTFM. Not sure why it will take 2 months for MS to Read The Manual though.
Get a Job?
Or buy it somewhere else.