I wouldn't expect flash necessarily to die altogether, just as a standalone product.
Google Chrome is available on the Play Store for Android 4.x. On desktop Linux, Google did a deal with Adobe. If enough Android users actually cared, Google could bundle their flash player ported to use the android APIs.
Nope, it's simply the pixel count of the first iPad with smaller pixels. The idea being that developers can target the device with the same layout as previous generations.
Australia in that regard isn't the lucky country either. These liveability surveys putting my home city (Melbourne) at the top neglect to mention that houses in nice neighbourhoods regularly cost $1m plus. An Indian couple with a child I know moved from NZ to Melbourne for higher wages. They're back in Wellington after evaluating the bang for buck was better in NZ.
One thing I can't understand though is why Nokia are even bothering with Series 40 at all when they could simply have used S60 (which is a proper smartphone OS) on these cheaper models. S60 is looking good at the moment.. just at the point it is being discontinued.
They're skimping on the RAM (128MB) by running S40. That and the small screen size shared with a hardware keyboard, whereas their S60 machines evolved to a larger touchscreen and slider keyboard.
My previous phone was Symbian. There's a world of difference between what Nokia were selling as an app platform with Qt/S60 native applications and Java ME.
I was considering the hardware from an OS-agnostic POV - a sleek tablet with a screen cover that doubles as a keyboard.
For THAT price, you'd consider dual booting if someone 'jailbroke' it. But yes, the price does seem fanciful given what Asus Transformers retail for... Unless MS are prepared to make a substantial loss on each sale because (a) Android and iOS have the dominant market share (b) they believe they can recoup the money in apps.
The government is building a fibre-optic network. They'll rip out the POTS infrastructure to sell the unused copper.
Any voip based landline replacement will inevitably be scrapped as the rollout progresses, citing cost concerns - 'In Australia only old people don't have mobile phones'.
Democracy at its finest. The public fund the scheme through the taxation system only for the profits to be skimmed off by private telcos. Basic home phone and internet packages will cost $200/month within a decade.
Yep, some devices on CM 7.2 will skip ICS and go directly to Jelly Bean. e.g. my phone, a moto defy, has CM10 nightlies. RAM consumption and wifi connection are flakey, so I'll stick with Gingerbread stable for the time being.
Whether the CM10 release is finished on such devices before Google release the next shiny code drop is an open question.
Well I wonder if the iOS ecmascript engine has been improved. I read somewhere that mobile safari had been super-optimised but that the engine for HTML5 apps was a generation or two behind - to encourage 'native' apps, or so the conspiracy theory goes.
Similar story on Android, perhaps. Jelly Bean has Chrome in the Play store but I doubt its JS engine replaces the system-wide one.
I picked up an unlocked handset from the local electronics store. The box said $AU480 but they gave it to me for half price because it was had Eclair 2.1 The phone runs the Jelly Bean nightlies fine but I have deployed the Gingerbread stable release (CM 7.2)
Carrier lockin? Only if you're worried about voiding the warranty on your Galaxy S3 when, for me at least, a superseded previous generation is adequate. Will upgrade only when the new CortexA15 models with 2GB of RAM are sufficient to replace my ageing Linux home PC.
Sardinian and Italian are from the same language family - Romance, i.e. derived from Latin. The Scottish language is Celtic and quite distinct from 'Germanic' English.
So possibly the dissimilarity of the languages makes a difference...
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I wouldn't expect flash necessarily to die altogether, just as a standalone product.
Google Chrome is available on the Play Store for Android 4.x. On desktop Linux, Google did a deal with Adobe. If enough Android users actually cared, Google could bundle their flash player ported to use the android APIs.
Videos? In 2012, not all websites have html5 support yet. My local sporting team's website uses flash AND silverlight to display content.
I have google-chrome with the moonlight plugin just for that purpose.
Which peaked in Office 97.
So they're only a single release behind.
It's a screen and a motherboard encased in plastic and metal. Design hipsters fap about these things, apparently.
Nope, it's simply the pixel count of the first iPad with smaller pixels. The idea being that developers can target the device with the same layout as previous generations.
Apple should market a new fashion line for carrying this new 7" tablet. 'mini skirt' has a certain ring to it.
I sampled, but didn't purchase, a Samsung Galaxy Note. Possibly the largest mobile phone on the planet with a 5.3" screen.
It fitted fine in a standard pair of Levi's. Even with keys and a hanky - it's slimmer than my existing phone.
Real estate is a huge factor.
Australia in that regard isn't the lucky country either. These liveability surveys putting my home city (Melbourne) at the top neglect to mention that houses in nice neighbourhoods regularly cost $1m plus. An Indian couple with a child I know moved from NZ to Melbourne for higher wages. They're back in Wellington after evaluating the bang for buck was better in NZ.
They're skimping on the RAM (128MB) by running S40. That and the small screen size shared with a hardware keyboard, whereas their S60 machines evolved to a larger touchscreen and slider keyboard.
My previous phone was Symbian. There's a world of difference between what Nokia were selling as an app platform with Qt/S60 native applications and Java ME.
The computer I'm typing this on is a P4 my sister-in-law donated. :)
The CPU isn't the problem - I could upgrade to a quad core smartphone any time they start shipping with 4GB RAM!
They designed a 'utilikilt' for carrying stuff?! Isn't a sporran the place for concealing a Nexus 7?
I was considering the hardware from an OS-agnostic POV - a sleek tablet with a screen cover that doubles as a keyboard.
For THAT price, you'd consider dual booting if someone 'jailbroke' it. But yes, the price does seem fanciful given what Asus Transformers retail for... Unless MS are prepared to make a substantial loss on each sale because (a) Android and iOS have the dominant market share (b) they believe they can recoup the money in apps.
My 3.7" phone lengthways is just 13mm shorter than the Nexus 7 is wide, so I have no doubt - though your pockets must be deep!
Not being able to run Windows apps some might consider a feature. :)
Further, the ARM version will have MS' locked down bootloader, so you won't be able to load Android nor Plasma Active.
In my country, landlines *will* disappear.
The government is building a fibre-optic network. They'll rip out the POTS infrastructure to sell the unused copper.
Any voip based landline replacement will inevitably be scrapped as the rollout progresses, citing cost concerns - 'In Australia only old people don't have mobile phones'.
Democracy at its finest. The public fund the scheme through the taxation system only for the profits to be skimmed off by private telcos. Basic home phone and internet packages will cost $200/month within a decade.
Geometric failure - a dodecahedron has 3 dimensions, a rectangle 2.
Yep, some devices on CM 7.2 will skip ICS and go directly to Jelly Bean. e.g. my phone, a moto defy, has CM10 nightlies. RAM consumption and wifi connection are flakey, so I'll stick with Gingerbread stable for the time being.
Whether the CM10 release is finished on such devices before Google release the next shiny code drop is an open question.
A variety of options is important.
Slim notebooks are shipping without dvd drives nowadays. In my experience the optical drives have often been the first components to die.
With the current Gnome Shell/Unity trauma, users find the familiar UI of ReactOS Explorer comforting? :)
Carriers and Manufacturers may bundle Sense, Blur, Touchwiz or other cruft but the baked-in 'distro' should be minimal.
Android has no package manager in the apt-get sense but using the Play store for userspace is the best compromise.
Well I wonder if the iOS ecmascript engine has been improved. I read somewhere that mobile safari had been super-optimised but that the engine for HTML5 apps was a generation or two behind - to encourage 'native' apps, or so the conspiracy theory goes.
Similar story on Android, perhaps. Jelly Bean has Chrome in the Play store but I doubt its JS engine replaces the system-wide one.
Hotter? Well, the solstice was 6 weeks ago. But technically it's still winter for another 3 weeks.
Though it has been warmer in Perth, AU than London, UK several days during the Olympics!
Cyanogenmod.
I picked up an unlocked handset from the local electronics store. The box said $AU480 but they gave it to me for half price because it was had Eclair 2.1 The phone runs the Jelly Bean nightlies fine but I have deployed the Gingerbread stable release (CM 7.2)
Carrier lockin? Only if you're worried about voiding the warranty on your Galaxy S3 when, for me at least, a superseded previous generation is adequate. Will upgrade only when the new CortexA15 models with 2GB of RAM are sufficient to replace my ageing Linux home PC.
Sardinian and Italian are from the same language family - Romance, i.e. derived from Latin. The Scottish language is Celtic and quite distinct from 'Germanic' English.
So possibly the dissimilarity of the languages makes a difference...