I disregard style, as I am an old git, the price is unimportant as my contract can get me any handset without any top-up fee but usability in the sense of feature set is of paramount importance to me and the past experience angle is damned strong. I won't have a Nokia because I once had to get a particular service pack of windows to run the Nokia updater software and said software (despite 'saving' and 'reloading' my data ) threw away all my settings and the map data. I won't have an iPhone as I have had an iMac and an iPod and used iTunes several times. I won't have a Sony because, well, Sony are a set of ****s. I won't have an LG because I have had an LG Renoir. Kind of narrows the field.
How do you fix an ipad to the car dashboard? I use my droid phone for email, gps navigation, reference books, novels, audio books, radio shows, remote login to home pc and when i am using it for navigation I blu-tack it to the dash. I would like a bigger screen for browsing but I wouldn't want to carry one in my pocket as it would just get crushed or scratched to hell.
Meh, I would happily have my cellphone four times the weight and twice the thickness if it meant the battery was ( squints at battery and makes estimate ) eight or ten times the capacity. Cellphones can stand some increase in weight. My keys weigh more than my phone.
I haven't noticed the improvements in battery tech because every time the batteries improve, the manufacturers use smaller ones. My first cellphone used six AA nicads (which gave a day or so of use when new) whereas now my current (hah!) cellphone has a battery the size of an After Eight mint (which gives a day or so of use when new).
You thought Afghanistan had social problems before? Now, without the benevolent oversight of the copyright holders, the Afghans will be filesharing like crazy, thus causing their entire country to collapse and the birth rate and life expectancy to plummet. Buildings will crumble into rubble, roads will take you to the wrong destination etc.
My flipping 'smart'phone is connected to the cell network, which has to know times for billing purposes, the intarwebs, which have many time services and GPS, which has incredibly accurate clocks. So that is two systems that locate where the hell it is and three ways of getting the time. Still I get notification windows every week or two asking me to set/check the time. Now they are screwing with the 1930's technology i need to get an accurate time for my smartphone? Damn them!
I have seen a very similar UI on my car dashboard. There is a clock and a solitary button to press, naturally the button advances the clock in order to set the time. Equally naturally, one sometimes presses the button unintentionally and has to go 'all around the clock' to set it to the right time again. Even this is more intuitive than the 'plus sign to add an alarm' as you have a thing and a control. Press the control and it alters the thing. In the fine summary, there is a thing and a control, press the control and get a pop-up that allows you to set up an event only loosely connected with the thing.
You seem to be mixing your bits and bytes. A skateboard would be enough to put the Blu-Ray back into the lead (although I agree that the time to create and verify the disk is significant in the real world).
I think that trying to use this service will show up the crummy upload speeds of their broadband. I reckon uploading 10 albums will max out my upstream for a week.
Spacing be damned! I hate the white space and pointless images. Give me as much text as you can cram on the screen FFS! It doesn't help readability if most of the text is several scrolls away. If only I wasn't so lame I would be able to configure my browser to overrule this pointless duhsigner meddling.
It isn't the astroturfing, marketing or advertising deception that irks me, it is the hypocrisy. I don't mind buying products on the recommendation of a shill just so long as I can use what _appear_ to be banknotes to pay for them.
Really? I have been listening to the same prog rock for several decades now (through many technologies). It is hippety-hop that I get tired of quickly, sometimes within seconds.
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The OS isn't part of the specs?
Meh, I have had various cellphones over the years and the only one which broke (cracked screen) was a Blackberry.
Surely Fifth Element _should_ be less passe' , as it is much more recent?
As a Virgin Media customer, I need gigabit internets as the upstream will be ( if the ratio is similar to my current service ) 60Mbit.
I disregard style, as I am an old git, the price is unimportant as my contract can get me any handset without any top-up fee but usability in the sense of feature set is of paramount importance to me and the past experience angle is damned strong.
I won't have a Nokia because I once had to get a particular service pack of windows to run the Nokia updater software and said software (despite 'saving' and 'reloading' my data ) threw away all my settings and the map data.
I won't have an iPhone as I have had an iMac and an iPod and used iTunes several times.
I won't have a Sony because, well, Sony are a set of ****s.
I won't have an LG because I have had an LG Renoir.
Kind of narrows the field.
How do you fix an ipad to the car dashboard? I use my droid phone for email, gps navigation, reference books, novels, audio books, radio shows, remote login to home pc and when i am using it for navigation I blu-tack it to the dash.
I would like a bigger screen for browsing but I wouldn't want to carry one in my pocket as it would just get crushed or scratched to hell.
I wish there were some way that they could tell the world what happens at the meeting.
It won't be all over London, it won't be free, and it won't be public.
I would consider 10 Mbps to be 'blazing', but that is because I am a Virgin Media customer.
Meh, I would happily have my cellphone four times the weight and twice the thickness if it meant the battery was ( squints at battery and makes estimate ) eight or ten times the capacity.
Cellphones can stand some increase in weight. My keys weigh more than my phone.
I haven't noticed the improvements in battery tech because every time the batteries improve, the manufacturers use smaller ones.
My first cellphone used six AA nicads (which gave a day or so of use when new) whereas now my current (hah!) cellphone has a battery the size of an After Eight mint (which gives a day or so of use when new).
I have been thinking on similar lines. I call it The Alternet.
You thought Afghanistan had social problems before? Now, without the benevolent oversight of the copyright holders, the Afghans will be filesharing like crazy, thus causing their entire country to collapse and the birth rate and life expectancy to plummet. Buildings will crumble into rubble, roads will take you to the wrong destination etc.
My flipping 'smart'phone is connected to the cell network, which has to know times for billing purposes, the intarwebs, which have many time services and GPS, which has incredibly accurate clocks. So that is two systems that locate where the hell it is and three ways of getting the time. Still I get notification windows every week or two asking me to set/check the time.
Now they are screwing with the 1930's technology i need to get an accurate time for my smartphone? Damn them!
I have seen a very similar UI on my car dashboard. There is a clock and a solitary button to press, naturally the button advances the clock in order to set the time. Equally naturally, one sometimes presses the button unintentionally and has to go 'all around the clock' to set it to the right time again.
Even this is more intuitive than the 'plus sign to add an alarm' as you have a thing and a control. Press the control and it alters the thing. In the fine summary, there is a thing and a control, press the control and get a pop-up that allows you to set up an event only loosely connected with the thing.
You seem to be mixing your bits and bytes.
A skateboard would be enough to put the Blu-Ray back into the lead (although I agree that the time to create and verify the disk is significant in the real world).
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Yeah, but a home owner with huge amounts of other people's sensitive data should have better security, or contract it out to someone competent.
Hmm..... I thought one read slashdot via a desktop machine because one's job necessitated being seated in front of desktop machine for 12 hours a day.
'Lowly 1MBit upstream'!!!
I get 0.49MBit on Virgin Media cable. Damn you, richard branston!
Android is shipping with dancing hookers and blow? Can I swap the blow for some viagra?
I think that trying to use this service will show up the crummy upload speeds of their broadband. I reckon uploading 10 albums will max out my upstream for a week.
Spacing be damned! I hate the white space and pointless images. Give me as much text as you can cram on the screen FFS! It doesn't help readability if most of the text is several scrolls away.
If only I wasn't so lame I would be able to configure my browser to overrule this pointless duhsigner meddling.
It isn't the astroturfing, marketing or advertising deception that irks me, it is the hypocrisy. I don't mind buying products on the recommendation of a shill just so long as I can use what _appear_ to be banknotes to pay for them.
Really? I have been listening to the same prog rock for several decades now (through many technologies). It is hippety-hop that I get tired of quickly, sometimes within seconds.