I'm pretty sure the old ones were Dione keypads - they were dark grey, quite blocky in style, and with an old-fashioned looking screen. The keys on them were also really prone to wearing out, especially the zero key for some reason.
These ones - http://www.epos-epos.co.uk/retail_till_systems/chip_and_pin_card_reader_terminals.htm
The new ones are much sleeker looking, but look as though they have equally dodgy keys. I can't find a picture of them though.
As an aside, I was in a Tesco store recently when the staff were going around disconnecting all the chip and pin readers and weighing them. I overheard them chatting at the customer service desk, and they weren't sure why but they were looking for any which didn't weigh the same as the rest.
Um, that's all likely to be true, but other phones with considerably lower-speed CPUs and graphics hardware *do* play flash content.
Take a look at a recent S60 or WinMo handset some time - sure, they might not look as nice or feel as smooth as an iPhone, but they can do more.
It does not play "flash" YouTube videos. YouTube on the iPhone is a custom client app that does not use flash at all. It won't even play all the videos YouTube has to offer only the ones that can be accessed in h264 format so the app can use the iPod video decoding software/hardware to play it with their custom interface (flash only videos will not play at all).
However, in practice, almost 99.999% of all Youtube videos are in this format, and the iPhone makes browsing to Youtube videos a seamless experience in that any time you click on a video embedded in a web page, the URL is transmitted directly to the Youtube client and you can begin viewing/streaming right away. The Youtube client on iPhone is also superior to viewing it embedded within a web page because it can use the entire iPhone screen in landscape mode so you don't lose screen real estate to things like address bars, widgets, or web page borders.
If you're using any S60 v3 FP2 device (or most FP1 devices - in my experience, any Nokia S60 device less than 18 months old works the same), you can use the full desktop youtube web site as normal with the built-in webkit browser.
When you watch a video, it normally plays in the frame on the page, however there's a nice feature in the flash plugin where if you click on a video control, it will expand the video to fit the screen with no furniture, in whatever screen orientation you happen to be using at the time.
The biggest pain in the ass from my perspective is that I often clear my cache and the video playback widget itself takes a few seconds to start up. I frequently browse the web at home or work from my N95 on wifi, it's very usable. In fact, at home I tend to use it as a portable net radio using the bbc's iPlayer audio service so I can listen to interesting radio documentaries while I'm doing something less interesting. I also sometimes use my wife's N78 since it's got an FM transmitter built in - which is a really nice feature allowing me to get audio onto something with a bit more amplification.
The BBC must deliver an online TV catch-up service that lets users of all computers download programmes, the corporation's regulators have said.
It comes after the BBC said a download service for Mac and Linux users was not 100% definite and would depend on cost.
A spokesman for the BBC Trust said it had approved the iPlayer on the condition of "platform neutrality", including a download service.
Good news, nice to see the trust appreciates the issues.
OK, so there's no pop or imap (maybe there could be?) but I've just tried my Live Mail account on my server box here in Konqueror and it worked just fine.
In fact, I think I prefer it because it shows 'classic mode' which looks like old hotmail rather than the new one which I can't stand.
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These ones - http://www.epos-epos.co.uk/retail_till_systems/chip_and_pin_card_reader_terminals.htm
The new ones are much sleeker looking, but look as though they have equally dodgy keys. I can't find a picture of them though.
As an aside, I was in a Tesco store recently when the staff were going around disconnecting all the chip and pin readers and weighing them. I overheard them chatting at the customer service desk, and they weren't sure why but they were looking for any which didn't weigh the same as the rest.
Um, that's all likely to be true, but other phones with considerably lower-speed CPUs and graphics hardware *do* play flash content. Take a look at a recent S60 or WinMo handset some time - sure, they might not look as nice or feel as smooth as an iPhone, but they can do more.
However, in practice, almost 99.999% of all Youtube videos are in this format, and the iPhone makes browsing to Youtube videos a seamless experience in that any time you click on a video embedded in a web page, the URL is transmitted directly to the Youtube client and you can begin viewing/streaming right away. The Youtube client on iPhone is also superior to viewing it embedded within a web page because it can use the entire iPhone screen in landscape mode so you don't lose screen real estate to things like address bars, widgets, or web page borders.
If you're using any S60 v3 FP2 device (or most FP1 devices - in my experience, any Nokia S60 device less than 18 months old works the same), you can use the full desktop youtube web site as normal with the built-in webkit browser.
When you watch a video, it normally plays in the frame on the page, however there's a nice feature in the flash plugin where if you click on a video control, it will expand the video to fit the screen with no furniture, in whatever screen orientation you happen to be using at the time.
The biggest pain in the ass from my perspective is that I often clear my cache and the video playback widget itself takes a few seconds to start up. I frequently browse the web at home or work from my N95 on wifi, it's very usable. In fact, at home I tend to use it as a portable net radio using the bbc's iPlayer audio service so I can listen to interesting radio documentaries while I'm doing something less interesting. I also sometimes use my wife's N78 since it's got an FM transmitter built in - which is a really nice feature allowing me to get audio onto something with a bit more amplification.
I wonder what the correct spelling for the disk in SSD is?
Good news, nice to see the trust appreciates the issues.
OK, so there's no pop or imap (maybe there could be?) but I've just tried my Live Mail account on my server box here in Konqueror and it worked just fine.
In fact, I think I prefer it because it shows 'classic mode' which looks like old hotmail rather than the new one which I can't stand.