Mobile phones & tablets thread

[pino]

My new upgrades will be iPhone 5s and Mini iPad 2 with retina display

[Mark]

Assuming those two things will actually exist. But it's a safe bet they will; sounds like a good plan. The iPad Mini is really nice and will be even better with retina display.

[pino]

They will exist, maybe with different name but who cares, I am not buying names or brands just a product which satisfies me

[race aficionado]

Design wise, my favorite ones were the 'Beam me up Scotty' models.

[henners88]

With rumours circulating Samsung are working on their own operating system, how long before others follow suit forcing Google on the back foot?

The link below sounds a bit drastic lol

The End Of Android

[Mark]

Well certainly Samsung now sees itself as a serious rival for Apple and so it makes sense that it would look to follow Apple into having proprietry OS. However that's a dangerous route as they would lose the app base they have at the moment, which is all important.

I think it's clear in the mobile market there is only room for 2 major ecosystems, with a handful of others squabbling over what's left.

[henners88]

I think it would be a mistake for Samsung to try and rival iOS and Android and they may have become complacent with their market share amongst manufacturers. I have seen it speculated that Samsung has used it's impressive market share to influence Google a little too much, and this has caused tension amongst the likes of HTC, Sony etc. Maybe Google has allowed too much power to go to its customers rather than keeping a tighter grip on its OS? Its clear Google are not earning as much money from its mobile sector as it should be and they could quite easily turn a cold shoulder on Samsung in the long term. The test would be if customers are Samsung loyalists or Android. There seems to be a pattern amongst most of the bigger manufacturers (including Apple) where they get to a certain point and become a little too greedy and try and go it alone.

[odykas]

My new upgrades will be iPhone 5s and Mini iPad 2 with retina display

Crisis

[janneppi]

I've been doing some experiments with two NFC tags that came with the phone. Now i have one for home which toggles wifi/3G and other one for car which toggles on/off navigation, 3G, GPS.

Still a bit of work in progress and need testing. Might end up being handy if I get it to work as I'd like it.

[pino]

Crisis

I only live once and I am getting older so I better start spending all my money :