Mobile phones & tablets thread

[Mark]

Yes. To be fair the shop was rammed. I wanted to try out an iPad Mini. No chance; couldn't get anywhere near.

Apples answer is to use the Apple Store app to scan the item myself and then pay through my iTunes account. Which would have been fine if I could get a phone signal inside the shop ; I couldn't. So went through the process and it ended up hanging on 'processing' for 5 minutes before telling me to find a member of staff!

[Mark]

Yeah. It knows when you are near the shop and you do scan the barcode and pay for it through your phone. If you can then just walk out I have no idea I didn't get that far.

[Mark]

I dunno. I've used my clubcard on my iPhone before. I half expected the checkout man to be like 'ooh look at that' but he just scanned the screen. I suppose he sees dozens every day.

Remember having a mobile phone at all used to be seen as quite pretentious. Now it's entirely normal.

[CaptainRaiden]

Perhaps I do come across like I jump on any criticism, but as much as I should accept not everyone likes the Apple iPhone, you need to accept there are people that do and may just say something if a thread is dominated by mocking something they have bought.

But you haven't bought the iPad mini. Why does its criticism bother you?

You have criticized Samsung, Google and Microsoft (just recently), three companies that I am mildly fond of, but I've not gotten riled up over it. In fact I will post something genuinely funny anti-Samsung or anti-Microsoft if I come across it just as I do often for my friends on Facebook. I have read plenty of people criticizing the Galaxy S3 here and all over the internet without getting offended.

I've repeated points hundreds of times here but lets be frank, you have done exactly the same and I think between us we have put a lot of new posters off contributing to this thread.

I don't really care about that TBH. People can talk about whatever they want here, I'm not stopping them. Neither do I nanny people around here telling them what they should be talking about or not, or to get off or change a topic.

We have said a couple of times in the past that we should just accept each others opinions and not debate against each other. I will openly admit I am incapable of reading your posts here without reacting. I'm taking a step here that I have never done in the past but I think its for the good of this thread and will enable me to contribute to this thread without engaging with yourself. It all seems rather silly, but I enjoy talking about gadgets without confrontation. I'm sure you are a good bloke and I seem to agree with you on many aspects of motorsport, but this topic put me in a position which I think needs to be dealt with by myself rather than ruining the thread for everyone else. No offence and thanks for the chats.

As you see fit. I don't really care either way and will debate on points I'm interested in as long as there's something to talk about.

[Mark]

I have bought the iPad Mini. Although I don't get to use it until Christmas.

[CaptainRaiden]

Just wanted to post a quick review of a battery saving app for the Android users over here, before I hit the sack.

Link here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...VkZWZlbmRlciJd

I had my SGS3 pulling up emails from four company accounts (set to check every 10 minutes for quick correspondence), two yahoo and two Gmail accounts, that's 8 email accounts checked every few minutes. Coupled with some music, video playback and gaming, the phone was running out of battery from 100% to 0% in about 7 hours. It goes fine for 3 days if it's only one or two accounts, but 8 email accounts seem too heavy to handle. The phone would eat through its battery and be dead in the morning when I woke up if I hadn't kept it charging.

I don't like to use the phone's power saving feature, as it makes the interface quite choppy. So, I installed the juice defender app, and it's brilliant. It cuts off all radios and does some other energy saving stuff once the screen goes off and automatically connects to wi-fi or 3G data only every 20 minutes to check for email and then cuts it off again. Discharged only 70% in over 26 hours and there's no choppiness. It's perfect, so much so that I'm considering buying the full app.

[Mark]

Not sure what you mean as you can't buy iPad 3 any more. Or do you mean iPad 2. But then I'm still confused about 'stretch to iPad Mini' as this is the cheapest of the iPads.

[CaptainRaiden]

I have bought the iPad Mini. Although I don't get to use it until Christmas.

Why not? Is it not available straightaway? I believe one of my friend's already got one through Amazon UK.

[Mark]

Because it's a Christmas present.

[Mark]

Henners. Fair enough if you can get a good deal then go for it!