I think technically yes. But the strange thing is that if you'd bought the same item in the UK from someone who turns over less than £50,000 a year, then no VAT is payable!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
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I think technically yes. But the strange thing is that if you'd bought the same item in the UK from someone who turns over less than £50,000 a year, then no VAT is payable!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
That is not strictly true of course, since the VAT is already paid by the person you buy it from. The only VAT you save is that on the profit margin of your seller.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
Looks like Bloomberg was right on the money... almost two months prior to the eventual firing of CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. Now Nokia gets its first (I believe) non-Finnish CEO: ex-Microsoft President, Stephen Elop. Wonder what he'll do to get the operating margins back up, along with the stock price?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
Pity that they got another engineer type of guy when they really were in need of an innovator who has finger on the pulse... Nokia needs to start listen more what consumers want and not do phones for engineers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
The iPad becomes the the highest-scoring product Apple has, and therefore the highest-scoring product the American Consumer Product Survey has ever tracked.
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Big news for Apple and Apple investors: The iPad is the highest-scoring product that a leading consumer satisfaction index has ever tracked.
Looks like Windows Mobile 7 is turning out to be a giant fail so far!
I can't say I'm totally surprised. I remain to be convinced about Nokia's new offerings either, from my experience of "old" Symbian and the shambles that is the Ovi store.
I'm happily on Android 2.2 now and wouldn't switch to an Apple product if they paid me.
Android really is a surprise. It's a recent thing that came from almost nowhere to take on Symbian and Windows and is knocking on Apple's door!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave B
But; if you look at the numbers Nokia is still winning, but personally I wouldn't have another Symbian phone, even though every time it's supposed to be 'improved' but ends up no better.
I am looking for a replacement for my N96, should I buy the N8, go for iPhone4 or... ? Thanks for any suggestion/advices :)
tbh I wouldn't go with any Nokia products at the moment. They are poorly supported and in a total state of flux at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by pino
My suggestion would be either an Android based phone, or an iPhone. Personally coming from a Nokia phone I think the iPhone is fanstatic, just because of the amount of software available for it. But it does lack in terms of phone features, such as customisable profiles etc.
I don't know much about Android, I know it hasn't got as much software as for iPhone but it's still got way more than Nokia!
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...phones_464.gif
A very interesting graph. Shows Symbian has dipped significantly over the past couple of years while Blackberry (RIM) has stayed about the same.
Android has come from nothing to take pretty much all the share which used to belong to Microsoft with Apple taking most of the rest.
Symbian is, of course, still in the lead, although you wouldn't think it from most articles. The thing is that Symbian is on a lot of 'normal' phones that people don't buy because they are smartphones particularly.
I have a Nokia C5, I don't really consider it to be a smartphone anymore as it costs only 150Eur compared to the 500-700Eur that the touch screen thingies cost.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
Only thing missing is wifi, other than that it has pretty much all the features you need on a modern phone, gps, bluetooth, camera, 3,5G internet connection, etc. Infact, I wouldn't recommend a 500Eur smartphone to anyone but for techno geeks or to turtleneck folks.
Bingo!Quote:
Originally Posted by janneppi
Except for the apps, I have all the data that I've loaded on the iPod saved in other places. But I want to better understand what happened to you, since I will perform an iOS update when 4.2 comes out in a month or so.Quote:
Originally Posted by donKey jote
If you have time to explain it further, it would be appreciated.
BTW, so far, I've been absolutely amazed at how much I'm doing on the iPod Touch that I used to do on my laptop. I'm doing most everything that doesn't require any heavy typing. It's just so much more convenient, easier and faster to access. I can even track my satellite usage levels with a free app I found! So many apps, so little time. Now I'm beginning to understand how people get addicted to smartphones and similar devices. Luckily, I refuse to get involved with gaming, FaceBook or Twitter - otherwise I'd be a tap-tap addict like so many others I see everyday.
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Originally Posted by Mark
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/11/l...-launch-event/
I notice there is a autosport.com app. It cost 4 euro/3 pounds. I don't have a subcription. I'm wondering wheter it is worth buying it? Anybody tried it out/ If it has the same content as the website which is free (ofcourse some articles required a subcription). 4 euro is to much if it has the same content. 0.79 euro like most apps, i'm sold.
It looks interesting. But I agree, it seems on the pricey side.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daika
But I do have my eye on the Soft Pauer F1 Timing app. If I get the gal-pal an iPad for Christmas (and she'll watch the races with me next season), I'll probably break down and pay the $17 for that timing and track position app. I've grown used to sleeping in some Sunday mornings, and watching qualifying and the races later in the morning on DVR. This app allows you to replay any session whenever you want to... so you could sync the session or race to your DVR replay and feel like it's totally live! Not only is this one of Steve Jobs' favorite iPad/iPod apps, Steve Matchett also speaks very highly of it.
I tell ya, I feel like a caveman who's seen fire for the first time. This thing is so cool!
I know the feeling.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
My son had an iPhone for one year before I took the leap.
It is an amazing trinket and my son knows it so much more than I do.
My son is one of those tap-tap addicts that multitasks as he studies - by listening to music, or viewing a YouTube video, playing with an ap or posting on Facebook, as he is texting with his girlfriend.
It's scary! :vampire: :s mokin:
but these are their times, we're just trying to keep up.
:)
My ruse to get a post out of you worked :cool: .Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
Still a giant fail tho :hmh:
The basic timing app is pretty good. I might look at getting the 'full' one next year but as you say - it's pricey. And for one reason or another I always seem to be watching the races on a recording this year, even if it's just delayed by an hour so we can go out for Sunday lunch etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
I had everything saved too, or so I thought :sQuote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
I even bought an App backerupper, to be on the safe side...
Did the OS update, resynched, and hey presto ! Everything was there.
... Except a years worth of app data (settings, game status, etc). :dozey:
Yep I like it a lot, just really pissed off at Apple for making such a fundamental thing as backups so obscure and inflexible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
The windows phone would annoy the living daylights out of me. Why does the interface show half of the words? Not games but ames, video becomes eo.
Are you serious?Quote:
Originally Posted by Daika
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRT_wQsBWOA&feature=fvst
Yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
My iphone 3G died a death when I was working away in Chelmsford last week. Its not good when you only have TomTom on your phone and your 150 miles away from where you love. Getting to the clients in the morning was an interesting experience but luckily by internal compass was my saviour! After 36 hours of charging my iphone came back to life but now four days and 2 days charging since then I think it is officially dead again.
I think I'm gonna have to get an iphone 4. Recent posts have made me change my mind yet. :)
Makes sense. Despite rivals coming out with some excellent products. Right at this moment the iPhone 4 is still the best overall package out there IMO. I'm not sure how much advantage you'll see over the 3GS apart from the display quality and improved GPS reception, but at least you'll be able to keep all your apps!Quote:
Originally Posted by GridGirl
I had a Nokia E71 running the old version of Symbian. There were a handful of decent apps and games, but the Ovi store was a farce and the OS always seemed to be at the back of the queue for any developers to bother writing for.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
My HTC Desire is pretty much as customisable as you want it to be, and you can save profiles so that you could easily switch between - say - a work and a home profile. The Android marketplace is a doddle to use, it could do with some better search features but I've never once had a problem installing anything.Quote:
My suggestion would be either an Android based phone, or an iPhone. Personally coming from a Nokia phone I think the iPhone is fanstatic, just because of the amount of software available for it. But it does lack in terms of phone features, such as customisable profiles etc.
I don't know much about Android, I know it hasn't got as much software as for iPhone but it's still got way more than Nokia!
Not that I've got 2.2 on the phone I can move many of my apps to the SD card, that was the one real weakness of earlier versions: the phone's internal memory soon filled up.
Apple is way ahead with the amount of apps, that's true, but so many of them duplicate each others' functions. There are only so many stopwatches or fart buttons that one person needs. Plus I abhor the way Apple controls its envionment: you're utterly dependent on the hideous bloatware that is iTunes to copy anything onto your handset.
iPhones are excellent bits of kit in a Fisher Price kind of way, don't get me wrong, but they're a walled garden in an increasingly open world.
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Originally Posted by Dave B
Daika's post above illustrates just how fickle people can be when it comes to technology. There's a perfectly logical explanation why WinPho7 does what it does but some people don't want to think or look why and assume it's some major bug. That's why the Fisher Price iPhone setup works so well.
Think I'm going for a HTC Mondrian (or is it the Mozart) as it has a solid aluminium chassis because I like the build quality of my e71.
Depends what you want to copy I suppose? I rarely need to use iTunes but I agree it's a right royal PITA when I do. To start with it doesn't work with Linux which is what I use 99% of the time. If I boot into Vista and install iTunes it messes with my Python installation so that my video conferencing software - which I need for work, stops working!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave B
So I have it in a virtual machine, which rarely works properly!
I wanted to copy come wedding photos to show people, on my Nokia and my Desire I just.... copied them. Want to Bluetooth one to someone else? Takes 10 seconds. Can't do that with iPhones.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
BTW, one of my friends has this as their Facebook status this morning:
One of the comments:Quote:
Latest iPhone update deleted all my numbers, please inbox or text me your number if you had it previously! x
Oh. Even when I updated the entire OS on my HTC, all my data survived intact.Quote:
You're the third person I know that this has happened to! Not good =(
I'm wondering wheter i should get the iphone 4 or a android/htc desire. I already own the iphone 3gs. What i like about the android that it is open source which means i/developers can do whatever i want with it without asking Steve Jobs if he approves. Obviously the Iphone is a fantastic user friendly product? Is it a big step from 3gs to Iphone 4 in terms of speed. Apart from that retina display i don't care about facetime or hd pictures/videos, ofcourse that would be nice but not essential.
The retina display is indeed nice but I've had no problems with the screen on my Desire. I used it as an e-reader (Amazon's Kindle software) for about 2 hours on a flight without the slightest bit of eye strain, and photos and video looks great.
If you're used to the 3G you'll obviously have no problems getting to grips with the 4; but Android isn't exactly hard to use. In all honesty, have a play with both and go with the phone that best suits you.
Of course if you already have a 3GS then upgrading to the 4 means you keep your apps.
I'm not even on 3GS...I have a prehistoric 3G. Hopefully it will be lots better. I know how slow my 3G is compared to 3GS. Plus I wont need to rebuild the phone everytime TomTom updates if I upgrade.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
Dave, I doubt the iphone problem your friends are having is actually related to the upgrade. I have had the same problem when I've rebuilt my iphone and its to do with how your contacts are saved; whether on the phone or on the sim card. You go can go into the phone settings and restore them. It takes about 5 seconds do. Granted, it would be far easier if you didnt have to spend the 5 seconds doing it yourself.
I'll let them know, thanks. One of them had to take theirs to the (ahem) Genius bar to get it working. :s
And people still buy the iPhone in droves......Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave B
I still can't work out how Apple seem to portray this image of being a company that makes products that "just work" when clearly things are not quite so smooth as they would want you to believe. I mean FFS Gridgirl is talking about having to rebuild her iPhone EVERYTIME TomTom release an update and she still wants to buy a new one that was designed with an antenna which doesn't work as well as an antenna should...... Apple used to go on about how you had to restart your PC everytime you installed something new and now what are they making you do with your iPhone? :confused: Something far more tiresome. Now of course the problem is most likely down to TomTom being a bit sloppy with their app, but isn't this the sort of thing that the walled garden is meant to protect you against?
Now Apple can make a good product, the iPod is proof of this but when will people wake up and see that the competition is actually pretty good and that the iPhone is not revolutionary, magical or whatever flowery word Steve Knobs wants to portray it as when compared to the competition. Tie this overrated phone to Apples much hated iTunes and it's not as good as troublefree as Apple would have you believe.
Well it's your money :laugh:
My current thinking is to go for a Ipad and wait for the next generation of iphone/androids. I don't think the leap is so big from 3gs to iphone 4. 3g to Iphone is massive speedwise. Actually i think i'm not going to buy the Ipad either, a ipad with a retina display that is what i'm gonna wait for.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
I like my fIsher pRice 3G. It's simple and does what I want (mind you I said the same of my old Nokia which would just phone and text). I also don't feel the need to tell everyone else that they need to get one, or shouldn't get something else. I think that one of the reasons that I plucked for the iPhone is that I was fed up with people pointing out every little problem and then telling me to get an HTC.
So you went against the advice you were getting.... because there were too many people telling you to do something? :confused: How many people would it take to say "don't jump off a cliff" for you to jump off a cliff? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Jan Yeo