Your fav Iphone, Android or WinMo apps?

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Originally Posted by Mark

You would think they would get that stuff sorted. Phone firmware being updated and then bricking them goes back a decade or more.

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They're (mostly) not bricked :) It's been blown very much out of proportion, the vast majority of phones have taken the update just fine and the small percentage that have had issues, have required a hard reboot or in some very isolated cases, yes they have been bricked.

Not like Apple's ever bricked iPhones or anything is it? http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&q=iph...1123905e79d67a

I updated my phone, followed the instructions and it worked fine and I've got a Samsung Omnia 7 which was the model which was meant to be affected :p

Apple haven't bricked my iPhone, but only because iTunes failed me way before the OS upgrade even got started :crazy:

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Originally Posted by Daniel

They're (mostly) not bricked :) It's been blown very much out of proportion, the vast majority of phones have taken the update just fine and the small percentage that have had issues, have required a hard reboot or in some very isolated cases, yes they have been bricked.

Not like Apple's ever bricked iPhones or anything is it? http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&q=iph...1123905e79d67a

I updated my phone, followed the instructions and it worked fine and I've got a Samsung Omnia 7 which was the model which was meant to be affected :p

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Maybe I'm wrong but if this had been an Apple problem there would have been a page full of posts worth of Apple bashing. :p

Not really, Microsoft people don't claim that Microsoft is perfect unlike Steve

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Not really, Microsoft people don't claim that Microsoft is perfect unlike Steve Balmer

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I've corrected your post.

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Originally Posted by Mark

I've corrected your post.

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OMFG!!!!! That's disrespectful to me! Change it back NOW! :angryfire :p

Have to say I'm not particularly impressed with stuff like this.....

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/25/m...g-surfaces-an/

Contactless transfer has been around for ages, it's called Bluetooth.

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Originally Posted by Mark

Contactless transfer has been around for ages, it's called Bluetooth.

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Of course, obviously they're talking more about gesture control of another system, basically using the phone as a gesture remote control.

Here's a fun and useful free app for those who own dogs: Dog Whistle (free version). It allows three customizable settings, in case you have multiple dogs - you can vary the frequency and pattern, plus it has a sound meter on screen. What it basically does is generate a whistling sound that only dogs can hear, and as I found out, they WILL respond to it. To set it up, you just wait for the dog to lay down or take a nap, then you find the setting combination that makes him perk up his ears. And that's it! I have a dog that tends to wander, and especially if there's a thunder storm coming, he'll just run in odd directions in fear. Even at a distance of 50+ feet (depending on which way the wind is blowing), using this app makes him snap out of it and return to me.

Another good one is the new HBO Go app. If you're an HBO subscriber, you can use this app to watch HBO shows from seasons past and present: Game of Thrones, Entourage, Rome, The Wire, The Sopranos, etc. If you're not an HBO subscriber, then I guess something like iTunes or Netflix would be a better deal. I don't use either of those to watch TV or movies right now, so I don't know how they compare.