Mobile phones & tablets thread

I always thought that Daniel and objectivity when it came to Apple were mutually exclusive, but I suppose we all learn something new every day.

Smartphones (and tablets) ceased to be solely about hardware a long time ago. It is software and the user-experience that matters now. Long gone are the days when people would happily tinker with settings as a hobby on their digital device. People now use smartphones/computers/tablets like a common-day kettle/fridge/any other day electrical device, and they want the user experience to be seamless. Apple's ecosystem does this rather well.

I'm sure the iPhone 5 will sell particularly well indeed. Perhaps the new Nokia does have higher-spec hardware. How much people like the operating system and interface will decide which one comes out on top.

The fact of the matter is that producing successful devices leads to diminishing returns. There is surely an optimal design for any generation of device, and trying to better that hardware in successive devices must be incredibly difficult.

Are you going to be totally loaded like? Interesting ;)

I only buy Motorola cell phones.

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Originally Posted by Mark

Are you going to be totally loaded like? Interesting ;)

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New laptop, new bike, new iPad, possibly new phone, paid for by my employers = winner :up:

THEN I will be skint ;)

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Well, someone has to open people's eyes up I guess :) :wave:

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Actually you've got that one wrong. Snobs don't like it when someone tells them that thy are doing something wrong. And let's face it about 90% of all Apple users are snobs.

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Originally Posted by henners88

I've said this many times. Android's strength is their hardware, but the compromise is the unstable OS.

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Unstable?! Sure sure...

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Originally Posted by ioan

Snobs don't like it when someone tells them that thy are doing something wrong.

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In stark contrast to yourself of course ;)

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Originally Posted by henners88

Most of the phone carriers are publishing their latest iPhone 5 deals this morning.

O2 are offering it for £26 p/m unlimited minutes, unlimited texts, 1 GB of data and a handset cost of £359 for the 32GB model. Its expensive, but apart from the outlay for the phone its a good contract IMO. Its effectively the price of a cheap Dell laptop which is fine by me. I know many of you will not agree with this, but I thought the tariffs would be hiked up a lot more by the carriers than they presently are.

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Not familiar with UK contracts, is there a difference between getting a contract Iphone and getting unlocked Iphone and similarly specced data/phone plan over the two years time?

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Originally Posted by ioan

Actually you've got that one wrong. Snobs don't like it when someone tells them that thy are doing something wrong. And let's face it about 90% of all Apple users are snobs.

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I personally know many Apple users (Mark and Jamie among them) and I can garantee that they are far from being snob...ups you said about 90% not all of them, sorry :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by pino

I personally know many Apple users (Mark and Jamie among them) and I can garantee that they are far from being snob...ups you said about 90% not all of them, sorry :rolleyes:

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you disappoint me Pino. :( I always thought that you were an Italian Vineyard billionaire. ;)