I pity the fool who buys the N9
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I pity the fool who buys the N9
Almost every non-Apple tablet is a far more sensible 7" ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
Back to clouds, and this is a perfect example of why I wouldn't use it for anything remotely sensitive:
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Dropbox, the cloud-based file-hosting service, left all 25 million of its users' accounts open to all comers on Sunday when it accidentally turned off its password security system.
Cloud file-hosting service Dropbox leaves 25m users' accounts unlocked for four hours - Telegraph
Janneppi, Nokia have said that they're on topic to release their first wp7 handsets late this year :)
Whilst I wouldn't buy an n9, but I can understand why a Nokia fan would buy one
The thing is that Nokia's aren't bad phones. The hardware you get with a Nokia is great and that's why people like them.
Caroline has a 5800 and I agree that it's dismal. Mark my word however, the wp7 Nokia phones I'll be fantastic
Got a Samsung Galaxy S in late 2010, and never been a happier man. Couldn't believe how easy it made everything, especially constantly checking 10 mailboxes. A handy tool for any business owner to have. I remember I used to have Thunderbird, Gmail and AOL mail all open all the time, what a mess.
Also, I don't care for any of the pads. Pointless to spend $1000+ on a tablet when you can have a kickass laptop for that money, which will do much, much more.
Now, looking with some very keen interest at the Samsung GALAXY S II
1.2 Ghz dual core processor + 1 GB RAM + 16 GB internal memory all in stock smartphone. :eek:
Then there's also the Motorola Atrix. The dual cores are raining down now. Who would have thunk it a few years ago? Dual core processors for phones. :)
I've been hearing a lot of bad things about Motorola, mainly about their Motoblur overlay on Android devices. Can any users give first-hand experiences?Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainRaiden
Indeed :up: I currently have a Black Berry and it is a great phone :) But I have had over a dozen Nokias in my day and all have been great phones :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
They make great two way radios, but can't make phones for sh!t :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave B
That's the one thing I like about owning a WP7 or buying another one is the fact that OEM's aren't allowed to do this. HTC have their Sense UI on WP7, but it's an app and it doesn't sit about the base OS :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave B
Oops, didn't know about this. I haven't personally used a Motorola Android phone yet. One of my friends was using a Droid X and was quite happy with it. The screen was awesome, and if I remember it also has the longest running battery in the android smartphones group, which is a good thing because of the way these things eat up their batteries especially if you have background and auto sync on. They say they're also making Motoblur less intrusive after complaints, so you never know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave B
Can't say I agree with that. I like Motorola phones, and have grown to hate Nokias over the years. Around 2005 I bought a Nokia 6670, kickass for that time, good camera, latest Symbian OS, did a lot of things, worked fine for 6 months and then went ape$hit. Had to go to the Nokia "service" center for about 10 times in six months, because every time they'd say it's fixed, and it would die again. They flashed the OS, replaced the battery, and finally exchanged it, same problem again. Finally got rid of it and bought a Motorola SLVR L7. The most hassle free phone I have ever owned. Wifey had a Motorazr which worked fine for half a decade without a squeak. I think they make solid phones, and have left Nokia behind, for now at least. Well, everybody is leaving Nokia behind as of now. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by 555-04Q2
I never had any problems with any of my Nokia's with over a dozen models and over a decade of use :)Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainRaiden
The only Motorola I ever had was, to be polite, cr@p :(
Hey jag, Apple stock is doing well isn't it? DailyTech - Apple Stock Plunges as Investors "Think Different"
This is SPARTAn!!!!!!
I'd love to see this do well and chip away at Apple's iTunes revenue and take away Apple's control of their own platform. :laugh:
Project Spartan: Facebook’s Hush-Hush Plan To Take On Apple On Their Own Turf: iOS
If you think that's a crash, you haven't seen the cliff faces in the Microsoft charts that happen on a regular basis. If you chart them out one year, it looks more like a heart monitor than a stock charting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
Then again, if you chart back a year on each, you'll notice the profits for Apple and the losses for Microsoft.
Over the years, I've bought AAPL shares from the mid $30's to about $190/share. Except for those medical/legal bills last year, I haven't sold any of it for price reasons. My avg. per share cost basis is somewhere around $110/share. So yeah, in my world, AAPL is still doing well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
Really, really well. :s mokin:
AAPL has not performed so very well so far this year though - pretty much even money Year-to-Date. But it's hardly a stock or company that's in trouble, as is Nokia and RIM. And what we've had is not exactly a "plunge". It's amusing when tech sites try to write stories about the equity markets. But with that said, there are questions and concerns among investors, as detailed in the article you linked. But with the next quarterly earnings announcement, my guess is those who buy around current levels will be rewarded. I don't plan on buying any more shares right now, but I may buy some calls or sell some puts.
But before we bag too much on AAPL, let's compare AAPL vs MSFT vs the S&P 500 (a broad market measure). I think this will explain why I'm not all that concerned - but if I were a MSFT shareholder, I would not be happy. Apple is roughly tracking the market. MSFT (along with RIM and Nokia) is severely underperforming the market (and Apple).
Microsoft Corporation Stock Chart vs. Apple vs. S&P 500| MSFT Interactive Chart - Yahoo! Finance
The problem with Apple is that they could disappear tomorrow and it would have little impact upon the market. Apple constantly needs to innovate to make money, all Microsoft needs to do is incrementally improve their products because they provide solutions for everything and not just a few shiny trinkets.
So Microsoft's new claim to fame is that they exist... and that's about it? Apple innovates and they experience growth. Google innovates and they experience growth. Cypress Semiconductor innovates and they experience growth. But as you say, Microsoft sort of just exists these days... churns out commodity products with little value added, and they make enough money to get by. Hardly a ringing endorsement, IMO. Investors don't pay very high P/E multiples for companies that do that. And as we can see over the past decade, anyone who has bought Microsoft has dead money on his hands. Even by your description, I could say the same thing about a utility or dog food company.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
When Ballmer either quits/retires or gets fired (not likely, but his fan club on Wall St. is getting smaller by the day), maybe MSFT will get back on track. The latest rumor has Microsoft buying either Nokia or RIM. Unlike the Skype purchase, both these companies could be had on the cheap. But as a stock, I don't see MSFT going anywhere anytime soon. And if it gets back up to $28 again (and I don't see a good, fundamental reason to support that price level), I'll short that dog again... and ride it back down to $24-$25. I look for RIM to bounce back above $30 before I expect MSFT to even get a glimpse of $30. I just read a report that since introducing the Win Phone 7 platform, Microsoft has actually LOST marketshare, instead of gained. It might be a great phone platform. I don't know. But as with its recent history in so many consumer oriented areas, Microsoft's poor execution causes carriers and consumers to lose faith before they even try the thing out. It's just hard to get people to bet on a horse that has a tendency to trip and fall as soon as he gets out of the gate. I can't say that's an unfair statement on MSFT at this point. Maybe they'll get better. Time will tell. But no one is going to wait for them.
Like I keep saying, I'm not a fanboy or a hater of any of these companies - though some I admire or follow more than others. But basically, I just call 'em like I see 'em. On stocks, when I'm right, I'm right (Apple long, Bank of America, Nokia, Microsoft and RIM shorts :) ) and when I'm wrong, I'm wrong (Saks, Wendy's and AMD longs and Tivo short :( ).
YouTube - ‪Nokia Sea Ray :Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
I love that. What are your thoughts on it? Do you think it's a good move for Nokia?Quote:
Originally Posted by DonJippo
Just finished watching the video.....Quote:
Originally Posted by DonJippo
What do people in Nokia think of Elop? He seems to talk very casually about the redundancies which are obviously going on. I can imagine that might annoy some people as he came from Microsoft and then started making changes which resulted in jobs being lost and a Microsoft operating system suddenly being the future direction of Nokia.
In my opinion the problem that Nokia had was that their good products were quietly brilliant. I had an E71 and the people at work with Blackberry's all remarked at how much better built it was and how much nicer it was to use than their Blackberry's. But Nokia barely advertised it here and I guess qwerty phones are a bit old hat now.......
Time will tell but I believe with Microsoft ecosystem they are in much better position than with Symbian and can challenge Android, Apple is no real threat as you will see soon...Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
Well I've had mine since about a week after launch and I would never go back :) Like Jukka Kiiskinen points out, it's not about apps, all the important stuff like Facebook, email, twitter and cloud storage is integrated or is going to be integrated very soon. Integration > application. If the rumours of free turn by turn sat nav for all WP7 devices turns out to be false I can definitely see myself buying one of these and selling my Samsung Omnia 7 :D it's not a patch on the build quality of the E71 I had.....Quote:
Originally Posted by DonJippo
No :P I just like stuff that's well made.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
WP7 got Angry Birds yesterday! No one can say it's an incomplete OS now! :p
A nice (if slightly spoilt due to the ignorance of the guy doing the videos) video of the mango update. Quite a few things that he talks about as being new, are already in the OS and he simply doesn't know..... but anyhoo
Windows Phone 7.5 Mango in-depth preview (video) -- Engadget
Looks like it'll be released in 4 months or so and I'm guessing that's when the Nokia devices will land as well.
:p
Chart of the Day: Android dominates smartphone subscribers | DVICE
Thought you might find this interesting. Its the smartphone trends in the US over the last 12 months. Looks like Google is killing it. Apple the only other one increasing.
another day another lawsuit from Apple......
DailyTech - Apple Lawyers Attempt Kill Shot on Samsung's Flagship Smartphones
Seems Apple are suing Samsung for selling black rectangular phones, Apple have patented that.
Apple lost a big one today though... trying to block Amazon from using "App Store".
Judge rejects Apple bid for injunction against Amazon
Of course there's a further trial to be held later on that.
Good, every time Apple get's one over their nose is a step in the right direction.
It's called APPlication not APPleecation, isn't it?! ;)
Jobs really thinks that everyone is stupid out there, let's hope the judge is an open minded person and throws them out of court.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
Judging by the number of lawsuits one would think that Apple have turned into a lawyer school.
Microsoft
Interesting. I wonder where desktop PCs will find themselves in a few years' time if their interface is primarily touch based? The upcoming OS X Lion borrows fairly heavily from iOS so it does seem like OS vendors are migrating towards a unified interface for both 'traditional' and portable devices.
Don't see the point of a touch interface for a desktop. But no doubt things will go that way
Me neither. The only advantage of touch screens is portability. A mouse and keyboard is a far superior interface.
Do any of you use a Pen?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
I have used a Wacom tablet for ever and it's been ideal for me now that the mouse actions for a profession like mine (video editing) would leave me exhausted.
it's interesting how others will see me use it, give it a try and then throw the pen in the floor disgusted by how hard it seems. It really isn't and of course it takes some getting used to it.
And of course to each his own - I find the actions on a portable computer by dragging your finger on that small space to be tedious but that's because I have never owned a portable computer.
But back to the question, any pen users out there?
:s mokin:
not used a pen before but I can imagine their use. I imagine it just requires patience as people are so used to using a mouse for mouse functions.Quote:
Originally Posted by race aficionado
I too hate touchpads but only because I'm used to good mice and even a good touchpad is still crap in comparison.
My god some of the comments on that story!!!!! These are either people who haven't used a PC for 5 years or the sorts of people who buy purely on price and therefore have a really crappy underspecced.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrewmcm
Incidently I'm getting an SSD delivered on Monday! Another windows install (grrrrr) but a welcome upgrade from a 36GB Western Digital Raptor which I've had since February 2004 and which I suspect is a little past its best, to a 120GB Corsair Force GT which will make for a MUCH quicker PC.
I'm currently thinking about getting a pen/tablet thingy for a mouse when using tv as monitor, a normal mouse wouldn't work well in that place. That or a wirelss keyboard with a touchpad. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by race aficionado