Mobile phones & tablets thread

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Originally Posted by Mark

Agreed. But you are saying that if you merely touch the phone the signal immediately dies. I can tell you as someone who uses an iPhone 4 every day, that's wide of the mark.

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Don't let personal experience get in the way of the facts, Mark ;) :p :

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Strange, I've heard a lot of good stuff about windows phone 7. I'm still going to wait and see. I would be disappointed if the best replacement for my e71 was an e72.......

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http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/07/...ows-phone-7-2/

That gives a mostly positive review. There's still a lot of work for Microsoft to do, however.

I'm not one of those people who buys an iPhone and then thinks it's the most perfect thing ever and will never buy anything else, I'd be happy if my next phone is a WM7 or Android phone.

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Originally Posted by Mr Jan Yeo

Don't let personal experience get in the way of the facts, Mark ;) :p :

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I like that!
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http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/01/bes...ntent=My+Yahoo

Very funny video about the iPhone. Watch the rebuttal video too that should come up in the related videos
section.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD...=youtube_gdata

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Originally Posted by Daniel

What a load of crap.

Apple have built a product which is clearly and obviously flawed and they should recall it.

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Aren't they offering to give buyers their money back? If people aren't happy with the product, all they have to do is take it back. In a recall situation, you may or may not get a refund.

There was an interesting piece on the Today programme this morning (around 6:22am if you want to check iPlayer). It interviewed a iPhone app developer, who was doing it for a living.

He was saying that he doesn't particularly care what platform his apps end up on. But you have to consider that Apple holds around an 80% market share for apps. Plus the important fact that you're basically writing for only one set of hardware i.e. the iPhone and older versions of same. But with Android there are currently around 60 different handsets on the market and getting your app to work with all of them, or even a decent subset of them is much more difficult.

So google have a challenge on their hands to presuade software developers that their platform is the way to go. However it's not impossible, Microsoft managed to conqueor the desktop market while getting other people to manufacturer a wide range of different hardware.

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Originally Posted by Mark

There was an interesting piece on the Today programme this morning (around 6:22am if you want to check iPlayer). It interviewed a iPhone app developer, who was doing it for a living.

He was saying that he doesn't particularly care what platform his apps end up on. But you have to consider that Apple holds around an 80% market share for apps. Plus the important fact that you're basically writing for only one set of hardware i.e. the iPhone and older versions of same. But with Android there are currently around 60 different handsets on the market and getting your app to work with all of them, or even a decent subset of them is much more difficult.

So google have a challenge on their hands to presuade software developers that their platform is the way to go. However it's not impossible, Microsoft managed to conqueor the desktop market while getting other people to manufacturer a wide range of different hardware.

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That's one way in which Windows Phone 7 is promising, they have strict hardware requirements. There is certainly something to be said for locking the hardware down to specific subsets.

They'll have learned that from Vista, which in its early days was often bundled with hideously slow PCs, leading people to wrongly believe the OS was sluggish.

I'm thinking of selling my MacBook, am I mad? I'm told I am....