Two points. (1) Smartphone ownership and use is not compulsory, (2) there are also a lot of productive uses for said technology.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Ben
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Two points. (1) Smartphone ownership and use is not compulsory, (2) there are also a lot of productive uses for said technology.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Ben
I agreeQuote:
Originally Posted by Dave B
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Originally Posted by Big Ben
All good points. All of this "social networking" has resulted in sometimes useless information overload.
I got a smart phone when it was required by my job, and I always lived just fine without one. If I want to check the status of a friend, I use the "phone" feature. I don't consider liking one of their posts an actual contact of sorts.
iCaramba!
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Extraordinary to remember the time when the only phone a family had between them was plugged into a socket in the wall and went nowhere. All you could do with it was make and receive phone calls. I rarely used ours, not because I wasn't allowed to but because I didn't need to.
What were we thinking?!! :eek: :p
I'm 28 in 10 days so it can't be the age gap :P:
This type of use makes sense to me... you are simply staying in touch with mostly a group of people you actually know.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
What I'm speaking of is the people with 1000 "friends" most of whom they have never met, and never intend to meet. For the game players and such they often add each other to exchange items and such things, and that does make some sense at least. I just don't get the people that substitute online friends for reality.
Well calling would b very expensive if you a have a bunch of friends and particular if someone isn't living in the same country.Quote:
Originally Posted by airshifter
Also social networking like this forum gives you an opportunity to "meet" people that you otherwise would not have get to meet.
Also a smart phone is so much more then the facebook and twitter. I find it very useful, i regularly use features such as calculator, maps, direction finder,
public transportation apps, curerency converter, calendar, weather, email, messaging, mediaplayer...
If there were no iPhone then there would be no Android at all. Nokia would likely still reign supreme.
And the proof to that is?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
I completely agree that smartphones are a great thing with a lot of useful features.... just making the point that most people could live just fine without them. These days people act as if life would stop without one.Quote:
Originally Posted by BleAivano
And once again, I agree on the social networking as long as it's in line with reality. Similar to the social networking that takes place on forums such as this, most people find a spot in reality for how it fits in their life. I find a number of people on this forum interesting, and I'm sure I could get along with them fine in real life. I'm sure I could enjoy some type of motorsport with a great many here. But until then I consider them online acquaintance of sorts, even the ones I know more about. I don't consider them all "friends" because I understand the limited information most of us exchange.
Proof. WTF. This is a discussion not a Wikipedia article.
Android was a response to iOS and designed on similar lines and set up to compete with it.
It's fair to say no iPhone no Android at least not as we know it.
Can't wait to get my hands on the iPhone 5 :D
So anyone can claim whatever crap because it is a discussion?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
Well your claim is wrong. And I see no use to post proof to my claim as this is just a discussion.
This new way of having a discussion looks fun!
BTW the reason why we get new products and solutions is called evolution, otherwise we wouldn't ever had the first phone, let alone the first mobile phone or smart phone, and we would still live in caves with no internet to have discussions like this one.
And iPhone was not the first smartphone.
So you are saying that if the iPhone never existed that the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S3 would be exactly like it is now. Of course not, these things are not designed in a vacuum.
Who knows maybe without Apple physical keyboards would still be all the rage.
you could also say that if there would not have been Palm pilots then perhaps apple would not have come up with the iphone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
So if i may ask where to draw then limit? Today's smartphones is just the current step in the phone development staircase.
Each step is just taking the previous step and taking it a step higher/further.
Indeed you're right.
Jolla
Hopefully this turns out to be a real deal :)
You know how it is with ioan... he's a very emotional guy. He either adores or hates it like poison. I wouldn't be surprised to hear he doesn't eat apples because of this :laugh: . So much passion for a commercial product. it's fascinating.
Hi,
I had a similar doubt!!!!
Its worth saying that this iPad is only running a similar OS to the iTouch/iPhone and hence, can't multitask. So it can't even be compared to a Linux/Windows Netbook. Please reply regarding this.
iOS isn't a full multitasking OS like Windows but allows multitasking in some limited ways such as playing music etc. But most apps are frozen when they are closed rather than allowed to run in the background.
Don't all facets of industry copy each other? Let's look at the reason we all inhabit this board - motor sport. Someone has a cool idea in F1 that works, and at the next race everyone has their own version.
The only difference in the corporate world is the idea of patents and idea protection.
To sell to westerners on eBay! You can already get knockoff iPhones for well under $200, and apparently there are fake Galaxy S3s for around the same price - with surprisingly good specs such as 720p screens and dual SIM slots!Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
Guy at work used tethering trough his S3 and increased the connection speed of his laptop over our fixed line connection!
Status status and status!Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
When the iPhone 2 came out I remember Chinese were so willing to pay a premium for a phone that isn't even sold there that plenty of people were signing up full iPhone contracts in the US, unlocking the phone then selling them on in China for a profit so that should give you an idea of how popular they are.
As for social media, things like Facebook are banned but there are ways of getting round that, and usually there's a kosher Chinese equivalent of things like Twitter and Youtube that are freely available and popular.
My Droid Razr did the upgrade on Friday the 13th, after I chose to delay it a day because I didn't want the phone down for 15 minutes the previous morning. I already had the tool bar with Gingerbread, and to be honest wish I hadn't done the upgrade until at least Saturday.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
So far I haven't found anything that is really better, or really worse. It was just enough of a change in things to make doing business a PITA on Friday. Everything I used on a regular basis changed just enough to make me think about what was until then an automatic action for me. It also changed a few apps and widgets that I had used previously and found better or more handy than the replacements, so that is taking some getting used to.
My upgrade was fairly quick (10-15 minutes tops) and painless, but getting used the new interface is taking some time. I still think the human part of the interface will make much more difference in speed of execution of any task. In that sense a user familiar with just about any OS will probably outperform a user less familiar with a supposed "superior" OS.
Well, thought to take a breather from this incredibly crazy work schedule to update and give a review on my brand new Galaxy S3 32 GB I've owned for about 3 weeks now. :) I've worked extremely hard in the past year, still am, so I guess I deserved a nice gift for myself. :p
This is the best piece of tech I have ever used or owned, period. I love how light it is, and how beautifully large the screen is. With the hardware, it is a joy to play even the most demanding of games with ease. Been playing GTA III, Dead Trigger, Shadowgun, Wind-up Knight etc. I have now about half of my music and movies library on my phone, around 80+ apps, and so even the 32 GB storage would fill up soon, and I'm looking to expand it with a Sandisk 64 GB microSD card to get the total up to an impressive 90+ GB.
With Poweramp installed, and Sony MDR earbuds, I don't think I have experienced better sound quality ever on any other device. It's musical bliss.
The battery is a beast. I have eight email accounts I need mails fetched from, 4 company emails, 2 Gmail and 2 yahoo accounts. With all of them active 24/7, my older phone ran out of juice in about 7-8 hours. Galaxy S3 goes twice as much even with the huge HD screen, using maps, GPS, about 4 or 5 widgets on 3 home screens, playing 3D games, and listening to music for an ample period of time. Android ICS is smooth, responsive, highly customizable and pretty much the best OS I have ever used.
Touchwhiz doesn't bother me that much, but I will be looking to root it to stock Android 4.1 JB once it's reported to be working stable. So, overall I'd say I'm pretty happy with my new phone. :D 4.5/5 IMO.
I held both the marbile white and pebble blue versions in my hands, and the blue one was an instant winner for me AND my wife. Anyway, I was never a fan of white phones to begin with. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by henners88
Believe it or not, I too am interested in seeing how the latest iPhone pans out. So far from rumor pics it looks pretty much like a stretched out 4S, and going by Apple's iPhone history, they'll most likely keep the same form factor, but well, you never know.
Reading about what's new in the iOS 6, there's nothing revolutionary and it has some little upgrades. Major upgrade being their own Maps (brave IMO ditching Google maps) and another one is that Passbook thingy for tickets and stuff, which IMO will take years for global implementation.
I was never gonna buy an iPhone anyway, so Galaxy S3 seemed like a good opportunity to jump on. ;)
AnandTech - The Google Nexus 7 Review
Very good for its price, but surprisingly Google skimping out on expandable memory. :mad:
Pretty much to drive more users to their cloud storage Google Drive thingy.
One of the reasons I buy Android devices over Apple is for the expandable memory. If they dumb that option down as well, what's the point? I don't wanna be limited to using cloud storage for bigger files effectively only in wi-fi zones, and I'm screwed even further if it's a slow wi-fi zone.
Microsoft Surface is looking more and more like a better option IMO.
This is what the insiders are claiming to the most accurate leaked pic of the new iPhone yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
http://cdn2.mos.techradar.com//art/m...ase-900-90.jpg
Looks neat I guess.
Well, for me it's diving back into the abyss of non-stop work. The good news is it's all for my own business. Can never hurt to have a heavy workload when you're the owner. :)
looks like a Samsung :hmph: :andrea: :pQuote:
Originally Posted by CaptainRaiden
Good to know as I've just got my PAC code from O2 and will be ditching their sorry backsides very soon. I can't think that Apple will release anything likely to tempt me away from the S3, the rumours I've heard about the new iPhone are uninspiring to say the least (slightly bigger display, NFC, fingerprint lock, but nothing radical).Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainRaiden
I've just ordered a 7" tablet with an SD slot, USB and HDMI out for £60, as a present for the missus. It's a third of the price of a Nexus (and a sixth of the price of an iPad) so I'm not expecting miracles, but it's got a reasonable processor and memory, and runs vanilla ICS with no dodgy manufacturer overlays so how bad can it be? The only issues on the reviews seem to be disappointing battery life, but I believe it takes an easily sourced Sony battery so we can keep a spare if that turns out to be the case.Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainRaiden
All true, but as time goes on the rumours prove more and more accurate: I'm basing this on sources which have proved to be totally correct regarding specs of the last few iPhones and the last iPad. Don't forget that Apple manufacture very little themselves, and the supply chain gears up for new hardware months ahead (the new phone's on track for September, so will already be in production). So many people work on the components that accurate snippets of information do leak out.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
Hardware aside, Apple themselves have already announce iOS6 and there's very little of use contained therein, it's really a service pack which downgrades your maps and makes Siri a bit less hopeless.
Wow, that sounds interesting. Would be very helpful if you can post a review once you've gotten it. I was thinking about buying my parents a cheap Android tablet to swipe through photos from their digital camera straight through the SD card and to stay connected via Skype. Does it have a front facing camera by any chance?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave B
Of course I was looking at Nexus 7 as a possible option, but the absence of a microSD slot is a huge downer, and other tablets are grossly overpriced for what they offer.
What's the product/model name for this 60 pound tablet? I have a friend coming over from the UK soon, maybe I can order it via Amazon UK and he can bring it over.
Underwhelmed by the iPhone 5 rumours so far. I'll probably get one but straight away? I dunno. The changing connector is a big issue as I have all sorts of stuff for the current dock connector. Not to mention my wife would require different chargers.
Crisis, what crisis?
An electronic media chain here in Spain announced a discount of 18% on all goods for two days, to "compensate" for the raise in IVA (VAT) as of September...
the place was absolutey packed, with some people buying 2-3 iPads at a time - paid for in cash of course :rolleyes:
Interesting. It only makes sense that OS upgrades would work fine on some hardware and not on others, but that seems like a really big decrease in efficiency. On my Droid Razr it didn't seem to change much of anything other than the interface. The phone still performs well, but overall for all the people screaming about OS versions to me it seemed like change just for the sake of change.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
I prefer my Ice Cream Sandwich in the freezer, where I can grab it for a snack. Otherwise I'm unimpressed with how it changes my phone. Maybe there are exceptions to this, but I think some of the people that get all excited at just in it for the novelty of the new OS.
Personally I feel it's a big step up from the older 2.3, especially in the way multitasking or media streaming is so much better and smoother than any other phone, particularly the under specced Apple phones. If you'd bothered to try these yourselves or look it up, ICS would seem much more attractive than it does to you right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by airshifter
You can resize your widgets, which is so handy when you're trying to cram 3 or 4 widgets on the same home screen as per your convenience. I don't have to open several apps to get my data or even swipe to another home screen. I get all my info fetched on the same screen. I can play pause my music, read news, latest tweets and change my network settings all on one screen. This makes it highly customizable.
Google Maps is so much better integrated with the OS that it's hands down the best GPS experience I've had, better than even standalone GPS devices.
It handles higher resolution media much smoother, as I just experienced playing a movie on a 42 inch screen through my phone using an HDMI adapter. Although this is where the phone's hardware matters more, and so the Galaxy S3 handles it better.
I use Chrome on the PC, laptop and also on the Galaxy S3 and have synced them through my gmail account. Once I press the sync button on the Chrome app on my phone, all the web pages currently open on my PC AND Laptop are brought onto my phone as respective tabs under their computer names, and it saves them for later use, which is an amazingly convenient feature and a huge timesaver especially if you are in a hurry. Also, it remembers all those pages until the next time you sync it. So, you can open all the pages on your PC, sync them with your phone and shut down the PC and go on a vacation. All those tabs will be at your fingertips every time you open Chrome on your phone.
For a better rundown of other features, I believe these links should suffice:
10 sweetest features of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich - Technolog on NBCNews.com
http://mashable.com/2012/05/03/andro...ndwich-vs-ios/
Things have gotten even better with 4.1 jelly bean, and I agree with the people who say that whatever they have seen of iOS6 or used of it in beta looks underwhelming compared to Android's latest offering.
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This is quite amazing. The guy has connected the Galaxy S3 to a TV via an HDMI adapter, and a PS3 controller wirelessly via bluetooth, and is using it as a console to play Android games on the TV!
This can be a sneak peak of the Android based games console coming later this year.
Not that I'm particularly inclined towards playing phone games on a TV, but it's nice to know it's an option. Better gaming and streaming high resolution movies is where a phone's better hardware matters which just a smooth OS can't do.