Mobile phones & tablets thread

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Originally Posted by X-ecutioner

Agreed 100%. I played around with an iPad 2 at a mall, and I don't get what the big deal is. It's nothing but a compact snazzy toy or an iPhone on steroids. And for that money, one can get a KICK-ASS laptop which would do way much more and wipe the floor with the iPad 2 when it comes to running certain applications or games. For the line of work I am in, iPad would pretty much be useless compared to a laptop.

The price still shocks me though. But then again, it's typical Apple crap, you pay double and get substantially less in return. Just look at their Macbook line. Sony also has these weird ballooned prices for their Vaio line. I just don't understand what one can get extra by paying $400 more for the exact same spec as an Acer or a Dell.

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At last, a sensible answer to my question. I'm just waiting for the next lot of laptops to go onto the counter at Costco. Also, Hardly Normal is offering 40% off their laptops and nothing to pay until next year, but I prefer Costco.

Valve, you previously did get sensible answers to your question. The only thing is that no one agreed with your opinion to such an extent until X-ecutioner replied to the thread.

Oh and can you please stop talking about Costco. Every post I read from you makes me want a Costco slice of pizza and frozen yoghurt. :D

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Originally Posted by GridGirl

Valve, you previously did get sensible answers to your question. The only thing is that no one agreed with your opinion to such an extent until X-ecutioner replied to the thread.

Oh and can you please stop talking about Costco. Every post I read from you makes me want a Costco slice of pizza and frozen yoghurt. :D

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Well, we just bought a Queen sized sheet set: 2 sheets and pillow cases, 600 count Egyptian cotton for less than aud$50. Original price was $246 on the tag. Now, I just have to wait until next Jamuary to buy my laptop.

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Originally Posted by GridGirl

Valve, you previously did get sensible answers to your question. The only thing is that no one agreed with your opinion to such an extent until X-ecutioner replied to the thread.

Oh and can you please stop talking about Costco. Every post I read from you makes me want a Costco slice of pizza and frozen yoghurt. :D

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I like my obligatory £1.50 hotdog and postmix coke and browsing the tyres.

I just thought I'd bump this thread again. I was in Costco last week, and they had net books down to aud$330, while a laptop with an i7 CPU is now under $1000.
Yeah! Daniel, I also browse the tyres because when mine have to be replaced (hopefully they will last another 12 months), Costco has great prices on Michelins.

Well after 5/6 Nokia phones, I’ve finally ‘abandoned’ them. Got a free upgrade to a HTC Desire S, it’s like night and day comparing Symbian and Android. Well pleased with it, and with lots of good, free apps available.
While I appreciate the i-Phone 4 is the market leader, I simply couldn’t justify it’s price, and as ever with Apple – it’s well overpriced.

Same here, I had 5/6 Nokia's too - 5/6 because I had two N73's! And I think most people have reached the same conclusion, than Symbian was just too old to be an effective smartphone platform any more. It was good for it's day but typically Nokia failed to capitalise on it. Symbian was one of the first to allow third party apps to run, but the process of adding them was difficult so the majority of people didn't do it - and didn't know about it!

My wife was in a similar situation, had bought Nokia's for years but when her latest one stopped working she decided to get an iPhone 3GS instead. She wasn't really bothered about having an iPhone as such, but as I had an iPhone her having one too makes sense.


In any case, Symbian is now effectively dead as a smartphone platform, the only problem being they should have killed it about 3 years ago!

Symbian was a great OS, but Nokia made it almost impossible to find any software or install it.

As an example, when I had an E71 and wanted to install Maps, I had to register with the Nokia website, download a map to my PC, install the installer software (!), connect a cable, then finally install the map to my phone.

On Android I go to Market, click "install" and wait about 10 seconds.

Android rocks :D

But it's based on Linux, so Daniel please use Windoze Mobile :p :

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Originally Posted by henners88

I could have had the iphone 4 had I wanted it but I personally preferred the HTC and every iphone user I know just can't grasp that concept lol. Thats mighty fine, powerful advertising by Apple, I'll give them that. :)

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That's the thing, I can understand why people don't like Windows Phone 7 phones even though I think they're great. But lots of Apple people are confused when someone says that they don't like Apple stuff.

tOdy, I'd not Windows Mobile, it's Windows Phone :p