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Originally Posted by apvkt
The nexus 4 seems to be going for around the 200gbp mark but by the looks of things they seem to be manufacturer refurbished models.Quote:
Originally Posted by Koz
Has anyone ever used the 3 network? Is it any good?
The price seems right. Why do you think they are refurbished?Quote:
Originally Posted by tfp
Google's price has always been very low to undercut competition, they have almost no margins compared to others.
Hi,
I want to replace my old mobile..What are the latest mobiles with Android application?? Is it safe to buy through online shoppping website??
No.Quote:
Originally Posted by apvkt
Thought I'd be clever and went to Costco and bought the Asus tablet with Windows RT. Great tablet, but Microsoft RT is shyte. Microsoft, in their supreme wisdom decided to block installation of Adobe Flash Player. I went online and actually found some great guy who offered a procedure to install the Flash Player on Windows RT. To my dismay the Microsoft upgrade (automatic blocked that procedure by elimination the program incompatibility option. I was so furious, that I took the tablet back to Costco to get a refund, told them exactly why, then walked around to the computer counter and bought the Asus Android tablet which allows Adobe Flash Player, and cost me $200 less.Quote:
Originally Posted by apvkt
I can only say thank God when I bought my Toshiba Ultrabok it was loaded with Windows 7.
I case anyone asks why I bought the tablet when I had an Ultrabook with i7 core and solid state drive, it was because my wife wanted the tablet. Yeah! the Ultrabook also belongs to her, but the explanation is very complicated, and I can only discuss it via private.
Windows RT has turned out to be a big fail for Microsoft. Bringing out a version of Windows where you can't install anything wasn't particularly wise. But then their entire OS / tablet strategy has pretty much crashed and burned.
I finally bit the bullet and entered the 21st century and bought a 'smartphone'. I was perfectly happy with my tiny Sony Ericsson Walkman series phone which I lost last month. Now there is no choice in the market apart from touch/smart phones and I did not want to spend a ton of money on something which I only use to make calls/text (receive..never send). What I did want was a low end substitute for my camera and something to grab quick decent quality videos with. So I now own a Nokia Lumia Windows phone.
I would say it suits my purposes for now. I still get irritated by it's unwieldy size which won't fit easily in my back pocket like my old one :(
Windows RT would not play youtube for me. I am now listening to Simply Red on my new Android tabletQuote:
Originally Posted by Mark
Some might say that by preventing you from hearing Mick Hucknall, Microsoft were doing you a massive favour :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Valve Bounce
I've not used a Windows tablet beyond a bit of tinkering in a shop, but I've been using the Beta of Windows 8.1 (the one which is supposed to address the failings of W8 on the desktop) and it's still bloody awful.
I've been using win8 on a laptop for a couple of weeks and I don''t think it as bad as the claims are. You get used to it quite quickly.
So......Again...am I the only Blackberry guy on the board? Feeling lonely, except I do know people who own z10's and q10's...but not on this board. Is the world so hung up on toys, apps and games that they ignore the reality of WHY you own a phone? To just communicate? At its core, this phone does that really well, plus takes damn nice pictures as well. I read post after post about this and that, and I experience no glitches really, the phone is fast, and reliable and Blackberry is renowned for security. All you guys keep talking about the faults of Android devices and meanwhile they keep selling like crazy. Am I nuts? Am I missing something? Hell, I would consider an Apple if I thought it was a better buy...but I don't think it isn't....
Personally I think it's worse than the claims are. This may sound like the ratings of a luddite who doesn't like change, but I've been using Windows since Bruce Forsythe was in short trousers, and the interface just gets in the way. 8.1 addresses the absolute worse of this but also introduces its own stupid annoyances.Quote:
Originally Posted by BleAivano
For example programmes and apps are now catagorised (Games, Photo, Shopping etc) but there's no way of changing the defaults, so on my PC I've got Amazon and Cut the Rope under "other", with no way of moving them. The "Metro" interface is easier to avoid, but it's still an unholy mess with scant customisation, poor switching between that and desktop. If I'd wanted a Fisher Price toy I'd have bought a Mac!
I've had wizards hang on me with no way of closing them, and operations fail with no Retry option. The ribbon view is a barrier to productivity as I can't have my most used actions visible in one place, and it refuses point blank to play ball with my soon-to-be-renamed SkyDrive.
I've got used to it, that's for sure, but it's definately a backwards step from Windows 7.
"To just communicate"? That's SOOOOOO 2009 :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
I'm only partially joking. I use my phone to do at least half of my shopping, as a price comparison tool when I'm in a bricks-and-mortar retailer, to capture edit and share HD video, to store and read hundreds of books and manuals, to play games on, to facilitate my banking, as a 2nd screen for stats such as F1 live timing, as a calendar, as a home CCTV system, as a multimedia remote control, as an MP3 player in the car, as a SatNav, to store all my loyalty card details (I'm not very loyal so I have loads!), as a notepad, and to manage my cloud storage. And yes: occasionally to communicate!
Personally (I emphasise that word) I chose Android because Blackberry didn't have the breadth of apps I want, and Apple don't make a device with a screen size I'd consider remotely useful. If that changes in the future I'm open to persuasion.
Sure it is, I've set up Winamp as the default music player, Firefox as the default web browser.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave B
I agree though that Win 7 is better but I think that win8 probably suits tocuh screen devices better.
And I also think that MS will implement a classic mode with desktop view as default with a proper start menu.
However I do like the idea with win8 that the same OS is used on phones, tablets and computers.
It's a fine idea in principle however desktop PC's and tablets require different interfaces as they are used in completely different ways.Quote:
Originally Posted by BleAivano
I agree that is why there should be an option or a feature to decide which view that should be the default,Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
the old classic windows desktop/start menu view or the new metro interface.
if you have a surface pro you probably would like to be able to Swich between the differnt views depending on how and
when you are using it.If you use it handheld, then perhaps you want use the metro interface which i guess works with a
tocuh screen butthen if you connect a laptop and mose then a classic view would be preferred.
It really shouldn't hard to implement such feature but it seems that MS are ot interested.
You misunderstand. Obviously you can set default programmes - it's not iOS! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by BleAivano
I meant that there's an option to group apps/programmes by type on whatever we're calling the tiled interface this week. There are catagories such as Games, Tools, Shopping. As an example, my "Shopping" catagory consists solely of Store at the moment, yet Amazon appears under "Other". Can I change this? Not without faffing around with the registry, which no ordinary end user should ever be exposed to. It's a trivial gripe, but it typifies how ill-thought out and unfinished 8.1 appears to be.
:laugh: :andrea:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave B
Right yes I did misunderstood you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave B
You mean something like this?:
Windows 8 How To: 10. Customize Metro UI
How To Resize, Group & Manage App Tiles In Windows 8 Start Screen
windows 8 - How do you group Start Menu tiles into categories with headers? - Super User
Sort of but no. When I'm back at a my pc I'll post some screenshots. I don't want to get too hung up on this one matter though, it's just one trivial example among dozens of how the interface is broken, if someone who has used all manner of operating systems over 3 decades can't figure it out.
Sounds like they should have called it Windows Zune... instead of Windows 8.
The operating systems (Win8 and RT) are similar, but not the same. Lacking the ability to run the same programs on "variants" of Windows means the only thing they really share is the user interface.Quote:
Originally Posted by BleAivano
Surface pro is the same windows 8 as regular computers and even if the RT only shares the user interfaceQuote:
Originally Posted by Koz
its still a commonality thing. You know where to find things, you know how/where to change settings and etc.
So even if they are different "Under the hood" they still have an advantage.
Its sort of like comparing win95 with windows 7, their interface looks pretty much he same (win 7 is fancier looking though)
but they're completely different operating systems.
More changes ahead on the mobile landscape...
BlackBerry Mulls Selling Itself as Demand for Phones Ebbs
BlackBerry Ltd. (BBRY) said it’s considering putting itself up for sale, the strongest indication yet that the smartphone maker won’t remain independent as competition erodes sales and hammers its stock price.
A special board committee will consider ways to enhance BlackBerry’s value and scale, including joint ventures, partnerships or a sale of the company, according to a statement today. JPMorgan Chase & Co. will serve as its financial adviser. BlackBerry shares gained as much as 9.1 percent in New York.
The announcement builds on a move last year when BlackBerry hired JPMorgan and RBC Capital Markets to advise the company on strategic alternatives. At the time, Chief Executive Officer Thorsten Heins said a sale wasn’t the “main direction” he was considering. Prospects have worsened since then, with the new BlackBerry 10 -- the linchpin of a turnaround strategy -- meeting scant demand.
Righty ho, I'm back. Have a look here: http://sdrv.ms/13y6gi7Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave B
I would like to move the Amazon app into the Shopping category, Cut The Rope into Games, Dropbox into Photo, and so on. There is simply no option to do so - they insist on being lumped into "Other".
Like I say, it's really not a huge problem in itself, but it's indicative of the unfinished nature of the interface. :)
Anyone here got the new BlackBerry Z10 or Q10? Need some feedback on if they any good at all :)
Not interested in the iPhone or Samsung.
I think Mark in Oshawa said he owned some sort of BlackBerry phone.
Oh, wait! I just got off the phone with Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg (we do conference calls on weekends when we're not busy). Both said they loved them and you should buy 5 of each! And soon! Please!
Jokes aside, I refused a Blackberry as a (free) company phone back when they were still popular (2006 or so). I hated them. I felt about them the way that some here feel about iPhones now. But now that the pop factor has worn off (and the term "Crackberry" has gone into the history books), if I was looking at a smart phone right now, I'd certainly give the Z10 a very hard look - after the iPhone and just before the Windows phone... and I would never even look at an Android device. With more apps, I think the Z10 would be an excellent and secure smart phone to have. I kind of like them now. I've seen and heard some bad things about build quality and longevity, but you never know how friends and acquaintances treat electronic devices.
Hehehe thanks Jag :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
I also heard "bad things" about the new Z10 and Q10 models, but everyone I have spoken to who owns them say they are brilliant, just maybe battery life could be better.
Z10 for me then :)
The Blackberry email/calendar/notes/contacts business functionality is still one of - if not the - most secure forms of encryption. It is however, still really business orientated. While the likes of Apple and Android have come in and stolen a march on Blackberry, they are not as secure.
For me, if I did not have to pay for a Blackberry bolt on, and could get the service as part of an AYCE data package, I'd deploy Q/Z10's in the office immediately and run BES10 to manage them. As it stands however, with cost calling the shots, it's going to be IOS or Android and activesync on an all inclusive mobile data plan.
Shame, because the Blackberry Balance is a really nice feature.
This is a question for all the apple people (if there are still any left :p )
Is it possible to plug a new iphone into your computer without passing all of the old apps and stuff over, but still passing the music over?
the reason I ask is I've downloaded lots of apps that I very rarely use, and I want keep all the old stuff on the old phone.
At the same time I still want to have all my songs synced to my newer iphone (all 43 of them ;) ) but keep pictures etc on my old phone, so it doesn't use up all the storage on my new phone.
Is it possible to do this?
I'm not sure that I understand exactly what you're asking. But you can manually (and selectively) choose what you sync to a new or old iOS device.
I bought a friends iPhone 4S from him (to replace my aging 3GS) but I'd like to plug my new phone into iTunes on my computer and transfer all the songs, but none of the apps or pictures etc. just the music :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
im worried that if I plug it in, it will automatically transfer everything over, and that's what I don't want.
Thats what I get for filling my old iPhone 3GS with loads of rubbish!
BBC News - Microsoft to buy Nokia's mobile phone unit
Microsoft is to buy Nokia in a move that everyone saw coming!
Nokia pretty much follows Ericsson's route by getting rid of hand held devices and focusing on network business. Only ones surprised were the people short selling Nokia stock. :D
So Microsoft bought a struggling company for $7 billion and got a new CEO for itself thrown in for free. What a bahgin! :D
And sounds like a familiar story to me ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
KitKat... it's not just a candy bar, it's also the next Android release. :D BBC News - Android KitKat unveiled in Google surprise move
Cool names is one of many reasons that I prefer Android over ios.Quote:
Originally Posted by veeten
I also wonder what the version after KitKat will be called? Liquorice?
Malware? :D