Mobile phones & tablets thread

But T-Mobile and Vodafone are also poor in my experience. So I think we can conclude they all suck!

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Originally Posted by Dave B

I can sympathise: I'm with O2 and switching to them was a huge mistake. Their data service is truly dreadful.

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Oh and another thing which i meant to post before..... I remember your facebook post from last month complaining that you had NO signal with O2 at all for a time..... When that happens your data can't be accessed at all :mark:

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Originally Posted by Dave B

Amid all the hype about the cloud, have we all missed this great new advance?


Apple - iOS 5 - See new features included in iOS 5.

Wow. My Desire is going straight on eBay. Hell, in the bin. I simply must have an iPhone just for this! Bold text in emails... whatever will they think of next? All hail King Jobs!

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:up: :D

Just out of interest, how many people here have experience of developing software?

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Originally Posted by Andrewmcm

Just out of interest, how many people here have experience of developing software?

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Not directly. But I did work alongside a team of developers, supporting and testing their application.

Andrew, do you not agree that more or less all of the features announced in iOS 5 have been done before?

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Have a look at this and tell me that the Bing visual search isn't cool :) Jump to about 3:30 and I think the biggest iOS or Android fan will admit that it's a pretty cool feature.

[youtube]OP30F3ZxTmw[/youtube]

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This is one of those things that will be as good as it is developed and fine tuned. If you can take a photo of a car and identify make, type, year, etc it might be great. But if it's only as good as the example they show it will IMO be only technology for the sake of saving a few key strokes.

You have a book. You photograph the book to find out where to get the book. It would seem to me you could either ask the owner of the book, or avoid photographing it in the book store. And even without the search you could snap a photo and easily look it up when you want.

As for the whole Cloud thing I don't see the upside much myself. It's a time and bandwidth burner mostly against for the sake of technology. Why stream music when you can just have it available without streaming it?

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Originally Posted by airshifter

This is one of those things that will be as good as it is developed and fine tuned. If you can take a photo of a car and identify make, type, year, etc it might be great. But if it's only as good as the example they show it will IMO be only technology for the sake of saving a few key strokes.

You have a book. You photograph the book to find out where to get the book. It would seem to me you could either ask the owner of the book, or avoid photographing it in the book store. And even without the search you could snap a photo and easily look it up when you want.

As for the whole Cloud thing I don't see the upside much myself. It's a time and bandwidth burner mostly against for the sake of technology. Why stream music when you can just have it available without streaming it?

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Couldn't agree more about the Cloud, at least in terms of mobile useage. For use from home/work I can see the point kinda.

The point they are making about the visual search is that you can not only find where to buy stuff and how much it is, but actually purchase it if that company's app allows you to do so :) This is pretty nifty. I'd love to walk into a shop, see some DVD's I like which are ridiculously priced and while I'm there I could order them from the cheapest site that Bing lists :)

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Originally Posted by airshifter

As for the whole Cloud thing I don't see the upside much myself. It's a time and bandwidth burner mostly against for the sake of technology. Why stream music when you can just have it available without streaming it?

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You mean it would be expensive to stream music and images to mobile phones?
Well, it looks like you have found the reason for the iCloud! I am convinced that mobile service providers don't find it useless at all! :D

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Andrew, do you not agree that more or less all of the features announced in iOS 5 have been done before?

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So what if they have? Apple should implement them as they weren't the first?

On the subject of backups, on the feature list it says
iCloud can be used to backup your phone.

And I do like the OTA updates but you can bet the upgrade from 4 to 5 will still need to be done via USB!

IMO the biggest omission from the iPhone which even early Nokias had is a filestore accessible to all applications.