Mobile phones & tablets thread

I find I do the majority of things on the iPhone sitting on the sofa :p . I've thought about getting an iPad but they are rather too big. An XL iPhone would be good :p

I haven't read about all of the features of iOS5 hence I can't really comment on what has and has not been done before.

I do recall Apple getting a lot of stick for no copy-and-paste in one of their previous iOS releases. Then I seem to recall that Windows Phone couldn't do copy-and-paste in its first release either. Perhaps Microsoft shouldn't have included copy-and-paste as it had been done before too.

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Originally Posted by Mark

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

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Of course, I'm merely saying this is hardly game changing stuff :)

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Of course, I'm merely saying this is hardly game changing stuff :)

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Apple don't really do game changing, they do slick. As I've said before the main attraction is that it's Easy Learning Centre stuff. A bloke at work got an HTC Desire and I set it up for his e-mails and work wireless; it wasn't difficult but it definitely took me more time than when I first got my iPhone. I know they like to announce them in a 'song & dance' way, but is that really any different to the other technology firms? Look at the fuss that gets created around E3, even though half the time is jazzed up versions of what we've seen before.

I agree with others about Cloud on the move, for most of us it's just not viable/worthwhile, especially with the way that connecting to 3G and listening to music eat the battery on phones. Also in my neck of the woods the areas that you can get 3G are kinda limited. But the Cloud idea in general, implemented properly, could be a great resource. I quite often use e-mails as an alternative to carrying a memory stick (just e-mail something to yourself), but bringing in a bigger capacity for media etc. is a neat little toy. I know that I was annoyed when Amazon released their Cloud and limited it to the US market.

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Originally Posted by barryfullalove

Apple don't really do game changing, they do slick. As I've said before the main attraction is that it's Easy Learning Centre stuff. A bloke at work got an HTC Desire and I set it up for his e-mails and work wireless; it wasn't difficult but it definitely took me more time than when I first got my iPhone. I know they like to announce them in a 'song & dance' way, but is that really any different to the other technology firms? Look at the fuss that gets created around E3, even though half the time is jazzed up versions of what we've seen before.

I agree with others about Cloud on the move, for most of us it's just not viable/worthwhile, especially with the way that connecting to 3G and listening to music eat the battery on phones. Also in my neck of the woods the areas that you can get 3G are kinda limited. But the Cloud idea in general, implemented properly, could be a great resource. I quite often use e-mails as an alternative to carrying a memory stick (just e-mail something to yourself), but bringing in a bigger capacity for media etc. is a neat little toy. I know that I was annoyed when Amazon released their Cloud and limited it to the US market.

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It's EARLY Learning Centre :D Caroline uses the skydrive functionality that comes with having a hotmail account. Personally it's not much use for me.

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Originally Posted by Daniel

It's EARLY Learning Centre :D Caroline uses the skydrive functionality that comes with having a hotmail account. Personally it's not much use for me.

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That's the one, knew it didn't look right but couldn't be arsed to Google it and check :D

iTunes match seems like an interesting feature. For $25 a year it will scan all the music files you have in your library including ripped or even illegally downloaded MP3's, if it then finds a match with a song which is already on iTunes, it effectively marks that as purchased and so you can download it on whatever devices you have. All sounds great until you read that it's USA only!

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Originally Posted by Mark

iTunes match seems like an interesting feature. For $25 a year it will scan all the music files you have in your library including ripped or even illegally downloaded MP3's, if it then finds a match with a song which is already on iTunes, it effectively marks that as purchased and so you can download it on whatever devices you have. All sounds great until you read that it's USA only!

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What a ripoff! So for $25 it downloads music you've already got and syncs it across all your devices? Which you could do yourself quite easily

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Originally Posted by henners88

A chap I work with said this morning that he has 4 ipods and his ipad going off his itunes so his wife and kids can just use the same computer without it getting over complicated and expensive. The problem being with the new update it suggested something he downloaded some while ago by the name of 'Bouncing Boobies' was an option to download on the other devices linked on his itunes. His wife was not too impressed and his 9 year old son and daughter (twins obviously) asking what it was too was rather uncomfortable over the breakfast table. Ooops.

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Wives! :rolleyes:

This ist my first ever post using my new galaxy tab. . :)
it will take time to get used to it.