I look at my old 4S now and think wow that's a little toy phone!Quote:
Originally Posted by pino
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I look at my old 4S now and think wow that's a little toy phone!Quote:
Originally Posted by pino
And the crazy thing is that, my 6 has costs me much less than what I paid for my 4s ! I have paid 5400kr for my 6, while I paid 6700kr for my 4s, 3 years ago ! :crazy:
4.7' screens used to be big... 4 years ago :p:
That's why iphone comes in 4.7 and 5.5. Personally I think 4.7 is about right as I had 5.1 and found it too big. If I wanted a bigger screen I would have got one.Quote:
Originally Posted by odykas
Here's my review : the iPhone 6, is an amazing beautiful fast device, period ! :D
+ cheap :p:Quote:
Originally Posted by pino
Well I've got my case, and I have to say from 1 hours use it's a thumbs down so far. It's ok around the back and sides but there's a lip all the way around the front which interferes with using the screen.
Always nice to have in depth analysis from our Denmark correspondent :DQuote:
Originally Posted by pino
Denmark correspondent -> Italian tourist :p:
Finally ! :p:Quote:
Originally Posted by odykas
http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/21/7...nd-replacement
Looks like this is the end of the line for Nokia phones :(. Since Microsoft took over they are now going to drop the Nokia name and the phones will be Microsoft Lumia instead. Of course Microsoft didn't buy the entire company, just the part that makes phones it's quite possible that this was always the plan, that they would only be allowed to use the Nokia name for a short while.
Nokia is still a big company and does mapping and network infrastructure, but the demise of the Nokia brand can show how the mighty call fall so quickly, the likes of Apple and Google should take note!
Was just thinking back to how many Nokia's I've owned over the years, and it's quite a few as Nokia was synonymous with mobile phones for well over a decade, so here's my list
3330 http://cdn2.gsmarena.com/vv/bigpic/no3330.gif
Was actually my Dad's phone and for many was their first foray into owning a mobile. Was very basic and weighed a tonne but did the job. Have memories of going to some of the first forum meetups at touring car races carrying one of these in my pocket.
6310i http://cdn2.gsmarena.com/vv/bigpic/no6310i.gif
Until I got my iPhone 4S this was the phone I used for the longest time, about 3 years I think. Did everything you needed at the time and had a battery life of about a week! Only really got rid of it when the screen smashed - just like my 4S!
3230 http://cdn2.gsmarena.com/vv/bigpic/no3230.gif
Got this as my first foray into the new big thing of colour screens! It may have been cheaply made and underpowered, but it was a very innovative phone for it's time, running Symbian it was one of the first you could get where you could load software onto it (the term 'apps' hadn't really been coined yet), I remember running TomTom satnav on it, even though it required a seperate GPS reciever!
N73 http://cdn2.gsmarena.com/vv/bigpic/nokia-n73.gif
Kind of building on the 3230 I actually really liked this phone, never gave me any trouble and running the same symbian you could load the likes of TomTom, digital bedside clocks etc, and it's the phone where I first downloaded the viewranger UK maps, which I still use on my iPhone today. I actually had two of them as after one broke after a year I got another one! Main drawback as with my Nokia things as it had a lot of features but they never really worked properly, I was never able to get emails working for example, neither on this phone or the N96/N97 whereas on my first iPhone 'it just worked'.
N96 http://cdn2.gsmarena.com/vv/bigpic/nokia-n96.jpg
Bigger screen and a slider phone, better than the N73 as it had wifi and GPS onboard, but it did suffer from being cheaply made with cheap plastic, while I didn't dislike it it's the only phone I've had for less than a year - 8 months I think it was.
N97 http://cdn2.gsmarena.com/vv/bigpic/nokia-n97.jpg
This was the big Nokia flagship phone that promised so much and yet delivered so little. Touch screen with flip out keyboard it was meant to take on both the iPhone and the Blackberry at the same time, and spectacularly failed on both fronts. OS which was not designed for touch screen was hacked to make it work and was chock full of bugs, and lots of stuff - such as the GPS which just didn't work at all. Not to mention it being so slow due to vastly under specced hardware. It was this phone above all else that made myself and I know many others, finally give up their loyalty to Nokia for the majority of the year or so I had the phone I was waiting for the iPhone 4 to be released, which I got on the day of release and never looked back.
Since the Nokias I've had iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and iPhone 6.
It's a shame, but as ever it's a story of missed opportunity as Nokia had one of the first smartphone platforms, yet loading apps required you connecting a cable and downloading install files from random websites, who had to have their own payments system as there was no central app store. When Nokia finally did set one up Apple's app store was already dominant.
It was obvious that they would face challenges, but nobody could have possibly predicted that in the middle of the last decade that in the middle of the next, Nokia mobile phones would cease to exist. RIP Nokia.
I'm not all sorry the current phone business is over for Nokia, they grew too large and became too corporate.
I do think they aren't done with phone business on consumer products, just that there is no point in hopping on current technology. Smartphones haven't really had anything new for few years now, just bigger and faster models, kind of like in the late 90's and early 2000's
Another article here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29724072
It seems MS had an agreement to use the Nokia name for 10 years, but is phasing it out after less than one. Does make you wonder why, I'm guessing they figured it wasn't really adding anything to their proposition?
I guess having another company's name in your products isn't something the bosses ant MS want to see. :)
It does seem that as a company Nokia is doing very nicely thankyouverymuch without the mobile business http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10...one_albatross/
same here, my first ever phone back in 2000 was the brick, Nokia 5150Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
Also had the 3310 after Mumbai monsoons killed the brick :D - this worked for a long time, only moved to Sony Ericsson later on (T200 and my last phone which I lost K something or the other).
I am back on Nokia now though, for the last year have had a Lumia. Good phone for the price, although my next one will not be a Microsoft/Nokia child..Although when that will happen I don't know since I rarely change phones for the sake of it. (I dislike Apple and more so it's fanboys who line up overnight for something as mundane as a phone, but I have a morbid fascination about their stuff...I have silently decided that I want to own a Macbook someday...iPhone, hmmmm you never know)
Actually these days people with Apple stuff just get on with it and it's those who want to bash Apple products who are the most vocal about it.
But then again, that is how this thread started. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
There are fanatics on both sides of the camp IMO, and I'd never wait in line for a phone or other such thing. And now having both Apple and Android I use on a regular basis, I can see the up and down sides to both.
Yes, this is how it started. :D But Daniel has a Subaru (or did), so he's still a good guy in my eyes. I wouldn't take tech or investing advice from him. But he's a good egg at heart.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
Apple Boss: I'm Gay And I Want To Inspire People
A message to Pino and Mark? :p: :laugh: :devil:
I think at the time pretty much everyone had no idea what the iPad was really for, as apart from a few clunky examples, tablets weren't really around. So Apple invented a new market and were hugely successful, so much so that they've achieved the rarest of things in that the name iPad is now often used to refer to all types of touchscreen tablet computers. "I got a Surface Pro", "What's that?" "Well it's like an iPad".Quote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
I don't know how others use them but in our house the iPad is like the sofa computer, you don't want to be doing serious work on it, but you can be using it to browse the web / play games etc. Which has resulted in me not really watching entire TV series!
I managed to hold out quite a bit before buying my first ipad to surf, app and watch UK TV programs on.
I had to get another one a couple of months later as my missus kept nicking it to watch Spanish TV.
And I've since given my parents yet another to replace phone calls with FaceTime.
... But I still hate apple/iTunes with a passion :-p
If you hate iTunes, that just makes you normal. Only some sort of masochist could like that clunky piece of bloatware.Quote:
Originally Posted by donKey jote
Personally, I don't care if Cook shows up to work in a dress as long as he keeps the stock price up... AND FIXES iTUNES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've given up on him getting Apple TV to be worth my time. I've given it three years now and still nothing. So I'm ordering a Roku box on Black Friday.
iTunes is full of DRM and this cannot be fixed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management
I'm fed up with the Maps navigator's poor performance in my Sony, some problems are due to phone, some due to Android 4.3 not fixing onto Glonass satellites and one problem is lack of proper off-line maps
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I've tried Garmin's navigator and now I installed Nokia Here Beta software into my phone. Didn't get a good start, This morning it refused to create a route to an address when I tried it on my way to work :)
I tried it again at home and it worked, then walked to my car 50 meters away and again it didn't want to create routes.
After a short drive I closed the program and opened it again, and now it worked.
There seems to be some beta-features still on non-Samsung phones.
When it had a route to follow, it work's quite well. I'll keep this one and see how it works out in the future.
My HTC One X died 9 days before the warranty expired. I'm waiting now for the verdict.
TBH I got kind of tired of it lately. They battery was really bad. I had to recharge it twice or 3 times a day and calculating distance in time and space from an outlet became part of my daily routine. Other than that I wasn't a big fan of HTC's Sense UI but it was bearable and disregarding the battery I really liked this phone. I wouldn't have minded keeping it at least another year.
I really don't want to buy a new phone but I might have to now. If I were loaded then the choice would be simple: Nexus 6. But I'm not so now I'm vacillating between Galaxy S4, LG G3 or Note 3... I'd really love a phone with a big replaceable battery.
But maybe I'm lucky enough and that warranty is worth something more than the paper it was written on.
Maybe I've already asked (hey, I forget things these days), but has anyone here tried the BlackBerry Passport? And when you port Android apps onto a BlackBerry, do you run the risk of compromising the security of the phone? I guess it depends on the app, huh? If you get a dodgy app from Google Play (or some place else), then I guess you get got. But what about the BlackBerry Passport otherwise?
I'll stick with the iPhone 6 for awhile, but for some reason, I like what BlackBerry is doing now. The hate I had for it during the CrackBerry days is pretty much gone.
If you didn't like HTC sense then avoid Samsung, which is horrible in comparison. LG, HTC, Sony or Nexus is the way. Personally I'd go a Nexus 5 (or the big 6)Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Ben
I joined the iPhone 6 club too back on September 19th and my pre order was delivered on time unlike several of my friends. Carphone warehouse messed up my wife's order too and it didn't arrive, although after emailing their chief executive they sent one of the only gold 64GB's in the country next day, or so they said. Several of my mates ordered through Phones 4 U which we know now went into liquidation, but thankfully they paid on credit cards so they didn't lose their money, thousands did though.
Right iPhone 6. It's better than the iPhone 5 I had based on speed, but it's largely the same, which is no bad thing as I loved the previous phone. The size jump wasn't welcome at first as I hate large phones but slowly I have got used to it. It hasn't bent yet either despite being carried in mostly skinny jeans. A guy who works with me has the iPhone 6 Plus and he bent it so bad the internals popped out, but he did have it in his back pocket as he threw himself into a car, what a tw@. I've also dropped mine 3 times now and it hasn't smashed so that's a good thing. All in all it's a brilliant phone and I would recommend it to anybody including Pino who I swayed in the right direction a couple of months back. Hope you are enjoying it dude. Looks like Pino, Mark and myself all have exquisite taste. ;)
http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14...7e4720395c.jpg
iPhone? Thanks but I have plenty of things I'd spent my money on before a shiny logo :laugh:
Well that's fab. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Ben
Hey henners mate, nice to read you again. Yes I do enjoy my iPhone 6 a lot. I am especially glad for the great camera, as you have noticed on facebook. What else can I say ? It's beautiful, well built, fit in any trousers I wear, it's damn fast...just can't be more satisfied. Thanks for your recommendation ! :up:
HTC decided to replace my broken HTC one x with a HTC one m8.... So all things considered I'm quite glad the old one broke :p. The timing was perfect :laugh:. I've been playing with the M8 for a couple of days now and I like it. It looks good and behaves well. I still didn't get used with having a phone that doesn't have to be recharged twice or 3 times a day... In fact after more than 24 hours of moderate use it still has 54% battery juice left in it. It's quite odd that the front camera has 5 megapixels while the main camera has just 4. I'm not much of a selfie guy or make too many video calls so this isn't that useful to me.
The M8 is a very nice phone. A colleague of mine has one so I have played with the device quite a bit. Sounds like you had an excellent deal and I wish HTC had customer service like that when I owned their phones. Good to see they have improved. :)
I'm sure they were delighted to replace a phone that broke down 9 days before the warranty expired :D.
A few years ago my wife's iPhone 4's button broke about 2 weeks before the standard warranty expired. Apple changed it and she got a brand new phone that ironically is still working well for her mother who now owns it. Its always nice to get a good deal and piece of mind that you'll get a replacement under warranty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Ben
I had a HTC Tattoo phone back in 2009 and it was always playing up. It finally died at only 7 months old and HTC wouldn't replace it unless they had tried to repair it 2 or 3 times. I had quite a wrangle with them over it so in your case it is good to see they have taken influence from other manufacturers that simply offer a straight swap. :)
Even your "skinny jeans"? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by pino
Any of my fellow iPhone 6 owners have any (easy) suggestions for preserving battery life on this iDevice? I've cut down screen brightness as much as I can. And I disable certain functions when I don't need them (like Bluetooth).
I turn off gps on apps I don't use regularly, and also background app refresh on most apps except things like social media and email. I have my screen down to just under halfway and also turn reduce motion on in settings. My battery will last an entire day no problem. :)