"So Apple, it's not cool, thats just sheer ignorance and you continue in missing unfathomable opportunities to capture a desperately hungry wider audience and decimate the opposition simultaneously! Get of your flippin' fat arse and sort it out!"
Except they seem to be doing rather well. From what I've seen people who are going to buy an iPhone/iPad are going to buy one no matter how much 'smartphone' functionality is left out, and give them their due, they seem to have picked the right things to leave out, not wasting time developing and testing functionality 90+% of their market base don't give a rats ass about.
I guess the tethering is going to be a no-no as they'd have real difficulty ensuring that the 3G end of the deal was actually an iPhone, so the turtle-necked sweater dude is quite right in thinking, why pay someone other than me for your 3G? You want an iPad with 3G, buy the iPad with 3G. It's not that big a deal! (r) TM
If I'm cloned in this dystopian future (two bodies, two income tax streams ;-) which one of me will be charged with identity theft? Have they even thought this through?
What about all those re-animated heads buzzing around in the year 3000?
Presumably, if they do go with 4G, and people bemoan the confusing caused, Steve will ask the various network consortia working on the 4G spec to "just change it's name" ;-)
I really like the form factor of an A4 tablet, and I've used Tablet PCs, but they're just not up to the job. The problem is that the HW requirements needed to run any of the Redmond warez means that you can never stray to far from a power socket, and the device is HEAVY. I want a lightweight device, that will last 12 hours on a charge, and be useful. Sadly, whether Monkey boy realizes this or not, it pretty much rules out Windows as being the OS inside.
It's the same story as with their mobile offerings, stuck to the cash cow (that's now looking rather thin) that is Windows. Move on Steve, come join us in the 21st century!
I'm not saying this thing'll make me put my trusty 5mx away, it won't, but give them a little slack. It's all very easy to spout 'dream specs', it's a very much harder thing to actually get it built. Trust me. Paul and Ewan at least deserve some kudos for getting this far.
I think that El Reg is being a little unfair in even suggesting a comparison between this and a Series 5, this is even less of a Series 5 replacement than the N900 is, and even that is no where close.
As Mark says, there's a long hard road between building a great device, and building a great software platform that can be used to make many great devices. Maemo is a long way from there.
@Neil 7
"Eventually, you have to ask, why have two platforms?"
I doubt Maemo, or another other Open and Linux based OS (yes, I'm looking at you Android) will ever be able to provide a high end experience on low end hardware, like Symbian OS can.
Nokia will certainly push Maemo in their high end devices, Symbian will still provide the platform for the mid to high end, volume products. Qt just means that they can have a common (bar any niggling platform quirks) development environment.
@AC - N900 meetup
You probably won't have to wait long before Nokia use the same HW platform in a Symbian device.
@AC 15:20 GMT
"I'd like to see the two platforms benchmarked side-by-side on the same hardware."
IIRC the N800 and N95 are the same basic Hw platform.
I know which of the two has better battery life (despite the N800 having a larger battery), and which runs faster, and feels more responsive (despite having to run a 3G baseband aswell)
Don't get me wrong, there is a hell of a lot of Maemo love going on in Nokia, but at the end of the day, when they want to ship a tried and tested, volume product, with a lot of features and wow factor, on cheap-as-chips hardware, my money's on Symbian.
Phone makers love to differentiate on UI look and feel, bundled apps, and their own pet cheap HW platform. It's an almost impossible task to accomodate all those differentiating factors and arrive at a common base. Though, to be fair I had thought that the sheer force of Google's will (ie $$$) would be the one thing to carry Android through. Time will tell, once the Motos are in the wild (if they ever make it that far :-/ ) Hopefully once they get a few returns, because a significant % of the Android Apps don't work on customer's handsets, it'll bust 'em or bring them into line...
@John Fairhurst
It's a very blurred line these days, but I think the difference, the key difference, between a computer and a phone is in the usage of the device, and this dictates the sort of apps that you are likely going to want to install/run on each device.
@James 47
Well, let's see. They're about 9 months or so into this new 'bet it all on Android' strategy, so history shows us they've got about 8 months before they change their minds and try something completely different, burning a few more $$$millions of their investors' money in the process. :-/
Shonko Kid
>Or Sony could open the technology up to the Linux community to maintain →#
While It's true in the past I've applauded Sony for actually going to market with the Linux Dev Kit for the PS2, it was clear then that they're never going to open up the platform in the way the Penguinistas would like, or let hippy ideals get in the way of making $$$s
But from my POV, this is just the cherry on the top of PS3s EPIC FAIL. When I can get one for £50 at the local game exchange, then I might just buy one.
This sort of thrashing I expect from Intel, who are desperate to remain relevant in the mobile world, but Nokia? Why are they even giving them the time of day? All I can imagine is that it's in return for some ready-to-roll netbook reference designs.
You may joke, but what if that was the way forward? With 5 million startups there's bound to be a glut of duffers making haddock flavoured 'In the Night Garden' binliners, but the odds are stacked in favour of there being at least a few winners, and the chances are you'd end up with a majority of people eeking out a living doing something they actively enjoy. Who could ask for more?
It's a perennial problem getting anything new kicked off, getting funding for a new business is hard and mostly tedious - everyone should have a go, see how they get on - and so if it were easier to 'try out' a business idea, who'd really care if it failed? They could adapt and try something else - perhaps some sort of evolutionary theory for socio-economics?
Perhaps it is us that are at fault, trying our best to hold on to the old way, propping up a failed model. Like keeping a breeding pair of Dodo's on life support - let them go, their time has past, time for something new.
If only the money people pay for leccy wasn't used to line the pockets of besuited extorionists, it could be actually used for some of this increasingly needed R&D.
Forget NFC, use 2d barcodes instead; Each patient gets a laminated tag, that has to be 'scanned' by nothing more complex than a camera phone. Job done. IIRC Masabi (www.masabi.com) and a few others were looking into this.
What's the beef here? You release a device, and make it so that it's reletively easy for 3rd party developers to add features to it, then you see what's popular and add it yourself at the next revision. Uh, why is it a surprise? I bet Apple even use the App Store purchase data to decide what to add next.
Is there something in the iStore T&C's that suggest Apple would never compete with anything a 3rd party developer submitted? It's not an unending income stream guys, you're not the music industry y'know. You have to develop something else, something new.
Perhaps if their bloaty excuse didn't require such high end silicon to run (well, crawl) on, there'd be enough left in the build cost to have a fancy touch screen? Of course it could just be that they can't figure out how to make WinMo cope with multi touch.
M$ don't get smartphones, they certainly don't get low-end smartphones. Stick to conning people into buying more features they'll never use on their PCs Steve. While you still can.
Where the alpha male was old and injured, he would often look docile and on his last legs, but would occasionally lash out at anything it could reach, sensing that the end was near...
Hey Ballmer! Say hi to the dinosaurs for me, will ya?!
between this and the Dell case, is that Psion had product under the 'netbook' brand, for quite some time, whilst it was trademarked. And IIRC with trademarks you have to actively guard against their misuse, which is exactly what Psion are now doing. Mind you, their case would be strengthed if they had something in the market...
If by then we were running on 'free energy', we would have enough to fill the atmosphere with greenhouse gasses by other means, without burning the black stuff?
>lack of 3G in the cheaper model - it hardly costs anything to build in
AFAIK the licence cost of a 3G baseband is still fairly high. I'd be surprised if it wasn't one of the most expensive 'parts' in the phone. So it'll really come down to whether they (Apple and carriers) think they can still get away with a 2.5G data connection. If they're trying to boost revenue from the App store, then they need to get more handsets shipped, which, since they'll soon saturate their current demographic, means attacking different price points. And lowering the cost means reducing build cost.
Nothing really new here as far as I can see. Many of the old PDA OSs of yore spent a lot of time ensuring that state was preserved, at the very least ensuring the system was consistent in case of a sudden loss of power.
These days the easiest way to achieve this sort of thing is just by using virtual memory, and using the swap file as your memory snapshot.
It'll be interesting to see how well it fares on power limited devices such as a mobile, as all that writing state to flash will kill battery and reduce the lifespan of the flash. I'd also be interested in seeing how well it copes with code that isn't expecting to 'run forever' and contains memory leaks, and other common bugs that don't surface for short lived exectution spans.
I'm sure he's thought of all this, of course! ;-)
>"... and it is difficult to surpass it [iPhone] technologically"
about a month or so before their save-the-ship Android handsets hit shelves they get distracted by something else shiny and change tack yet again. Like a kitten with a glitter ball.
had a similar agenda IIRC, They stood in the 2001 (?) general election for one of the Northampton boroughs, the press jumped on the fact that the candidate had appeared in a hardcore porn film (oooh, scary!). They're long gone now though, I don't even think they got their deposit (f'nar!) back.
This isn't really any different from what is offered by Texperts et al, using an interface available to pretty much nearly 100% of handsets. At least it isn't any more expensive.
that he didn't try and blame it on the tree-hugging Linux geeks. You know the line; "See, this is what happens if you run the back office on Linux...."
I wonder how much Bill and Steve have seen wiped off their fortunes?
A new phone to the market that doesn't make the iPhone look like an antiquated polished turd! Pure win from Mountain View!
Help me out here El Reg, why would I want one exactly? I mean, I know the rumours said the first gPhone was going to be a turkey, but this is a real clucker!
Any news on the contract free price yet? surely once it hits the EU this will have to be an option.
These kids may not stand much of a chance of having a decent education, a job when they are finally kicked out of the educational system, healthcare, or even a warm house this winter, but at least they can surf the interweb for teh pr0n! Brilliant!! I'll certainly be voting nuLab in the future.
So shit scared of losing their gravy train next election, they're even starting to think like socialists! Nationalise the utilities?!? What are they thinking?!? How will they make up the shortfall in donations when their friends in the city are out of a cushy number!
Bit hipocritical posting a comment isn't it Andrew?
Anyway, back on topic, where were we, oh yes. ARM good. iPhone, not so good.
Makes sense they'd try and fab it themselves, they'll be desperate for any trickery that can give them more battery life, and not having to pay Samsung (who do a few nice touch phones now) is a bonus.
I wonder what they make of this over at iNTEL, the iPhone was surely their only route into the smartphone space with that not-so-low-power x86 effort, Atom.
@Vincent Rice
I think your '0' key is broken. The only thing iPhone will have 60 million of by the end of next year is blog postings saying how paradigm-shiftingly wonderful it is. :-/
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Shonko Kid
Good rant B+ → # ↑
Posted Tuesday 9th March 2010 09:30 GMT
In Steve Jobs says 'No' to iPhone-to-iPad tether
While I agree with most of what you say;
"So Apple, it's not cool, thats just sheer ignorance and you continue in missing unfathomable opportunities to capture a desperately hungry wider audience and decimate the opposition simultaneously! Get of your flippin' fat arse and sort it out!"
Except they seem to be doing rather well. From what I've seen people who are going to buy an iPhone/iPad are going to buy one no matter how much 'smartphone' functionality is left out, and give them their due, they seem to have picked the right things to leave out, not wasting time developing and testing functionality 90+% of their market base don't give a rats ass about.
I guess the tethering is going to be a no-no as they'd have real difficulty ensuring that the 3G end of the deal was actually an iPhone, so the turtle-necked sweater dude is quite right in thinking, why pay someone other than me for your 3G? You want an iPad with 3G, buy the iPad with 3G. It's not that big a deal! (r) TM
Shonko Kid
Perhaps I missed the point of prison.. → #
Posted Thursday 11th February 2010 12:18 GMT
In Prisoners chucked off Facebook
But surely it's to remove people from society? That must also cover virtual society aswell, otherwise it's just a holiday camp!
Shonko Kid
But what about clones? → #
Posted Tuesday 2nd February 2010 13:55 GMT
In ID minister promises virtual immortality for all Britons
Seriously..
If I'm cloned in this dystopian future (two bodies, two income tax streams ;-) which one of me will be charged with identity theft? Have they even thought this through?
What about all those re-animated heads buzzing around in the year 3000?
Shonko Kid
4G moniker → #
Posted Wednesday 13th January 2010 11:09 GMT
In Next-gen iPhone rumored for April
Presumably, if they do go with 4G, and people bemoan the confusing caused, Steve will ask the various network consortia working on the 4G spec to "just change it's name" ;-)
Shonko Kid
That's their problem, right there. → #
Posted Friday 8th January 2010 12:24 GMT
In Ghost of Gates' tablet haunts Microsoft's future
It has to run Windows XXX.
I really like the form factor of an A4 tablet, and I've used Tablet PCs, but they're just not up to the job. The problem is that the HW requirements needed to run any of the Redmond warez means that you can never stray to far from a power socket, and the device is HEAVY. I want a lightweight device, that will last 12 hours on a charge, and be useful. Sadly, whether Monkey boy realizes this or not, it pretty much rules out Windows as being the OS inside.
It's the same story as with their mobile offerings, stuck to the cash cow (that's now looking rather thin) that is Windows. Move on Steve, come join us in the 21st century!
Shonko Kid
Schoolboy error → #
Posted Friday 11th December 2009 10:21 GMT
In Linux devs exterminate security bugs from kernel
these ADHD kids *tsk* *tsk* they should stick to Java or something safe.
Shonko Kid
Give 'em some slack → # ↑
Posted Tuesday 8th December 2009 11:14 GMT
In The return of the Psion-sized PC
I'm not saying this thing'll make me put my trusty 5mx away, it won't, but give them a little slack. It's all very easy to spout 'dream specs', it's a very much harder thing to actually get it built. Trust me. Paul and Ewan at least deserve some kudos for getting this far.
I think that El Reg is being a little unfair in even suggesting a comparison between this and a Series 5, this is even less of a Series 5 replacement than the N900 is, and even that is no where close.
Shonko Kid
Maemo still has to prove itself → #
Posted Thursday 19th November 2009 11:15 GMT
In Nokia to cull Symbian in 2012
As Mark says, there's a long hard road between building a great device, and building a great software platform that can be used to make many great devices. Maemo is a long way from there.
@Neil 7
"Eventually, you have to ask, why have two platforms?"
I doubt Maemo, or another other Open and Linux based OS (yes, I'm looking at you Android) will ever be able to provide a high end experience on low end hardware, like Symbian OS can.
Nokia will certainly push Maemo in their high end devices, Symbian will still provide the platform for the mid to high end, volume products. Qt just means that they can have a common (bar any niggling platform quirks) development environment.
@AC - N900 meetup
You probably won't have to wait long before Nokia use the same HW platform in a Symbian device.
@AC 15:20 GMT
"I'd like to see the two platforms benchmarked side-by-side on the same hardware."
IIRC the N800 and N95 are the same basic Hw platform.
I know which of the two has better battery life (despite the N800 having a larger battery), and which runs faster, and feels more responsive (despite having to run a 3G baseband aswell)
Don't get me wrong, there is a hell of a lot of Maemo love going on in Nokia, but at the end of the day, when they want to ship a tried and tested, volume product, with a lot of features and wow factor, on cheap-as-chips hardware, my money's on Symbian.
Shonko Kid
WTF? → #
Posted Monday 16th November 2009 12:17 GMT
In Apple snuffs iPhone app for too much Appleness
haven't they also rejected stuff because it didn't fit in with the iPhone look & feel?
All this bad press they've been getting over the treatment of developers lately must surely be putting people of even bothering to target iPhone.
Shonko Kid
Asteroids: The Movie → #
Posted Friday 13th November 2009 21:22 GMT
In Revealed: The amazing premise behind Ridley Scott's Monopoly
They could probably re-use the central plot device for that outing, though that might be a little too much like The Last Starfighter for comfort!
Shonko Kid
It'll be shit... → #
Posted Thursday 12th November 2009 10:35 GMT
In The Prisoner set for Sunday release
If the "project stands on it's own" then why use the original name?
Shonko Kid
It's almost as if... → #
Posted Wednesday 4th November 2009 01:10 GMT
In Peugeot's bulbous BB1 e-car bound for Blighty
They want it to fail!
Shonko Kid
Did I miss something? → #
Posted Wednesday 21st October 2009 20:19 GMT
In Google-branded Android smartphone inbound?
I can already buy an unlocked, Google branded, Android device. It even has a Qualcomm chipset, and was indeed manufactured by HTC.
Got one right here as it happens... Did someone misread a date on a press release or something?
Shonko Kid
Not really a surprise is it? → #
Posted Thursday 10th September 2009 12:54 GMT
In Google Android future haunted by fragmentation past
Phone makers love to differentiate on UI look and feel, bundled apps, and their own pet cheap HW platform. It's an almost impossible task to accomodate all those differentiating factors and arrive at a common base. Though, to be fair I had thought that the sheer force of Google's will (ie $$$) would be the one thing to carry Android through. Time will tell, once the Motos are in the wild (if they ever make it that far :-/ ) Hopefully once they get a few returns, because a significant % of the Android Apps don't work on customer's handsets, it'll bust 'em or bring them into line...
@John Fairhurst
It's a very blurred line these days, but I think the difference, the key difference, between a computer and a phone is in the usage of the device, and this dictates the sort of apps that you are likely going to want to install/run on each device.
@James 47
Well, let's see. They're about 9 months or so into this new 'bet it all on Android' strategy, so history shows us they've got about 8 months before they change their minds and try something completely different, burning a few more $$$millions of their investors' money in the process. :-/
Shonko Kid
>Or Sony could open the technology up to the Linux community to maintain → #
Posted Monday 31st August 2009 06:53 GMT
In Sony explains PS3 Slim's loss of Linux option
Pffffttt!
While It's true in the past I've applauded Sony for actually going to market with the Linux Dev Kit for the PS2, it was clear then that they're never going to open up the platform in the way the Penguinistas would like, or let hippy ideals get in the way of making $$$s
But from my POV, this is just the cherry on the top of PS3s EPIC FAIL. When I can get one for £50 at the local game exchange, then I might just buy one.
Shonko Kid
@Tim Schomer - wtf? → #
Posted Wednesday 24th June 2009 15:28 GMT
In Nokia N97
You mean you learn how to use the device so as to not run out of memory? That is so lame, the OS should be doing that for you.
Device should adapt to your usage pattern, not the other way round!
Shonko Kid
Brave New World? → #
Posted Wednesday 24th June 2009 09:21 GMT
In Intel and Nokia's brave new world
One in which ARM never existed presumably?
This sort of thrashing I expect from Intel, who are desperate to remain relevant in the mobile world, but Nokia? Why are they even giving them the time of day? All I can imagine is that it's in return for some ready-to-roll netbook reference designs.
Shonko Kid
@Steve → #
Posted Wednesday 29th April 2009 14:04 GMT
In UK graduates face bleak future as teachers
You may joke, but what if that was the way forward? With 5 million startups there's bound to be a glut of duffers making haddock flavoured 'In the Night Garden' binliners, but the odds are stacked in favour of there being at least a few winners, and the chances are you'd end up with a majority of people eeking out a living doing something they actively enjoy. Who could ask for more?
It's a perennial problem getting anything new kicked off, getting funding for a new business is hard and mostly tedious - everyone should have a go, see how they get on - and so if it were easier to 'try out' a business idea, who'd really care if it failed? They could adapt and try something else - perhaps some sort of evolutionary theory for socio-economics?
Perhaps it is us that are at fault, trying our best to hold on to the old way, propping up a failed model. Like keeping a breeding pair of Dodo's on life support - let them go, their time has past, time for something new.
Shonko Kid
It's a bit 'Meh'... → #
Posted Wednesday 29th April 2009 09:15 GMT
In HTC's second Android phone coming 1 May
It looks just like the G1, but without the cool slidey-out keyboard. Are HTC's design team on holiday or something?
Shonko Kid
Tell it to Sid.... → #
Posted Thursday 23rd April 2009 14:47 GMT
In Darling's £0.5bn offshore windfarm 'leccy-bill stealth levy
If only the money people pay for leccy wasn't used to line the pockets of besuited extorionists, it could be actually used for some of this increasingly needed R&D.
Mines the one with empty pockets.
Shonko Kid
To be fair.. → #
Posted Friday 17th April 2009 12:29 GMT
In Pirate Bay co-founder claims 'we lost'
I think they shot themselves in the foot, calling the site 'Pirate Bay'.
Shonko Kid
@George → #
Posted Thursday 16th April 2009 20:58 GMT
In Can the iPhone save NFC?
Forget NFC, use 2d barcodes instead; Each patient gets a laminated tag, that has to be 'scanned' by nothing more complex than a camera phone. Job done. IIRC Masabi (www.masabi.com) and a few others were looking into this.
Shonko Kid
Hmmm... → #
Posted Thursday 2nd April 2009 15:12 GMT
In PS3 players prefer gaming to bonking
I guess that explains why I don't own a PS3, f'nar!
Shonko Kid
This is how it works. → #
Posted Friday 20th March 2009 10:51 GMT
In iPhone 3.0 beta reveals mixed blessing
What's the beef here? You release a device, and make it so that it's reletively easy for 3rd party developers to add features to it, then you see what's popular and add it yourself at the next revision. Uh, why is it a surprise? I bet Apple even use the App Store purchase data to decide what to add next.
Is there something in the iStore T&C's that suggest Apple would never compete with anything a 3rd party developer submitted? It's not an unending income stream guys, you're not the music industry y'know. You have to develop something else, something new.
Shonko Kid
Bloatware → #
Posted Thursday 19th March 2009 22:26 GMT
In Ballmer hails Windows Mobile for Welfare™
Perhaps if their bloaty excuse didn't require such high end silicon to run (well, crawl) on, there'd be enough left in the build cost to have a fancy touch screen? Of course it could just be that they can't figure out how to make WinMo cope with multi touch.
M$ don't get smartphones, they certainly don't get low-end smartphones. Stick to conning people into buying more features they'll never use on their PCs Steve. While you still can.
Shonko Kid
I'm reminded of those nature programmes... → #
Posted Thursday 26th February 2009 13:52 GMT
In Microsoft trades goodwill for TomTom Linux satisfaction
Where the alpha male was old and injured, he would often look docile and on his last legs, but would occasionally lash out at anything it could reach, sensing that the end was near...
Hey Ballmer! Say hi to the dinosaurs for me, will ya?!
Shonko Kid
The difference... → #
Posted Thursday 19th February 2009 11:50 GMT
In Blogger fights Psion's claim to 'netbook' name
between this and the Dell case, is that Psion had product under the 'netbook' brand, for quite some time, whilst it was trademarked. And IIRC with trademarks you have to actively guard against their misuse, which is exactly what Psion are now doing. Mind you, their case would be strengthed if they had something in the market...
Shonko Kid
Shurely... → #
Posted Friday 13th February 2009 15:22 GMT
In Prof: Save up fossil fuel reserves to fight the next ice age
If by then we were running on 'free energy', we would have enough to fill the atmosphere with greenhouse gasses by other means, without burning the black stuff?
Chuck another barrel on the barby Sheila!
Shonko Kid
@Jerome → #
Posted Wednesday 11th February 2009 23:16 GMT
In Analyst predicts cut-price, updated 3G iPhone models
>lack of 3G in the cheaper model - it hardly costs anything to build in
AFAIK the licence cost of a 3G baseband is still fairly high. I'd be surprised if it wasn't one of the most expensive 'parts' in the phone. So it'll really come down to whether they (Apple and carriers) think they can still get away with a 2.5G data connection. If they're trying to boost revenue from the App store, then they need to get more handsets shipped, which, since they'll soon saturate their current demographic, means attacking different price points. And lowering the cost means reducing build cost.
Shonko Kid
Psion and on and on... → #
Posted Wednesday 11th February 2009 09:08 GMT
In O2 saunters into laptop market
>"NetBook is, of course, a term owned by Psion who have recently managed to get Google to recognise the trademark ..."
Could it be that Potter & Co are planning a comeback tour?
Shonko Kid
@AC Friday 6th Feb → #
Posted Friday 6th February 2009 12:35 GMT
In Apple rethinks battery bondage
>snowy tuesday
Crikey! the snow's so bad where you are it's stopped Wednesday, Thursday and Friday getting through!
Shonko Kid
Move along, nothing to see. → #
Posted Tuesday 3rd February 2009 10:02 GMT
In Russian rides Phantom to OS immortality
Nothing really new here as far as I can see. Many of the old PDA OSs of yore spent a lot of time ensuring that state was preserved, at the very least ensuring the system was consistent in case of a sudden loss of power.
These days the easiest way to achieve this sort of thing is just by using virtual memory, and using the swap file as your memory snapshot.
It'll be interesting to see how well it fares on power limited devices such as a mobile, as all that writing state to flash will kill battery and reduce the lifespan of the flash. I'd also be interested in seeing how well it copes with code that isn't expecting to 'run forever' and contains memory leaks, and other common bugs that don't surface for short lived exectution spans.
I'm sure he's thought of all this, of course! ;-)
>"... and it is difficult to surpass it [iPhone] technologically"
Indeed /:-|
Shonko Kid
And in next week's news → #
Posted Thursday 29th January 2009 14:41 GMT
In Vladimir Putin bitchslaps Dell-boy
Michael Dell and the strange case of Polonium poisoning.
Shonko Kid
What odds can I get for... → #
Posted Thursday 15th January 2009 14:07 GMT
In Motorola swings axe again
about a month or so before their save-the-ship Android handsets hit shelves they get distracted by something else shiny and change tack yet again. Like a kitten with a glitter ball.
Shonko Kid
The Liberated Party... → #
Posted Wednesday 19th November 2008 15:51 GMT
In Oz sex trade to spank parliamentary prudes
had a similar agenda IIRC, They stood in the 2001 (?) general election for one of the Northampton boroughs, the press jumped on the fact that the candidate had appeared in a hardcore porn film (oooh, scary!). They're long gone now though, I don't even think they got their deposit (f'nar!) back.
Shonko Kid
Neither is Steel. → #
Posted Friday 14th November 2008 14:16 GMT
In BOFH: The paperless cafeteria
Mine's the one with holes in time for pockets
Shonko Kid
Why even a custom App? → #
Posted Thursday 13th November 2008 11:56 GMT
In Itchy City wants scratch-window cash
This isn't really any different from what is offered by Texperts et al, using an interface available to pretty much nearly 100% of handsets. At least it isn't any more expensive.
Shonko Kid
There is a Santa after all... → #
Posted Wednesday 12th November 2008 11:50 GMT
In Microsoft ups search engine bribe
He hails from Redmond, and has a tendancy to abuse office furniture!
Makes robot Santa Claws from Futurama look cute 'n cuddly!
Shonko Kid
So... → #
Posted Wednesday 29th October 2008 09:28 GMT
In Apple prices iPhone at $666, says analyst
The magical polo-neck has a sense of humour and history, very good. Still doesn't make me want one though.
Shonko Kid
Wow! → #
Posted Thursday 23rd October 2008 21:29 GMT
In Intel badmouths Jesus Phone
Did iNTEL just blink first?
I smell sour grapes coming from Santa Clara. MHz ain't gonna save you now!
Shonko Kid
Why SE? WHY?!? → #
Posted Thursday 23rd October 2008 11:41 GMT
In Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 Windows Mobile smartphone
This so could have been the phone to replace the seminal P910i, but Windows!?!? WTF were you thinking? Even S60 would've been better than that!
Shonko Kid
I don't get it... → #
Posted Monday 13th October 2008 11:55 GMT
In OLO promises Foleo-style iPhone-Air laptop combo
Are scratch pads _really_ that expensive?!? I suppose you have to have some way of connecting the two devices, and wired would save power...
They could even do something snazzy with the screen, context sensitive scratch pad?
Shonko Kid
Frankly, I'm amazed... → #
Posted Wednesday 1st October 2008 12:15 GMT
In Ballmer on banking crisis: No one is safe
that he didn't try and blame it on the tree-hugging Linux geeks. You know the line; "See, this is what happens if you run the back office on Linux...."
I wonder how much Bill and Steve have seen wiped off their fortunes?
Shonko Kid
Wow! → #
Posted Wednesday 24th September 2008 09:05 GMT
In Googlephone unworthy of Satan tag
A new phone to the market that doesn't make the iPhone look like an antiquated polished turd! Pure win from Mountain View!
Help me out here El Reg, why would I want one exactly? I mean, I know the rumours said the first gPhone was going to be a turkey, but this is a real clucker!
Any news on the contract free price yet? surely once it hits the EU this will have to be an option.
Shonko Kid
Got his priorities right! → #
Posted Tuesday 23rd September 2008 10:48 GMT
In PM Brown dusts off one interweb per child plan (again)
These kids may not stand much of a chance of having a decent education, a job when they are finally kicked out of the educational system, healthcare, or even a warm house this winter, but at least they can surf the interweb for teh pr0n! Brilliant!! I'll certainly be voting nuLab in the future.
So shit scared of losing their gravy train next election, they're even starting to think like socialists! Nationalise the utilities?!? What are they thinking?!? How will they make up the shortfall in donations when their friends in the city are out of a cushy number!
Shonko Kid
I can't wait to see.. → #
Posted Thursday 18th September 2008 13:26 GMT
In First Android phone to retail for $199
how they've reconciled 'Open' with Operator lock-in. My guess is it won't be as open as people are expecting.
Shonko Kid
@Orlowski → #
Posted Wednesday 17th September 2008 10:36 GMT
In Apple ARMs up iPhone
Bit hipocritical posting a comment isn't it Andrew?
Anyway, back on topic, where were we, oh yes. ARM good. iPhone, not so good.
Makes sense they'd try and fab it themselves, they'll be desperate for any trickery that can give them more battery life, and not having to pay Samsung (who do a few nice touch phones now) is a bonus.
I wonder what they make of this over at iNTEL, the iPhone was surely their only route into the smartphone space with that not-so-low-power x86 effort, Atom.
@Vincent Rice
I think your '0' key is broken. The only thing iPhone will have 60 million of by the end of next year is blog postings saying how paradigm-shiftingly wonderful it is. :-/
Shonko Kid
Nokia have missed a trick... → #
Posted Tuesday 2nd September 2008 19:39 GMT
In Nokia pitches 'free music with old phone' offer
Surely if you're going te resell last year's old tosh at inflated prices, you need to stick a 3G label on it....
Shonko Kid
Oil! → #
Posted Thursday 31st July 2008 14:47 GMT
In NASA spies liquid in Titanic lake
I expect Titan to be 'democratised' by 2020...
Shonko Kid
@Tony Hoyle → #
Posted Wednesday 25th June 2008 12:34 GMT
In Nokia pays
82* years' royalties in advanceS40 is not Symbian OS.
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