Posts by Drew Scott

Point number 1 means I can't take this entire article seriously. What a load of link bait and pandering tosh.

I had £40 in a game gift card from Christmas. Walked around for about 15 minutes trying to find something I wanted. As I've only got a PC for gaming that was impossible as I didn't want the Sims 3 or games from 2 years ago; the only PC stock available.

So, I walked out with 2 iTunes Gift cards that I could use conveniently and on anything from Music, Films, TV shows, games, apps...

I think that's pretty much their problem - if all you do is sell 1s and 0s I'd be questioning the viability of your rent paying shop.

Aspect

First non-iPad I've seen that's 4:3. Personally I don't think widescreen works well in portrait.

Surprisingly common

My girlfriend is an urban beekeeper and she tells me this is surprisingly common. Just two weeks ago someone tried to break into their shared apiary, where there were about 20 hives. The hives are commonly sold on to beginners who wouldn't know better.

It's always interesting to look at the source of these articles.

These people seem to have a big hate on Apple by the looks of the source link. I quote from the tablets article on their website:

"Already we’ve seen a less than stellar quarter for iPad sales, only 28% up on its first quarter of sales at 4.2m units. This was due to new product launches from Samsung and Dell and pre-launch publicity for RIM, along with a host of low end copy-cat designs. There are more tablets on the way."

I always wonder about the motives of people that make declarations like that. In their own article they talk about rival launches being the cause of (and lets put this in perspective here) a smaller increase. Also they compare financial results to the festive quarter, which makes little sense at all for any company.

Are they short on AAPL, or have some financial interest in seeing Android succeed? Or perhaps they know a controversial stance on a popular product will get them noticed a bit more. Either way, I don't trust them.

So many recommendations for Android?

Honestly I totally understand the reasoning for going for WP7, rather than Android. Nokia would be late to market with an Android phone and there would be absolutely nothing to differentiate themselves. The other WP7 manufacturers all seem to be putting out Android phones too, and possibly that is where their focus will be.

If Nokia can carve a niche as the dominante WP7 phone manufacturer then that might mean lower sales, but more profits than jumping in with Android - apart from anything else Microsoft is not going to want to see Nokia pinning their hopes on WP7 as a failure.

Ubiquitous?

"In America that's a big deal, but the rest of the world has ubiquitous GSM."

Also be quite a big deal in China, where they have a much larger installed base of CDMA than GSM.

Good

Was lucky enough to see a pre-screener of this a couple of months back for marketing. They hadn't finished all the effects (you could see wires at one point) but was very good. Will even pay this time to see the finished version.

iPhone 4...

Could not replicate.

Profits?

LG want to produce 20 android phones by the end of the year? That's a big number. With all these Android producing manufacturers I'd begin to worry about the race to the bottom that a number of PC manufacturers have suffered from and seriously think about what makes my phones different.

Bashing head against brick wall...

Why is Palm being so boneheaded about this? No one is stopping them from syncing with media stored on their users' computer. If they want to use Apple's library so they can get playlists, etc then the library is stored as a XML file with documented format. This is how other vendors are syncing with iTunes!

@Joey

No, it's full GPS, not tower triangulation. It's drops back to tower triangulation if it can't get a GPS signal (which is pretty useful), but the 2nd gen iPhone has a GPS chip.

RE: Can we not call them that?

'iTouch is a terrible name, and you're only saving 3 keystrokes. Either type the whole name, or just use "touch"'

Seconded.

Frustrating

I've had a successful pre-order since 8.12am on Monday for the 16GB iPhone - considering the problems I just thought I'd phone O2 to make sure my order is going to arrive today.

Turns out that despite me asking directly if I'd get my phone today and taking the day off work to be in to collect it they don't have enough stock for the pre-orders.

If anyone has a pre-order I'd phone to ensure you're still going to get it, as it sounds like, from what the guy said, I'm not going to be the only one in this situation.

I also asked if they are going to send out any notification to the people that are waiting - "we were told that emails are going to be going out to those that are unsuccessful, but I'm not sure if they will be".