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Sure, all the apps you mentioned are utterly pointless, but at the end of the day you only have to click the "block" button in order to never see them again. It's obvious that plenty of people like all that crap or it wouldn't be as popular as it is. It's not going away any time soon.
It seems remiss to review the Nexus One without mentioning that the HTC Desire is out on all the networks in a couple of weeks time, and it's virtually the same device.
The N1's advantages are that it's tri-band (i.e. you can use it in both the US and Europe) and it has the extra mic on the front for active noise cancellation. The Desire, on the other hand, has the HTC Sense interface on top of Android, has slightly more RAM and includes an 8GB SD card instead of the N1's 4GB. HTC have also gone with an optical sensor instead of the trackball, and physical buttons instead of the capacitative ones.
Both great phones, and not much to choose between them really, but for those who are after a contract or don't want to deal with the potential customer service issues of ordering a device like this from overseas, the Desire is worth considering.
I was particularly impressed by Councillor Kerri Harold, who shunned tradition by responding with some degree of common sense: "I understand he is not doing anything illegal. My personal view is I have no problem with it, but I don't know what residents think because I have not consulted them about this."
A rare display of decency from a politician - no doubt she will be summarily removed from her position for displaying such an outrageous stance.
It's even worse than that, in fact. It's more like "3 years ago we offered to replace the faulty engine in your car for free and you ignored us, but we've been continuing to support you free of charge anyway. Now we can't do that any longer, unless you let us replace the engine, which we're still happy to do completely free at any future point of your choosing."
"the N95, a solid conventional slider phone"
The N95 was a smartphone with an odd two-way slider, a huge screen, an accelerometer and a 5MP camera (from the pre-iPhone era, before such thing were common). I'm not saying it was the greatest phone ever (I never owned one anyway), but it's a bit puzzling to hear it called a "conventional slider phone".
In all seriousness? I'd prefer to pay them to watch Trisha. Better that than waste resources building huge mountains of products that no-one wants or needs.
In sci-fi, when humankind is freed from the slavery of work by machine labour, the result is a utopian society. In the real world, when humankind is freed from the slavery of work by machine labour, the result is unemployment, poverty and soaring profits for the shareholders.
So it's pretty much a Nexus One in a (slightly) different shell? Looks like a very capable device, although like it's older brother, it's hardly the sexiest looking phone ever.
For heaven's sake HTC, just give us what we really want - a Touch HD2 with Android. That would be a phone worth salivating over. Oh, and if you could slip a less crappy camera in there while you're at it, that'd be lovely.
It seems a little unfair to criticise the Omnia for having nice finger-friendly menus, when a finger is precisely what most people will use to interact with it. The RedFly is a great idea, but it's very much a niche product, and you can hardly expect phone manufacturers to design with it in mind.
Similarly, to say the iPhone cannot multitask whereas the Omnia "chooses not to" seems like an odd distinction. Both devices are perfectly capable of multitasking at the hardware level, but both of them feature an OS which does not permit it (assuming you count the combination of Windows Mobile and Samsung's front-end to it as "the OS").
As for Android, I've yet to use it a great deal, but I was under the impression that the native browser is very good, obviating the need for third party browsers such as Opera. And regarding the RedFly - surely it's up to Celio to support Android rather than vice-versa?
Making this opt-in only is a great way to allay everyone's fears, but this is just the thin end of the wedge. The scary part is how innocent the whole thing must seem if you don't think about it too deeply.
What possible harm could there be in being presented with adverts which are more relevant to your interests? Surely it might even make the adverts less annoying? It's only when you think through where this will inevitably lead in five or ten years time that you see the sinister side.
"But for cellcos, rich countries equal saturated markets, fierce competition and stand-still sales."
Is it really so terrible for the cellcos when "stand-still sales" equals bleeding most customers for £20-£30 every month because they're so desperate to replace their "obsolete" handset every couple of years?
It's obvious they're still aiming for the "I had no idea they'd charge me that much!!" crowd, rather than trying to convince anyone it's worth using these services deliberately.
I could see myself paying twice, maybe even three times the amount I pay at home, but this is *over one hundred times* the average price for data usage. Ridiculous.
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