Posts by James 51

hmmm sounds like business case for some massive e-ink screens (low power consumption so if need be could run for a while on batteries) hooked up to a mesh wi-fi network (or maybe GSM). Without the mesh could still go war driving on those little golf cart things and updated them from a laptop.

Need a daydream icon.

You can only turn all that stuff off if you create a profile. If you buy a phone, don't have a profile and so can't turn it off, that's what could really do for them.

Samsung did a demo were they chained about forty galaxy devices together as a crypto minder (can't remember which model it was) and claimed it an economial use of old hardware.

I'd be more excited if doctors were using genetic profiling now both of the tumour(s) and the patient's healthy tissue so we could compare like with like.

Swipe interface can actually be pretty good. It took a little getting use to on my playbook and Q10 but it was soon second nature and quicker than android to navigate around.

I remember when the company which own the Opera mini browser swore that it would never use the data gathered from reformating webpages to be better displayed on a phone (which effectively gave it access to your entire browser history, keeping track of which ads you clicked on etc etc). To the best of my knowledge the didn't but they were bought over by a Chinese consortium and I don't remember a single promise being made to respect the privacy of Opera mini users being made during the coverage of the buy out.

TL;DL is that even if every person in Facebook pinky swore they wouldn't use the data or sell it on and they kept their word, it takes only one manager to change and all that does out of the window.

I'll wait for lineageOS to take the spyware out.

The Z2 Force is tempting with the semi-replaceable battery/pack mod and shatterproof screen. If only it wasn't so expensive. Still haven't settled on what to get when my S6 dies. the battery life is very poor but a bulky battery case helps.

Apparently there is will be a pay for option on Sailfish 3. Will be looking forward to that for my Gemini. If it can run Android apk that will be a bonus.

It's at least £80 too expensive for what it is and £100 for the keyboard and £90 for the pen is an expensive joke.

Just took a peek at the preorder prices. £380 for the basic model or £510 for the 8gb ram/256gb ssd model. £100 for the keyboard, £90 for the pen and £30 for the mouse. Don't know that they're smoking but it must be some reality warping stuff if they think those are competitive prices for what they are offering.