Playbook
Got a 64Gb Playbook bundled with my phone. Only complaint so far is that the video player doesn't handle multiple language tracks and subtitles. Otherwise very happy with it.
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Every time I hear about skills shortages in IT in UK with unemployment this high I think what employers are really complaining about is not having a vast oversupply of labour they can use and abuse as they please. I think the same reasoning is being applied here but then aren't China suppose to be supplying more university graduates than anyone one else soon?
What you'll probably find is that someone wanted to give him the boot but needed to cover themselves legally. Simplest way to do that is to go onto facebook and look through their posts or better yet, hire some firm to do that for you. Find something that can be twisted to suit your purpose, ignore context and blow it out of all proportion. I have seen more than one firm use this tactic to avoid making people redundant.
Their modification of the implementation seems like an obivous anti-tampering mechanism i.e. put in multiple sensors that are hard to reach.
How long before we start hearing stories about how sweat or a mild drizzle sets these off? The iPhone 5 won't be safe come the the Scottish summer.
The playbook built with security in mind from the beginning, it's low weight and acceptable battery life plus being less deseriable and significantly cheaper than most other tablets means that it would be a logical choice.
Of course you need the infrastructure to support them (which includes training), the tablets alone won't make a big differece
"Amazon will be required to monitor the devices, reporting back on everything that has been read "
Until I read that I thought there are a number of wi-fi enabled e-readers that could do the job (unless they specifically wanted 3G). It's spying on the readers that Amazon does better than anyone else.
Two weeks ago when into several different CW and P4U and asked if they would be stocking the new Nokia Pureview. Every time they'd ask another salesperson and then the manager who would ask me what it was. They then checked their website and told me that they didn't have it (eventually after apologising several times about how slow their computer was in accessing the internet).
One time I went into a 3 shop and started looking at the N8 and the E7. Sales person came over and told me I didn't want one of those, the iphone 4s was just in and much better and refused to answer any of my questions about the Nokias. Didn't waste any more of my time. Suspect that's true of sales people in general (pushing customers towards products that get them the most commission/meet target) rather than being a problem with one particular shop or network.
If I remember correctly the head of the lab had to resign over this. Not because he'd done anything wrong but because of all the media hype surrouding it. Pity. I'd've liked to have seen more comments supprting the work of the scientists than rehashing an old, sterile arguement.
I like the resistive screen. It helps to make it feel more like a internet tablet than a phone (which it is really). While it could to with a slighter faster CPU and more RAM it can still do things that I haven't seen any other phone can match. Plus there's a fairly active developer community still plugging away. Even if I am able to get my hands on a pureview I will still keep it as a portable media centre and for internet access.