Posts by JDX

Dear Reg...

Please could you add price and ideally review score columns to the table on page 1?

Wow

Not one mention of Opera so far? I thought it was obligatory.

Don't see the twitter thing as a big deal. I don't use it but that doesn't mean I won't use a product with integration... daft.

By 2015

Ultrabooks might not even exist.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwww

please please no.

re:But fucking tricky to play in the car

If only they made car stereos that could play from USB/SD storage... oh... they do.

Needed?

A single-core 1.5GHz chip is equivalent to a Pentium 4, which could run your whole desktop PC rather well!

What do phones DO with all this power, given that most apps are pretty simple compared to stuff like Call of Duty or Photoshop?!

Phwoar

as title

Interesting, but

I never realised things were so confusing and complicated, so this was very interesting. However I have to point out the writer has a real bee in their bonnet about Java, and that rant is rather bizarre.

@steven W. Scott

With predictions like that you should join MS' strategy department.

4th?

They bundle all Windows OSes as one result? And then list Linuxes separately?

Read and Record

Isn't that what the obnoxious kid on Young Apprentice was banging on about?

@Will Godfrey

As a Physicist and a Bible-believing christian, I don't think so. Scientific atheists (or more commonly atheists who claim to understand science and Christianity but are in reality rather ignorant of both) like to claim believers use God to fill in the gaps science hasn't yet explained. That WOULD be a very weak position, but it's not accurate. The two are not incompatible.

You don't think the app will let you show a receipt?

"Would Half-Life today be reviewed as highly as it was?"

No. It's 10 years out of date graphically for a start.

"it works best with its tongue firmly in-cheek"

So go watch Johnny English...

Chunky as it looks?

This is basically just a netbook without a keyboard, right?

Anyone know what version of Windows?

Has this got anything to do with radioactivity?

Or is it simply for soaking up specific elements, regardless of isotope?

"If anything that's a reason to respect the move"

No, really not. They're a bunch of arrogant nerds who are used to getting away with being idiots because they're behind a computer. A cartel could buy some serious hacking clout of their own.

Bleh

Did they let the work experience kid write something or is El Reg publishing reader letters now?

And when was this true: "Once upon a time in a galaxy far away, PCs started up instantly: lean operating systems leapt from chips in machines that were not saddled with obese software and weighed down with bloatware."

Isn't it bizarre how the movement from fixed phone to mobile has come full circle to a device you interact with without touching... voice and gesture recognition.

Kind of pricey

Trying to beat iPad on features/quality rather than price is a bold move. I wonder if it will work - or if most of the people happy to splash £500 (!!) on a gadget will already have an iPad.

Deep stuff.

Unless it was "oh no" rather than "oh wow"

yep

Better with two screens connected using a cable.

Nice idea though.

re: theoretical

Yes - but what if some famous/influential person has one. Specific targets could be more worried about someone only having to loiter outside the entrance to their workplace.

@eulampios

Your argument doesn't actually address the question asked. Nobody asked IF Windows had security vulnerabilities. The fact similar things haven't happened on *nix/OSX doesn't mean they lack such holes, UNTIL people try to find them as fervently as they do on Windows, and fail. Until a non-Windows system has similar majority share to attract the miscreants, we won't have an asnwer.

"I actually think the entire industry is going to go fully electric,"

I really hope someone running a company knows that is marketing drivel, and doesn't really believe it.

a tiny cut for everyone

$0.01 off $0.15 is not tiny, it's nearly 7%.

iPhone?

Surely it won't get any reception?

<mong>just like on Earth</mong>

300,000 pages a day

If nothing else, this will help people running sites realise when their business model has flaws... if you can't even cover these costs something isn't right.

Tea

If he always brings his own tea, why does he spend a paragraph blithering on about which kinds he likes?

Cheaper on Kindle

How delicious.

Pulled?

Maybe - or maybe no need because few will want a separate app they have to launch with less integration. The missing maps and stuff will come soon.

Silly Apple...

There's not an app for that.

Wasting your time

El Reg might as well not bother reviewing Mango or Mango phones. You're just going to get a flood of comments from people who haven't read the article and have never seen the phones, telling us that it's crap.

2 cents

1)I don't see the big deal of page-flashing... with a real book you have a far more prolonged page-turn, with dangerous paper-cut risk :)

2)Hard without seeing it for real but for some reason, 'kobo' looks like a store-brand copy of Kindle to me, like Sanyo.

2.5)Does WH have enough of a brand left these days? It used to be the equivalent of Woolworths - but now it's the equivalent of Woolworths.

Worst article title ever

"Updating to Windows Phone 7.5"

There I was thinking this might be a review of 7.5 or something useful... instead it's a whole article about updating your phone using a minority OS. I'm sure it's interesting to the other Mac users who wanted to upgrade their WP7 devices (all 4 of them) but would a descriptive title be OK next time...

I think they must be valid claims

Small companies may well settle because they can't afford to fight MS. But some of the companies who agreed to settle are big $multi-billion giants who certainly could - look at Samsung fighting Apple. This makes me think there is something valid (based on the law, not necessarily common sense) about these patent claims.

The new Nokia phones are Mango devices, so, not surprisingly, they aren't high-end.

That's incorrect... MS set the minimum spec not a fixed or maximum spec. Manufacturers are free to put in a massive processor and loads of storage if they want to compete at the £500 end.

Pointless

analysis is a valid thing to do, but in volatile areas like IT it is hard. And in a new, rapidly growing and maturing area of a volatile IT sector, predictions 5-6 years on are mere speculation.

Prefer the book

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton is a great book IMHO.

It would be nice to have a review of WP7.5, and then the phone reviews can actually review the phone... so every phone review isn't a review of the OS too.

pre-touch iPod

I still love the design on the metal nano... the wheel and overall finish is so tactile. I think the touch versions lose a bit of 'soul'

@Destroy All Monsters

Are you drunk or just brain-dead?

I'll wait for a review

That's a hint, Mr. Reg :)

As the technology matures, the low-cost tablet market could become very interesting I think... when iPad4 is 50X faster than iPad1, iPad1 level tech will cost little but will be just as good for web-browsing as it ever was.