This may be a wolf in sheep's clothing as you can easily disable the facebook launcher and you're back to stock android.
Posts by mikeyboosh
51 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Sep 2010
AT&T drops Facebook phone to 99 cents
Galaxy S4 radiant, but has black holes
Do users have enough power?
Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7in Android tablet review
Acer Iconia A110 8GB Android tablet review
Rumour: Asus rejects $99 Nexus 7... rumour
iPhone queue ‘superficial and pretentious’ says queuing fangirl
Friday 21st September 2012 10:19 GMT
Re: 'wants a phone that works'
I hear this a lot, but I find that Android on ICS and above is very easy to use, as does my not-really-technical-i-just want-to-send-a-text-and-check-facebook girlfriend.This was maybe not the case a few years ago but I think times have changed.
I'm sure I read a study once which compared how a 'virgin' user would perform tasks on iOS and Android, and I think it was really close. They measured things like hunting around to find the correct button etc.
Amazon pitches cheap new Kindles for Blighty
PCs get touchy ahead of Windows 8 launch
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NHS trust: Not buying through NHS IT saved us £7m
Sysadmins! There's no shame in using a mouse to delete files
Firefox 14 encrypts Google search, but admen can still strip-search you
McDonalds staff 'rough up' prof with home-made techno-spectacles
Apple 'fesses up: We broke App Store downloads
NHS trust spunks £67m on e-patient records, Twitter, Facebook
Tuesday 3rd July 2012 11:28 GMT
You're right. Our Trust wanted to buy some software which prompted users to update their details when they logged on, which in turn updated AD. They got quoted ~£20k I think, including all the bells and whistles. We (IT) found one for a couple of hundred dollars which did everything we needed, but without our help the project managers would probably have ploughed on.
However this my experience in nhs IT: Our budget it get allocated, we spec something up, then the budget gets cut and we have to compromise and the system never really works as we can't afford to do what we wanted to achieve in the first place. We do try and get 'inventive' with licenses etc but there is only so much you can do.
Ten... Androids for under 200 quid
Monday 2nd July 2012 09:35 GMT
Re: System storage???
Although rooting maybe straight forward for the target audience of this website, 99% of users not even know what rooting is and would never attempt it.
After I passed my Desire to my other half (i got a Galaxy s2 - sooo much better) I was forever looking after it for her; clearing up cache space etc. I don't know what HTC were thinking when they decided on space. It was the reason I left HTC and went to Samsung (2gb for apps, yes please!)
Dimming the lights on smart(arse) TV
Android Firefox: Screaming, awesome, you'll go blind etc
Android activations near a million a day
Laptop computers are crap
Free CompSci 101 finally launches this month
Samsung worker confirms April launch for Galaxy S III
ISP Be admits crippling iPlayer demand burst its pipes
Facebook denies poaching your text messages on Android
World's first bamboo smartphone to enter production
Apple iPhone 5 to debut at developer gig
Mozilla releases Firefox 10, adds developer tools
Microsoft builds Kinect into Asus laptops
Yahoo! cofounder! Jerry! Yang! quits!
Vauxhall prices up Ampera e-car for Blighty
Samsung joins Ultrabook race
Netflix goes live in Blighty
2011's Best... HD TVs
Man's phone burns, toasts trouser region
Chromebooks: the flop of 2011?
Wednesday 23rd November 2011 11:15 GMT
Like a lot of things, it's surely a price thing. The cheapest are about 300 quid, and some are more. I've just got a i5 (sandybridge) etc laptop for £399 (ASUS K53E, impressed with it btw) which will run everything I through at it from an OS standpoint
Is anyone surprised by this? Like dogged says, it will need a huge price cut to succeed
Facebook phone rises from the dead, again
Deduplication: a power-hungry way to streamline storage
Parmo v poutine: The ultimate post-pub nosh deathmatch
Friday 8th July 2011 14:06 GMT
Speaking from experience....
I work in Middlesbrough so I feel I'm well placed to comment....
Parmo's (I try and said Parmasan to avoid looking like a chav) are awesome, they generally come in chicken rather than pork though, and cost about £6 ish for a "full" (which would easily make 2 meals) . I haven't had one for 6 months as I try and keep them too a minimum for health reasons!
We've moved on to Shawarma's sandwiches now though...middle eastern loveliness!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
