Posts by djstardust

Vapourware

Vodafone promised Gigafast (City Fibre) for our area in 2019

They dug up the main street some time ago and that was that.

Vodafone tell us to contact City fibre, they tell us to contact Vodafone.

Useless.

Even if it does happen I can't be arsed giving them the business to be honest.

Hmmm

Maybe theiryearly compulsory 3.9% plus CPI increase will pay to keep the staff on?

19 hours battery life

My Lenovo Yoga C940 has a big advert on the front page of the website advertising 18 hours battery life .....

At best it gets 3-1/2 .... and it even runs down with the laptop completely switched off so if you've not used it in a week you have to charge it again.

Large pinch of salt and all that.

Oh, and no thunderbolt 3. Really ...

BT

Are a horrible horrible company. Poor customer service and constant price increases. My mate works at EE and has been treated very unfairly lately.

For example in April, if you have a new EE contract the increase will be RPI plus 3.9%. How the hell is this justified?

I stipped using BT a few years ago and would never ever go back (although I guess my broadband provider is still using their infrastructure unfortunatey)

Vodafone?

We were promised City Fibre Gigafast late last year, and a year on..... nothing.

They dug up the main road about 6 months ago but have done nothing since.

Vodafone can't give an answer, City Fibre can't give an answer and the spotty 16 year old clowns in the Gigafast tent in town are equally clueless.

Oh dear

They're turning in to Samsung. A new phone literally every other week. Quantity over quality. Bad move.

Really .....

I've had nothing but problems with Lenovo. Terrible customer support, even worse on-site service and machines that are super buggy but never ever fixed.

I'm sure others will be happy but I would never buy from them ever again.

Meanwhile.....

It looks like Huawei are having any form of update pulled because of Trump and his idiotic US centric policies.

The industry is a mess.

DSG are their own worst enemy

Ordered a PC through their eBay page. 48 hour courier supposedly. Took 5 days to despatch and during that time it was impossible to contact them. They really shouldn't be in business.

Not a surprise

The Galaxy S was £400. All Samsung have done is shove £50 to £100 on each year for no real reason. The price has gone up far more than inflation.

Apple might get away with it but others won't. Samsung have taken many wrong turns against what their customers wanted and its catching up with them.

Ha ha

Two shit companies get together to create an even more shit one.

Virgin lying about speeds, terrible customer service. O2 with a network that's way behind anyone else and expensive too.

As much as I'm not Vodafone's biggest fan the network is very good, especially for data and the issues we've had with broadband (caused by BT cutting through a cable) we're dealt with reasonably well.

S20

It's too expensive.

Why have three models when one at a reasonable price would do.

Apart from that the Ultra is huge and not getting that good reviews.

Why they have to keep adding £50 to £100 each year is beyond me, but greed will get them in the end.

Same with their tellies, 65" model starts off at around £3500 and within 6 months it can be had for less than 2 grand.

Expect a fire sale soon folks!

It matters not one jot

To me anyway.

£1200 for a phone is insane, and especially for one that has camera bugs and a fast draining battery when used as advertised.

P30 Pro is far cheaper and probably has a better camera overall if photography is your thing. The battery life on it is amazing.

Yet the same Apple

Discontinued the 30 pin connector at their own will making car interfaces, docking speakers and everything else obsolete at the drop of a hat. They also before that changed the charging pin locations so that made older devices still using the same connector obsolete as well.

Pot kettle black?

Still not as bad

As the Vodafone broadband tech gift promotion. That was beyond awful.

Oh dear

Just read a few reviews and it seems to be rubbish basically.

Why couldn't they have dedicated the time to the Surface Pro instead and gave it smaller bezels and a couple of more ports. At least it sells in decent numbers and badly needs a refresh.

Who makes the decision to make these products and why does nobody actually test them before release?

This is going to hurt Britain

I work in the oil industry, currently on a 6 month project which is running a bit behind .... but it is a one off project and not a staff position.

The oil industry in Aberdeen has hundreds of Limited Co people working in it ... and many of them have been with the same company in the same role for years. I agree these people should not be using PSCs as they are staff by another name.

I had a chat with HR yesterday, and it seems that after 1st April they will not be taking on any Ltd Co contractors whether short term or not.

How do they complete short term specialist projects with the staff they have, what happens to the 50% of people working there that have done for years after 1st April and how will that affect business?

Answers on a postcard

Charities are a fraud

Many "employees" paid over 100k a year, training courses in 5 star hotels, first class travel, etc.

Haven't donated in years. Just corporate businesses that don't pay tax and expect any work done for them to be discounted or free whilst the money gets scammed off at the top.

Acer 6120 iconia

All over again. Sigh.

Is this...

The same Serco who are making a complete balls up of the Scottish sleeper service?

Outsourcing to these vultures just doesn't work for the public, but it does for shareholders and officials who get brown envelopes....

Just like Apple

Higher prices >£50 every year

Removing things

No innovation

I have the Huawei P30 Pro (replacement for the Note 8). The battery life is stellar, build quality is great and the 5x optical zoom is immense. Granted it doesn't have a headphone jack but either a HTC or Hidisz USB C DAC dongle makes it sound amazing with wired cans.

I also don't understand why the smaller Note 10 has no SD support but only 256gb fixed storage, where the larger one already has 512gb and SD support on top ??????

I really expected Samsung to compete with Huawei on the camera front but yet again it's the same old stuff rolled out with tiny improvements for the 3rd year now.

Sorry Samsung, you're falling behind and taking the piss now.

Oh dear

Selling the family silver (aka asset stripping) is never good in the long term. Temporary fix for being in the shit due to bad management decisions in the past.

But hey, what do we know......

It's a strange world

When serious competitors get together. Like Virgin and Stagecoach sharing rail franchises.

Shows there is no "real" competition as such when companies get together like this.

Just big business colluding to cut costs, increase profit and keep the monopoly going.

Personally

Nothing currently meets my specifications.

I have a 5 year old Yoga 2 Pro as my main DJ machine and it's brilliant. i7 is quick, screen is bright and parts can be replaced in it very easily.

New machines are just not as good. Terrible dull screens (to advertise better battery life) glued in components and less ports (no HDMI specifically as I'm a video DJ)

I have money sitting but it seems nobody wants it. The Surface seems good until you realise it is expensive (plus pen plus keyboard), it's glued together, only has a one year warranty and virtually no ports.

Its not Brexit, its lack of innovation and not giving the customer what they want.

Could see this coming

I asked for a lower contract rate in my current assignment to keep me under the 85k threshold. This has all the makings of yet another Government It fuck up and I really couldn't be done with all the hassle of registering for Vat.

They probably

have a shitload more space because of all the people who have left in the past month.

Another company with a suicidal policy change.

Everything

In this country is fucked.

If private companies can do so well and run like clockwork, what does that tell us about our civil service and the people in charge of government?

A total joke.

Or in other words

We've lost shit loads of customers and we're frantically trying to come up with ideas about how to get some back.

Hmmmm

Galaxy S was £400 when it came out. As the article says manufacturers have got greedy and copied Apple.

Simple as that.

This is intentional

We had EXACTLY the same issue with a discounted Galaxy S7 Edge a couple of years ago. System showed it as in stock, placed the order then heard nothing.

After repeated emails and calls they admitted the system couldn't handle all the orders and would we like something else?

Took 10 days to get a refund.

Now the cynic in me adds up all the interest from the orders placed but not fulfilled and that's a lot of money. Not to mention all the premium rate calls on their "special" number for customer service.

If it was a genuine system fault it should be well fixed by now.

Bastards!

This is a disgrace

No wonder there was a rush to sell the business off because this scandal was always going to come back and bite them in the arse at some point.

Over 500 people who went trough stress, convictions, loss of business and in some cases homes because of this.

I hope they sue for everything.

Another classic case of business calls all the shorts and doesn't listen.