Re: More Mobile Phone discussion : Thu Jun 21, 2012 1:03 pm  

had the s3 for a week now and it is fantastic, it incredibly smooth and the screen is stunning. The quad cores seem to take anything you can throw at them. Im pretty sure the One x would be on a par though as these two stand head and shoulders above anything out there.

On another note if anyone is thinking of buying into nokia and windows phone 7 dont. Not a single WP7 device will be capable of upgrading to WP8 so yr shiny nokia 900 will be obsolete come November.

Re: More Mobile Phone discussion : Thu Jun 21, 2012 1:58 pm  

rhino phil wrote:

had the s3 for a week now and it is fantastic, it incredibly smooth and the screen is stunning. The quad cores seem to take anything you can throw at them. Im pretty sure the One x would be on a par though as these two stand head and shoulders above anything out there.

On another note if anyone is thinking of buying into nokia and windows phone 7 dont. Not a single WP7 device will be capable of upgrading to WP8 so yr shiny nokia 900 will be obsolete come November.

Indeed, the way they've gone about WP8 does appear to make any purchase of a 7/7.5 phone seem a bit silly now and I can't see them selling many pre November.

But to be fair to MS, WP8 looks really good and will apparently run Direct X and be far and away the best handsets for video and gaming. I watched a thing on MS the other day and said there isn't currently a phone in existence that could even run WP8, so they are expecting something special when the WP8 handsets are announced.

Re: More Mobile Phone discussion : Thu Jun 21, 2012 2:57 pm  

rhino phil wrote:

Not a single WP7 device will be capable of upgrading to WP8 so yr shiny nokia 900 will be obsolete come November.

There aren't many phones that are not obsolete right out of the box...
Just because it won't run the latest version of the OS doesn't mean it is useless, after all the vast majority of Android phones don't get upgraded beyond point updates.

Re: More Mobile Phone discussion : Thu Jun 21, 2012 3:03 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

There aren't many phones that are not obsolete right out of the box...
Just because it won't run the latest version of the OS doesn't mean it is useless, after all the vast majority of Android phones don't get upgraded beyond point updates.

Indeed, and as some people have experienced aith Apple OS upgrades, they aren't always the best step to take depending on how old the handset is.

Re: More Mobile Phone discussion : Thu Jun 21, 2012 3:52 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

There aren't many phones that are not obsolete right out of the box...
Just because it won't run the latest version of the OS doesn't mean it is useless, after all the vast majority of Android phones don't get upgraded beyond point updates.

thats true to a point but this will hamstring WP8 and will crucify nokia. Who in their right mind would buy a 900/710 etc knowing the o/s is coming to a halt to be replaced.Theyre surely looking at another 6 months of flatlining sales (although they probably were anyway) Its like google announcing Jellybean wont run on a single existing device it would seriously undermine android as an o/s. If id bought a 900 which after all is their flagship device and only a few months old Id be spitting feathers. I know WP8 has got a good write up but the tile based O/s doest appeal to me (although strangely I quiet like metro!). MS do like to put limits on things though and their failure to support 1080p display may come back to bite them as the quality of display and pixel density is a big selling point and I cant see taht changing any time soon in a 'retina' marketplace.

Ultimately I can see the market thinning out to Android and IOS only. RIM are falling apart and WP8 will struggle

Re: More Mobile Phone discussion : Thu Jun 21, 2012 4:09 pm  

rhino phil wrote:

thats true to a point but this will hamstring WP8 and will crucify nokia. Who in their right mind would buy a 900/710 etc knowing the o/s is coming to a halt to be replaced.

Anyone who buys a PC/MAC/iPhone/Android handset, all OS's get upgraded and there are many Android handsets out on the market that won't get official upgrades to the next release of the OS. Those that are happy to play about will get the latest software to run but that is a tiny minority of users.

rhino phil wrote:

failure to support 1080p display may come back to bite them as the quality of display and pixel density is a big selling point and I cant see taht changing any time soon in a 'retina' marketplace.

It's a phone, not a HD TV all this b0110cks with retina displays and HD support is just hardware sellers trying to find something to make you upgrade, something that makes your nice shiny six month old phone redundant in their eyes.

IPS screens are coming to the next generation of handsets for those that want it, those that don't will continue to enjoy behind the curve hardware at rock bottom prices.

Don't be fooled by the hype, Apple have one phone, they need to make it look new every 9 months or so.

Re: More Mobile Phone discussion : Fri Jun 22, 2012 11:24 am  

loathed as I am to link to the Wail, but this may be of interest

loathed as I am to link to the Wail, but this may be of interest

Re: More Mobile Phone discussion : Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:06 pm  

Standee wrote: loathed as I am to link to the Wail, but this may be of interest They did this before and the same stink was raised, nowt happened. This will only push the E to bring forward legislation to make all manufactures use mini USB chargers,

Standee wrote: loathed as I am to link to the Wail, but this may be of interest They did this before and the same stink was raised, nowt happened. This will only push the E to bring forward legislation to make all manufactures use mini USB chargers,

Re: More Mobile Phone discussion : Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:16 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

They did this before and the same stink was raised, nowt happened.
This will only push the E to bring forward legislation to make all manufactures use mini USB chargers,

can anyone really control a private company though, they haven't managed to get laptop manufacturers to use the same adapters?

or razor manufacturers to make "universal" blades

or vacum manufactureres to make "universal" bags

Re: More Mobile Phone discussion : Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:30 pm  

Within 10 minutes someone will have a £3 adaptor on the market so that tw*s can still plug their iphone into their Harmon Kardon stereo to fully appreciate the hollow, dead, souless, plastic music reproduction of their phones.

Another simple answer - don't buy the f****g iphone 5.