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  2. Which is only $530 at the moment with the not-so-good Euro / GBP exchange rates. I still wanna get something that actually works - should a new phone with a replacement battery (6500 slider) lose a complete charge in under a day sending a few text messages, maybe three or four and making a few 30-second phone calls? Bluetooth is off and so is everything battery-hungry. As well as becoming extremely hot on those calls, like untouchable?

    And the keypad is stiff as fuck, like you press to unlock and it just says unlock and won't do anything for about six presses. Have there been many problems with that model, if anyone knows?
  3. Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

    Which is only $530 at the moment with the not-so-good Euro / GBP exchange rates. I still wanna get something that actually works - should a new phone with a replacement battery (6500 slider) lose a complete charge in under a day sending a few text messages, maybe three or four and making a few 30-second phone calls? Bluetooth is off and so is everything battery-hungry. As well as becoming extremely hot on those calls, like untouchable?

    And the keypad is stiff as fuck, like you press to unlock and it just says unlock and won't do anything for about six presses. Have there been many problems with that model, if anyone knows?


    If it's too hot to touch then the battery is done for.

    Keypad was below par on that model


  4. And it's dead slow too; I swear after working today I switched it on and it went so slow for about 30 minutes and even now it's slow as all hell.

    I hate the fucking thing - you know, I never had any real trouble with Nokias before but after this I'm thinking twice about it next time. Might go with Samsung or a Blackberry next time - at least they supposedly don't fuck up after three months and they actually believe the problems you're telling them, not saying there's never been a problem so yours should be fine. I think I'll get the battery replaced yet again, or just sell it off to some poor sod. Anything to get rid of it. I just hate the bloody thing. The keypad is ridiculous - one second it works the next you can't even write a text message without having to save it and start re-typing. That's terrible.

    What's the go on the HTC phones at the moment? Which one would be worth actually going for without many problems like the 6500 has and do they support 3G and what OS would it be running?
  5. HTC + Android is a win. I have a Legend eyed up


  6. Not liking the shell on that one so that's out straight away; the Hero on the other hand...maybe I'll take one of those. Android looks fun too; I need a bigger development area than iPhone OS, which is terribly limited so no more of that unless for personal enjoyment. Even then it still sucks hard.
  7. Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

    Not liking the shell on that one so that's out straight away; the Hero on the other hand...maybe I'll take one of those. Android looks fun too; I need a bigger development area than iPhone OS, which is terribly limited so no more of that unless for personal enjoyment. Even then it still sucks hard.


    The Hero is a plastic legend minus some processor speed, RAM and the OLED screen


  8. That one's even uglier now that I've seen it. Why are they all so damned ugly - in pictures? Maybe it'll look nicer on display but not in pictures. I'll have a look later.
  9. Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

    That one's even uglier now that I've seen it. Why are they all so damned ugly - in pictures? Maybe it'll look nicer on display but not in pictures. I'll have a look later.


    Ugly? This? aluminium uni body?



  10. See, now that looks nicer than what I just saw before. Nah, that ones the way to go I reckon for now.

    I still wonder why the bottom is so big though though - make it smaller and make a nicer-looking button. That's what I don't like. The touch has the same thing but at least it's not oversized like that, so it looks nice - the only nice thing on the iPod shell.
  11. Nokia released the Qt Creator for their mobile devices today.

    Code your apps and build them for Symbian / Maemo / Meego with one press at the button. Now i really got to learn Qt and C++
  12. Odd U2 - Internet Explorer comparison from TechRadar

    It Reads


    When Microsoft unwrapped an early version of IE9 yesterday, it proved beyond doubt something we've suspected for a while: IE is the Bono of browsers.

    The similarities between the Irish singer and a Windows web browser might not be immediately obvious, but they're there.

    In their early days U2 were underdogs, and no matter how good their records the critics would say "U2! You are rubbish! And your singer has a stupid name!"

    Early IE was like that too. Netscape was the critical darling, and early IEs were greeted with derision.

    Being underdogs suited U2. They made better and better records, got better and better at doing gigs, and eventually everything came together. U2 released The Joshua Tree, a brilliant album that conquered the planet.

    It was the same with Microsoft. Internet Explorer 4 was its Joshua Tree.


    •The lowdown on IE9's Scalable Vector Graphics
    Naturally, things went badly wrong for both U2 and Microsoft immediately afterwards. U2 were no longer underdogs, and they followed The Joshua Tree with Rattle & Hum, a film-and-album package that made even life-long fans want to punch them.

    The criticism stung so much that it forced U2 into underdog mode again. The next record, Achtung Baby, was a career highlight - and it put them on top of the world again, so they responded with more duff music. The lukewarm reaction to Pop resulted in Bono "reapplying for the job of the best band in the world", and the result was All That You Can't Leave Behind. According to Rolling Stone, it was "their third masterpiece."

    Microsoft needs to be the underdog

    There's an obvious pattern here: when U2 are underdogs, they're great. When they're not, they're not. Microsoft suffers from the same thing.

    Just look at Windows Mobile, which has been lacklustre for ages. Now Apple and Android are coming to eat its lunch, Microsoft is rediscovering its mobile mojo.

    Exactly the same thing's been happening in browsers. As soon as its browser ruled the web, Microsoft stopped bothering; if it weren't for Firefox, IE6 might still be the most recent Microsoft browser. However, thanks to Firefox and Johnny-come-latelys such as Chrome, Microsoft is in underdog mode again, and that's really apparent in the IE9 preview.

    The most interesting thing about the IE9 preview isn't the tech: it's the attitude behind it. Take Sunspider, the benchmarks that give a good indication of a browser's JavaScript performance.

    When reviewers - rightly - pointed out that IE8's Sunspider results were woeful compared to every other browser, Microsoft sent them patronising How To Review Browsers documents and dismissed Sunspider as unimportant. This time round Microsoft has sorted out the Sunspider performance and it's running around shouting "Benchmarks! Benchmarks! Benchmarks!"

    A brand new tune

    Of course Internet Explorer, like Bono, will always have its enemies. There are people out there for whom the very thought of Bono makes them want to punch a nun, and there are people out there who will forever associate the words "Microsoft" and "browser" with security problems and poor standards support.

    With IE9, though, Microsoft is singing a brand new song of security, and of standards support, and of hardware acceleration. Provided Microsoft doesn't mess it up, the release of IE9 could turn out to be - yes! - a Beautiful Day.
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