So am I missing something here?

If they only have 3 packs to sell off how will that ensure 4 players in a competitive market? Is this what Three are mainly pissed off about?

While QR might not exactly be setting the world alight

I have noticed the number of ads in higher end publications that contain a QR code seems to be growing by the day. I tried to point this out to a few folks at work and they had no idea what they were (although they all had QR readers on their phones), a year ago however you would have been lucky/unlucky depending on where you stand, to see one per publication.

I think some people are desperate to see these in use simply because of the upgrade in equipment it will mean. I have taken part in numerous surveys lately asking how I would feel about paying for things this way and what would be n upper limit etc. I'm all for it but think QR will be everywhere before long and NFC will really need to do something special and needed to counter QR.

Lots of comments

From people who haven't used one. I have an N8. I got it for the camera. Yeah I've heard all the stuff about sensors and processors etc etc etc but this takes the best photos I have ever seen on a phone or any camera I have owned. I take loads of photos of my kids and sometimes other things but I'm no pro and I don't use it professionally. For a camera on a half decent (more than that in my opinion but the haters will shout me down) phone it is pretty damn good and everyone I show is really impressed with the shots I take. I cannot believe that this new 41MP one that they have been working on for 5 years will be worse as many on here have claimed. All this talk from people who know better. Wait until you see it fools. Will it be the best camera on the market ever made? I doubt it, but will it be better than any other mobile phone camera currently on the market? Probably, if the shots friends have shown me on theirs are anything to go by.

I know of a lot of people

who are waiting for this to get hold of free HD content.

I got me a Panasonic 42 incher

with Smart Vierra connects tuff and it works just fine. The apps update fairly regularly when new ones come out and for the price I paid I cannot complain. Yeah it might be obsolete in a year or two but so is every phone you buy and PC and laptop. Mine has a built in FreeviewHD thing, iPlayer, Youtube and the others mentioned in the Panasonic review and I'd be surprised if it doesn't have YouView when that comes out. If you want a simple big screen with HDMI then there are quite a few out there. This review was 10 SMART TV's though and seems to have done it's job.

Sounds like not many people are interested

I managed to bag one for £350 in a Panasonic shop opening but to be honest I was just wanted a big screen (well 42") HD one to replace the massive old box that had been filling up half the room. The fact that it came with a bit of the internet was a sort of bonus ( the wifi adapter was extra and Panasonic wanted £70 for theirs) but I had to get a lead to connect it. Other than iPlayer, and Youtube we don't use any of the other bits. YouView will hopefully change that if it gets added but the Facebook and Twitter apps are not easy to use. I've read a lot of stuff lately about how it will revolutionize TV and I'll be able to Tweet and update Facebook while watching a show and talking to the web about it but unless you have a wireless keyboard you have to enter everything with you remote and frankly it's a lot easier to do with my phone or using the desktop so I really can't see that bit catching on. The NetFlix app (if it comes to Viera TVs) seems reasonable enough It has Ustream, DailyMotion, Screenrush, Viewster, PlayJam, Aupeo, Euronews and Eurosport but most of these need a subscription and I'm not paying extra to watch content of dubious worth when most of it can be found on Youtube. Skype needs yet another piece of kit fitted so I'll give that a miss too. Having Youtube on a big screen is sometimes usefull and iPlayer is great but as for the rest? My icon says enough.

As someone else mentioned most people have all of these things already, this just brings a bit more convergence.

3 offers proper honest to god AYCE UNLIMITED

While I have set up Giffgaff for a few mates who know even less than me, I have been with 3 for years and they boast about how unlimited their current unlimited plan is. It is really UNLIMITED. Just saying.

@brainwong

Licences are already being sold for the mining of some landfill sites.

Spelling

Is it just me or do the people that slag off Nokia phones all have the spelling ability of my 6 year old daughter?

Can I just explain the Texas Toast reference..

They are fairly large tablets that are toasty coloured, although more biscuity in my opinion although I am stumped on why the Texas bit was added. Maybe the drugs are just shit in Texas?

Been with them for years

and have never had anything more than minor problems. The AYCE data is fantastic. My phone is the wifi hotspot for my laptop now when I can't jump on anyone elses. They actively encourage you to use as much as you want. It doesn't slow down as the 1st AC thought it might. Who else is offering anything close?

Dunno about that...

Yeah the N97 was a pile of shoot but every phone on the market has it's issues and Nokia's are no different (N97 excepted as it was nothing BUT issues). Find me a perfect phone and I'll find you a fault.

The build quality on HTC, the awkwardness of the SE phones and don't get me started on the Jesusphones. The technerd market follows the next shiny thing to come out. The N97 may have annoyed many but if Nokia pull the cat out of the bag with their Windows phones (I know it's a gamble but do you really think they would put out something worse than their current crop?) just see the tech nerds come running.

Well I love my N8

And from what I saw of the N9 it seemed to cause quite a few bloggers to get the tissues out.

Not a popular view I know but how's about we wait till the bring out a Windows phone and see what they can do with it rather than slagging them off with the same old story. Is'nt this the same story that has been published for the last few months?

And seriously, I mean it, no cameras! I shouldn't even be telling you this!

I think it was probably a case of 'and you mustn't post this to your blogs guys' with a little pause while everyone got their camera phones out. And why not, Nokia could do with a bit of positive press for a change.

Those evil lying people

who claimed a few extra quid a week to feed their kids should have asked for duck houses for their castle moats instead. That would have been fine.

I'm sure I read in one of the many reports

that it was hit by an RPG by one of the guards but the pilot managed to still get it down pretty safely and it was then blown up.

X7

I've had a go on the X7 and loved it. It feels nice and weighty in your hand, the screen in massive and if it is half as good as the N8 I'll be making it my next phone. Probably gonna get a load of grief for saying this but, just as Nokia seemed to be on the right track they seem to be giving up.

@ Mr Gumby

Thanks for the info but do you really think they will be able to compete with the big boys simply because they are using LBS?

They have already been fined by OFCOM for flase advertising by bigging up their coupns which are one day only offers which ALWAYS require a significant purchase at the beginning. It's like when newspapers offer save £5 when you spend £50 but on a larger scale. Chase Manhattan and Bloomberg, among others, are far too quick to give huge valuations to companies that still haven't even made a profit. Lets see if anyone even remembers them other than for this ridiculously overpriced valuation in 2 years. All the newspapers are getting into this biz at the moment (or are they just frachises of Groupon?) and it seems like a very small bubble that will soon pop when people get sick of the conastant bombardment of emails and vouchers that they will never use.

You could always use Opera

apparently, someone told me, I think, um, that it bypasses the filter.

My filthy mind has just turned that Thumbs Up icon into something else.

Seems to me

like yet another bubble being blown up. I thought they were just another one of those crappy spam advertisers that people just ignored. I guess some people fell for their spiel though but $25bn? Let's see where they are in another 2 years. Anyone on here signed up with them? Do they have assets of any worth? Or is it all just hype and hot air?

Move along now

If God says it's time to set your clocks back instead of forward then who's getting it wrong? Not Apple, that's for sure. If the world can't set their clocks correctly then why should Apple get the blame.

Might have something to do with the fact that

on some networks you can't look at sexy pictures of girls and stuff when accessing the interwebs but if you use Opera then you are still able to on their 3g networks, apparently, someone told me um maybe.

They like their numbers don't they.

This morning I walked upstairs to empty my bladder 3 times before midday, that's 5 minutes 16 seconds walking and urinating today which puts me top of the list of walking and pissing in my house so far in March 2011.

I was lost after the firast sentance

Anyway, probably to do with political correctness gone mad.

my my my

Some people do get a bit worked up over a couple of photos. Can't be real cos it's got that bit which I know is not gonna be there cos I know.

I remember when Jobs announced that there would be a stylus on the 1st one and all the fan bois cooed and cheered but then when he revealed he was joking they all felt like cocks and then said they knew it was just a joke. He's not really God you know. It's only a crappy sub HTC phone.

Last line

I liked what you did there.

I want the same end of the world is nigh story

becuase of all those that were late more than once due to cock ups in Apple's updates/software/whatever related to alarms and timezones.

Mistakes happen. Snot the end of the world. They will damn sure make sure that it don't happen again.

Was really hoping

that this was some new seek and destroy method of targeting the Taliban or the Welsh seperatists

In my house we rarely watch any 'live' TV

The kids watch their favs over and over again and if there is something I want to watch it's often recorded as then I know I will be able to watch it when I want and speed through the ads. Series links save me having to worry about when something is on. Freeview plus has totally changed the way I watch tv.

I tried using the TescoClubCard one

and was told at the petrol station that it didn't work, then went inside the main store to shop and was told the same there. Waste of time and money (although it was free).

But I heard easyJet are doing theirs now in this form and it seems to be working fine.

Really looking forward to this

The Simon Schama made history interesting and exciting (if you like that sort of thing I guess) but I thought I knew a lot about history and learnt a hell of a lot from it. Never heard of it before but then I'm only a youngun so not surprising.

Nope

Couldn't hear it I'm afriad. I love things like this but this one just doesn soud like she wants it to. £22 for a crappy purple dog is a bt much though, even if you do get some unwanted extras. I saw a video the other day obout the things they oput in Disney movies that got past the editors and while one or two look like cocks I didn't see SEX in the dust as it swirled around and otheres were just as dubious. See and hearing what they want to hear. I used to play this game as a stoner teen looking up at the sk yand interpreting the clouds. Looks that one looks like a pig on a stick. That one is Concord playing a guitar and now its riding your mum etc etc etc .