Posts by spencer

Re: Why?

It's simple to use, your grandma could work it out. No windows tax makes it cheap.

Re: Fascinating what people will go through to avoid IPv6

This is so true it hurts.

The solution to this particular problem has been with us for years.

Re: How much !

... How much are we talking about? I can't see a price.

Re: Opera

Seriously?

Pretty much every mention of browser and there's a smug Opera user who'll (correctly) point out that it was in their browser first.

Re: Why this is good

...or put facebook there and not have to worry about all sites recording where you've been and reporting back to the facebook hive-mind.

..

Surely the car's specs and performance should speak for themselves regardless of brand.

I nearly made a comment about which fruity brand of computer you probably buy, but that would be immature.

Not *just* a screamer

What happens when you get shouted at for actually doing something objectively wrong?

Re: Hmm

depends if expandable memory is a big deal for you or not.

Re: Wrong again

I cannot find any ultrathins with a decent AMD chip in. Could you name a few?

the a6 chip isn't as good as a similar priced i5 with integrated gfx. The only thing that's decent is the a10 and I can't find any small thin laptop with it in.

Shame, I'd snap one up in a heartbeat.

Re: Shame@ Spencer

That sounds depressingly true Ledswinger.

My complaint here is as a consumer - wanting some A123 cells, not being able to find a single supplier and ending up getting it shipped from China.

Re: And like Spotify, new sign-ups need a Facebook account.

Spotify works fine for me under Wine - but I have a pre-facebook account and I've kept it unlinked.

Re: Have smartphone; DS gathering dust

Smartphone (for me) is used to waste time on bus journeys, trains, waiting in a line.

3DS used as Console at home, holiday, etc

Xbox/Wii gathering dust.

Re: New Meaningful Register Units of Battery Capacity Needed

They probably just relayed what was in the press release.

@Thad - not sure if you're joking or not, but mAh is a decent indicator of battery life.

Re: Well

You get more control as default, like you can choose your keyboard software, the browser you want, the sms app, email client etc. You can store stuff on SD cards like movies, music etc without specialist software also which is always nice. And then if you want more control you can root the phone for superuser access fairly easily because all Sony Phones come with an unlocked bootloader, but that's more if you want to start using your phone for non-phone stuff.

( all of this written off the top of my head, happy to be corrected. )

Re: 45 degree views

Agree, this article might have made some sort comment about how this stuff is already available on rival maps services.

I know theReg isn't the BBC, but still....

disagree

In some places things just get done differently.

But yes - sod the Olympics.

Re: Stating the obvious

I just hope there's not a painfully long wait like with the Brazos netbook chippery.

...and then once they arrived no one took any notice of them, despite most of them being of a decent spec for not much monies.

Re: ARM emulator

I think you're broadly right. I've used android on x86 before and most apps work (because they're written in Java and interpreted).

I think the article could have explained that part a bit better.

Anyway - seems like a good phone for the money. And android on x86 is pretty nippy so I'll be watching this space with great interest - If the battery is half decent then you have a phone that can also be plugged into an HDMI and used as a proper x86 with a proper OS.

...that's the dream anyway!

Re: Forgot to mention.....

My point was that the review does not mention that you *have* to register. Surely that's something worth knowing?

Fair point on the exporting.

Re: @spencer

My mistake - I was looking at 11" screens - please disregard!

Re: Trolling is the new form of reporting and reviewing!

Joke is on him then, I can't see any ads on the forum pages...