Posts by jaminbob

Priv was the best phone I ever had. Don't last long when I moved to the country though. Adored it. Linked work and personal accounts through BB suite and it worked so well. Calendars and emails all in one place.

Re: Yep...

Finally an affordable price for a decent bb!

Re: 'There's very little round the £100 SIM-free price today.'

Suspect like tablets, people bought cheap ones and then regretted to it, and are now keen not to repeat the same mistake.

Re: Called it

It's a great example of when shiny corporate marketing world of 20 somethings in 'generic Western advert city' meets the real world of normal folk in rainy swindon or Sheffield.

I mean I like the idea of having a 70s scifi film prop on my wrist but until it does something useful and has a battery that lasts at least as long as a kindle, I'm not taking the risk of getting robbed or breaking it.

We tolerate smartphones batteries and risks because they are just So. Damn. Useful.

Re: Know your market

It was odd how for a time BlackBerry were in the unique place of being trendy in two entirely different markets; suits and urban teenagers. They went to smart phone too late to keep the teenagers (and the fact they handed over the BBM data from the London riots so willingly can't of helped). Then BB10 was just too late and too different to keep the suits.

But I think it comes down to price. Q5 was too expensive for PAYG teenagers and q10 / priv too much for IT depts.

The classic was a clear signal they'd made a mistake with the q10 and STILL cost too much.

Re: Security

I think to be fair its a low risk target. There is no sensitive info on a site like that and you can roll back in hours. There is not much point in spending huge amounts on top end sec.

Plus they're in good company. Not many organisations seem to be immune no matter how hard they try.

Agreed such a device is needed. There is so little differentiation in phones. I've never quite got over losing qwerty, but they just don't make flip downs anymore!

Re: So if we award all desktops to Microsoft then I make it...

That's not true. I live in a reasonably sized town in Somerset... Hardly the 'sticks'. Copper wire broadband is very flaky. And I commute on a train without broadband. Chrome books are cool some, but I'll take a tablet with keyboard any day.

Re: Fairly meaningless

Agreed. The hard core are driving sales at present. And they were *seriously* annoyed at MS proposals over ownership etc.

When the mainstream takes over it will be even more interesting. My anecdotal view was grown ups were buying PS and kids XB. So maybe the price difference will be even more important.

Re: beans

None are as funny as the "Foxconn reseller..." joke.

Luton makes vans now. As others have said last time I heard a news story about the German economy ... It wasn't doing so bad.

As these 'new economy' jobs like etialing and call centres become the norm its good to see workers getting representation. IMHO.

Re: I don't get it

Oh dear you nearly had me there too MS! My wife was excited at the prospect of having a single box which handled TV, DVD, BR, and SKYPE ready and running to talk to relatives in Norway and France. I'd persuaded her it was day one purchase.

Well you know what. Get lost MS.

Re: Content you create but don't own

Agree. Might of been vacuous junk, but they could of warned the poor dears. There's vacuous junk of mine from years ago I'd miss if it disappeared.

Not that I care enough to actually go and get it...

Re: +1 avoiding an upgrade

Oh no! No one stocks the screen I need. I'm doomed!

Re: No mention if 2-step verification?

The only problem with that, and granted, it may not be a problem for many, is what you do if you lose your mobile / get mugged / are abroad / don't have coverage / ran out of battery.

Don't get me wrong, great feature, but in some ways, my email account is more reliable and important than my mobile to me... maybe i'm weird.

Re: Please...

Have to agree. What else can anyone do? People don't seem to want physical media lying around as much. People will not pay 'per play', and buying DRM infested MP3s is subject to storage failure and portability issues (granted i-tunes is good for this).

So i want to be legal, Spotify is clear, you get to play it as long as you subscribe, after that you lose the lot. The problem is the record companies and Spotify creaming off too much, not the users. Its a shame because the internet could potentially remove the middle men altogether.

Re: Boooo!

That's what was going through my mind as I read this... "don't be evil..."