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From: Harry on 17 May 2010 11:49 On 5/10/10 12:18 AM, Larry wrote: > John Navas<spamfilter1(a)navasgroup.com> wrote in > news:02jdu51ep5hpqgjnkt4a4qmrnovlu284nc(a)navasgroup.com: > >> Apple's iPhone is the Nick Clegg of smartphones: attractive, >> media-savvy, and firmly in third place when matched up against its >> more-experienced rivals. >> >> The top worldwide smartphone manufacturer - by a hefty margin - > remains >> neither Apple nor Research in Motion but Nokia, according to the IDC's >> latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report. >> >> Well, to be completely accurate, the report surveyed what IDC insists > on >> calling "converged mobile devices," but what every other sentient > being >> on the planet calls smartphones. >> >> In a nutshell, the report places Nokia's worldwide smartphone market >> share at 39.3 per cent, RIM's at 19.4, and Apple's at 16.1, all for > the >> first calendar quarter of 2010. These numbers differ somewhat from > those >> announced last week by Strategy Analytics, but not enough to cause >> cheering in Cupertino or weeping in Espoo, Finland. >> >> MORE: > <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/07/idc_smartphone_numbers/> >> > > John, have you taken a look at the Nokia N8 coming out? > > http://events.nokia.com/NokiaN8/ > > http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-n8 > > 12 users who enter the winning app IDEAs will be flown to a big Nokia > event in London. Some celebs are judging the contest.... > > 12 MP camera with a real xenon flash and HD 720p video....in a phone?! > > Love the cool way the camera zooms in and out....by moving it towards > and away from the subject.... > > There's also a webcam on the screen side for online video cam. > > 48GB with a 32GB microSDHC card in it. None of that Crapple > hobbling.... Free mapping for 70 countries. > Symbian 3 OS...first one. > > No wonder they're number ONE. > > > I'd be happier if the makers of these fancy phones would concentrate on making the *phones" better. I don't give a damn about having a high megapixel camera in a phone. Either my even higher megapixel full frame D-SLR or my lower megapixel pocket camera will outshoot it. Tunes? My iPOD does better, and for three times the amount of time on a battery charge. Plus, if I listen via my iPod, my cell phone still has its battery life for...phone calls. I do use my cell's internet capabilities to check my POP email accounts. In fact, that's the major reason why I got an HTC Incredible. Movies? Do I want to watch a movie on our 50+ inch HD tv set or on my cell phone? Tough call. :>)
From: Harry on 19 May 2010 07:59 On 5/19/10 10:41 AM, Larry wrote: > nospam<nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote in news:190520100147005359% > nospam(a)nospam.invalid: > >> In article<41r6v5lbg30dm30hn68t5eepr4u9ms6c1u(a)4ax.com>, Paul Miner >> <pminer(a)elrancho.invalid> wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the description and examples. I can see some value there, >>> but it's not something I'm interested in for myself. I prefer to >>> directly manage my music (the files/folder method) rather than having >>> an app for that. >> >> fair enough. >> > > I can't remember the last time I searched out a specific song/artist, but > the Motorola music player dissects the ID3 tag on all the MP3s it finds on > any memory location in about 30 seconds, just once when you insert or > change cards. Once the online database has updated itself, the music > player has sorted Artist, song, album, genre lists if you want them. > > My cards are sorted by genre-named folders, mostly due to they came from > genre-named alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.(genresortednewsgroups) in the first > place. I play them shuffled so I don't get so bored listening to one > artist singing for long periods of time, like any good radio station. > Motorolas shuffle just fine, I guess. I seed the shuffle by starting it on > a different song with the fast forward/back buttons before leaving home. > After that, it pretty much takes care of itself playing a few thousand > songs in the non-existant "random playlist" the computer has created in its > imagination. I do change genres a few times a day, which are on different > cards that are regularly reburned completely. I have millions of files.... > (c;] > > I simply cannot imagine having to deal with what shitty iTuneys convoluted > nonsense every time I want to reload 50K songs just to swap genres. How > stupid. > So, what you are saying here is that aside from fiddling with your cell phone, you don't have a lot to do in your life besides downloading bootlegged music and spending your day with earplugs in your ears? :>)
From: Justin on 27 May 2010 13:32 nospam wrote on [Wed, 19 May 2010 15:24:49 -0500]: > In article <Xns9D7D7A8A2573Anoonehomecom(a)74.209.131.13>, Larry > <noone(a)home.com> wrote: > >> One of the reasons Apple fabboiz don't mind Apple's toys NOT being >> multitasking is because they, themselves, aren't multitasking.....(c;] > > wrong, again. Of course, they are making coffee and doing laundry and stuff while their PC is hung up syncing to their iPod.
From: Justin on 27 May 2010 14:21 nospam wrote on [Thu, 27 May 2010 10:47:43 -0700]: > In article <htma86$33b$6(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Justin > <nospam(a)insightbb.com> wrote: > >> My 8GB nano runs out of power when I go to Australia. So, it happens. > > how often do you do that? going to australia is not something people do > on a regular basis. the ipod nano is rated for 24 hours of music > playback and that's enough for a round trip to australia. or just buy > an airline adapter. so yes, it happens but it's very rare. Annually at least. There are hundreds of thousands of people that work in one country and have immediate family on the other side of the planet. By the way, it takes 24 hours each way from where I am, due to the airlines not having direct flights. None of the planes I have flown on have power anywhere near where I sit. So, two batteries to swap out would be great. My Creative Zen let me do that. >> > most people never buy a second phone or laptop battery anyway, so even >> > though they say they want a swappable battery, they never actually swap >> > one. this is very easy to tell by how many spare batteries are sold >> > compared to how many of the device itself. >> >> Ah, but when that battery dies after 2 or 3 years, how do you replace it? > > the battery is rated for 5 years, but in any event, there are battery > replacement kits or you can have it replaced. Sure they are.
From: Justin on 27 May 2010 14:31
John Navas wrote on [Thu, 27 May 2010 11:23:53 -0700]: > On Thu, 27 May 2010 18:21:33 +0000 (UTC), Justin <nospam(a)insightbb.com> > wrote in <htmd7d$sgc$5(a)news.eternal-september.org>: > >>nospam wrote on [Thu, 27 May 2010 10:47:43 -0700]: >>> In article <htma86$33b$6(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Justin >>> <nospam(a)insightbb.com> wrote: >>> >>>> My 8GB nano runs out of power when I go to Australia. So, it happens. >>> >>> how often do you do that? going to australia is not something people do >>> on a regular basis. the ipod nano is rated for 24 hours of music >>> playback and that's enough for a round trip to australia. or just buy >>> an airline adapter. so yes, it happens but it's very rare. >> >>Annually at least. There are hundreds of thousands of people that work in one >>country and have immediate family on the other side of the planet. >> >>By the way, it takes 24 hours each way from where I am, due to the airlines >>not having direct flights. None of the planes I have flown on have power >>anywhere near where I sit. So, two batteries to swap out would be great. >>My Creative Zen let me do that. > > You could of course get a low cost battery extender, > which works quite well. True, then I would have a dongle hanging from my iPod making it somewhat less convenient to just throw in a shirt pocket and listen. |