i'd rather a platform were i have to be careful to avoid malware rather than a platform were there is a single 'gateway' to what apps can be installed. how can that gateway ever be considered impartial in a for profit…
app development on symbian used to be a chaotic affair till nokia brought in signed apps. after that the apps started to dry up. it became a hurdle for lone developers that wasn't worth the effort. i'm sure apple would…
and ireland. and with all the companies from the usa here i suspect it'll be a popular purchase to save space in a bag. i know i want one or three.
i'm beginning to think that the biggest problem may now be legal. with a driver there is someone to get a signature/payment/paperwork whilest a driverless vehicle would need something else. who's responsible for damage…
it's tyre in ireland.
the telegraph service western union turned down a chance to buy the patent for telephones as they thought it was merely a toy. it's still a custom in ireland to send telegrams for weddings, other than that... facebook…
i always regret that i didn't take my parents valve radio when the house was cleared and sold over a decade ago. it was bulky, inefficient but worked perfectly. had a lot of fond memories of that radio as a kid. they…
i'd rather pay an ubuntu tax than a microsoft tax so i really look forward to buying a new machine with the option of ubuntu even if it costs a little more. but my main concern will be the those who buy an ubuntu…
in 2008 nokia was a far superior phone. in europe anyway. they really seem to have had no impact in the usa. my nokias back then had nice useable keyboards, decent cameras that shot video, cameras with flashes. been…
i use llama on my android devices to turn on wifi only in places where it knows and turn it off else where. saves power too that way. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kebab.Llam...
aertel is still going for the mo. and you can see the pages on the web. which is handy for when the web is on a go slow. http://www.aertel.ie/aertel/ tvs with teletext cost about £20-30 more last time i bought a tv but…
here in ireland most schools and libraries has an apple ii. but they were expensive fragile things that nobody understood or touched. when the c64 came out our school got 6 linked to one floppy drive. we went nuts over…
i bought a sony walkman radio in the early 80s. still have it, use it every day, use it in the bathroom where it is subject to hot and humid conditions. it's now over a quarter of a century old and works fine. in the…
first i saw about non newtonian liquids was a british science entertainment show. and about a year afterwards they began talking about using the same as armour. just stuck in my mind as the kids show came first. from…
and there we run into the problem of one size fits all design. you hate the stylus and i prefer them. it comes down to what you are using your mobile tech for. with the psions keyboards i could get 30-40 wpm typing.…
i had stylus with psions and several palms and palm clones. over 10 years of use and never lost a single stylus. make a standard stylus and it becomes easy to keep a spare in your bag.
but the stylus available for android and iphones are horrible (at least the 2-3 i've tried). my sharp zaurus had a neat learning mode which allowed me to teach it graffiti. one of the main reasons i gave up palm (had a…
i was thinking more along the lines of keyboard based android devices. rim have shown they can build heavyduty hardware that can take a lot of punishment.
patents? i'm sure apple could do with their push email patents. they make a nice keyboard based phone. a version of android on their hardware might do well. i have heard and seen blackberries take a lot of punishment…
i'd keep it in my bag next to my towel. :-) but it would be really useful. have used the metal detector in the android tricorder app to find metal in places where we were planning to drill. if somebody builds them in…
this. beaming between palms and psions with irda was childs play compared to swapping via bluetooth on later devices. searching, pairing, authorising. and that's assuming the other recipient knows how to use bluetooth.…
depends on what you want from a mobile device. * faster text entry for writing a book? keyboard wins every time. * less distractions while working on a project. * runs for ages on a sniff of alkaline batteries. * easily…
and we'll have referendums till the government gets the result they want. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Nice
i'd have said 1996 with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9000_Communicator but it was a niche product that probably didn't appear in the u.s. much. as a psion user i lusted after these devices. but price of…
i think you can get free downloads of music from sony, warner, universal and emi using google in china. never been there but i have seen it mentioned in articles from time to time. a quick search turns up…
i'd rather a platform were i have to be careful to avoid malware rather than a platform were there is a single 'gateway' to what apps can be installed. how can that gateway ever be considered impartial in a for profit…
app development on symbian used to be a chaotic affair till nokia brought in signed apps. after that the apps started to dry up. it became a hurdle for lone developers that wasn't worth the effort. i'm sure apple would…
and ireland. and with all the companies from the usa here i suspect it'll be a popular purchase to save space in a bag. i know i want one or three.
i'm beginning to think that the biggest problem may now be legal. with a driver there is someone to get a signature/payment/paperwork whilest a driverless vehicle would need something else. who's responsible for damage…
it's tyre in ireland.
the telegraph service western union turned down a chance to buy the patent for telephones as they thought it was merely a toy. it's still a custom in ireland to send telegrams for weddings, other than that... facebook…
i always regret that i didn't take my parents valve radio when the house was cleared and sold over a decade ago. it was bulky, inefficient but worked perfectly. had a lot of fond memories of that radio as a kid. they…
i'd rather pay an ubuntu tax than a microsoft tax so i really look forward to buying a new machine with the option of ubuntu even if it costs a little more. but my main concern will be the those who buy an ubuntu…
in 2008 nokia was a far superior phone. in europe anyway. they really seem to have had no impact in the usa. my nokias back then had nice useable keyboards, decent cameras that shot video, cameras with flashes. been…
i use llama on my android devices to turn on wifi only in places where it knows and turn it off else where. saves power too that way. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kebab.Llam...
aertel is still going for the mo. and you can see the pages on the web. which is handy for when the web is on a go slow. http://www.aertel.ie/aertel/ tvs with teletext cost about £20-30 more last time i bought a tv but…
here in ireland most schools and libraries has an apple ii. but they were expensive fragile things that nobody understood or touched. when the c64 came out our school got 6 linked to one floppy drive. we went nuts over…
i bought a sony walkman radio in the early 80s. still have it, use it every day, use it in the bathroom where it is subject to hot and humid conditions. it's now over a quarter of a century old and works fine. in the…
first i saw about non newtonian liquids was a british science entertainment show. and about a year afterwards they began talking about using the same as armour. just stuck in my mind as the kids show came first. from…
and there we run into the problem of one size fits all design. you hate the stylus and i prefer them. it comes down to what you are using your mobile tech for. with the psions keyboards i could get 30-40 wpm typing.…
i had stylus with psions and several palms and palm clones. over 10 years of use and never lost a single stylus. make a standard stylus and it becomes easy to keep a spare in your bag.
but the stylus available for android and iphones are horrible (at least the 2-3 i've tried). my sharp zaurus had a neat learning mode which allowed me to teach it graffiti. one of the main reasons i gave up palm (had a…
i was thinking more along the lines of keyboard based android devices. rim have shown they can build heavyduty hardware that can take a lot of punishment.
patents? i'm sure apple could do with their push email patents. they make a nice keyboard based phone. a version of android on their hardware might do well. i have heard and seen blackberries take a lot of punishment…
i'd keep it in my bag next to my towel. :-) but it would be really useful. have used the metal detector in the android tricorder app to find metal in places where we were planning to drill. if somebody builds them in…
this. beaming between palms and psions with irda was childs play compared to swapping via bluetooth on later devices. searching, pairing, authorising. and that's assuming the other recipient knows how to use bluetooth.…
depends on what you want from a mobile device. * faster text entry for writing a book? keyboard wins every time. * less distractions while working on a project. * runs for ages on a sniff of alkaline batteries. * easily…
and we'll have referendums till the government gets the result they want. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Nice
i'd have said 1996 with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9000_Communicator but it was a niche product that probably didn't appear in the u.s. much. as a psion user i lusted after these devices. but price of…
i think you can get free downloads of music from sony, warner, universal and emi using google in china. never been there but i have seen it mentioned in articles from time to time. a quick search turns up…