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Which handset is the King of Smartphones? Gadget Show, 14 March 2011 |
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Actually I have always found them to be anti-Apple (particularly Jon and Suzi).
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Not top dog in what sense? It's taking over half the revenue for SmartPhones and topping the reviews.
As for developers, due to the fragmentation on Android it's very hard for them to make money. One developer is making more on Android than Apple, 65,000 are not. ![]()
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Gadget Show smartphone "Test"
My problems with the test are as follows
1) The "Knockout" routine-who is to say the 'phone knocked out in the first test might not have out-performed on the others? Surely a more useful methid would have been for all four to go through all the tasks? 2) The Blackberry Torch is harder to text on with a physical keypad than on a touch screen? Really? I'm no fan of the Blackberry, but this seems unrealistic:it also ignored the fact that, if you close the keypad, you get a touch keypad on-screen. 3) The HTC HD7 is another example of great hardware crippled by a rubbish OS-Windows mobile sucks and blows simultaneously. HTC have revolutionised the Mobile industry with their Android phones-so why not test the Desire/Desire HD, using an OS that millions have fallen in love with? 4)Yes, I knew the iPhone 4 would win. Yawn. The GS used to be a useful and enjoyable show, just nowadays seems to be a vehicle to promote how physically fit/attractive the presenters are, and to push the competition (which is where, I suspect the programme makes its money back) 5) Pollyanna. Yes she's cute, but could we have less of her screaming and squealing? |
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3) The HTC HD7 is another example of great hardware crippled by a rubbish OS-Windows mobile sucks and blows simultaneously. HTC have revolutionised the Mobile industry with their Android phones-so why not test the Desire/Desire HD, using an OS that millions have fallen in love with?
Also from what I've been reading most people are impressed with the new Windows 7 Mobile, it's nothing like the previous versions. |
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5) Pollyanna. Yes she's cute, but could we have less of her screaming and squealing?
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a friend of mine asked me about this yesterday. Quote:
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By the way, did you see the gadget show yesterday.... a bit harsh that the iPhone 4 won because the other phone’s battery ran out, though I suppose that is rather fundamental, unlike the rest of the challenges.
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i don't watch the gadget show. i hate it. of course the iPhone won, it always does. as fundamental as the battery going flat is. if one phone has a better battery life than the other you could always design a test that lasted in-between the two and decide that the one with the longer battery life won, all other test become irrelevant. though knowing the gadget show they probably were anyway. what were they doing updating twitter whilst bungie jumping/sky diving? blogging from the moon? something outdoorsy?
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The test was pretty similar to that which you describe so I won’t go in to any more detail. It did look pretty neck-and-neck with the next best phone (adjusting for the ludicrous test) apart from the battery issue.... so I’m happy enough to call it a draw.
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3) The HTC HD7 is another example of great hardware crippled by a rubbish OS-Windows mobile sucks and blows simultaneously
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Another thread turned into an Apple rant, mods, please do us all a favour and lock it.
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I'm sure I read Apple avoid flash due to it crashing and slowing a device down.
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HTC HD7 does not run on Windows Mobile. Have you even been anywhere near a WP7 device or tried one?
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The HTC HD7 is everything we'd hoped it would be, thanks to its gorgeous hardware and the simple, swoopy pleasure of Windows Phone 7. But only time will tell whether the bare shelves of the app store will eventually be stacked with treats.
Source: http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/mobile-pho...#ixzz1GlzIZiNq
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LOL never mind Apple and the iphone. My question was specifically what phones could handle flash based facebook apps. As Apple have chosen for whatever reason not to make flash available no point in even mentioning them. Lets stick with Android phones or maybe Windows phones. So again What phones have the crunch power to handle that?
eeerm i think you'll find it does Source: http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/mobile-pho...#ixzz1GlzIZiNq |
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windows mobile ≠ windows phone 7
I think Microsoft should fire whichever idiot Redmond executive came up with the name. They must have thought it would get positive association with desktop Windows 7 rather than negative association with Windows Mobile. They should have called it Zune phone or something. |
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Thanks.
I think Microsoft should fire whichever idiot Redmond executive came up with the name. They must have thought it would get positive association with desktop Windows 7 rather than negative association with Windows Mobile. They should have called it Zune phone or something. WP7 looks promising, but support from Microsoft for the platform is looking decidedly shaky. Microsoft Delays First Windows Phone Update 7, Says Next One On Track It deserves better. |
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Am amusing review of The Gadget show program.
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Microsoft likes/wants everything to be Windows. This may have good or bad connotations to people. Apple comes in for a lot of stick for i, but it identifies the brand without any particular association with software or hardware.
WP7 looks promising, but support from Microsoft for the platform is looking decidedly shaky. Microsoft Delays First Windows Phone Update 7, Says Next One On Track It deserves better. |
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Microsoft only ever committed to a hard date of 14th March. It got delayed ONE WEEK to 23rd March as start of that rollout. This the second update. I've already had the first. Hardly shaky. They've already agreed to pay Nokia $1bn to support the platform, hardly uncommitted.
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how do you get that 'support from Microsoft for the platform is looking decidedly shaky' from the fact that the update has been delayed? seriously your mind boggles me.
Also Android have delayed updates so if its shaky for MS, my god what must it be like for apple and android in his mind lol
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Am amusing review of The Gadget show program.
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A test to prove which is King of Smartphones but where was the HTC Desire HD, Nokia N8 and Samsung Galaxy S?
Makes the whole test rather redundant to be honest! |
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A test to prove which is King of Smartphones but where was the HTC Desire HD, Nokia N8 and Samsung Galaxy S?
Makes the whole test rather redundant to be honest! Nokia N8 - what is the point in even talking about Symbian phones anymore? |
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Nokia does make some nice SmartPhones, but in a competition for the best Symbian can't cut it. (and I'm a Nokia fan).
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Too be honest I stopped watching the Gadget Show a long time ago when it became the Apple Show. Think its time Offcom slapped Channel 5s hands for producing an hour long advert for Ipods and Iphones.
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Too be honest I stopped watching the Gadget Show a long time ago when it became the Apple Show. Think its time Offcom slapped Channel 5s hands for producing an hour long advert for Ipods and Iphones.
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And I get cheesed off because it is so anti-Apple.
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And I get cheesed off because it is so anti-Apple.
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Which clearly demonstrates a lack of objectivity on your behalf.
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They clearly like Apple products, and to suggest otherwise would hint at you not even watching the show. The bias is not as bad as some people are making out but it is clearly evident.
Jon Doesn't Suzi is fickle Because they were so unfair to Apple I stopped watching it regularly some time ago. |
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