sts1976 is offline sts1976
2012-10-31 , 22:24
Posts: 90 | Thanked: 76 times | Joined on Dec 2009
#51
Originally Posted by sts1976 View Post
Nothing is ever free especially here the UK. You have the 24 month contract to pay which would equate to around 500 or 600 pounds if your lucky.
Well here you have it.

http://news.o2.co.uk/2012/10/31/the-...s-coming-to-o2

To get the nexus free in the UK on O2 you will have to pay £36 per month for 24 months. That's £864 which doesn't include VAT. Add 20% vat and the grand total of £1036.80p which is 4 times the £240 cost of the phone.

At least Dick Turpin wore a mask
Last edited by sts1976; 2012-10-31 at 22:27.
 

The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to sts1976 For This Useful Post:
m4r0v3r is offline m4r0v3r
2012-11-01 , 12:36
Posts: 1,746 | Thanked: 1,832 times | Joined on Dec 2010
#52
Originally Posted by herpderp View Post
Well DUH! An SD card MAKES a smartphone! No SD card = NO SMARTPHONE!!!!111

Just like the N9 is a dumphone! The only REAL SMARTH PHONE IS TEH N900!!1111
no thats not why it's a dumb phone, if your read the article they state that users will be confused as to where the files should go, i.e on the internal system or the SD card, and it would end up confusing users. Which is pretty much stating they think the users are too stupid to understand where files go. Hence dumb phone for dumb users.
 
herpderp is offline herpderp
2012-11-01 , 13:02
Posts: 329 | Thanked: 422 times | Joined on Feb 2011 @ derpton
#53
Originally Posted by m4r0v3r View Post
no thats not why it's a dumb phone, if your read the article they state that users will be confused as to where the files should go, i.e on the internal system or the SD card, and it would end up confusing users. Which is pretty much stating they think the users are too stupid to understand where files go. Hence dumb phone for dumb users.
I thought a smartphone meant easy to use for dumb people

E.g. I can be dumb, my phone is smart and helps me out.

Also, what good is a smarthphone, if you need a PhD in computer science just to use it?
 
volt's Avatar
volt is offline volt
2012-11-01 , 13:28
Posts: 1,309 | Thanked: 1,187 times | Joined on Nov 2008
#54
Originally Posted by erendorn View Post
That's completely wrong. On mobile devices, for a given application, you always store files in the same place (the user doesn't have to know where), on a given media => if you have two storage devices, then, you cannot do it without user input anymore.
I have Android and that's just not right...
__________________
Qwerty is hot? Stylus or not? Let the buyer decide! The Nokia ¹ Smartphone - Build your ¹
 
daperl's Avatar
daperl is offline daperl
2012-11-01 , 14:32
Posts: 2,427 | Thanked: 2,986 times | Joined on Dec 2007
#55
An off-topic question for all the Google cloud conspiracy theorists:

Why did Google let Samsung put an SD card slot in the new Chromebook

PORTS

1 x USB 3.0
1 x USB 2.0
1 x HDMI
Secure Digital (SD) card reader
__________________
N9: Go white or go home
 

The Following User Says Thank You to daperl For This Useful Post:
m4r0v3r is offline m4r0v3r
2012-11-01 , 17:19
Posts: 1,746 | Thanked: 1,832 times | Joined on Dec 2010
#56
Originally Posted by herpderp View Post
I thought a smartphone meant easy to use for dumb people

E.g. I can be dumb, my phone is smart and helps me out.

Also, what good is a smarthphone, if you need a PhD in computer science just to use it?
sure but removing an entire feature to just so they wouldnt "confuse" users seems like they wouldnt even trust users to learn where files go.
 
qwazix's Avatar
qwazix is offline qwazix
2012-11-01 , 17:55
Moderator | Posts: 2,622 | Thanked: 5,447 times | Joined on Jan 2010
#57
Originally Posted by herpderp View Post
I thought a smartphone meant easy to use for dumb people

E.g. I can be dumb, my phone is smart and helps me out.

Also, what good is a smarthphone, if you need a PhD in computer science just to use it?
You really need a PhD to distinguish between music stored on an sd and music stored on internal memory?

That google argument is marketing ********. Phones don't come with a free sd anymore anyway, so any person that is smart enough to go buy one and slot it in, can distinguish between music stored on it and music stored internally. If you don't want the extra space you won't find an indication of it's existence in the android software anyway.

Another reason to have an sd card reader is that many people fill their phone's memory slowly over the years as they use them. So why pay a large sum of money up front to have your memory empty, when memory price will probably have halved when you really need it a year later. Plus you get to keep the old sd for swapping.

Lastly it's upgradeability. For some people, being able to upgrade the memory is all they want. MHz and RAM (or lack thereof) aren't even noticed by most users, they aren't tangible. Storage is.
__________________
Proud coding competition 2012 winner: ρcam
My other apps: speedcrunch N9 N900 Jolla –– contactlaunch –– timenow

Nemo UX blog: Grog
My website: qwazix.com
My job: oob
 

The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to qwazix For This Useful Post:
herpderp is offline herpderp
2012-11-01 , 22:46
Posts: 329 | Thanked: 422 times | Joined on Feb 2011 @ derpton
#58
Okay geniuses, you still haven't replied to daperl's question:

Why did Google let Samsung put an SD card slot in the new Chromebook?
 
qwazix's Avatar
qwazix is offline qwazix
2012-11-01 , 22:55
Moderator | Posts: 2,622 | Thanked: 5,447 times | Joined on Jan 2010
#59
The last time I checked the chromebook was a laptop. Fortunately they haven't yet started the race to the bottom with them, however win8 seems to be the start.
__________________
Proud coding competition 2012 winner: ρcam
My other apps: speedcrunch N9 N900 Jolla –– contactlaunch –– timenow

Nemo UX blog: Grog
My website: qwazix.com
My job: oob
 

The Following User Says Thank You to qwazix For This Useful Post:
volt's Avatar
volt is offline volt
2012-11-01 , 23:03
Posts: 1,309 | Thanked: 1,187 times | Joined on Nov 2008
#60
They (OS builders) can't yet get away with locking down I/O on netbooks like that, but Microsoft is on the RT track.
__________________
Qwerty is hot? Stylus or not? Let the buyer decide! The Nokia ¹ Smartphone - Build your ¹
 
Reply
Page 6 of 9 « First 45 6 78 Last »

« Previous Thread | Next Thread »
Thread Tools

 
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 01:15.

Contact Us - Home - Archive - Top