Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Dec 2012 09:50 UTC
"For a seventh consecutive month, the Samsung Galaxy S III is the most popular smartphone in the United Kingdom. The data compiled by uSwitch is based on live searches, pre-orders, as well as postpaid sales. Curiously, Apple's current smartphone flagship is not even second. The iPhone 5 is outperformed by its predecessor, whose lower price and improved contract offers helped it remain appealing. The Samsung Galaxy S II completes the quartet at the top. The rest of the top ten smartphones is entirely an Android party. It includes the Google Nexus 4, who entered the rankings a solid fifth. The second half of the top ten includes the Samsung Galaxy Ace, Samsung Galaxy Note 2, Sony Xperia U, HTC One X, as well as the Samsung Galaxy Ace 2." This is getting ridiculous, and it's not good for the market. For the love of Fiona, people, buy something that's not Android. I don't want to live in an Android-dominated smartphone world.
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RE[4]: Please list what's wrong with Android...
by gan17 on Wed 5th Dec 2012 16:33
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It's standby I have an real issue with. Seriously, standby is where wars are won and lost.
I don't really know what to say, as I haven't experienced this on my Nexus 7. Since I haven't use the tablet much today, here's a screenshot of the "Battery" page; http://ompldr.org/vZ2t0ZA
Not that bad, I would think, considering I did do some email checking as well as relied on Google Plus a few times for weather, traffic and whatnot, and my screen brightness is pegged at about 50% since I don't like the way it handles auto-brightness under bedroom lighting. I suppose it's mainly to do with the apps I run. Personally don't use facebook, twitter, etc, so yours (and most people's) issues might have something to do with those and what they do while the tablet is on standby?
I agree with most of what you are saying. OS X can be needy with regards to resources, but I find it is also pleasurable to use.
Fwiw, I use OS X for work, and generally think it's a decent enough OS. It's just that (imho) it really hasn't improved much after Tiger, but gotten much heavier.
I really with I could video some of the issues I have. I'm tempted to wipe and start again from scratch or install Ubuntu on my Nexus 7.
Not doubting you, so you don't have to prove anything to me or anyone else. I'm sure people experience all sorts of issues on Android. But doubt Ubuntu would offer much of an improvement, and as bad as your battery life currently is, I suspect it'll completely divebomb under Ubuntu.
Edited 2012-12-05 16:35 UTC
RE[5]: Please list what's wrong with Android...
by henderson101 on Wed 5th Dec 2012 16:47
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Member since:2006-05-30
Yeah, mine is at 83% and has been on battery for 23 hours, 9 minutes etc. Fine. But if I take it home and leave it on standby for the next 3 days, the battery will be almost dead next time I look at it. If I did the same with my iPad 2, the battery would be well over 50%, probably more like 75 - 80%. The Nexus 7 seems to use 100X more battery on standby than my iPad, that makes it unpredictable and untrustworthy for me. I can't rely on it ever being charged, whereas I can be pretty sure that if I left my iPad at a specific battery percentage, it'll be extremely close if I pick it back up with in 3 - 4 days.
Couple that with the laggy stuttery behaviour I get in some apps (Chrome being a culprit) and the fact sometime it just locks up for no real reason**, it's pretty much the worst mobile device I've owned. When it works, it woks well. When it has a hissy fit, it's totally unusable and often only a hard reset helps.
** As an example... I can pick it up, it will be doing nothing, running no apps that I am aware of and the lock screen will lag like crazy. The launcher will not have loaded any of the icons of widgets. Opening the app tray will grind the device to a halt and a few times since the last update (4.2.1) I've had a "Launcher has stopped responding" popup.
Edited 2012-12-05 16:48 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/13/13 14:35 UTC
The third and final WWDC product I want to talk about is - of course - OS X 10.9 Mavericks. While iOS 7 was clearly the focus of this year's WWDC, its venerable desktop counterpart certainly wasn't left behind. Apple announced OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the first OS X release not to carry the name of a big cat.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/11/13 17:07 UTC
We already talked about iOS 7 yesterday (after a night of sleep, it's only looking worse and worse - look at this, for Fiona's sake!), so now it's time to talk about the downright stunning and belly flutters-inducing new Mac Pro. As former owner and huge, huge, huge fan of the PowerMac G4 Cube - I haven't been this excited about an Apple product since, well, I would say the iMac G4. This is the Apple I used to love.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/10/13 23:13 UTC
Apple held its big keynote event thing at WWDC earlier this evening, but since I was away with friends I've had to read up on it later in the evening. The company announced iOS 7, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and they gave a preview of the new Mac Pro. Especially the Mac Pro impressed me, and while iOS 7's new Holo/Metro-inspired theme looks messy and garish to me, I do commend Apple for finally breaking the mold. This news item will focus on iOS 7 - I'll dive into the Mac Pro and OS X 10.9 tomorrow (it's late here now).
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/08/13 14:57 UTC
And yes, the PRISM scandal is far, far from over. More and more information keeps leaking out, and the more gets out, the worse it gets. The companies involved have sent out official statements - often by mouth of their CEOs - and what's interesting is that not only are these official statements eerily similar to each other, using the same terms clearly designed by lawyers, they also directly contradict new reports from The New York Times. So, who is lying?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/07/13 11:40 UTC
This story is getting bigger and bigger. Even though most Americans probably already knew, it is now official: the United States government, through its National Security Agency, is collecting the communications and data of all American citizens, and of non-Americans using American services, through a wide collaboration with the large companies in technology, like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and so on. Interestingly enough, the NSA itself, as well as the US government, have repeatedly and firmly denied this massive spying on Americans and non-Americans took place at all.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/04/13 12:45 UTC
Ah, patents - the never-ending scourge of the technology industry. Whether wielded by companies who don't actually make any products, or large corporations who abuse them because they can't compete in the market place or because they're simply jerks, they do the industry a huge disservice and are simply plain dangerous. According to The Wall Street Journal (circumvention link), president Obama is about to take several executive actions to address patent trolls - which may seem like a good idea, but I am very worried that all this will do is strengthen the positions of notorious patent system abusers such as Apple and Microsoft.
Linked by nfeske on 05/31/13 10:12 UTC
With version 13.05, the developers of the Genode OS Framework take measures to ensure that Genode continues to scale well with a growing number of users and the steadily broadening platform coverage. Further highlights are the improved SoC support for Exynos 5, OMAP4, Raspberry Pi, i.MX, and new components for realizing headless systems.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/29/13 16:59 UTC
At the D11 conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook once again took the stage to be interviewed by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. While most of the interview can be replicated by picking and reading 10 random Apple fanblog stories - there were still a number of very interesting things that warrant some closer scrutiny.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 17:26 UTC
So, the Xbox One disaster continues. Microsoft's policy for dealing with the used games market has reportedly leaked - and it's a clear and direct attack to destroy the used games market. Prices for used games will be set at the retail value of a new game, and retailers have to hook into Microsoft's computer systems and comply with Microsoft's terms and conditions.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 21:38 UTC
At an event earlier today, Microsoft unveiled the next Xbox - the third model, but confusingly named Xbox One. The big focus was TV, integrated Kinect, and all the other stuff we all expected to be forced down our throats. I think it took them 25 minutes to actually come to what should be the core of the story: gaming. Nothing groundbreaking in the gaming department, except for how Microsoft intends to handle the used games market and borrowing games from friends: pay up, buddy!More Features »
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and therein lies the problem. You and I know what we are doing. You and I will at least check the reviews (and the second review in the UK Play Store on "Virtual Nose Surgery" clearly states that is is malware. My 7 year old daughter or 70 year old Dad won't. I doubt many of my non-tech savvy friends would.
My Nexus 7 has awful battery life. Not usage per se - that is about the same. Standby. I leave it sleeping (i.e. press power button, so that the screen turns off) it will still deplete the power at the same rate. I can easily lose 10 - 15% in 2 or 3 hours. This is with Location off and Wifi on. My iPad 2 will sleep for 2 or 3 weeks with similar levels of battery usage. Why does Android consume so much battery whilst supposedly on standby? Answer that and I'd agree with you.
Absolutely... in daily usage, the life can be comparable - though not as good. It's standby I have an real issue with. Seriously, standby is where wars are won and lost.
Google N7 and power management issues. This is a common issue on various forums.
More apps misbehave than behave. I generally only use Currents, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and Chrome. But open any random app and they will often create a process that backgrounds.
It's awful.
I agree with most of what you are saying. OS X can be needy with regards to resources, but I find it is also pleasurable to use. I don't really mind Windows 7 all that much any more. I really with I could video some of the issues I have. I'm tempted to wipe and start again from scratch or install Ubuntu on my Nexus 7.