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[Ricardo_C]

See, I'm paying the same but I'm using my phone more (making more calls for sure seeing as I get 600 minutes free).

Having a phone that I can play Angry Birds on has also revolutionised my passing of the time while taking a shit.

Try Cut the Rope, the phone-toting toilet-goer's new best friend.

[Steve Sensible]

Microsoft are really quite scared of Google...

[Christian U]

Well, that was a weird attack ad.

[garjones]

Google and Microsoft are quite similar in ways because they've released dozens of products and ideas and the vast majority don't catch on but the ones that have are totally dominant. Microsoft has only ever released 3 products that made a profit - Windows, Office and X-Box and the latter really took its time to get there with huge losses on the way.

I actually think that ad has a decent point, as cheesy as it is, most comment on computing comes from home consumers, by far most of the money comes from companies. I know Jim commented in the SOPA thread that some companies use Google mail and apps and if they did a SOPA protest it'd ruin them. Offices are packed with HP, Dell and Lenovo and reason is that if the shit hits the fan they'll send an engineer in, have service levels and agreements, Acer may be cheaper but they can't do that.

Microsoft is the same, I know that Open Office or Google Docs offer the same functionality for nothing or next to it (I use Open Office on my home computer) but companies pay the higher cost because if their Outlook goes wrong in any part of the world they'll send someone in to fix it. Google set any new product as Beta forever and a day.

[Steve Sensible]

Just got a Samsung Galaxy S2. Am now realizing that some of my favourite widgets were HTC only. Nice phone though, if a bit big - I need a new arm-band now for when I'm on the bike.

[James Dodsworth]

Bought my first ever Apple product today after years of swearing at the wife's iPhones and the monumentally terrible iTunes.

So I've got an iPad 2, very nice it is too. Except the home button does not work. At all. Apple really want me to hate them even more. Off to the apple store tomorrow to have some nerd look at it. You know you're in trouble when you have to have stores armed with nerds to fix the many many issues with your products.

[Steve Sensible]

iPad 3 is out in a matter of weeks isn't it? I would have either waited for one of those or picked up an iPad 2 at an "old model" price.

[James Dodsworth]

I got a good deal on it from my mobile network. I presume they are trying to shift them before the 3 comes out. I'm not bothered about the newer model, this is really for the family to share.

[The Lorcan Nagle]

Bought my first ever Apple product today after years of swearing at the wife's iPhones and the monumentally terrible iTunes.

So I've got an iPad 2, very nice it is too. Except the home button does not work. At all. Apple really want me to hate them even more. Off to the apple store tomorrow to have some nerd look at it. You know you're in trouble when you have to have stores armed with nerds to fix the many many issues with your products.

Speaking as a nerd who's job it is to fix the many many issues with your products, you shut your yap.

[James Dodsworth]

Only if you can fix my problem when you come over.

[Mike]

Ooh! Stan's here this week, Lorcy's here next week, and then Gareth's here isn't he?

[The Lorcan Nagle]

Only if you can fix my problem when you come over.

I take it saying "Ditch the overpriced toy and buy a proper tablet" doesn't count as fixing it?

[Arjan Dirkse]

I bought a new phone...

A Nokia for 20 euros

I think it actually looks nicer than all my previous ones, it just doesn't have a camera or intermawebs. But I need a camera on my phone like I need a microwave oven on my toe nail clipper...

[Mike]

Oh, see the camera/phone combination is one of my favourite things about my phone.

[Christian U]

a microwave oven on my toe nail clipper

Man, I wish I had a microwave oven on my toe nail clipper.

[Arjan Dirkse]

Oh, see the camera/phone combination is one of my favourite things about my phone.

Why?

Man, I wish I had a microwave oven on my toe nail clipper.

Why??

[Mike]

I'm mildly addicted to Instagram; it's mini-photoblogging. Cameraphone makes that practical.

[James Dodsworth]

My iPad issue was resolved by it fully functioning as soon as I allowed it into an Apple store. "Genius" said that the glue had warmed up.

Not convinced by this whole manufacturing company yet.


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[Ulf Imwiehe]

My BlackBerry Storm 2 died on me, which sucks because I kinda loved that thing. It was a brave little workhorse although the display got a bit hard on the eyes after a while. What I need now is a reliable machine with a user-friendly interface, a really solid touchscreen that allows for quick typing (the BB was great in that regard) and a display that doesn’t fry my retinas. I’m tempted to get a Galaxy Nexus.

[David Chapman]

What I need now is a reliable machine with a user-friendly interface, a really solid touchscreen that allows for quick typing (the BB was great in that regard) and a display that doesn’t fry my retinas. I’m tempted to get a Galaxy Nexus.

Save money and get a Galaxy S2. The only real advantage the Nexus had was ICS over Gingerbread, and the official ICS release for the S2 is due any time. The increased resolution on the Nexus display isn't important because the S2 screen was already so good.