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| Authored by: wood gnome on Wednesday, August 08 2012 @ 12:49 PM EDT |
" there are a lot of people dissatisfied with what their network has supplied
them. I don't know of anywhere else, certainly not the Linux kernel, or any
distro, which is within an order of magnitude of these numbers."
People
dissatisfied with Office > 2003 and Winblows Vista are at least two orders of
magnitude higher.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 08 2012 @ 05:12 PM EDT |
Much more basic and cheaper. I bought a T-mobile rapport as my first new smart
phone since my Palm Treo 650. £40 from Asda with 6 months free 3G Internet
Access. It was Rooted and unlocked within 36 hours although I have used the
T-mobile SIM until the Internet run out. I still have £0.97 of my first £10 top
up left after 7 months. So I don't use it for calls very often!
I didn't mind the screens and setup on it, but the T-mobile software annoyed
me.
Yes even the original Froyo had Google search set on the 3rd of 5 screens as the
home screen. However, the home screen could be changed to another of the 5 in
about 10 seconds.
It now has CyanogenMod 7.2 installed and is customised with several networking
Apps installed. CM9 beta says it doesn't support all the tethering options at
present.
Backed up with ROM manager, I bought a Vodafone Smart from Ebay for my wife to
try as she has decided she doesn't much like touchscreens. It was painfully
slow out the box compared to the Rapport - how long does it take to animate a
Vodafone logo?
Using the backup from the CM 7.2 Rapport twenty minutes later The Smart had the
same desktop/apps/contacts, wifi settings - everything! 5 minutes of tweaking
for the wifes tastes and....
It doesn't have Google on the Home screen. It has an icon for phone, Text,
camera, Email and Gallery - that's it! and the phone and text icons are on the
launcher at the bottom.
The other half prefers the KISS principle. Smart, Rapport, daughters iPhone?
nope still prefers the Nokia 2120 as a phone. the Smart is used to stream TV
programs. Which 2HD from Ebay and including unlocking afterwards it gets more
usage than a tablet recently given away to relatives but far less than an old
netbook residing in the dogs/crafting room.
The iPhone was 'tested' by my wife for the time it takes to get from our front
to backdoor before the NO! The Smart is used intermittently and reluctantly as a
phone. I guess the video usage is down to a stable wifi signal. The daughters
iPhone when she visits has to be within 6 feet of the router or it doesn't work.
Said daughter wanted to offload the iPhone and hinted about buying her an S3 -
the response from me was NO!
Confusion over Apple and other products in this house? No way!
If I need a more advanced/faster phone for what I use it for then it wont be an
Apple but it isn't likely to be a Samsung either :O)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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