[Solved] Gadget Dad

I have an aversion to i-anything - just don't like the control Apple have over how you do things. I do love the designs though.

My phone is finally up for renewal, so have just ordered the Desire HD phone.

Can't justify the need or cost at the moment of a pad, but there's a couple of very nice Droid Pads due out soon, so maybe next year :sigh:

I have an aversion to i-anything - just don't like the control Apple have over how you do things. I do love the designs though.

My phone is finally up for renewal, so have just ordered the Desire HD phone.

Can't justify the need or cost at the moment of a pad, but there's a couple of very nice Droid Pads due out soon, so maybe next year :sigh:

HaHa Thats why Jailbreaking was started, You Take the control away from apple and they can't do nothing about it.

With a jailbroken device you can do sooooooooo much more 😈

HaHa Thats why Jailbreaking was started, You Take the control away from apple and they can't do nothing about it.

Except take away your warranty 🙁

HaHa Thats why Jailbreaking was started, You Take the control away from apple and they can't do nothing about it.

Except take away your warranty 🙁

I recently had a jail broken Ipod touch and the battery was done in so i took it to the apple store in blue-water, When the guy checked it he said he couldn't touch it because it was Jail broken, I left the store used the delete Ipod function and took it back in to him, He replaced it straight away with a brand new one and 6 months warranty..........RESULT 😆

I have an aversion to i-anything - just don't like the control Apple have over how you do things. I do love the designs though.

My phone is finally up for renewal, so have just ordered the Desire HD phone.

Can't justify the need or cost at the moment of a pad, but there's a couple of very nice Droid Pads due out soon, so maybe next year :sigh:

I'm with you there, I worked in mobile phones for 8 years and saw the hype around i phones explode, they are nothing special and like you hate how controled apple are, when Bill Gates did the same he went through courts so how do they get away with it??

There is a Blackberry tab out now which is supposed to be amazing, bit expensive though so i'll stick with the phone.

I did pick up a Nokia N8 the other day as a 2nd phone (as I used to work for T-Mobile I get heavy discounts on phones) I wanted it as a media player and camera it's awsome took it on holiday and the quality of the pictures and vidoes is better than some expensive camera's/cam corders

Darren

I have an Android (Desire HD) and the quality is excellent, including the camera/video. It does pretty much everything I want, though it took jumping through hoops to get various organisers to do want I want (I used to have Palm with Agendus - unbeatable as an organiser). One annoying thing is that the latest version of Android placed some extra restrictions which weren't there before, so I hope they aren't going to lock out developers on some features.

Apparently 1 in 3 phones sold this year will be smart phones - I have a Samsung Galaxy S. I really like the phone and the apps but the battery life is rubbish.

I have to switch off the automatic synching and that saves the battery

Think I will be going back to a blackberry or I-phone 5 (to wind my wife up!!)

Battery on HD isn't spectacular either - I reduced the synching for news to save battery and reduce data (though I have unlimited data), but I don't really find it a problem, I have 2 chargers at home, one at the office and one in the car, so I simply charge it when convenient. Good thing about a lot of modern smartphones is that they all seem to be adopting micro USB, so I don't need a new set of chargers if I change phones in the future.

Hi actd

I am the same charge it when I can but think that weakens the battery life - so every now and again I let it run right down

Pain though!

I'm with you there, I worked in mobile phones for 8 years and saw the hype around i phones explode, they are nothing special and like you hate how controled apple are, when Bill Gates did the same he went through courts so how do they get away with it??
Darren

Well, From having this debate a fair few years ago my take on it is quite simple:

Apple users expect a slick, simple and easy environment with as little skill involved as possible (and usually have too much money). So Apple's products and operating systems are intended for complete ease of use and less requirement for back-end functionality, plus, SHINY.
You can use terminal, you can jailbreak and you can mess about with the unix based environment but there's really no real need to, It "just works"

Windows users have always had a less restricted experience and the freedom of building whatever spec machine they see fit, slapping an OS on it and having the pride of building it themselves (unless ya buy pre-made which is a total rip off). Now, Windows has, over the years evolved and is seemingly more "mac like" but there's still loads of back-end functionality for guys like me that need the freedom. You never see a mac funcionting as a domain controller / AD DS Server, VPN server, Exchange server, file server etc etc.

The main thing here is that if Bill Gates wants to introduce restriction on desktop windows / windows mobile or anything else there will be a fight.

Apple do it, it's standard.

Funnily enough, My iPhone (and i've had every generation up to 4 barring 3Gs) is awesome. Jailbroke, got mah terminal, can RDP to my windows pc wherever i am etc etc and the iPad was bought out of sheer curiosity, jailbroke of course and my daughter loves it so i'm not all about hating Apple, I just really don't like their restictions but there are ways around it.

Not sure whether to get an I-Phone 5 when it comes out - if nothing else to wind my wife up who now has an I-Pad 2!!

Apparently it still does not support flash