Lord_Reed:

Try Go SMS.

ok Bro... Lemme try it out

came across this write up that explains the feeling of dread I felt and contine to feel anytime I think of Microsoft and Nokia.

remember back
when Microsoft had the most
popular smartphone on the
market? No? It was as recently as
2007. Ever wonder what
happened with that?
Well, in 2008, Microsoft figured
they could remain king of the hill
by purchasing Danger (makers of
the Sidekick), with the aim of
building an awesome new
smartphone to compete with the
newly launched iPhone and
Google's unreleased Android
operating system. These were the
pioneer days of smartphones, and
being pioneer days, most of us
never quite made it to the
cellphone equivalent of Oregon.

But not to worry -- the team from
Danger was going to build
Microsoft a smartphone so good,
it'd make Steve Jobs turn his blue
jeans brown. Microsoft called
their uberphone the Kin.
The Kin came. It sold a total of
8,000 units, not even one for
every 10 Microsoft employees .
The company lost $62,500 per
phone sold .

You gotta spend money to make
money! And also to lose millions,
apparently.
So what went wrong? Well, for
starters, Microsoft took all the
brilliant and innovative minds
they'd bought from Danger and
said, " Knock all that creative shit
off." Half the Danger team wound
up working on the Kin, and the
other half got shuffled into
developing Windows Phone 7.
You see, giant corporations are
the same as the character in every
laugh track sitcom who winds up
dating two women at once:
They'd rathermess up two things
than focus on one and do it right.
Microsoft had people who knew
where the future of smartphones
lay. But they also had Steve "If
It's Worked Once, It'll Work
Forever" Ballmer, a man who
throws chairs when he gets angry.
It was the same with tablets. Way
back before the iPad launched,
photos of a Microsoft project
called Courier leaked out to the
tech press. It appeared to be a
sort of dual-screen digital
notebook, and every blogger in
the gadget world ejaculated in
unison. But if you're wondering
why there are no Courier tablets
today, it's because Steve " Chair
Chucker" Ballmer didn't want any
hit products that weren't run off
the Windows operating system.
Image

Tiles, the people
want TILES ."

So, sure enough, the Courier was
shelved in favor of Microsoft's
Surface tablets, which were so
innovative that nearly a billion
dollars' worth of them sit unsold
in warehouses right now .

Thanks to this thread, got my BBM installed and working. Samsung account still isnt working sha.

Leopantro: came across this write up that explains the feeling of dread I felt and contine to feel anytime I think of Microsoft and Nokia.

remember back
when Microsoft had the most
popular smartphone on the
market? No? It was as recently as
2007. Ever wonder what
happened with that?
Well, in 2008, Microsoft figured
they could remain king of the hill
by purchasing Danger (makers of
the Sidekick), with the aim of
building an awesome new
smartphone to compete with the
newly launched iPhone and
Google's unreleased Android
operating system. These were the
pioneer days of smartphones, and
being pioneer days, most of us
never quite made it to the
cellphone equivalent of Oregon.

But not to worry -- the team from
Danger was going to build
Microsoft a smartphone so good,
it'd make Steve Jobs turn his blue
jeans brown. Microsoft called
their uberphone the Kin.
The Kin came. It sold a total of
8,000 units, not even one for
every 10 Microsoft employees .
The company lost $62,500 per
phone sold .

You gotta spend money to make
money! And also to lose millions,
apparently.
So what went wrong? Well, for
starters, Microsoft took all the
brilliant and innovative minds
they'd bought from Danger and
said, " Knock all that creative shit
off." Half the Danger team wound
up working on the Kin, and the
other half got shuffled into
developing Windows Phone 7.
You see, giant corporations are
the same as the character in every
laugh track sitcom who winds up
dating two women at once:
They'd rathermess up two things
than focus on one and do it right.
Microsoft had people who knew
where the future of smartphones
lay. But they also had Steve "If
It's Worked Once, It'll Work
Forever" Ballmer, a man who
throws chairs when he gets angry.
It was the same with tablets. Way
back before the iPad launched,
photos of a Microsoft project
called Courier leaked out to the
tech press. It appeared to be a
sort of dual-screen digital
notebook, and every blogger in
the gadget world ejaculated in
unison. But if you're wondering
why there are no Courier tablets
today, it's because Steve " Chair
Chucker" Ballmer didn't want any
hit products that weren't run off
the Windows operating system.
Image

Tiles, the people
want TILES ."

So, sure enough, the Courier was
shelved in favor of Microsoft's
Surface tablets, which were so
innovative that nearly a billion
dollars' worth of them sit unsold
in warehouses right now .

I cringe anytime i remember that Nokia sold off to Microsoft and the were too stubborn to try android, playing around with Symbian when most people like me gave up on them. It's just sad that investors and the money makers refuse to allow creativity to thrive. O well i continue to observe.

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joeydozzy: What's with the anti-bbm rally by BlackBerry users?
One person don block me ooo

LoL! Na serious rally o! I hear they are sending out broadcast messages to one another to block PINs that start with 7 (obviously Android & iPhone BBM users), something about them being outcasts.

Its a beef thing. LoL!

BTW my wifey has installed BBM on her iPhone and she's loving the on screen keyboard. I think I have a better chance of convincing her to go for a high end droid instead of a Blackberry.

Lord_Reed:

LoL! Na serious rally o! I hear they are sending out broadcast messages to one another to block PINs that start with 7 (obviously Android & iPhone BBM users), something about them being outcasts.

Its a beef thing. LoL!

BTW my wifey has installed BBM on her iPhone and she's loving the on screen keyboard. I think I have a better chance of convincing her to go for a high end droid instead of a Blackberry.

joeydozzy: What's with the anti-bbm rally by BlackBerry users?
One person don block me ooo

The blackberry users are an extinct specie. I have hated both phone and user for four long years. Now its time for me to watch them die out . Hehehe

after 4 months now, I managed to root my
Huawei ascend running gingerbread 2.3.6,,,,
any help on apps for screen shots? can I
uninstall poot, root checker and ministro? can
I move superuser to my SD card? thanks.

Pls,my android phone is no longer giving out sound at start up and incoming calls don't ring out again,;even though volume and ringing option is enabled.What might b d cause? Any solution to this?

koyla:
after 4 months now, I managed to root my
Huawei ascend running gingerbread 2.3.6,,,,
any help on apps for screen shots? can I
uninstall poot, root checker and ministro? can
I move superuser to my SD card? thanks.

goto playstore, download screenshot by kastor..

deejay_harry1: goto playstore, download screenshot by kastor..

thanks Harry, really appreciate your help

How many peculiar instances of eight characters can be formed from randomly picking values from numbers and alphabets.....no approximations....
My girlfriends quiz...its the only way i can take her out come sunday, and its friday already.....u guys please help.
Apparently she just got an S3 and a BBM pin, from my pocket!.....and i still use Velocity!

joeydozzy: What's with the anti-bbm rally by BlackBerry users?
One person don block me ooo

Abeg bbm ko whatsapp is better in my opinion, and uses less data too make dem dey enjoy their tin alone, that's why there are less than 100m bbm users while there are over 350m whatsapp users

Hey guys check out this app. it is a whot! Game for Android Phones. Really amazing game.


Download for free here: http://nextapps.mtnonline.com/app/detail/id/30576

Check out this thread for more:

www.nairaland.com/1492007/whot-game-android-phones

Plz sumbody here should help me o. My samsung galaxy s3 Gt19300 has 2 memory partition. One shows me 2gb and d other one is abt 500mb.. Although antutu benchmark shows me d 4n is 16GB. I kip geting low memory responce. Help plz

Matinoh: Plz sumbody here should help me o. My samsung galaxy s3 Gt19300 has 2 memory partition. One shows me 2gb and d other one is abt 500mb.. Although antutu benchmark shows me d 4n is 16GB. I kip geting low memory responce. Help plz

2GB and 500MB ? S3 should have 16, 32GB....you sure say no be chinko you buy so ?

nani.666:
2GB and 500MB ? S3 should have 16, 32GB....you sure say no be chinko you buy so ?

i v benchmarked it with anturtu benchmark to confirm dat its original. Am on android 4.1.5

Matinoh: i v benchmarked it with anturtu benchmark to confirm dat its original. Am on android 4.1.5

Benchmarks are easily circumvented these days...open your Storage in Settings and screenshot it..and post it here...or open explore and screenshot the drives...let's see if it's real or fake

lifehacker: How many peculiar instances of eight characters can be formed from randomly picking values from numbers and alphabets.....no approximations....
My girlfriends quiz...its the only way i can take her out come sunday, and its friday already.....u guys please help.
Apparently she just got an S3 and a BBM pin, from my pocket!.....and i still use Velocity!

chickens in the house, theyve got black fabric over thier halogen headlamps in this one!

lifehacker: How many peculiar instances of eight characters can be formed from randomly picking values from numbers and alphabets.....no approximations....
My girlfriends quiz...its the only way i can take her out come sunday, and its friday already.....u guys please help.
Apparently she just got an S3 and a BBM pin, from my pocket!.....and i still use Velocity!

chickens in the house, theyve got black fabric over thier halogen headlamps in this one!

lifehacker: chickens in the house, theyve got black fabric over thier halogen headlamps in this one! chickens in the house, theyve got black fabric over thier halogen headlamps in this one!

Google permutation and combination.

Any reasons why google like using the names of delicious food for their Android OS?

Pls hlp,I can acess bbm on my samsung galaxy grand dous.kps sayin wlan(netwrk) not detected

lifehacker: How many peculiar instances of eight characters can be formed from randomly picking values from numbers and alphabets.....no approximations....
My girlfriends quiz...its the only way i can take her out come sunday, and its friday already.....u guys please help.
Apparently she just got an S3 and a BBM pin, from my pocket!.....and i still use Velocity!

Ermmm... Ok, following blackberry,s unique pin, it contains the numbers 0-9 and alphabets A-F (hexadecimal). The number of peculiar instance for a blackberry pin where there is repitition is 410338673 instances.

But if you are talking about the whole alphabets then that will be 78364164096 instances. I think that is it

pls can someone help me? I rooted my galaxy exhibit II 4g and now it wont boot. it will just show samsung logo and then show samsung galaxy exhibit 4g for a long time and trip off and on again and again. Pls i need help urgently.

sonofdsoilme: pls can someone help me? I rooted my galaxy exhibit II 4g and now it wont boot. it will just show samsung logo and then show samsung galaxy exhibit 4g for a long time and trip off and on again and again. Pls i need help urgently.

eyah Pele U don BRICK UR PHONE ..go to gionee e3 thread and ask 4 Godvilla

I have been posting for a long time in this thread but no one seems to reply me... Some apps that i installed in my samsumg galaxy pocket can't show in my phone menu and am worried about it...... And also what is screemshot and what i can i use it to do? Thanks boss,,,

Immality: I have been posting for a long time in this thread but no one seems to reply me... Some apps that i installed in my Samsung galaxy pocket can't show in my phone menu and am worried about it...... And also what is screenshot and what i can i use it to do? Thanks boss,,,

Hold your volume up,home and power button together at the same time for screenshot.As for the app issue you can press your home button for like 3sec.you will see app info/list not sure.Its been long since i use Samsung pocket