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walcolm: you are yourself guilty of name calling on this forum....man in the mirror

Because i know fandroids when I see them, usually the broke guys who just bought an Android device, download all the talking points from GSMArena and start giving us bullcrap here.

Nothing wrong with calling someone a 'Fandroid' or 'Apple Fanboy'.

Everything wrong with words like 'iSheep' and 'iDiot'.

of course i've been guilty of calling people here on this forum 'Samsung Sheep'...that's why if you knew how to read, you'd see that I said 9 out of 10 times and not 10 out of 10

The main reason why people are fanboys is because they are broke. They cannot afford everything, they settle for one...and that's fine and good. What's not fine is that they now feel so INSECURE about their purchase and have to make fun of and run down the competition just to feel better about their purchases.

So..rule of thumb. Anywhere you see someone call people 'iSheep' or 'iDiots' or 'seXbox' or 'gaystation3', 9 out of 10 times they are poor people.


My devices

Blackberry bold 9900
Galaxy S III
Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9
Blackberry Playbook wifi
Apple iPad (3rd generation)
Lenovo A750 (Android)
Nook Color (rooted, running ICS)

Game consoles
Nintendo 3DS (ok, sold this one)
Playstation Vita
Playstation 3 (x2, one 60GB launch edition, jailbroken...the other not jailbroken)
Xbox 360 Slim
Nintendo Wii


Why should i spend time on a forum comparing the abilities of my PS3 compared to the upcoming WiiU when i can just buy it when it comes out and have 'em all?

kobikwelu: Personlly, i have always believed that what drives apples is just hype....4S released last year and a year later, the sharp guys released 5 (just about the same time that most of those contracts on the 4s would expire!!!) one thing is those apple guys are breaking all records pushing a mirage....

gs3!!

1. Actually most contracts in the US are 2 years...so it's actually the contracts for the iPhone 4 that will be up by this time

2. Annual release of a flagship model is EXACTLY the same model Samsung is following with the Galaxy Note II and the Galaxy S III



You're not very bright, are you?

walcolm: guy, this your post is packed with untruths... Samsung doesn't show off S-voice in 'apple' attack video and there's not even anything called retina in Samsung because 'retina' has probably already been patented by apple. oh btw, Jelly bean is all Google as you know

Samsung shows off stuff like SMART STAY, S-BEAM, SHARE SHOT, DIRECT CALL, SMART ALERT, PALM SWIPE CAPTURE, SHAKE TO UPDATE and the FLOATING VIDEO feature

if apple had been the one to innovate any of these features each one would have been a HEAD-LINER. They would have held the world to ransom and ask us all to worship them for their awesomeness.....someone else has innovated stuff they could not think off and they're feeling bad and trying to kill them off

It's not your fault you cannot read. Where did I say the commercial showed off S-Voice?

Samsung showed off S-Voice in their Galaxy S III launch.

I put 'Retina' in quotes because it's an Apple marketing term...but it's generally accepted to refer to screens with high pixel density that result in individual pixels not being distinguishable by the human retina from normal viewing range.

Smart Stay would NEVER be a headliner because it just doesn't work for many people. Palm swipe capture is a useless feature. it's much easier to take a snapshot with button press combinations...which is why Samsung that in too. Shake to Update is akin to 'pull to refresh' already existing in many iOS apps since 2010...and it has never been put forward as a headline feature. As a Galaxy S III owner (and someone who has helped a few other folks grab theirs), I have never seen anyone use that feature aside from using it as a bragging point or to demo multitasking. Real world usage? Nearly nil.

What makes your argument rather m0r0nic is that nearly all those features were headlined in the Galaxy S III launch conference. Even in the first Samsung print ad targeting Apple, Samsung took pains to list all these as killer, differentiating features.

Finally, nobody held a gun to your head to force you to buy Apple products. In fact, Samsung is even the one that you ought to worry about seeing as how they are negatively impacting all the other Android OEMs.

Want proof? I challenge you to name off head the innovative software/innovations brought by HTC, Sony and Motorola.

Samsung sheep

Let the OP tell us what happened to the Buddhist population of what is now Afghanistan.

Let his also tell us of the former inhabitants of what is now Adamawa State in Nigeria, where Dan Fodio's general Adamawa drove them off from their lands to islamize the region.

Nonsense!

[quote author=De-best]dts d lamest thing u said. voice synth nd commands were on featurephones before siri came out. dts what u probably dont know[/quote]I had voice command on my Windows Mobile phone in 2006.

If you think Siri is anything like that, you're a tech illiterate as I suspect you are.

[quote author=na2day!]Ahahah
Let Apple come out with their own rebuttal video naa [/quote]They don't need to. I doubt that ad will sway anyone who's already made up their mind to buy the iPhone 5.

SimonAndal: Actually it's 120fps

And my point still stands.

The ad is hilarious in some spots though.

Akainzo: As stated in my previous post above, you simply lack analytical capabilities.
You were the one that introduced the MiFi to the discussion, I only reminded you that you were trying to be clever by half when you simply triedf to forget that one still needs a smartphone.

Let me repeat again, the Bluetooth of any phone can be used to connect the internet because it can be used as a Dial-Up-Network. That is what a PlayBook can connect to which other tablets cannot use. There aren umerous feature phones that have Bluetooth DUN capabilities.


I see that you are still stuck on wireless as this was the age you knew of smartphones or mobile internet connectivity. For your information I have consistently mentioned Bluetooth DUN and you have always missed it. Abeg GO AND READ!!!

Just FYI, my dear m0r0n, since iOS 4 the iPad and iPhone can share and connect to internet via bluetooth. I stress on Wifi because it's more efficient.
Stop trying to wriggle out of this on a technicality and inject some logic into your arguments.
You claim is Blackberry + Playbook Wifi = internet.

I counter with iPad + iPhone/Android/WP = Internet.

And you're whining?

Akainzo: You are a certified dunce! You sell off the old 9900, to buy a new 9900 in search of better battery life

Well yes. I sold off the 9930 to get a 9900 because there are more leaked firmware available for it. On all the attempts to get a decent battery life on my phone, i'd been advised on crackberry that it COULD be a device issue. I've traded up devices in the past to see if I could eliminate that loophole.

Have I now educated you, dunce?

Akainzo: How come you conveniently left out your experience on the 2.1 and went gung-ho that the OS was unstable while playing Android ports

...because at that point I was disputing your assertion that the Playbook could run all android apps perfectly? Is your attention span that short? I've noticed you struggle with remembering things you've said before. You may need to see a doctor for that.
I see how you sidestepped atoning for the white lie I caught you in (when you said i claimed to have only used a PlayBook for one day)

Akainzo: And if it loads the animations faster, the app would become sluggish right? SMH

What does this have to do with ANIMATIONS, you dolt?!! When all the assets and textures are loaded up, the one that loaded up in 2 seconds is not necessarily going to be faster than the one that loaded up in 3 seconds. What has the game assets have to do with animations?

Since the ipads have much better GPUs, there's no way 3d performance can be inferior...unless the software was poorly optimized.

I do not appreciate how I teach you these things and you show a shameful lack of appreciation.

Akainzo: Just to show you that the same is employed during boot up. If it is employed during app load times, it is employed during boot up. When booted up in 30 seconds, click the WiFi settings and see what happens

Are you INSANE?! How can a splash screen transition displayed in a split second be the same as the boot up time of the OS? When booted up, clicking the settings icon opens it up pronto. I suggest you go beg someone to let you try out his iPad or even an Android device to see for yourself.

You're a tech illiterate, i swear.

Akainzo: Let me humor you, ok my smartphone is not available, but a colleague has a Nokia with Bluetooth. The PlayBook can use that to get to the internet while the iPad cannot. It is that simple.

On the Nokia phone, download joikuspot, install and share your internet connection with the ipad via Wifi . This is an unlikely scenario.

Not everyone is a n00b like you.

Akainzo: You’d struggle really, you lack anything that is seemingly beyond 1+1. Read my post carefully, you questioned why anybody would want to use an option simply because it doesn’t exist on the iPad, so I pointed you to the previous isheep nonsense that was displayed during antennagate. Hope you can now wrap your brain around it now.

No amount of obfuscation will allow you get away with the idiocy of bringing up 2010's iPhone 'Antennagate' issue (which wasn't nearly as prevalent as you think) in an ipad vs playbook discussion. You should be ashamed of yourself for that doltish diversion.

Akainzo: Na wa for your lies o! Check amazon.com, the costly Mini HDMI cable is $6.81 while the cheapest iPad HDMI adapter is $25.62 and that is just the adapter, then you’d still need to buy the cable! You do need to go brush up on your maths.

So the HDMI adapter is a few dollars more...obviously cost of the HDMI cable is not factored in because it is ubiquitous, you dumbass. If you don't have at least 2 HDMI cables hanging around your house already, you're living in the stone age.
Next thing you'll tell me you 've still got an old CRT TV

Akainzo: If it was never released, it wouldn’t have mattered to me. However, it is of no consequence as from a marketing point of view I’d expect it to come to iOS earlier than the PlayBook.


Basically, doing what? Hunched over the iPad while the screen is showing what, a movie in the 4:3 format on a HDTV or playing games on it that you still need to play on the iPad?
You do feel the envy, you just console yourself by refusing to know of 30 feet connectors and the beauty of the PlayBook’s multitasking abilities.

So instead of wireless Airplay, playing Real Racing 3 on my 47 inch LED TV, i'm supposed to by a 30 ft HDMI cable, snake it across my parlor just to sit comfortably on my favorite chair and use my tablet?

Shame the playbook's 'multitasking prowess' did not translate to sales until they had to cut the price in desperation

Akainzo: Better cameras? Is it the front camera or the back ones? Abeg go read the specs of the cameras, and while at it check out the stereos on the two of them.

iPad 3 has a better primary camera and a worse secondary camera than the Playbook.
What do you mean by 'stereos'. Lol. this is how you know empty heads that copy and paste stuff from Crackberry or GSMArena without understanding what they are copying.
What you meant to talk about was the speakers, with the Playbook having stereo speakers and the ipad making do with a mono speaker.

Funny how you tactfully ignored GPU, build quality, thinness, battery life, screen resolution, screen color gamut, better contrast and several other areas where the playbook is severely outclassed


In summary, you bought a cheap tablet and I know you're desperate to believe it's the better buy...but it sure isn't anywhere near the top of the line Android and iOS tablets...which is why even at the low price points it is being murdered by the likes of the Kindle fire.

[quote author=na2day!]The best part about these ads is they're accurate. Everyone is getting excited for features that have been on the market for a year[/quote]You mean like Samsung showing off S-Voice that's a clone of Siri....that had been available for half a year on iOS? Or Every Android fan going crazy for Jellybean's 60fps smoothness that iOS has had for years?
Or Samsung showing off the Galaxy Note and SGS III's 'retina' pixel density that had been available on the iPhone 4 since 2010?

Everyone is still playing catch up with everyone else

Akainzo: You are simple trying to be clever by half. The above will be a Nexus 7 + Etisalat MiFi + a smartphone which would be greater than a PlayBook + a smartphone!

Except of course you want to say that your ideal person would have a tablet plus a MiFi without owning a phone



Take your own advice, read up. There is a difference between Bluetooth DUN and WiFi hotspot. However, like I said, irrespective of where you get the WiFi, portable hotspot, WiFi hotspot or MiFi, once those are out, the PlayBook is the ONLY ”WiFi ONLY” tablet that can have another means of getting to the internet.

This is 2012..can it be that this fellow does not know what Mobile Hotspot is?

With any modern smartphone, you do not need a Mifi to set up a wireless network. The phone sets up the Wireless Access point which your tablet connects to.
if you take out smartphones (note that this includes Blackberries too) and Wifi, there's no way the Wifi playbook can connect to the internet.

I think your confusion stems from your ignorance as to what wireless tethering/portable hotspot is in Android or iOS devices. hell, even BBOS 7 devices running 7.1 firmware have this feature.

Akainzo: Yet you have bought Four Bold 9900s You must be swimming in money that you do not need. Or are you scamming with the BBs?

I have never met anyone who scams with a BB and you're the first person to mention such in my hearing. This seems to me to be a Freudian slip. Are you a scammer?

Either way, I have changed BBs repeatedly trying to get good battery life...each time selling off the old one.

Akainzo: My guy, the Android player is not an app, it is an integral part of the PlayBook OS thus you are therefore referring to the PlayBook OS. I can’t believe that you know all this by only using the PlayBook for only One day as you claimed! Haba!!!!!
Please do not send to me, apparently you haven’t read it since you bought it!

1) Where did I claim the Android player is an app? it's a runtime that was not all that stable in the early 2.0 release. I'm running the 2.1 beta and it's more stable, less Android app crashes.

2) Where did I claim i'd used the playBook for only one day? Is your paranoia getting the best of you now?

Akainzo: You need to watch the video again and listen better. Faster and smoother is why iOS ate dust.

The developer says it loads up faster. nothing about 'smoother'.

Akainzo: Start from here, then proceed to learn more: http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/how-ios-tricks-you-into-thinking-it-is-fast-20120531/

I talked about iOS boot times of less than 30 seconds, nearly 5 times quicker than the Playbook and you're pointing me to an article that talks about iOS using a splashscreen for a split second to provide an illusion that an app has launched instantly. How does this apply here? Are you sure you aren't inebriated?

Akainzo: As stated earlier above, all that you mentioned are WiFi implementations, what happens when none of these WiFi implementations is available?

That scenario is only possible when your smartphone isn't with you. In such a scenario, Bluetooth will not be available either...and thus neither the ipad or the Playbook will be able to connect to the Internet.

Akainzo: I am not surprised, before Apple solved the antennagate issue, many of you questioned why we needed to hold our phones with the right hand. Continue with your tomfoolery.

Antennagate was solved with the iPhone 4S....and i struggle to understand why you're bringing up the iPhone in an ipad vs Playbook argument. This is veering towards idiocy.

Akainzo: I don’t need a cheapo HDMI adapter, HDMI out is native to the PlayBook. And much more, I can even have a 2 screen setup with what is on the HDMI being different from what is showing on the PlayBook screen! That way I can be showing a movie via the HDMI out and still be playing Modern Combat 3 on the PlayBook screen. Don’t worry, I can see the envy on your face
Yes, the iPad does not have DLNA just like the PlayBook as well as many of the Android tablets.

You'll need a mini HDMI cable. That can run you as much as the HDMI adapter for the iPad.

Glad you mentioned Modern Combat 3. Just released on the Playbook, has been out for AGES on iOS and Android. When are you guys gonna get NOVA 3 anyway?

Since I can't envision a scenario where i'd be hunched near my TV with a cable running from the Playbook in my hand to my TV, I cannot say i'm feeling any Envy. I can use Airplay and lean back in my house, 10ft away from the TV and mirroring my screen and content.

Akainzo: Correction, I said it is better than the iPad spec for spec. So the iPad is 10” and the PlayBook is 7”, is the Galaxy tab 10” better than the Galaxy Tab 7 or the Nexus 7 based on solely the screen estate?
Outside of the screen and its related stuff, where else is the iPad better on that screenshot?

My advice to you, read up and learn. I see that you do visit Crackberry.com, browse it to learn.

GPU: iPad PowerVR SGX 543 MP4. PlayBook SGX 540.
The iPad 3 CRUSHES, SMASHES, OBLITERATES and ANNIHILATES the seriously ageing SGX 540 in the Playbook

Screen resolution is no contest.

Battery life of the ipads CRUSH the Playbook

https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph4266/36715.png

https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph4266/36714.png

Better cameras in the iPad 3.

Are you serious...or are you just trolling?

Akainzo: So in essence you do not understand what is called NATIVE capabilities. So let me explain to you.
The iPad can not natively send a file via bluetooth, you would need an app for that.
The iPad can not natively playback some video formats, but with an app, then it would play those files.

Now that you have learnt what natively means, I would tell you again. A PlayBook though a WiFI ONLY table, has the NATIVE capabilities to provide other means of getting internet to the tablet even when there is no WiFi signals available. This is possible as there exists other means of getting internet access that are not necessarily through the WiFi. Hope you now understand?

Below is a pix of what I have been trying to teach you.

BWAHAHAHAHA

4llerbuntu, get a load of this clown. What possible scenario do you envisage where you have Bluetooth and no Wifi?
Without a Blackberry phone, the Playbook Wifi cannot connect to the internet without Wifi.With a Blackberry you Bridge via Bluetooth. With an Ipad you use your phone's mobile hotspot.

Why is this extremely simple point so difficult for you to comprehend?

all4naija: How is Exynos 4 Quad chip at 1.4GHZ(gigahertz)ARM Cortex A9 compare to iphone 5 A6 not faster and superior in that sense? Please, explain why you think it is not true?

Quad-core against dual-core!

The Qualcomm S4 is dual core, benchmarks much better than the quad core Tegra 3 in the HTC One X.

But thanks for letting us all know you know little about tech

By the way, here's the Sunspider score for iPhone 5....better than any smartphone ever made

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/6309/49915.png

This comes from Anandtech, by the way, so it is incontestable.

boladez: Na wah o, i am quite shocked that the level of enlightenment and exposure is quite low in Nigeria , people prefer to watch home videos and music videos rather than read and listen and write and be a meaningful contributor to the country. I say this because of the quality of posts and suggestions like LASTMA is a private Army, Scrap LASTMA etc. I am sure if you knew Lagos before LASTMA you would have held a different opinion. If LASTMA is scrapped will you replace them with police or the FRSC or those useless Fed min of works officials.? Let the educated and elite use their heads to think not whimper in our closets. One says he will kill LASTMA men , please do so and that will change your life forever. Do you think a human life is that worthless? Some few are just a wasted generation of people with the wrongest of all values!

1. At a traffic light, there are white lines that should not be crossed while you wait for the light to turn green. Most likely the poster crossed the line and I see this happen so often when I stop before the line people just drive right to the space in front of the line with stares indicating "are you dumb or what?"

2. Lagos state LASTMA is being replicated by most other states in the country and whether you like LASTMA or not , we as Nigerians are stubborn and have bad habits. Just this morning I was about to overtake a vehicle on 3rd mainland bridge , he sped up and darted in front of me as if we were in a race! To prevent road rage, I ignored him. We usually get what we deserve in this life. Very early in the morning at 5 to 6am how many people obey traffic lights?

3 For the few who bother to read news "The general manager said that such complaints could be forwarded to the LASTMA Command Centre or any offended citizen could text or this GSM number, 08023386921 or mail the agency at info@lastmalagos.com." this is from a THISDAY newspaper article. Lagos state has the most responsive officials in the federation, how many public officers would respond to letters and calls? Lagos state officials will do and I can testify to that. Speak regularly with many commissioners in Lagos cos I commend and abuse them when they go right or wrong. What the poster should have done was to call the numbers and write then come to Nairaland to tell whether he got fair treatment or not, those of us who are strong minded can then take it from there and hold them to their words. see link to the newspaper article below

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/traffic-law-receive-bribe-face-sack-lagos-government-warns-lastma/121854/

4. LAstma officials will harass you when you do the wrong things knowingly or unknowingly and if you are to scared to pay for the crime or defend your unjust arrest. How many people know what is called the offsaide rule, understand the yellow lines at intersections or understand road markings at all. We must go away from disorder and if LASTMA boys need to harass us into compliance , so be it. However , i am aware they fire them on a daily basis based on people with big livers who can complain and follow through. I got one fired when I saw him harass a poor lady who he misled into making a wrong U turn. I took it up to the level of the Hon comrade commissioner for transport and he brought his folks to beg me!!!!! of course I had to beg his folks too but stuck to my guns.

5. If we keep seeking knowledge and education and ensure voluntary compliance, LASTMA guys will be forced to respond positively.

I will not comment on the ACN factor because it will derail the thread it is about LASTMA and their modus operandi this time and not politics, NAPTU2 your post makes do much sence God bless you. We will keep educating them and will not get tired. A few people can change this country. Multitudes will come with mix of bad , evil and good.

See this dolt! Were you under a rock when the LASTMA commander was desperately trying to pin the death of one of his employees on an innocent lady? The commander INSISTED several times that the lady (who was in a parked vehicle) ran down a LASTMA employee and killed him...and then escaped to a nearby estate.

if not for eyewitnesses, this woman would still be on trial for murder!

Tell us the educational criteria that one needs to get to be in LASTMA before you start opening your mouth to spew imbecilic nonsense. If Sanitizing Lagos was their objective, they would have been airing sensitizing information on the radio and TV stations to tell people not to cross those white lines. One-way streets would be marked boldly. LASTMA officials would not be lying in ambush to trick people into breaking the law. In more developed climes, agencies like LASTMA are designed to prevent road accidents and boost public safety. In Lagos state they are a cash generation outfit.

Your problem is that you are a bush man. I do not doubt that you have some money, but that apparently has not taken the bushness out of you. If not, you would not be defending an agency whose agents would forcefully enter your vehicle without a warrant, whose agents would illegally confiscate your car keys.

all4naija: I don't understand you clearly. Do you mean the source of the ad? If that is what you are on about it is from Samsung recent ad for the iPhone 5 release comparison.This is the link to the ad: http://phandroid.com/2012/09/15/samsung-galaxy-s3-vs-iphone-it-doesnt-take-a-genius/. What actually makes you think it is silly? Indeed, I have weighed into the claims and Samsung is right in almost everything on that so called silly ad.

If you have evidences to prove the ad wrong, please, post them here for us to see.

Samsung basically listed every single software gimmick they had in that list, and grouped all Apple's extra features under iOS6. That's laughable.

Smart Stay, tilt to zoom, shake to update are all gimmicks that most people disable once they boot up the SGS III. Palm swipe to capture is not nearly as ergonomic as pressing the home + power button on the iPhone or even on the Galaxy S III itself!

Of course Samsung handily left out stuff like Airplay from the iOS side of the equation. Besides, if you were ever going to compare the phones based on software, iOS simply cannot be beat for the applications available for it. You could also add 'thousands of third party accessories' on the left hand side and on the right....zilch

Despite Samsung's claims of much better battery life than the iPhone 5, we see from Anandtech's benchmarks that the Galaxy S III is inferior to the battery life of the iPhone 4S in several categories and only just edges it in cellular talk time. Since the iPhone 5 has better battery life than the iPhone 4S...expect Samsung's claims to be disproved

https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph6022/47401.png

https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph6022/47403.png

https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph6022/47404.png


Samsung also tries to spin it that a 4.8 inch screen is better than a 4 inch screen. That is subjective and not true for everyone. many people do not want giant screens...

Finally, the Galaxy S III in that image is the US variant with the Adreno 225...which has a WEAKER graphics card than that found in the old iPhone 4S, not to talk of the iPhone 5. Bottom line is that games will look better on the iPhone 4S than the US Galaxy S III...and the iPhone 5's GPU will absolutely OBLITERATE that in the US Galaxy S III.

all4naija: https://1.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iphone-5-vs-galaxy-s3-ad-full.jpg

Don't also forget about the differences in price!

I gave you too much credit...if you're willing to quote that stupid ad

4llerbuntu: u can argue till ur blue in the face with tex, once he toes a line .......

a year ago he was saying similar things about wp7. pages and pages he just could not see the forest for the trees.

We all know d result today.


personally i think the lumias will do well because of the legion of nokia fanboys eager to relive the past. im guessing the low end wp8 will sell really well. dumbfones are on d way out.
i just dont see them getting the top end of the market.

for this reason im forecasting a complete takeover of nokia by microsoft by december 2013.

I have always conceded to superior LOGIC. Not just the 'iPhone is baaaad, samsung is gooood' drivel i seem to hear on nairaland.

I can't recall ever sticking my neck out for a Wp7 being a better purchase than android. I showed you why I thought Nokia made the right call by not going Android. So far, time has not proven me wrong. HTC, Sony, LG, Motorola...all make less than 3% of the total Smartphone profits COMBINED.

Unless you're Sasmsung, Android is no longer a winning ticket. Samsung phones have ANNIHILATED sales of other Android OEMs in Europe. In north america, all others have been speedily crushed by the Galaxy S III.

Motorola just launched a couple of Android devices on Verizon. Watch those phones get murdered by 1) iPhone 5 2) Galaxy S III 3) Galaxy Note II and then potentially one of Nokia's Lumia phones.

4llerbuntu: u cry, a lot... then u gum d oda parts back with eba or fufu



phoneless! na just air u go dey use

lol

Most likely, other phones will start using nanoSIM from next year. it does provide some space savings afterall.

Just cutting a SIM card down will not work though. the nanosim is thinner than the Microsim so you'll still need to sandpaper it down a bit

Knight1: go to google play and search for a contacts/sms/call log back up app. this will back them up on your sd. then backup your sd on your pc. for ROM, you can check the latest CYANOGENMOD has for you.

...or you could give him the simple solution of just backing up via Samsung Kies.

walcolm: i dont know where you read or watched your review. the complaint about the GSIII i have heard talked about in review has to do wit the fact that the body is made of glossy, plastic material. not a single one about it not feeling comfortable and natural when you hold it

i have seen lots of iPhone4S. Iphone5 is only just taller, thinner without a corresponding upscale in width
the Nokia Lumia 920 design is the same as the Lumia 800 with difference only in dimensions. it even has a glossier finish than the GSIII and its all angular. those sharp edges will chip off with use
the Motorola is just plain ugly because it has nothing catchy about its design

i'll take the GSIII over them design-wise any day. your choice is your own

Come off it, everyone knows the initial reaction to the Galaxy S III's design was rather unimpressive.

After it came out, the opinion was revised to being decent looking...but not in any way outstanding.

If you want to see a beautiful phone, check out the HTC One X.

How are you guys gonna get around the nanoSIM issue?

samir101ng: For me personally, i think am gonna get an Ipod Touch 32GB (Silver) $299. You get almost all the benefits of an Iphone without the high cost and unlocking/Jailbreaking wahala. But men, the unlocked Iphone 5 is expensive, here are the prices:

1. Iphone 5 16GB Unlocked - $649

2. Iphone 5 32GB Unlocked - $749

3. Iphone 5 64GB Unlocked - $849

As an average consumer on a tight budget and salary earner, i cannot justify spending that kind of dough on a phone that can be snatched from you by an AREA boy or any hoodlums lurking about. Using current dollar rates on GTB Internet Banking $1 = N157.77, the least Iphone 5 will cost you N102,392.73. Wow !!
Now that was at an official bank rate which is very hard to get. In the black market, its probably N160-163. This excludes the price of shipping it back to Nigeria or if your lucky get someone to bring it back for you. So, unless you are a high income earner or from a wealthy family, tough luck. Lastly, the Nano sim issue is a ball buster for the Nigerian fans. Microsims have just started to take off and now this !!!

That isn't any cheaper than the Galaxy S III...and Nigerians are buying those with glee.

There are 4 official Apple affiliated stores in Nigeria...so no need to worry about importing.

bigbrovar: I will try to refrain from turning this into a android vs wp debate. That's a topic for another day. All I will just say is. Specs does matter at the end of the day. If the first and second Gen wp hadn't had a hardware limitations and had shipped with powerful processing powers they would not have had problems updating and would have been eligible to run wp8. Even the iPhone often touted as the benchmark for fluidity even on lower spec hardware compared to Android saw the iPhone5 Shipping with a A6 processor based on cortex 15 which is generations ahead of anything running on any smartphone or tablet.. with a gb of ram this is the same iPhone said to only need a fraction of what android devices need to run like liquid yet apple is not taking any risk or pulling punches.

The paradigm of computer usage is shifting more and more to mobile as more and more people are shifting their everyday computing needs to mobile. As I write this I am downloading some torrent from my smart phone. Something which I won't even have thought of some years back. The arm race (pun unintended) is no longer unique to Android. If you want to compete in the mobile space u need solid hardware.

Again the wp8 is not a bad device neither is playing catch up by Nokia a bad thing. But guys this is Nokia we are talking about not HTC. When I want to think of Nokia I want to think of the n95 the Nokia that leaves us wowed. That Nokia (beside the cam) was very OK..yes it has a higher pixel density than the iPhone 4 but the iPhone brought retina so that's playing catch up. yes it has a 4.5 inch screen. Again we have seen that before. Yes the screen claims to be very bright and allows sun light and all.. again that can hardly be described as a wow factor. The design of the phone is great as was the L900 and the n8 and the n97 before that. And yes though the phone was well received (well its a great phone) Yet the general mood from the tech press was kinda meh. The only part which received great reviews was the design (an area Nokia always get raves for) and camera ( Yet another undisputed area for nokia) L920 is a great device as the l900 before it. However will it be great enough to see Nokia to the promise land ? I very much doubt it.

Theverge, Anandtech, Engadget, Gizmodo, Slashgear, Wired, Arstechnica....you name it, all had very positive impressions of the lumia 920. I don't know where you got your 'meh' reaction from. Source please?

bigbrovar: Yeah Much good it did the x1 and the L900 before it. And like you noted about the superLCD Nokia is not the first to ship this tech. Might be marginally better than competition but its not something mind blowing as the way super amoled+ was with the sgs2 which completely out classed the existing competition when it was released.


Again playing catch with the hi res
Screen Game screen density gets to a certain point when it stop making a different anyway yes the Lumia has a slightly higher screen density than the iPhone Which is a great improvement for Nokia but again its a move which brings them inline with the current norm.



And of cause companies don't go over board in hyping their product at press releases .. one would have to wait till its released to get the verdict on that.


yaaarn that was the reaction this feature got on twitter as I was following the event. Cool feature to have no doubt.. but is this enough to get someone off the iphone? I doubt. Yes its a feature which would gladden anyone already out to get the lumia and who happens to leave in the cold region of the world.. not one to make anyone get of their iPhone/Android



Wireless charging is still generally (like nfc) a niche unless and until the wireless charger is included in the retail box for the device then it will continue to be something u tick in your specs check list. Even with that I have lost count of how many device have that on their spec sheet atm. Again Nokia is playing catch up to what already exist. How good their iteration of these features (which have become standard components of most smart phones nowadays) are in the real world is yet to be seen.

3) even it that turns out true I doubt this is possible. Android totally rules that space now.. any Chinese company can download the android source and slam it on a $50 Hardware while Techno, zte and Even samsung and others totally dominate the =>$70 Phone segment. Neither Wp8 nor Nokia can compete that low Both are too rigid. They are android devices that cost cheaper than Nokia s40 low budget phones.

In all the L920 is a good phone on paper. It features a great camera something which has been the trademark of Nokia since forever. But u get the feeling this device is a year late. It would have been different if it was released even before the galaxy s2 or at least around that time for it to have blown people's mind away.. all the buzz words like retina and wireless charging LTE and a 4.5 screen that super responsive would have won it phone of 2011 (same goes for wp8) even it shipped wp7 it would have been future proof. Imagine if the L920 had been the L900 and sold at $99? This was why the reception to the announcement was lukewarm at best. even Nokia shares lost close to 10 % value during the announcement and more when no release date was announced. It shows how less impressed the general world and even Nokia's share holders were.

1. the words 'playing catchup' are used by Android fanboys to suppress genuine improvements in competing devices. Android devices led the specs race because a) the poorly coded Android OS genuinely needed powerful hardware to run anywhere near as smooth as their competitors b) There are far more OEMs making Android devices than any other mobile OS...so new tech is much more likely to debut there.

I didn't see anyone tell us how Android was playing catchup when they debuted project butter on Jelly bean which was designed to bring the level of smoothness that WP and iOS users had been used to for ages.

Catchup or not, the Lumia 920 has a better screen than the SGS III which is THE Android flagship. That's what matters now. Specs of the day are what is used to compare devices.


2) Your observations on the Lumia 920 launch are overly pessimistic. The buzz online was VERY favourable for Nokia. The majority of the tech journalists at the venue were very impressed with the looks, build quality and the camera features...with lots of kudos for the curved screen. The reactions on Twitter were pretty positive, with the only dissenting voices mainly complaining about the dilution of the Pureview branding.

It's anybody's guess whether WP8 still has a fighting chance...but i'd say the Nokia 920 is really leading that charge in a positive way.

For the low end market, Nokia still has a chance to make a dent in the Chinese market. No matter how many Android phones are sold for $50 in the market, the likes of Lenovo have shown convincingly that the public are willing and eager to put down up to $200 - $250 for a low end phone. It's that market Nokia can excel in. They've recently inked a deal with the largest telco in China to stock the Lumia 920.

China aside, there's india. India historically has been a strong market for Nokia...and a low end device there will sell MILLIONS. No question about that.

The reason why Nokia's share price took a beating was that there were no definite announcements on price and release dates. Those are the numbers analysts thrive on, not tech specs. Why do you think Apple's stock price is rising like mad after the reports of incredible pre-order numbers came out?

[quote author=Lord_Reed]Sure the iphone5 will sell, no argument but if Apple doesn't get back to being the innovators they known for being we aint gonna be seeing the same numbers in the future.

BTW does it say how many iphone users don't want to buy the new iphone?

*UPDATE: Only 76% of iphone users are looking to upgrade.[/quote]Before you posted this inane rebuttal, did you consider the fact that up to 50% of iPhone users are using the 4S...which was released a year ago...and most of those people surveyed are on a 2 year contract?

if anything, 76% upgrade rate is AMAZING.

You need to think these things through.

Sad thing about life...a topic about one very smart, very courageous legend...and most of the comments here are from imbecilic dolts.

Cremation is not 'occultic'. Scattering ashes in the sea is not new.

aryzgreat: Don't think i will ever go to bar beach again, all these creamated bodies will definitely be washed towards the shores and we swim into burnt bodies, kai! , wot about people that take these seas as source of drinking water? nna mehn! did is very unhygenic

No, m0r0n, nobody drinks sea water. What kind of education did you receive if you think people quaff the salty sea water?

jmaine: Hopefully, Apple will buckle up to further up the ante in the mobilesphere . . .

Cos if they don't, they did lose most of their hard core fans before they know it . . . .

LMAO! iPhone 5 pre-orders are incredible so far.

Don't believe all the bitter fanboys...iPhone 5 will outsell every damn thing this year and well into the next year.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/14/one-third-americans-want-iphone-5-56-blackberry-users-32-android-users-survey/

32% of Android users surveyed want to switch to iPhone 5