Or ? With reports regularly quoting the word, it would be good to all agree what the word means, surely? Posted by Steve in News Comments , Jul 19th. Playing devil's advocate, but only to a degree, Steve Litchfield turns the entire smartphone world on its head by rejecting its latest darling - large touchscreens. Ask any pundit in the mobile world about smartphones and you'll get the answer that it's all about touch. About large displays that can be caressed and programmed and manipulated with your fingers.
Except that traditional, non-touch form factors have these 'flagships' well and truly beat in many ways - here are the Top 10 Reasons Why Touchscreens Suck. Posted by Steve in News Comments , Jul 8th. In these times of recession, it's more vital than ever to watch your pounds or Euros - if you need or lust after a new ish Symbian-powered smartphone then why not think of getting something second-hand, on eBay, at a fraction of the new price?
Or if you're trying to raise cash by reducing your smartphone stash that's been gathering dust under the desk, then read on for some comments and example selling prices as at the end of June Posted by Steve in News Comments , Jun 30th. Starting with a throwaway line from a US podcast, Steve Litchfield works up a head of steam over the ever-slipping battery life standard in our smartphones.
How long is long enough when it comes to keeping a modern smartphone going on a single charge? Posted by Steve in Features Comments , Mar 1st. As an industry watcher, the world of smartphones has never been more competitive or better value. It's also duller than ditchwater. And, apparently, growth has now stopped and sales are in decline With IFA just over in Germany, where yet another batch of almost identical 5" touch slabs were announced, I'm tempted to suggest that now really is the time to look for character in our smartphones.
Where are the USPs? Are they now relegated to older, almost retro, devices, while new products fall over themselves to stay anonymous? Posted by Steve in Features Comments , Sep 6th. This is the exact opposite, a condemnation celebration of the very worst in cosmetics, practicality and pocketability This is Symbian wierd, or at least as weird as phones linked by a common software platform can get.
From the freak show below, see how many of the phones you owned - a prize or at least major sympathies if you owned the lot! Posted by Steve in Features Comments , Apr 8th. Regular listeners to the Degrees podcast will have heard many times of Rafe's legendary 'six year rule', when referring to smartphone platforms and ecosystems. With Blackberry seemingly imploding before our eyes, with Nokia having been snapped up recently by Microsoft and with Symbian increasingly being forgotten in the marketplace, I thought it worth both expanding on Rafe's rule of thumb and also charting it graphically.
A mosquito lives for a week, a hamster for a year or two, smartphone operating systems about six or seven years, and happily human beings about 70 to 80 years. Life and death, all in words? It can only be an All About sites editorial Posted by Steve in Features Comments , Sep 30th. This is the exact opposite, a condemnation celebration of the very worst in cosmetics, practicality and pocketability This is Symbian wierd, or at least as weird as phones linked by a common software platform can get.
From the freak show below, see how many of the phones you owned - a prize or at least major sympathies if you owned the lot! Posted by Steve in Features Comments , Apr 8th. So saw the first 6"-screened 'phone' the Huawei Ascend Mate. Greeted with a degree of shock by most, would you be surprised to know that my 'smart' device of choice back in , a whopping sixteen years ago , also had a touchscreen with a 6" diagonal? Now that your jaw has hit the floor, let me suggest you glance at the chart below, proposing that large screened devices have, for tech fans preferring to live on the cutting edge, always been available and that impressions of a gradual size creep are more for the wider market.
Posted by Attila in Reviews Comments , Nov 9th. Posted by krisse in Reviews Comments , Nov 2nd. Pages: 1. Can it make a successful transition to mobile phones? Find out in AAS's review. Meteor brings it to Symbian, but does it bring anything new to the table?
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