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― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 08:12 (twelve years ago) link
i mean the iphone didn't even do 900mhz umts until bloody last year
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 08:13 (twelve years ago) link
I really don't give a toss about higher maximum speeds at this point.
In London at least, the 3G networks are horribly overloaded, so even if a 3G mast is in the vicinity and you've got full bars, it's all too common to get either no bandwidth or such a slow trickle of data that browsing is pointless.
― Alba, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 08:19 (twelve years ago) link
Also, I'm guessing 4G is going to drain the battery faster, in which case, no thanks.
― Alba, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 08:21 (twelve years ago) link
i think the specific technology people mean when they say "4g" is pretty poorly defined at the moment (part of the problem), but not all the contenders are battery killers?
― caek, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 08:23 (twelve years ago) link
i can't wait to watch my iphone desperately cycle between GPRS, Edge, 3G and 4G in a futile attempt to download anything while i'm sitting on the bus, that will be awesome
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 09:17 (twelve years ago) link
fuck, having two 3g networks cancelling each other out is bad enough as it is
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 09:23 (twelve years ago) link
btw i think you brits are suffering because your mobile providers are shithouse, not because the 3g standard is incapable of serving you
3 mobile has been amazing in London, compared to the nonsense of O2 and Orange. I got through a whole train journey without losing signal!
― stet, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 10:29 (twelve years ago) link
the only purpose of O2 is to troll its customers
― Romford Spring (DG), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 10:33 (twelve years ago) link
O2 do the best broadband, though.
― Mark C, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 10:52 (twelve years ago) link
BE do the best broadband (NB it is actually the same as O2 broadband, but NB you don't have to be an O2 cutomer)
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 11:05 (twelve years ago) link
cute customer?
― willem, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 11:11 (twelve years ago) link
btw i think you brits londoners are suffering because your mobile providers are shithouse, not because the 3g standard is incapable of serving you― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, May 24, 2011 10:23 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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fixed
― caek, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 11:34 (twelve years ago) link
^Yup: I watched most of the World Cup on my phone using 3G to stream TV Catchup. When it's available, 3G is plenty zippy here in Scotland.
― CraigG, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
I get about 4-5 mbps when tethering using 3g
― and the suggest banned tweeted on (dayo), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 13:24 (twelve years ago) link
3g is pretty decent here, but my city is amazingly low-density compared to NY/LA/Chicago.
I heard that 3g speeds were pretty decent before the release of the iPhone 3g, at which point speeds crawled to a standstill due to the fact that people bought and used iPhones for data, unlike most of the other options at the time.
If there are any faster networks available and people are using them, they're probably hoping that there isn't an iPhone released using that tech if they like their current phone and the ability to use data on it.
― mh, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
This is my first post to ILX from our new fangled MacBook Air. I'm such a tart.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
4G means enough radiation emitted to give you four gonads where you had two , I believe
― Latham Green, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
comprehensive article about 4G today in the Reg.
http://www.reghardware.com/2011/05/24/wtf_is_4g
The single most important characteristic of true 4G is that it doesn't exist yet. What will become the 4G mobile standard for the whole world is 3GPP Release 10: LTE Advanced. It's a compatible enhancement of LTE to bring it up to the ITU stipulations, with upgrades in several areas in the pursuit of greater speed....But not until 2015, some analysts believe, at which point the operators hope to have reached the limits of 3G technology - especially now Ofcom has allowed the use of 2G spectrum for 3G applications - and for 4G equipment to be rather cheaper than it is now.
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But not until 2015, some analysts believe, at which point the operators hope to have reached the limits of 3G technology - especially now Ofcom has allowed the use of 2G spectrum for 3G applications - and for 4G equipment to be rather cheaper than it is now.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
The best part is that if you read new ITU publications, they backslid and say that carriers can advertise "near-4g" shit as 4g because hey, marketing is awesome, guys.
― mh, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
Just like they marketed Vista part 2 as "Windows 7"
― Latham Green, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 12:23 (twelve years ago) link
Look. I just want 1GBps OKAY????
― Serial Chiller (sunny successor), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
was that gigabit or gigabyte because gigabyte is pretty fucking insane
― mh, Thursday, 26 May 2011 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
I wrote a small document in Mac Pages and opened it in ipad Pages and it's fucking all over the place.
― Autumn Alma Park Toilets (Schlafsack), Monday, 30 May 2011 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
Also it complained about one of the two standard fonts I use instead of just, you know, fetching it.
― Autumn Alma Park Toilets (Schlafsack), Monday, 30 May 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
right, hi.
i want to extend the warranty on my macbook, because it expired last year and if it dies again, which it's done regularly, i'm fucked. on the apple website though it seems as though an applecare agreement costs $249 - i'm SURE the last time i was in an apple store purchasing insurance was a lot cheaper than that???
― the smoke cloud of pure hatred (lex pretend), Saturday, 4 June 2011 06:55 (twelve years ago) link
it's a moot point since you can't buy an extended warranty if your original one's already expired
― dayo, Saturday, 4 June 2011 07:29 (twelve years ago) link
uhhh ok. so...what do i do to get insurance on this thing?
― the smoke cloud of pure hatred (lex pretend), Saturday, 4 June 2011 07:39 (twelve years ago) link
don't think you can buy warranties on used products, or if you can, it'd have to be through a third party. not sure what companies in the UK do this.
fwiw you can see if you're eligible here
https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do
click the apple icon on your computer, go to 'about this mac', click 'more info', serial # should be listed in the column of info
― dayo, Saturday, 4 June 2011 07:46 (twelve years ago) link
the only way to nto get mad at apples is to be so rich you dont care
― Latham Green, Saturday, 4 June 2011 10:32 (twelve years ago) link
My iphone is barely 6 months old and the battery seems to be about to die. Usually, if I don't make lengthy calls or use the GPS the battery can get through a day and still be around 90% full. Over the last few days it's been dropping much further, to 50% or so. This morning I woke up and my phone was completely dead. After plugging it in and charging it up for about 10 minutes it finally started to come to life. I'm pretty sure the battery needs replacing and I assume this shouldn't cost me anything (surely the battery is expected to last longer than this? I've never had to replace a battery on any other phone before). Do I just go direct to the Apple Store in central London, or do I contact 02 who my contract is with, or go to Carphone Warehouse (who the phone was bought from, except I bought it online not from a shop), or do I have to contact my insurer?
― Food Processors Are Grebt (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 13 June 2011 06:56 (twelve years ago) link
Here I've known people who have gone into an Apple Store and had it sorted on the spot. I also remember a similar sort of thing happening to an ilxor (not ilxor) in the UK last year, can't remember what happened there though.
― We are Real solid sex doll AKA RSSD (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 13 June 2011 07:41 (twelve years ago) link
That might have been me. The first phone I got was faulty (you couldn't hear any calls unless you used the headphones) so I went into an Apple Store and got it replaced.
― Food Processors Are Grebt (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 13 June 2011 07:45 (twelve years ago) link
Ahhh. Do that.
― We are Real solid sex doll AKA RSSD (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 13 June 2011 07:48 (twelve years ago) link
ok so i'm interested in trying out reeder.
but it's app store only.
and there's no way to demo an app store app (correct me if i'm wrong).
RIP me and reeder.
― caek, Monday, 13 June 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
are all the betas expired? I've been "trying it out" (read: beta testing) it for what seems like half a year now.
― mh, Monday, 13 June 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
If you need a news reader just buy it, it's immense. Makes NNW look like some ancient OS 9 piece of shit.
― stet, Monday, 13 June 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
I am not buying it without using it first.
― caek, Monday, 13 June 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
man r screenshots not enough for you WHAT DO U WANT
― ice cr?m, Monday, 13 June 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
on the other hand ive been lead to believe their may be a thriving online blackmarket for such things as macintosh applications, i hear the prices are quite resonable
― ice cr?m, Monday, 13 June 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
yes i have just "found" it
i really hope this is a 1.0 thing with apple store rather than a trend
― caek, Monday, 13 June 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
Agreed. I switched to Reeder once the 1.0 release came out and am very glad I did.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 13 June 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
stet, if you mean nnw looks like a desktop app and reeder looks like an ipad app then yeah, i guess. i like how the "reeder/ios" appearance is the default, and if you select standard it looks like a blue ipad app instead of a brown one.
― caek, Monday, 13 June 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
I'm kind of scared "ios appearance" is going to get overused in a lot of Mac OS apps now :/
― mh, Monday, 13 June 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
i would just like to say that having scroll bars fade out after a few tenths of a second is possibly the stupidest UI decision i have ever seen in a mac app (apart from using helvetica obv.) seriously, this guy must have spent literally days breaking scrollbars rather than using the cocoa toolkit.
― caek, Monday, 13 June 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
there is no way to rename subscriptions
― caek, Monday, 13 June 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
Until extremely late in the beta cycle, there was no way to add subscriptions
― mh, Monday, 13 June 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
line spacing in the reader panel looks like it's at about 200% (which is lol stupid)
the default font is at 16pt (thank you but my mac is in the same room as me, so 12pt will be fine)
― caek, Monday, 13 June 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
I don't mine the font size too much since I have one of those 15" MBPs with the high resolution screen
everything looks awesome, though
― mh, Monday, 13 June 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link