Disqus - Friends of Abul

Re: Underwhelmed by Pre launch buzz

whatleydude — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:37:35 -0000

Dun dun dun, @adonisdemon in 'not clicking through' shocker...

Caption: "This is what sarcasm looks like kids..."

;))

Re: Palm Pre launch party [There ain't no party like an O2 party... Hey... Ho... etc]

whatleydude — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:10:18 -0000

Not sure what you mean?

Re: Vodafone Live!, not available on the N86

whatleydude — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:46:45 -0000

'the x-plore option' - do tell

Re: Video Diary: Whatley & the Sony Ericsson Satio in Soho

whatleydude — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:53:20 -0000

The camera on the Satio beats everything else hands down.

By miles.

But.. Battery, sharing and just the damn size of the thing put me off.

Re: Vodafone Live!, not available on the N86

whatleydude — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:50:30 -0000

Serves me right for liking Vodafone so much? Eh?

I pay Vodafone a *shed* ton of cash every month to use their network, surely I - as the paying consumer - should be able to use whichever handset I choose.

Re: Vodafone Live!, not available on the N86

whatleydude — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:49:20 -0000

I must say Lee (and it's something I've expressed privately to Terence too), even though a solution is yet to present itself, I do appreciate the time and effort Vodafone are taking to engage with this issue.

I'm looking forward to VF360, much.

Re: Vodafone Live!, not available on the N86

whatleydude — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:46:25 -0000

"As much as I love Mippin (they're a major technology provider behind http://vodafone.com/myweb )"

Um.. is that a Really Mobile exclusive?!

:D

(that's kind of awesome btw)

Re: Vodafone Live!, not available on the N86

whatleydude — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:41:12 -0000

I appreciate the in-depth response, I do.

However I only have one answer to one of your questions. Which is:

"So, should we show links to the games, music, apps etc? Or should we remove them? Or should we show them, but on download present a warning that what you've bought may not work and there are no refunds if we don't support your phone?"

Yes. You should.

"We don't recognise your handset as a Vodafone Live! handset, we think the best service is X but cannot guarantee it will work 100%. If you'd like to talk to Vodafone about upgrading to a Vodafone Live! handset we do support, please call 08700 700 191 from your handset or click here to carry on."

Give the user the choice, offer to up-sell them AND include a call to action.

Surely this is a better option than just having the service bork everytime I need to check my trains?

Re: Vodafone Live!, not available on the N86

whatleydude — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:36:13 -0000

You can rant about it here properly if you'd like, you have my email buddy...

Re: Vodafone Live!, not available on the N86

whatleydude — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:35:35 -0000

EXACTLY!

Re: Vodafone Live!, not available on the N86

whatleydude — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:32:43 -0000

Win. Saving that now.

Shame, doubt I'll be heading back to VF Live! anytime soon...

Re: Vodafone Live!, not available on the N86

whatleydude — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:32:23 -0000

Makes sense huh?

Re: How Microsoft Office 10 will be locked out of my toolbag

whatleydude — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:25:39 -0000

Horses for courses though surely?

The iPhone wins hands down for any kind of content consumption. Music, video, navigating the web... It's a perfect device. But when it comes to content *creation*, then - to my mind at least - it has to be a Nokia.

Android is kicking it (aside from a few reported battery issues) it's well thought out UI which has fantastically produced a true unified comms system for the 21st Century.. *if* you're Google-centric, of course.

;)

Re: All change in the UK: Orange announces iPhone 3G/3GS agreement

whatleydude — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:01:10 -0000

For the record, I have a Satio. It's right here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whatleydude/390358...

The camera on it is *amazing*, see here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whatleydude/390406...

However, it is one chunky handset. The iPhone which, and anyone in this stream will tell you, I am no fan of, is much more comfortable to hold and easier to use. The Satio is running a poor man's version of Symbian 5th Edition and really could benefit from either an OS overhaul (something like Android would be awesome on this device) and/or some firmware improvements that a) fix the horrendous battery issues, (360hrs? Really? What, if you leave it plugged in you mean?) and b) Do something about the UI.

At least with an iPhone I can send a photo to flickr. Still trying to work that one out on the Satio.

Yours,

A fan of neither SE or the iPhone,

James

Re: Interface Preview: Vodafone 360 Samsung H1

whatleydude — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:27:39 -0000

Vodafone already have the iPhone, just not in the UK.

Re: So much news, so little time…

whatleydude — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:29:14 -0000

I know! I totally forgot about that, I was talking to Rafe Blandford earlier on this afternoon to see if he had any thoughts on the Ovi Dev Day and his (out of character) response was - 'On Monday'.

Citing OTA as the reason... !!!

Re: A Dongle Discovery

whatleydude — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:43:39 -0000

Wow, we must've really only *just* missed each other. Ask Rob about the six lunatics he had over on the Lucozade Challenge. I'm sure he'll have a story or two... :)

Re: A Dongle Discovery

whatleydude — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:39:03 -0000

Looks like Antigua, it is in fact St Maarten.

Close though :)

Re: Love your N95? Get the Nokia N86.

whatleydude — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:36:44 -0000

Well I'm flying to Antigua on Saturday morning and won't be back for a couple of weeks. So not sure how or when it'll be possible.. but yes, definitely soon.

Let's keep talking :)

Re: Love your N95? Get the Nokia N86.

whatleydude — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:36:04 -0000

Awesome. Good to know that these posts make a difference :)

Re: Love your N95? Get the Nokia N86.

whatleydude — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:24:28 -0000

That is a very good question Jorge,

The battery has been *ok*. Not awesome, not bad.. but ok. Given that every day I've been online almost all day, taking photos as often as possible, recording videos and uploading to various sharing sites as well as blogging on the fly... I normally get a good 6-7hrs out of it.
But I do have a spare battery as well as a Power Gorilla to keep me charged in case of emergencies.

I can also recommend a 16GB microSD card. They rock my socks also.

Which reminds me - aren't we supposed to be doing something over Skype sometime soon? :D

Re: Love your N95? Get the Nokia N86.

whatleydude — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:00:44 -0000

That might be case re: X-Series, yes. But if that was true, then why not throw something out there that actually has the hallmarks of a flagship device. Like another 8MP camera, or a Xenon flash maybe?

The X6 looks like the 'hero' handset of the X range, but I don't think it could be an N-Series.
Maybe that's the bar now, if you look at the E72. A business handset with a 5MP camera? these features are the norm... in which case, where is the flagship device?

Re: Love your N95? Get the Nokia N86.

whatleydude — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:58:03 -0000

As of yesterday I've been using the Nokia Messaging on the N86. It comes built-in under the moniker of 'Nokia Email'. It's the same app/software that is shipping with the new E-Series devices (the first of which was the E75 from memory) and so far, I'm really enjoying it.

Email without QWERTY means I can send more stuff one handed. That's what used to bug me about the N97 and in fact, nearly ALL touch devices - you just couldnt/cant do anything *quickly* with them and you need to give the display 100% of your attention all the time.

Not for me I'm afraid.

Re: Novatel MiFi 2352 Portable WiFi Hotspot: First Look

whatleydude — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:00:55 -0000

So the answer to my question:

"What is the benefit of having one of these if I already have say a full Joikuspot client running on my Nokia handset?"

...is: "None, unless you want to share your wifi connection when you're not there."

I don't need one then. Cool. Cheers.

Re: Get Spotify in the U.S.

zacharye — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:26:03 -0000

Yes, a proxy should work ok -- and the OP suggests that a VPN service will
work 100%, of course, though there is a fee associated with VPN services. If
you find Spotify useful though, VPN is cheap enough.

If my connection dies, I'll give both options a try and report my findings.