My Dad asked me recently what sort of computer he should buy to replace his ten-year-old HP laptop. And what sort of phone should he get to replace his old Nokia? And while I was at it, should he get one of those tablet things? There are a lot of possible options at the moment,… Continue reading What laptop, tablet, or smartphone to buy? It’s a complicated business
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I quite like the Surface RT. It must be doomed
The Surface RT is the device Microsoft must hope will cause their Windows 8 strategy to start making sense to the world at large. It's a tablet along the lines of the iPad, with an optional flappy felt keyboard cover and a cut-down version of Windows 8 on it. Microsoft Office is included, but it won't run any other software from… Continue reading I quite like the Surface RT. It must be doomed
iPads in schools
Fraser Spiers remarks, in a review of the Google Nexus 7 tablet: My experience with two years of iPad in school is that the iPad can cover 99% of everything we want to do with a computer in school... the iPad can replace the computer suite I think the radical nature of his observation has… Continue reading iPads in schools
Updating into oblivion
I updated my Nokia 700 today. It's an unlocked, unbranded phone running Symbian Belle, that was advertised as having OS updates in February and April this year—but those updates never arrived. I eventually lost patience, and made the updates using underhand and possibly illegal tools. In an earlier post I said that I wasn't too… Continue reading Updating into oblivion
Windows Phone 8 and Nokia
Microsoft formally announced Windows Phone 8 yesterday. There were some interesting technical details in the announcement: it permits running native code, will apparently support individual app distribution centres for corporate users, and has a less boring home screen. They also confirmed, as expected, that there will be no upgrades from Windows Phone 7. I'm not… Continue reading Windows Phone 8 and Nokia
This could be bad news for games consoles
Rumours abounding (nice example here from John Gruber) that Apple may be about to announce an updated Apple TV operating system with apps support, possibly integrated into an Apple-branded TV set rather than being available only as a separate box as at present. (How would you control it? Through a separate iOS device like an… Continue reading This could be bad news for games consoles
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