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Comment Re:Why are commies such prudes? (Score 1) 420

"There were even organizations such as the Junior Anti-Sex League, which advocated complete celibacy for both sexes. All children were to be begotten by artificial insemination (artsem, it was called in Newspeak) and brought up in public institutions. The Party was trying to kill the sex instinct, or, if it could not be killed, then to distort it and dirty it. He did not know why this was so, but it seemed natural that it should be so." George Orwell, 1984

Comment Re:Apple... (Score 1) 114

He was replying to my earlier post mentioning all classes of devices, even specifically mentioning 20 Euro Nokia phones.

He also alluded to a, well, peculiarity of the UI which is typical for all kinds of Symbian phones regardless of their price. It doesn't really matter in case of a 100-dollar-phone, but for smartphones it ruins the functionality.

And it's no wonder your wife has difficulty using a phone that doesn't exist...I'd say it's almost a miracle she manages to make calls.

Or was it N82? I've tried to memorize Nokia nomenclature, but stuck on 6120.

Comment Re:Apple... (Score 1) 114

'We will reduce the clutter and improve the input methods including multi-touch and single tap,' Kallasvuo told delegates. 'It should be just two taps to get to your favorite music or videos, rather than eight. We'll improve browser experience so that it's a quicker, flash improved, media experience with pinch-to-zoom and so on.'

Are you sure he was talking about

TRUE low-end

or

nearing $100 mark without contract

devices? My wife's N87, though being 3G-phone equipped with GPS, is practically unusable for anything but basic calls, and the UI is the primary reason. Trying to push Symbian into smartphone market, instead of keeping it right where it belongs - as an OS for low-end cheap phones, is just a weird way to waste money.

Comment Re:iPhone slow and unreliable because of 2M camera (Score 1) 296

No this isn't. It's possible to recognize 2D barcode on a 320x240 image taken in bad lighting conditions and at reasonably oblique angle in real time. And I'm afraid you won't find a phone with enough processing power to deal with 3MP image in a sane amount of time. By my experience, resolution is of much less importance than a nice lens and the ability to focus the camera.

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