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Comment Re:"Going beyond" hardware (Score 1) 149

Solutions matters over hardware/benchmarks if only you have the solutions. Unfortunately, looks like the competition is in a better position regarding solutions (and benchmarks). Even if 512MB of RAM might make Windows Phone itself work better than its competitors (just maybe), add applications written in mind with the 1GB of RAM of mostly anything else on the market and your device will suffer.

Comment Re:still the vision of 9 years ago. (Score 1) 149

Vodafone Romania has them in store, so I'd assume they are selling enough of them. If you have specific software that runs on them, it's cheaper to buy new Blackberry phones than to rewrite the software ("traveling" salesmen, on field insurance agents maybe - even though the later seems to be replaced by netbooks). Maybe if security restrictions don't allow yet other phones?

Comment Re:I think the strategy should be obvious (Score 1) 149

Nokia historically had fantastic hardware, and in Europe they had huge mindshare. I've been to a Vodafone store, and the young lady in Customer Service (very young) knew about the Nokia 6310 and said many people coming to the store were nostalgic about that model. If the 6310 would have been still selling, I would have bought one without a second thought - in many ways they are better than current smartphones (HUGE effective battery life in standby, on the order of a couple of weeks. Great signal in most circumstances, including "middle of nowhere" places - compared to most of their competitors. Decent preloaded applications. Deterministic and very good performance - my LG Optimus Sol suffers greatly here, sometime it will launch a call at 10+ seconds after clicking on the green phone button, and it always took at least a couple of seconds to disconnect a phone call)
      Remember that at the time, there were no "premium" Windows phones - nothing to compete against the iPhone's milled Aluminum case, or against some or another premium Android devices.

Comment Re:Sigh, that's another waste of time then. (Score 1) 149

Microsoft now controls the hardware and OS (like in Surface, the devices part of Nokia they acquired not too long ago). Nokia had both Symbian and a hardware unit. Samsung has Bada (I think it's called), Tizen. Blackberry also had hardware and software. There was also Palm, Inc. Which was also part of HP...

Comment Re:user error (Score 1) 710

"I do leave my computer on 24/7. However, being I moved to an area that is predominantly powered with clean energy, it's likely my computer use has far less environmental impact than your limited use"

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
There is a single energy market, and to waste it anywhere is to waste it everywhere.

Comment Re:waste of time (Score 1) 380

With one mention: the roundabout offers much better chances of going from the side road - even in that extreme case - than not having a roundabout (and no semaphores). I know, I've used to exit from a side road to a major road, and after the roundabout was set up, it was so much easier (you have to yield to only one direction of traffic, not to both)

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