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Voytek Eymont wrote: >Just checked, after 8 hours, WiFi on, 3g off, 75 battery left >-- After 24h 30m: 40% left according to stats: screen on 10%, WiFi on, BT on, data transferred: 3 MB, 30MB - 3G, WiFi stats don't seem to show 3G on time, at a guess, probably 45 or 60 minutes So did you

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Voytek Eymont wrote: >Pinch to zoom browser is really cute, but the browser is not getting >the proper URL, both of these just take me to slug menu page, not >correct page, like I said, Web browsing on these gadgets is nothing to >write home. Actually, it seems like it could be mail client p

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Marghanita da Cruz wrote: > >PS With regard to your comment: >> If I was 30 years younger then Marghanita's evidence would have been >crucial. > >I assume you are referring to my posting on Dating > >rather than the one on Battery

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> >You should try it out. My experience is that >Safari is just purely dreadful. Others may beg to >differ. > Actually, another friend just got an iPhone 4, she asked me to backup her iPhone 3, so I told her if she had no use for 3 to give it to me, so maybe I'll have one... My personal PO

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"Voytek Eymont" Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:33:37 +1100 > Patrick wrote:>>> >> The friends who have iPhone 4's have complained about battery life but >> in many ways this is the consequence of these devices have such a large >> range of capabilities (web browsing, applications for games and sites, >>

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Rod Butcher wrote: I'm in a similar position to what Ken mentions re doctors needing an IPhone if they want to use the MIMS app, but apparently medicos are buying Androids nevertheless - libraries I support will be developing an IPhone app to access their catalog... maybe I can get an Android

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On Sun, February 12, 2012 9:36 pm, Rod Butcher wrote: > If I was 30 years younger then Marghanita's evidence would have been crucial. apparently there are some chemical compounds that can overcome certain aspects of the 30 years older syndrome - though I have no hard evidence to confirm -- Vo

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>> The friends who have iPhone 4's have complained about battery life but >> in many ways this is the consequence of these devices have such a large >> range of capabilities (web browsing, applications for games and sites, >> taking photos, listening to music or watching movies etc). For examle,

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Thanks for all the serious feedback, esp. Voytek for battery life discussion and list of sysadmin apps, also Edwin. Sounds like something like Galaxy Nexus with Cyanogen will allow me to seriously experiment - I learned Linux by repairing messes I had made of my system by customizations & mixi

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On 10/02/2012, at 6:20 AM, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: >> I originally asked whether there was any important functionality that > Android-based phones lacked compared to the competition, and whether they > struggled with any file formats. I then added that this appeared to me to > be an issue

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Rod wrote: > I originally asked whether there was any important functionality that Android-based phones lacked compared to the competition, and whether they struggled with any file formats. I then added that this appeared to me to be an issue of available apps and requested confirmation or otherwis

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Voytek Eymont wrote: . > >(and, I'm not doing it add I must do out, I'm doing it as a learning >thing for me) And clearly I haven't mastered Swype as well as I should, judging by some of the auto corrections above. -- Swyped from my Motrix with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- SLUG -

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. Closest we got was some facts about > >techniques for extending battery life, which is important and relevant, > >but I still don't know how Android compares in this area to the >competition. I think it's extremely hard to assess, or find a reliable and trustworthy data. Every time I try, th

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On 07/02/12 09:25, Edwin Humphries wrote: On 6/02/2012 10:44 PM, Rod Butcher wrote: On 02/06/12 17:41, Nick Andrew wrote: On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:34:22AM +0800, James Linder wrote: SNIP While this thread drifts OT the basic issue is tremendously important for us as a group. So ... bac

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Sorry, meant to send to the list -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Voytek Eymont wrote: >>> While this thread drifts OT the basic issue is tremendously >important for us as a group. >> So ... back to the important questions of whether Android or IOS runs

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On 6/02/2012 10:44 PM, Rod Butcher wrote: On 02/06/12 17:41, Nick Andrew wrote: On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:34:22AM +0800, James Linder wrote: SNIP While this thread drifts OT the basic issue is tremendously important for us as a group. So ... back to the important questions of whether Andro

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On 02/06/12 17:41, Nick Andrew wrote: On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:34:22AM +0800, James Linder wrote: SNIP While this thread drifts OT the basic issue is tremendously important for us as a group. So ... back to the important questions of whether Android or IOS runs more apps? Nick. I original

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On 06/02/12 17:41, Nick Andrew wrote: On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:34:22AM +0800, James Linder wrote: If I choose to use windows then the only and remote moral issue is MS use the money I fed them to wreck havoc on the world. I think you just proved Patrick's point. By continuing to pay money to

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On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:34:22AM +0800, James Linder wrote: > If I choose to use windows then the only and remote moral issue is MS > use the money I fed them to wreck havoc on the world. I think you just proved Patrick's point. By continuing to pay money to MS, you are in part responsible for t

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Wrote: David Lyon Sun, 5 Feb 2012 18:31:04 +1100 well, another viewpoint. I bought a new notebook and it came with windows 7. For years I've not felt so dissappointed with a computer. I just couldn't find anything fun to do with it. They've even removed 'debug'.. Shish-ka-bobs. Then After I g

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On 06/02/2012, at 9:00 AM, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: > FOSS vs proprietary software is not a fetish. It's an ethical issue. > As much as making decisions as to what sort of school (or even whether > you send your children to school), or whether you will become a > vegetarian or NOT be a veg

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well, another viewpoint. I bought a new notebook and it came with windows 7. For years I've not felt so dissappointed with a computer. I just couldn't find anything fun to do with it. They've even removed 'debug'.. Shish-ka-bobs. Then After I got Ubuntu 11 on, the machine is my sense of lovely.

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FOSS vs proprietary software is not a fetish. It's an ethical issue. As much as making decisions as to what sort of school (or even whether you send your children to school), or whether you will become a vegetarian or NOT be a vegetarian is an ethical issue. Some people can be accused of presentin