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Do it, you wont be disappointed - the nexus 7 is brilliant.

Google have given apple a massive problem. When apple were so far ahead of the competition with phones they could justify the premium price tag, but this hardware coupled with all the iterations in software up to jellybean have shrunk that difference. Same with the iPad to be honest, the nexus...

Had to happen, iOS6 is nothing short of poor, its iOS5 but a bit worse, when you've got android moving in the opposite direction and jellybean "almost" there then something has to give. I suspect forstall spent the year between 5 and 6 counting his cash and stock options. Good riddance.

I don't see the point in LTE anyway (at this point in history), certainly not for the life of these devices anyway. Today's batch of LTE devices will be like dinosaurs by the time there's a decent countrywide service. At no point have I ever thought "3G" is slow, even tethering. The only...

Your gripe isn't with Android, it's with your hardware manufacturer. Remember that once that phone is sold, there's zero further revenue to be made from it. Back porting newer versions of Android would basically come out of their profit margin for previous phones (i.e their pocket), there...

No, it'll work with bluetooth as well, it's just a command that the accessory can send. That's all I can really say about it. Academic anyway as you need both the MFI documentation and crypto IC's to use bluetooth anyway.

On android it's done with intents. On iOS it's possible (and I use that in the loosest sense of the word), but not "app side"...it's part of the iAP protocol.

For me it's not even a case of what crap they may or may not have added, it's about having access to the latest release of Android. To be in a situation where you buy a brand new phone but have no idea whether it does or will ever run the current latest revision of the OS is unacceptable - at...

I think if you were having a conversation with somebody face to say you'd say. (You'd have to hold your hands up and move your fingers to indicate the quotes) If you own the latest iPad: Note the lack of quotes and therefore finger movement. Anything other than face to face, you're own...

I'd disagree in the US though, the price differential is enough (stateside) for anybody other than the "I only buy premium" market think twice. $329 for a 16GB iPad Mini. $199 for a 8GB N7. The rumours seem to be that there is just going to be a shift of storage on the N7 so that the 8GB...

I never understood why somebody inside apple thought that calling the last gen ipad "the new ipad" was a good idea. There are some odd decisions on stuff going on inside apple.

There's only one reason you bring the competition into your sales pitch, because you're worried about them and feel the need to rubbish them. It's like a Samsung pitch. Odd, very odd.

This, should be transparent as long as VLC is installed to handle the DVD decryption.

Superflous "ands" in my previous reply courtesy of swiftkey.

I'd agree with you if it ran stock Google firmware, but it doesn't. I'd never buy an android phone that didn't run a stock firmware, and ie. Nexus device. Shame., and because I'd have replaced my 4s with an s3 months ago if it was a nexus device.

Wait a week or so and there will be new Android devices that aren't crippled by design. You'd have to be mental to buy an S3 right now.

Yeah. But my guess is that he doesn't - I bet the backlight draws more current over the space of a minute than the bluetooth chip does in standby from 100% battery to 0%. It's massively pointless. And WiFi will use even less current when not actively transmitting.

Do you have automatic brightness disabled and the screen brightness on the lowest setting?

I like CAN, mainly because it's open collector and the (backoff system means that) highest priority message is always guaranteed to succeed.

Seeing as there's quite a few of us, what sort of software (and technology) are we all working on then? I'm currently doing embedded DSP stuff for radar technology. I spend half my life buried in schematics, datasheets for electronic components, logic analysers and oscilloscopes.

Angry birds is a physics game though ;)

True, but then again, maybe I'm a "code snob" and have a different definition of what a games developer is! "I'm a games developer" "Cool, what did you write, COD? Halo?" "Umm, no, erm, Bubble Blast" "Oh, erm, cool"

If you don't have good a-levels in maths and physics then you can definitely forget your dream of game development! However, you also have to bear in mind that most programmers don't come into contact with anything other than basic math (and zero physics) because of the types of applications...

Of course you are (unless of course you fall into the bracket of piss poor programmers)- genetics determine everything about you. I couldn't spend 5 days a week painting and decorating because I'd want to commit suicide after 2 minutes, but other people are wired to do that, likewise they...

And that. I've known people with degrees who still can't get their head around how you "know where to start" when writing a program. IMHO, it's something you're either wired for or you're not. I think it's possible to teach somebody to be a poor coder, I don't think it's possible to teach...

What's your maths and physics like? The games industry is notably hard to get into because its pretty much a pre-requisite to have x years game development experience and y number of released titles AND good qualifications in maths & physics.

I'd laugh the ass of somebody if they came looking for a job and all they could program in was c# and java. Learn "c" because most languages are either supersets or borrow heavily from it (even the toy languages like java and c#). You'll learn stuff that you wouldn't with object oriented...

Students, especially in the states where apple dominate campuses. Students leave their doors open all the time, if your laptop is locked down then its not going to get stolen.

And you'd be right. Clearly google have had a problem since day one when every phone manufacturer "bastardised" android and created fragmentation hell. Clearly between the first release and jellybean they've had bigger fish to fry, i.e making stock Android a worthy competitor to iOS. Now that...

The biggest problem with the 5 isn't the hardware, it's the software. Maybe they've decided profit margins can be even bigger if you do the bare minimum of development. I'd like to know exactly what the iOS team have been doing for the past year. I don't expect major visual changes (and...