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How's jellybean working out for you? How long did it take to get to ICS? Sd is slow, it's always going to be slower than real flash. (Sd is either spi or a 4 bit data bus). Google are trying to fix the problems with android fragmentation and lack of handsets running the latest version by...

Google don't like sd cards either, you won't find a google experience device with a slot for one, just the internal memory that the device ships with. If you're buying a non-google experience device you deserve to get burned by the manufacturer.

No. I have no idea what sort of memory it has on it what it's configuration is. An SD card will be using die direct from the factory, die is small and therefore multiple dies could quite happily sit inside a sd card. More dies you have, the cheaper it becomes. The smaller the capacity the...

Flash memory is expensive. The only comparison is to an SSD for a computer, but even that's unfair because SSD's use multiple cheaper smaller capacity chips to build an larger array for cost and performance benefits. The bigger the flash chip, the more the price increases, it's exponential.

Never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever buy a non google experience (android) device. We've got a both an iPad and a Nexus 7. Despite Steve Jobs insistence that the 7" format was crap I actually find it much more ergonomic than the iPad, it's easier to hold in one hand (weight & the...

Sure you can, just not high data rates. You could easily get track information transferred without affecting audio quality or breaking any compatibility with existing stuff. But at the end of the day nobody would use it!

Ignore. It's just a case of getting a patent so that others can't or so that in the future it can be presented as prior art. They couldn't possibly hope to implement it, it's not feasable - least of all because outside factors could block GPS anyway, simple FM transmitter on the right...

Its CPU is vastly underpowered - it has a good GPU but it's limited to decoding h264 in hardware (ok, MPEG2 codec and some proprietary wins**t codec are/will be available for purchase). Anything else with a decent bit-rate and resolution will grind. XBMC is slow on it, massive pauses all over...

Prepare for disappointment.

Nope, the EU regulations are to do with a common charger interface, Micro USB. This isn't micro USB, and therefore will still require an adaptor. This is most likely partly about removing the historical crud from the connection (think all the way back to the very first iPod) but probably more...

Of course, if you're willing to put up with 30 min sessions you could "cough" make the most of their free wifi with very little effort....

I think you're making this way more complex than needs be! Get an access point that's compatible with DD-WRT (the WRT54G was the go-to router, but you might need the right hardware version). Register the WAN port as your mac address (with the uni) and tell it to pick up the WAN IP via DHCP...

Its actually better to be ignorant because the damages are lower. In most cases you're actually better off not doing a patent search because then you cannot be guilty of willful infringement. In the case of apple, they believed the terms of licensing to their supplier extended to them, it...

Enlighten us then on why you believe that 90% of their patents are not valid in your opinion. You do realize that once a patent has been enforced in court that it then becomes very strong? Samsung and their laughable legal team have just done apple a massive favour. Like Tom said, the main...

Market share counts for s**t when apple make more profit on mobile phones than the rest of the industry combined, its not a metric that Apple give two hoots about otherwise we'd have had the iPhone nano already. Apple will continue to sell more and more mobile phones, I doubt they're...

Patents only have a grant period of 20 years. If somebody came out with a unique way of operating a microwave they could rightfully patent it and protect it. Patent damages are high in this case because of the sheer number of devices involved and because it was willful infringement, had they...

The figure is high because they were found guilty of wilfully infringing not one, but many patents. The moment you're guilty of wilful infringement the damages treble. Apples suing culture? It's no different to any large corporation, the difference being that apple have innovated protected...

12 months from the date of original purchase or 3 months from the date of replacement, whichever is longer.

That's the theory, but you'd need to check that this is the way it's configured. If you only have one name server and it goes down, then you have a problem as things won't resolve. If you have two and one goes down, then resolutions will happen on the second name server - although by the...

Find a freelancer who wants to do it. $$$ to develop. Then remember that if you want it only for your phone then you'll need to keep recompiling it and provisioning it as the dev certificates are only valid for 6 months. You have to reprovision after that and then renew your developer account...