HTC new smart phone: FAIL

[d000hg]

You have revealed a lot about your knowledge (or lack thereof) regarding Information Architecture, Usability and Industrial Design for that matter.

Which mobile do you use?

What are you talking about? I've shown my ignorance because I don't like the iPhone very much? Or because I prefer a physical keypad? I can text without looking at my phone due to the cutting edge tactile interface...

[minestrone]

Windows Mobile is tulip and unstable. I had someone arguing this point with me on a contract recently, sticking their stylus in their phone to reboot it whilst making the argument, that typifies the attitude (I have had to constantly reboot all the Windows Mobile devices I have owned).

WM is based on a subset of Windows CE, which originally was a scaled down version of the awful Windows 9X code based, the iPhone uses a version of OS X - which itself is based on FreeBSD Unix the most stable OS in the known universe.

But if you're happy with your buggy mini Win 9x - good luck to you.

Well I can run flash on it and they have never had to advertise copy and paste as a new feature, it has never crashed once in 2 years and costs me 20 quid a month to run. I am quite happy with that. What is busting your balls about that?

[gingerjedi]

Kept my N series Nokia and went on O2's simplicity package, rolling 1 month contract 150 minutes 300 texts £9.79

[Churchill]

Kept my N series Nokia and went on O2's simplicity package, rolling 1 month contract 150 minutes 300 texts £9.79

Well you would be fine with no friends and no-f**ker to talk to!

[Amiga500]

Come back when you know what you're talking about.

I can recommend some good OS fundamentals books if you want to educate yourself:

Mac OS X and BSD Unix have been named as the world's safest and most secure online computing environments after a year-long study by enterprise security specialists mi2g.

In what is describes as 'the most comprehensive study ever undertaken', mi2g's Intelligence Unit analysed over 235,000 security breaches against permanently online systems and found that Mac OS X or BSD (on which OS X is partly based) accounted for just 4.82 per cent of all successful attacks. Linux was the least secure, with 65.64 per cent while Windows accounted for most of the remainder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD :

FreeBSD 4
4.0-RELEASE appeared in March 2000 and the last 4-STABLE branch release was 4.11 in January 2005. FreeBSD 4 was a favorite operating system for ISPs and web hosting providers during the first .com bubble, and is widely regarded as one of the most stable and high performance operating systems of the whole Unix lineage.

[Churchill]

I can recommend some good OS fundamentals books if you want to educate yourself:

Mac OS X and BSD Unix have been named as the world's safest and most secure online computing environments after a year-long study by enterprise security specialists mi2g.

In what is describes as 'the most comprehensive study ever undertaken', mi2g's Intelligence Unit analysed over 235,000 security breaches against permanently online systems and found that Mac OS X or BSD (on which OS X is partly based) accounted for just 4.82 per cent of all successful attacks. Linux was the least secure, with 65.64 per cent while Windows accounted for most of the remainder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD :

FreeBSD 4
4.0-RELEASE appeared in March 2000 and the last 4-STABLE branch release was 4.11 in January 2005. FreeBSD 4 was a favorite operating system for ISPs and web hosting providers during the first .com bubble, and is widely regarded as one of the most stable and high performance operating systems of the whole Unix lineage.

WTF has that got to do with operating systems on mobile devices?

Btw, since when did "and is widely regarded as one of the most stable and high performance operating systems of the whole Unix lineage." get translated to "which itself is based on FreeBSD Unix the most stable OS in the known universe."

You do not have a clue about what you're talking about.

[Amiga500]

WTF has that got to do with operating systems on mobile devices?
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The iPhone runs a variant of FreeBSD Unix so it is stable and secure. Work it out.

[Churchill]

The iPhone runs a a variant of FreeBSD Unix so it is stable and secure. Work it out.

Yes, it does. However, no it isn't.

Answer the question, where do you get "which itself is based on FreeBSD Unix the most stable OS in the known universe." from?

You made it up, didn't you?

Go on, nothing to be ashamed of. Did you go to the same school as Threaded?

[gingerjedi]

Well you would be fine with no friends and no-f**ker to talk to!

What you've never heard of the 'let it ring once and wait' trick?

[Churchill]

What you've never heard of the 'let it ring once and wait' trick?

You are from Yarkshire and ICMFP!