Recent content by Simon Anderson

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    Ssd or hdd

    Depends on what you'll be doing, but SSD's give a huge "real world" performance benefit, you'll definitely get benefit from that, and you only "might" get benefit from faster CPU and more memory... i.e. if you're doing some really intensive stuff.
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    I Loved the HTC One, But the Romance is Over

    The Samsung interface and GUI design for it's standard apps is vomit inducing... hire a graphic designer or give you're existing one more power for crying out loud :P "ooo lets make contacts heads randomly tan or mustard or some strange green colour! people will LOVE that!" no Samsung... no...
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    HTC One 2015 Specs Leaked: Finally, a Beefed Up Camera

    I love the m8... makes the Samsung Galaxy (previous s3 and s1 owner) look incredibly ugly, both hardware and software wise (not sure how much of software was standard android: no "vanilla" to compare it to!). Wish list for next one: could be a bit thinner, and a "push-pop" SD slot rather than...
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    Apple vs. Samsung: Who's Winning Now?

    I dunno, I just got an HTC One m8 and it makes me wonder why the hell I ever owned a Samsung (previous Galaxy S and S3 owner). The sense interface makes Samsung's look like 2d vomit. Having said that, I haven't seen many OTHER android devices so not sure how much of the Samsung is standard...
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    Apple Event Recap: iPhone 6, Apple Watch & Apple Pay

    I just can't believe they called the gold edition the "edition" edition... Apple Watch vs Apple Watch Edition... makes absolutely no sense from a grammatical point of view. If you'll allow me to be over dramatic, it's surely a bad sign for the company that an idiotic decision like that can come...
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    One-Quarter of Smartphone Owners Spurn Cases

    Nothing bugs me more than people who buy cases... but then again, a big reason i choose a phone is how thin it is... so adding extra bulk is stupid to me. Just seems rediculous... "oh i have to protect it!"... the thing HAS a case already, phones come with a "case" built in... its not just a...
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    10 Reasons Coin Card Looks Like a Security Nightmare

    It's only a useful product in the US, with it's card technology behind the rest of the world :P Most countries adopted "chip and pin" years ago. The very existence of this product is the main reason why you should adopt chip and pin...
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    NSA Tracks Turned-Off Phones — But Phone Makers Don't Know How

    Well obviously they are able to (spy when off), because on The Wire, Homeland, Scandal etc they snap their phones in half after use :P
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    NSA Tracks Turned-Off Phones — But Phone Makers Don't Know How

    Well obviously they are able to (spy when off), because on The Wire, Homeland, Scandal etc they snap their phones in half after use :P