We had / have VoIP here but after a couple of months using it gave up and decided to just use the mobiles. The call quality was rubbish and I got sick of everyone I was speaking to saying "what"? constantly. There was delay, lots of "noise" in the line etc. Maybe the tech has improved since then - it was five years ago - but even now I can tell when I'm talking to a call centre or business on VoIP, and it's noticeably poorer.
Yeah I suspect cable would make a difference. We have WiMAX here, although I'm about to change to DSL. It's a constant source of amusement and annoyance that well over 10 years ago in my old place we had cable which delivered fast, reliable internet, Foxtel (including all the FTA channels) and a separate phone line. All of which never dropped out, slowed down, sounded crap etc. Now in 2016 in this house the Internet is much slower, drops out every second day, and the VoIP that came with it is useless, so no home phone. We have to have satellite Foxtel which has no FTA channels yet costs more... Welcome to progress, Australian style.
This may or may not be of interest to anyone here but my partner went out and purchased an Xbox One console recently. We played a few games on it - all in good fun - but it was advertised as a "next generation" system for entertainment (games, movies, internet etc.). I don't feel the need to go into specifics but it wasn't a good experience: an OS full of issues, slow internet, sub-par game performance (from a purely engineering perspective in regards to physics and graphics), sub-par console hardware (CPU, GPU, RAM & that significantly low memory, therefore useless, eSRAM), abysmal hard-drive usable space (320gb +/-) when you are required to install games and the fact that almost every single game is single player. We purchased two controllers which defeats the purpose for the purchase of the system in the first place (for us) - we wanted to play together with apparently next-generation games. Got neither. In the grand scheme of things not an expensive purchase but when considering what we actually got based on our expectations built by the salesman and Microsoft themselves, it was not worth the money we spent ($500 console + extra controller + a handful of $70-$100 games).
WTF is the story with 9.3.1? I've been ignoring it for ages but after listening to people saying it's crazy not to download updates I finally did it last night on the phone. And now the update keeps failing and all my apps are blanked out and don't work?
I like to help the little people. Of course I could erase the phone and re-install everything as of my last back-up. But, of course, the last time I backed up my phone was approximately 1997...
Not sure... I must be one of the lucky ones. I'm running 9.3.1 on all my devices and haven't had any issues so far. Have you googled it? I'm sure you're not the only one...
Dismayed at the avalanche of credulous news articles on Craig Wright's Bitcoin claims by all the news outlets. Does anybody hire actual reporters anymore?
Pfft.. the Nokia (read MS) platform had this aaaaages ago! https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/mobile/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144585 (listen - when you're on the Win Phone Platform - you gotta take all the wins you can get - cause god knows we don't have any apps! )
No wonder Apple was struggling back in 2001... the core message of this ad appears to be "Apple products - perfect for massive arseholes"! I hope they fired this company [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etWun3OgUEo[/ame]
Battery life? Weight might be an issue if the fit isn't really good, too. I tried a set of wireless BT earbuds a while ago and they weren't good, but hopefully Samsung can do a better job!
Some are rubbish...some are good. I've been through a few. The one I have now is excellent. I also put a Bluetooth dongle on my QC20, which works a treat too.
