Posted by _Rhea
Hi guys, im just wondering what kind of tricks are working to your country? Because all i know is that our trick here on the Philippines are not applicable to your country(e.g reverse ip trick, dot trick and @trick)
am i right guys? If so, then, what trick are you using to connect for your internet without paying any bucks? Let me know guys so that we could try those tricks you have if it is applicable to our country.. Thanks! Mabuhay! Weee
Posted by Hobbs
Tsepz
When the 2.1 update does eventually roll out what are the chances that we can go into a Vodacare and ask a technician to update it for us.Wont they have the new software available from Sony Ericsson so we dont have to wait that extra couple of weeks or month? Chances are slim hey?
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Dups!
I hope so to, our networks need to be kept on their toes, we need the network version of Apple
that iPhone realy has the rest of the manufacturers shaken up.
Gola
Dam,did you call them and complain? Although i must say their call center peeps arent very helpful...
Hobbs
Ya i think the chances of that are very slim, but it i wouldn't write it off, maybe il walk in to Vodacare fourways sometime during the holidays and try find out, but i wont put my hopes up, i remember a few years ago i asked the guys who deal with upgrades about the Nokia N93i, and they looked at me like i was talking a foreign language, my confidence in them is zero, especialy how they botched up a repair on my W900.
Posted by amawanqa
Taken from GSMArena today:
'Apple sells 14.1M iPhones, scores another record-breaking quarter
19 October, 2010
Oh, boy, is this a good time to be an Apple shareholder or what! The company has just published its financial report for the quarter ending in September and things just couldn't be better. The company posted revenue of 20.34 billion US dollars, of which 4.31 billion were net profit.
Not only are those the best results ever achieved by Apple, they are also immensely better than the one for the same period last year. In Q3 of 2009 the numbers stood at 12.21 billion and 2.53 billion dollars respectively.
The main driving force behind this spectacular success is the iPhone 4, which generated more than 14.1 million sales (a 91 percent year-on-year growth). In other words, they've almost doubled their iPhone sales. Now Apple has a worldwide market share of over 5.5 percent, which is really something considering the average selling price of 629 dollars. Plus, shortages have been plaguing the iPhone 4 ever since it was launched.
In fact Apple has just surpassed Sony Ericsson figures in terms of sheer number of units sold and depending on the LG, Motorola and RIM results, Apple might has just secured itself a place in the world's Top 5 mobile phone manufacturers.
The other Apple products did impressively over the past three months too (save for the iPods that recorded an 11 percent decline in sales). A total of 3.89 million Macs were shipped, a 27 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter, but the real success story is the iPad, which sold in 4.19 million units. Yep, Apple has sold more iPads than Macs.
In his speech at the Apple's earning's call, Steve Jobs confirmed that a 7-inch iPad isn't in the works as the company doesn't believe that a screen that small would be enough for high-quality apps to be created. So a direct battle between Samsung and Apple won't happen until early next year, when the Koreans will, presumably, launch their 10-inch slate.
In the Q&A session following the official presentation, Peter Oppenheimer, the Apple's CFO, shared that the free-bumper program has so far cost them "just over 100 million [USD]".'
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Apple are ballin' out of control!
and the cherry on top for Apple SA is that the iPhone4 is now available on MTN, can you imagine how many more will be sold here? and around the globe as many of the exclusivities come to an end? In the USA AFAIK the AT&T deal is almost over, there is rumour of a CDMA iP4 for Verizon i read somewhere, this is just beginning it seems.
Posted by Dups!
Gotta hand it to Apple, they know how to market a product. It also helps to have a very strong brand image. I have said it before and I will say it again, the Iphone 4 is the closest to the kind of Iphone I would buy. I may just be tempted by the fifth iteration if it is EXTREMELY good. One thing I'm concerned about is their weak signal strength. If they can match the three leaders- Nokia, Motorola and SE- then I will buy their next Iphone. I may, however, buy it regardless if it ticks all the right boxes.
[ This Message was edited by: Dups! on 2010-10-20 14:51 ]
Posted by Dabangg
Whats new from NOKIA? is N8 Out in S.A?
Posted by Hobbs
Sorry Debang I cant answer that question for you.Ive totally lost interest in Nokia but I dont think it is available in SA yet, but I could be wrong.
Tsepz
I've just watched a video on FaceTime on the iPhone 4 and I am truly impressed.Its done over Wifi and it looks quite brilliant.Has your aunt ever used FaceTime on her iPhone yet?
The picture quality is spectacular.
[ This Message was edited by: Hobbs on 2010-10-23 02:12 ]
Posted by Dabangg
Any1 knw how to unlock xperia10?
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Dups!
Indeed, the iP4 is very close to being a complete smartphone, the 5 im sure will attract loads of power users such as us lol, i wont get it because it will be far too expensive even if i do the finance thing i can see it demanding over an extra R250pm on my TopUp500. Next year is going to be very interesting with WP7, iOS5, Android3.x , Meego, Symbia^3, BBOS6 and WebOS2 battling it out, all of them with the exception of WP7 and Meego, are mature.
Hobbs
I'll check it out on Youtube, she hasnt tried FaceTime yet as she doesnt know anyone else with a iP4 at the moment.
I found a sweet app for us SA Android users in the Market app, i was after a DSTV Guide app as i tend to forget even my favourite shows, and i found an app called MiGuide, its symbol is a red tv with the SA Flag in it lol. When you 1st start it up it has a list of the majority of available channels (i dont remember seeing Vuzu or Trace), what you do is you go down the list and tap on each channel you like, each one will be highlighted in green, after that you must click the Menu button on your X10 (the one with 4squares), then click Done, it will load a page with all the channels you selected on the left and on the right next to each will show what shows are playing in the next hour, you can click on each channel and it will show what shows are playing for the rest of the day with details of each show, there's even a Calender for the next 7days of each channel. Here are some screenshots of mine:
After i selected the channels i view the most,the 1st 7:
Whats showing on Ignition today:
Whats showing on Sunday from mid-nite:
Dabangg
Do you mean debrand? I'd also like to know, as i have a feeling Voda will be late with the X10's 2.1 update.
Posted by brix25
@Dabangz: There are a couple of N8's lurking about...my friend is actually playing around with one of them. All I can say about it: Too little, too late.
Posted by gola
all, exciting times we live in...
"graphene is the strongest material ever measured said that "It would take an elephant, balanced on a pencil, to break through a sheet of graphene the thickness of Saran Wrap."
http://bigthink.com/ideas/24381
Imagine this stuff being used in mobile phones
Apparently it can be made to be 98% transparent too...
On 2010-10-19 22:00:21, Tsepz_GP wrote:
Dam,did you call them and complain? Although i must say their call center peeps arent very helpful...
Hobbs
Nah, 'cos then I'd have to complain every second weekend...
Brix
I envy your friend
I saw MTN advertsing some new phones, the N8 was there, with I think the IP4 in the middle of the bunch, wtf...
Anyway, there weren't any prices...
[ This Message was edited by: gola on 2010-10-23 20:41 ]
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Oh my word, you'd think something like that would be getting loads of media hype. The car industry is in need of graphene to, with all these electric/battery powered cars, trying to lighten up parts etc... what got me was the point about a 100GHz CPU already being tested and 1THz CPU on the horizon ya,exciting times ahead, no doubt.
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Oookay so the X10 does have multitouch? http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=190867&start=7230
Posted by gola
Really pointless, similar thing with the Aino, the whole screen is actually touch sensitive...
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Lol, SE realy are the Pros at making some wack decisions, why didnt they just leave multitouch there? Shame about the Aino, SE should have made that thing Android IMO, very unique design, it would have made the perfect mid-end Android between X10mini and X10.
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Dups, are you still planning on getting an Android?
Ive been an idiot, since getting the X10 ive been using either Opera Mini or UCWeb, never realy gave the built-in the default browser a chance due to my awful experience with the built-in browser of my s60s. I got fed up with both Opera Mini and UCWeb. Opera Mini mainly due to its stupid issues and Ucweb due to fonts, stability issues and not loading some pages, so a week ago i uninstalled them and decided to give Android browser a chance, so far its just excellent, i even got qid of Dolphin. Web pages are loaded quickly, and properly even on an EDGE connection, it handles multiple tabs brilliantly, i have around 3-5 open usualy and on large sites like DailyMobile, Mobile-Review, Androinica, GSMArena, HowardForums, The Register and also Esato which isnt too big, and it handles all of them very well even when they are all loaded in the tabs, its quite amazing ,its not perfect but its much closer to perfect than any other mobile browser ive across, wwwou will love it regardless of what Droid you get, and this is coming from 1.6, im now realy excited for its improvements in 2.1.
Posted by Dups!
On 2010-10-27 20:40:34, Dups! wrote:
Yes Tsepz_GP, Android is definitely my first choice smartphone OS and I'm still getting an Android phone next. To be honest, I'm really getting impatient at the moment. I love the P1i but that feeling of I need something new to see what extra things I can do with the phone and OS is killing me. In time I will put the P1i back in its box when I upgrade the first contract (the one I used for the Bold upgrade) but until then it will be with me along with the current 'out of contract' upgrade.
I actually thought I had found my perfect phone to replace the P1i until Motorola decided that the Droid Pro was US only. At this stage I am waiting for SE's next big thing, doesn't matter if is full touch or QWERTY equipped like the P1i as long as it is well specced. I'm really not nto gaming, too old for that
so the PSPhone is out of the equation.
Posted by Dups!
@Tsepz_GP
Well, after using UCWeb for a while now I can safely say what I think of it.
I HATE IT!!
It tends to compress some sites for no reason thus making me open a lot of pages which is tiring and frustrating. I think you called it rough around yhe edges I prefer user unfriendly. I initially liked it but now I realise that I would rather be saddled with Opera 5.1's issues which I find less infuriating.
I'm glad you are finding Android's built-in browser that good cause I will be trying that out as soon as I upgrade.
Posted by Hobbs
Tsepz This update story is getting pretty long winded dont you think.
Just wish it would just come now FFS!
Posted by amawanqa
Well the better half's
K550 has been switching itself off intermittently over the past few months (it's lasted 3 or 4 years..), which has prompted me to get her an early Christmas pressie... yup, a X10 Mini. Carphone Warehouse is now selling them for just £149.95 (approx R1600) 
. Welcome to the Android Fold; yeah she's beaten me to it, LOL.[ This Message was edited by: amawanqa on 2010-10-28 20:55 ]
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Dups!
Lol, you actualy came to mind when i saw the Droid Pro, ye, sucks it's staying in the US, but the Droid2 is coming as the Milestone2 it seems: http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_milestone_2-3495.php
Ya, UCWeb can get irritating after quite a bit of useage, it seems there just isnt the "perfect" browser, but im sick of these proxy/server based browsers, the nice thing about them is that all the work/most of it is done on the server so they require less data and CPU cycles and so giving great battery life, the Android browser takes more juice but its so worth it as everything is done on the phone which at times can actualy mean faster page loading, a feature i like in this browser is how it Googles while you type in a web address, you find that you hardly ever finish typing the url as it finds it as you are typing, very nice.
Hobbs
Im getting SO impatient to, hopefuly SE lets us begin the weekend with 2.1.
Wanqs
Congrats to Mrs.Wanqs on her X10mini!
i think you're gona get the N8 
Posted by amawanqa
LOL Tsepz, yeah the Nokia N8 is not as outlandishly priced as I thought it might be at launch; one of the largest supermarket chains here already has them for sale at £329.97 (approx R3500) on PAYG. Not too shabby, hey?:
http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.209-8479.aspx
[ This Message was edited by: amawanqa on 2010-10-29 00:39 ]
Posted by Hobbs
Cool Wangs.My boss's upgrade is due and I suggested to her the X10 Mini.Let me know what the Mrs thinks of hers.
[ This Message was edited by: Hobbs on 2010-10-29 07:04 ]
Posted by Dups!
@Tsepz_GP
Yeah, there just is no perfect mobile browser, is there? I love Firefox on my laptop followed by Chrome and am looking forward to trying the mobile Firefox to see how good it is. By the sounds of it the built-in Android browser is something I will enjoy, I don't really mind the battery usage as long as it performs the task well.
Eish, Motorola really pissed me off when they created that phone and decided that Dups! won't be getting his hands on it. I just couldn't believe my bad luck
@wanqs
Nice one for Mrs! The reviews of that little phone are very positive and I'm sure she'll enjoy it. If you decide on the N8 you'll be the only Symbian user on this thread
The green robot has taken over the SAMD thread and I'm next in line.
I hope you guys (Tsepz_GP and Hobbs) get your 2.1 soon cause this is frustrating when other manufacturers are talking 2.2. I know we tend to get impatient a lot of times with these things, not that SE has made things easier for us, but I'd rather have a phone that works near flawless than a buggy one. It seems Froyo is really buggy for Motorola and Samsung while HTC has pushed the upgrade back so maybe it is not such a bad thing that SE is taking its time on Eclair. Even the Galaxy S and Milestone weren't as smooth with Eclair, not too sure 'bout the Desire.
[ This Message was edited by: Dups! on 2010-10-29 09:51 ]
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Yo! Wanqs, that's realy good for a Nokia Nseries flagship, far less than the N97 and N900 were.
Dups!
lets hope the Droid Pro is such a success they decide to make a GSM version for the successor. I totaly gave up on ever getting to use a Palm Pre, still realy like WebOS, so much potential wasted by Palm.
Google Chrom is excellent indeed! I use it on my laptop, replaced Opera10 with it a month or so ago.
It seems 2.2 is more buggy than 2.1, apparently 2.3 is on the way to fix those things, maybe SE are working on that for the X10? Wishful thinking
. The Galaxy-S owners seem to enjoy being ripped off, the phone lags, has very poor battery life and a major GPS issue, many have had to resort to installing custom ROMs just to fix the lag. Hopefuly 2.1 for the X10 wont be too buggy.
Posted by Dups!
I hope so, Tsepz_GP. The Droid Pro is a perfect replacement for my P1i. I hope it sells a lot for Moto so we can have the GSM version.
Isn't Firefox available for Android? I'm sure I read somewhere, could be Gsmarena, that it is beta stage. That was a while after they announced it for Maemo/Meego. If I'm correct I intend to give it a test drive when I get my Android phone.
Posted by amawanqa
LOL Dups, who would've thought a few years ago that the Symbian Sith Lords would be so diminished in the outer Esato realms and other phone forum haunts, due to this Android Rebellion?
Darth Etaab has sensed a major disturbance in the Symbian Force around these parts, LOL.
@ Hobbster:
She's absolutely loving all the swipe-scrolling, intuitive interface and all the impressive features crammed into this tiny device (and sh!t yes, it is tiny!). She's starting to check out other Android apps now too.
I would advise your boss to try a demo one to see if she's OK with something so tiny (taking into account whatever requirements she may have), but my wife manages fine with it and is very happy with her li'l Mini.
I showed here how to save the battery useage significantly (it was drained in under a day with all the other connections and updates activated) and it's now hugely better, as obviously expected, thanks to these handy hints n' tips (some are bleedin' obvious but it makes a good check-list in the name of saving battery power):
http://www.xperiax10.net/2010[....]-your-xperia-x10-battery-life/
Posted by amawanqa
Oh yeah, another thing with the purchase of the X10 Mini.
After the initial long charge, all OK until she needed to charge the phone again the next day due to initially having all the syncs and updates, etc running. She plugged it into the wall charger again and it wouldn't charge at all. Tried rebooting to see if it would help, no luck either. I disconnect the plug-in USB cord from the wall charger and plug it into her Mac to see if it will charge from the computer and see if the fault is with the cable or just the wall charger part, or the phone itself. Hey presto, it charges, which meant that the wall charger part was now faulty/ playing up.
Not impressed, I go back to Carphone Warehouse with receipt and charger and phone in hand. The guy was very helpful and after he saw that it didn't charge from the wall charger now, he went round to the back and brought a brand new, sealed charger and cable. We plugged it in to check and it works. He also lets me keep the original cable, so now she's got 2 USB cables and a working wall charger. great service from CPW by letting us have the original working USB cable and still get another new one too, with the charger.
The original
wall charger that came in the box has the USB cable plug-in on the side, and is smaller. The other new, sealed wall charger that they gave me is bigger and the USB port for the cable is at the top on this charger. Wonder if there's been any other peeps with issues with the first type of charger, but whatever, we've scored something out of the hassle. All happy now.
Posted by Hobbs
Wangs your mrs X10 Mini just got better.
http://www.gsmarena.com/it_is[....]inally_rolls_out-news-2042.php
HeeHaa!
Posted by amawanqa
Oh keeewl, thanks for the heads-up, H.
I'll help her with the update early next week.
Posted by Hobbs
Tsepz Are you going to do the Nordic flash so you can update on Sunday?
.
Wangs keep me updated on your Mrs X10 user experience Her likes and dislkes.
Posted by amawanqa
Will do, Hobbster.
Just read this on GSMArena.. Samsung's Q3 results looking bloody good:
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsu[....]_profit_increase-news-2041.php
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Dups!
Yep, Firefox is available for Androids, its for those running 2.1 and above though so i havent tried it yet, as soon as i get 2.1 on my X10 i'll be sure to install it and let you know how it is.
Hobbs
Im not sure yet, i wish there was a more simple way to flash like changing product code like it was on Nokia smartphones, i may just wait, i'll see, have you done yours?
Wanqs
Dam, Samsung and Apple are killing it out there, did you see LG's results? Would hate to be a shareholder there at the moment.
[ This Message was edited by: Tsepz_GP on 2010-10-30 10:44 ]
Posted by Hobbs
Tsepz Im waiting a day or two to see the results of the people that have done it.Then if its all good,then yeah,why not.
Posted by amawanqa
@ Tsepz:
yeah I'm a bit surprised considering LG's strong surge that they had last year and earlier this year. having said that, there's been such a demand for smartphones, largely thanks to a thing called the iPhone 4.0 and some operating system very much en vogue, i.e. Android, and it's in this area (smartphones) that LG really seem to be lacking of late. OK, there's the Optimus and one or two other smartphones lately, but look at the rest of the specs and, as overall packages, they are fairly behind at the mo.
Posted by amawanqa
Remember remember
The 5th of November...
Yup, this thread turns 6 on Friday, on Guy Fawkes/ Bonfire Night!
[ This Message was edited by: amawanqa on 2010-10-30 22:59 ]
Posted by Hobbs
Tsepz Ive just access the hidden menus on my X10i and tapped on Model Info and my phone says
Model : X10i
Country : United Kingdom
Brand : Customized
Um,how did I go and do that again? lol
But thats a good thing isnt it?
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Wanqs
Makes complete sense, also they lost out at mid-end, with that BB8520 taking their Chatterbox customers, its a shame they didn't realise how big smartphones would be in 2010, they were ruling last year with the Cookie, Arena, Chatterbox etc... They could have so easily taken out Samsung with a direct Galaxy-S rival.
Hobbs
You debranded to UK fw the 1st time you rooted remember? You should get the update in the next 48hours then
lol. Im waiting, ive got the Nordic FW sitting in my PC ,but i need Java, and that just doesnt want to install so im like f*#@ it lol, i'll wait, going to give Voda a call tomorrow and ask when they will put up the 2.1 fw, think i'll also try contact SE SA if i can get their customer serivices number.
Posted by Hobbs
Tsepz Head to XDA The Sh#t is going down!
Posted by Hobbs
Someones already updated through SEUS Pro and is uploading the files to BIN4ry who is going to decrypt and upload it so we can all flash.Join the IRC X10-Update chat.Its hilarious.Loads of people online chatting away and giving a minute by minute live commentry of sorts.
50% uploaded......60% uploaded. Its a lag.
Posted by Hobbs
My god how fast are these guys internet connections.one guy uplaods the 163MB file in no time.BIN4RY downloads it in what seems like 3 minutes and starts working on decrypting to make ready to release.Talk about not wasting time.
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Lol, i was outside washing the cars, trying to kill time so that i can get in here and find people having already updated.
Heading over to XDA right away, crazy bunch those guys
Posted by Hobbs
He hasnt manage to flash it yet.Hes phone now wont boot but he is still trying.wait for when hes done,BIN4RY,and then start thinking about it at the moment it a work in progress.The decrypted files are available on the net as of now but still working on the flashing.
[ This Message was edited by: Hobbs on 2010-10-31 17:17 ]
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Cul cul, im going be patient
Lol, the SE Product Blog seems to be 'hit or miss' right now, lol, incredible how much buzz this update is creating lol, X10 Forum at XDA had over 500people in it a while ago, and on Thursday the SE Product Blog servers crashed cause of all the people Refreshing lol.
Posted by Hobbs
TSEPZ Bin4ry Out of ideas ATM.Swak!
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Finaly debranded my x10, im running Nordic Combined (b) R2BA026 got the 2.1 update prompt, will only update later today though, once all the buzz has gone down.
Posted by Hobbs
Cool Tsepz.Hope everything goes well.
Posted by Tsepz_GP
Forgot to mention i killed my X10 when flashing, almost had a heart attack, when booting it up it would come up with an image of the phone and exclamation mark, so re-did the process and it worked, seems when that command screen says Finish it actualy isn't compleletly done, you have to give it another minute or two. Im in and out the house today so will update in the evening, this is going to be one long day
Posted by Hobbs
Thanks for the heads up Tsepz.Going to check this evening if the UK has got their updates and if they dont then do what youve done.Let me know how it goes.