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The Rise In Software Faults In Handsets |
goldenface
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The Rise In Software Faults In Handsets
Cases of software faults are rising as more smartphones and touch-screen devices hit the market
The phrase ‘with great power, comes great responsibility’ is an appropriate footnote for the many groundbreaking devices to emerge in 2008 – including the 3G iPhone, Samsung Omnia, G1 Google Phone and the BlackBerry Storm. An unfortunate by-product of the high specification mobile phones flooding the market is an increase in reports of software faults.
A large number of retail staff say that incidents of software problems are rising. So endemic is the problem that many almost expect a new phone to have errors.
Manufacturers and operators claim to be working closer together to anticipate teething problems ahead of a handset launch.
Some retailers claim they are weary about handling brand new phones, preferring to wait a few weeks before stocking them. Some staff that Mobile spoke to say the hassle of handling returns make them think twice about selling a high specification smartphone that has just been released. One Carphone Warehouse staffer says the view is even held by consumers: ‘People now ask us if we think it is better to wait.’
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anonymuser
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Those of us who've been buying smartphones since before the headline hitters like the iphone, G1 etc know that smartphones have always suffered from bugs - anyone that imagines the old P800 was perfect on release, for example, has some very nostalgia-tinted specs on - all that's happening here is these devices are actually hitting the mainstream, and falling into the hands of sensible people who aren't geeky enough to put up with all the problems and solve their own issues.
What really shocks me these days is the amount of bugs in new featurephones. The W910, K850 etc have certainly given SE a bad name.
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QVGA
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When Microsoft cant make an OS for PCs thats bug free, how can we expect them to make one for the cellphone thats bug free?
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Brightspark
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talking about stating the obvious.
another way of putting it - the bigger and/or more complex the program gets, the greater the chances of errors/bugs.
[ This Message was edited by: Brightspark on 2008-12-19 18:46 ] |
djin
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duh! this news's been around for years, almost ever since smart phone's been there.
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Neo-Tech
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I actually find that hackers usually fix bugs. For example. The PSP. Dark_AleX fixed some power bug of some sort which Sony had left.
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QVGA
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On 2008-12-19 19:45:01, Brightspark wrote:
talking about stating the obvious.
another way of putting it - the bigger and/or more complex the program gets, the greater the chances of errors/bugs.
[ This Message was edited by: Brightspark on 2008-12-19 18:46 ]
MACs dont have nearly as much bugs as windows and its an equally big OS
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mrmilo69
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I don't use macs religiously but i've never really had a major bug on windows. The worst "bug" i had was when i couldn't run windows live messenger on vista X64. |
NightBlade
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On 2008-12-20 12:41:07, QVGA wrote:
MACs dont have nearly as much bugs as windows and its an equally big OS
Tell that to the rolling beachball of death.
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fatreg
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On 2008-12-20 12:41:07, QVGA wrote:
MACs dont have nearly as much bugs as windows and its an equally big OS
that's because us mac users get updates all the time 10.5 came out what a year ago? and were now on 10.5.6........
that's 6 updates... vista is what 3 years old and are still on SP2
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Brightspark
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On 2008-12-20 12:41:07, QVGA wrote:
On 2008-12-19 19:45:01, Brightspark wrote:
talking about stating the obvious.
another way of putting it - the bigger and/or more complex the program gets, the greater the chances of errors/bugs.
[ This Message was edited by: Brightspark on 2008-12-19 18:46 ]
MACs dont have nearly as much bugs as windows and its an equally big OS
note the following word in my post: "complex"
the mac interface was written virtually from scratch for the BSD kernel. windows, on the other hand, has had workaround after workaround after workaround and patch after patch after patch in order to update it and keep it backwards compatible. windows code is likely to be an absolute mess. |
Bonovox
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And to read about SonyEricsson saying they were going to improve their quality control and improve software and phone testing. Pah.
Phone?? What phone?? |
se_dude
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I thought this article involved all the manufacturers. |
djin
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MAC isnt as complex as Windows is, and its not as expandable as windows is.
Comparatively , OS x is more like A2 and Windows as Symbian.
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Bonovox
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Oh sorry about that comment. I love SE but they do need to improve quality control. I said in another thread that in the long time it takes SE to release a new model you would think they would get things right. Attention to detail.
Phone?? What phone?? |
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