^ yes, it helps - thanks.
^^ no help at all, Arry... Bloody gooners...
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^ yes, it helps - thanks.
^^ no help at all, Arry... Bloody gooners...
^ just wait for 5G - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :)
not sure that thai will go for LTE
they will probably go to HSPA+
^ sprecken zie EnGlish?
just sort your 3G for now Betty:-)
^ yep, to be honest, after a couple of days I'm a bit bored of it... My little screened wonderpiece is just a beautiful phone really, it's not a tablet or anything... It'd be handy to have the navigation and email checking ability when I'm out and about - is that worth 350 baht per month, errm, probably.
if you listenened to these technophobes on here youd never buy a phone, ios 6 and jellybean are being mentioned on here when ios5 and ICS have only just come out.
im still waiting on ICS on my GT. have you tried looking on your phone if theres an ICS update yet Bet?
i read in The Nation that Android have a program that downloads all the google maps to your device over wifi and stores them so you dont need 3G
Glad to be able to help.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bettyboo
Not that ICS matters much, seeing as how Google hasn't managed to push it out to more than 7% of their installed base - I remember Eric Schmidt claiming 7 months ago how, by now, over 90% of devices will run ICS.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kwang
7%
What happened?
The vendors aren't tied to what Google do; it's up to them how they customise their phones and whether or not they can be arsed fixing ICS to work on them.
And it's up to the customer to wait or buy a new phone.
900,000 activations a day tells me people are probably buying new phones.
Apple on the other hand.... looks surprisingly like fragmentation to me.
:smileylaughing:
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As iOS 6 officially unveiled yesterday, we noted a few of the features—such as Siri and FaceTime—would only be available on certain iOS devices. Ars Technica noticed the 3D flyover feature of Apple’s new Maps app would only be available to A5-powered iOS devices. In case you were wondering exactly which iOS 6 features will be compatible with your iOS device, Apple published a list (below) on its iOS 6 preview page that details all of the limitations for specific features:
-Flyover and turn-by-turn navigation will be available only on iPhone 4S and iPad 2 or later. Cellular data charges may apply.
-Siri will be available only on iPhone 4S and iPad (3rd generation) and requires Internet access. Siri may not be available in all languages or all areas, and features may vary by area. Cellular data charges may apply.
-Shared Photo Streams requires iOS 6 on iPhone 4 or later or iPad 2 or later, or a Mac computer with OS X Mountain Lion. An up-to-date browser is required for accessing shared photo streams on the web.
-FaceTime over a cellular network requires iPhone 4S or iPad (3rd generation) with cellular data capability. Carrier data charges may apply. FaceTime is not available in all countries.
-VIP list and VIP and Flagged smart mailboxes will be available on iPhone 4 or later and iPad 2 or later.
-Offline Reading List will be available on iPhone 4 or later and iPad 2 or later.
-Made for iPhone hearing aids require iPhone 4S.
-Find My Friends and Find My iPhone enable you to locate iOS devices only when they are on and connected to a registered Wi-Fi network or have an active data plan. Not available in all areas.
No ICS on the Sony yet, but I'm very happy with what I have, really fast and great functionality - if I have the option then I won't upgrade. Often upgrades seem to fuk up what is working well...
If ICS offers something amazing then okay, but the current phone suits my needs perfectly. I think I'll do a quick web search to see what difference, if any, it will make. Gingerbread seems to be very good.
vendor issued a 4.0.3 ICS for the Ainol back in early march, which then was a painless flashQuote:
Originally Posted by Kwang
is there an image on XDA-developers for you ?
bottybee - you will be able to use your phone as a wifi hotspot with the data connection to the internet - though it does chew battery with the wifi on like that
Here we go:
Android 2.3 Gingerbread vs. Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich [video]
ICS benefits for me:
Data manager will be useful if I use 3G.
Sharing pics and videos and more by just touching phones look good - say you're watching a Youtube vid that you want somebody else to see, touch their phone and it comes up for them too (if I understand it right) - that could be good, and useful for work/presentations too.
200-500% faster for browsing. That's gotta be good because me Sony is bloody fast already!
Improved email functionality (folders, etc).
Actually, it's probably worth upgrading to ICS. I can see how Sony are taking time to update their UI for ICS because the current UI has some really nice features over standard Android 2.3, such as drag and drop apps into the 4 corners (you effectively have 16 apps always available to you quickly) which works really well; the volume, vibrate, wifi buttons of Sony's UI also work very nicely.
What does that mean? Other bastards can steal my bandwidth? No thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by baldrick
no bottybee - other bastards will steal your sandwich - :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Bettyboo
Actually as far the layout is concerned, use a launcher like Go Launcher and you can have folders; for example, I don't have a Browser icon on my home screen, but a Folder, so I just open it and choose from Dolphin, Opera or the Stock.
You can do the same with other groups of similar icons.
It's so easy to customise and it's all free.
And if you don't like Go Launcher, you can try Apex, Nova, etc.
Oh, if you have a front facing camera, the other gimmick on ICS is Face Recognition for unlocking.
For the speeds...
https://teakdoor.com/images/smilies1/You_Rock_Emoticon.gif
It's from List of device bit rates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In simple form it means following speeds:
2G - 14 kilos
GPRS (2.5G) - 57 kilos
EDGE (2.75G) - 237 kilos (big jump here...)
3G - 384 kilos
HSPA (3.5G) - up to 14 megs (there is still lot of earlier versions of 7 megs equipment out there).
HSPA+ (3.9G) - 42 megs (some network might have this in Thailand haven't checked)
4G - by definition 4G means 100 meg speed. LTE will be eventually there and even more with LTE Advanced but at the moment the LTE as it is being build is still under the 100 megs requirement so technically not 4G even if it is marketed as such. Like the networks in USA that are LTE are somewhere between 3.5G and 4G.
Also worth noting that some countries market WiMax as 4G which is not. In present deployments it is comparable to HSPA speeds. Latest versions of WiMax might break the 4G definition but not likely to be adopted as standard.
And before you get all excited it is to be remembered that most phones and dongles out there support HSPA up to 7 megs or 14 megs speeds. Perhaps some late top models have support for HSPA+ up to 42 megs but not many. I.e. new Galaxy S III supports HSPA only up to 21 megs. The new Nokia 900 is the same and iPhone 4S is only up to 14 megs.
And then again above really doesn't matter as you are very unlikely to see even 7 megs speed in practice as you are sharing the connection with ever increasing number of users.
So in the end if you get enough down to be able to watch youtube you should be happy and forget all the speeds used for marketing.
Just an update.
The Sony doesn't do 3G on DTAC, wrong frequency. I went to DTAC today and filled in some forms to have my number transfered to another carrier (needed my passport) - they were helpful, and it only took about 20 minutes. Then I walked next door to AIS, they were also very helpful and got me filling in a form too (needed my passport; actually they filled in all the forms for me), then I gave them 99 baht (they gave me a SIM). While I was there, I got a text from DTAC telling me a code to transfer my number (very quick service and free). So, I now have to wait 5 days until I get a text from AIS saying that the number has been transfered, then I can put the new SIM in, top it up (I'm doing pay as you go) then text in a code number and I'll be away with the 3G.
Costs are:
99 baht for 75 MB.
150 baht for 150 MB.
350 baht for 1GB (I'll get this to start with and see how it goes; comes with AIS music store whatever that is).
550 baht for 2GB.
799/899 baht for unlimited.
I think I get wifi hotspots from AIS and TOT thrown in.