THE AMAZON SMARTPHONE

Now this is s rumour that is news to me and obviously escaped me?!

In fact I am rather annoyed that what with the Kindle devices that I had not foreseen Amazon actually having a go at smartphones!

No sooner have I lambasted Apple and PC Pro also compared the Apple iPhone 5S with my Moto G and now Amazon state that there upcoming phone will be released later in 2014 at a 'fraction of the cost of an iPhone'?!

What's that?! Did someone shout 'new legal case' ?!

Lol!

Report: Amazon smartphone will hit in 2014 at 'a fraction' of iPhone price - http://pulse.me/s/VBYqQ

THE SMART COMPARISON

I figured through a copy of PC PRO Magazine today because I saw something of an interesting article noted on the cover.

PC Pro is an old favourite magazine of mine that had not give downhill, or I have not noticed that at any rate.

Curiously they did an article on something I recently posted about and have dinner a few times, smartphones.

In fact in particular it was just two smartphones one that I constantly rant about and one I just bought. I actually did a comparison of the two phones myself but nowhere near to the extent that PC Pro has! One is the Apple iPhone 5S and my new Moto G.

They do a rather interesting breakdown of the components piece by piece and state constantly about how the two phones are not that far apart in terms of power and screen quality and yet are oceans apart in terms of price. In fact they even provided the total costs of the manufacture of each phone!

There was not much in it with the Moto G costing around $100 or $109, cannot recall correctly, and the iPhone costing about $120 odd, again if I recall correctly. What I have now discovered is interesting about the two prices is that I forgot to note what memory size the iPhone was and am pretty sure the Moto G was the 8GB one? There were done things that Google were paying less than Apple for, which I thought the wing way round. But at the end of the day, yes the Moto G had a minimal profit of around $30 to $50 whereas Apple... $11ty Million, lol!

Well oddly I have just realised that they did use US Dollars to keep things simple but now realised it had complicated things?! This is because I am sure that they said Apple were making $450 but they have got confused or I have. This is because that in British Pounds this would translate to around £400 give our take fifty quid? Except there is no way you can buy the iPhone for that in the UK and I am sure they range from £550 to £700?!

I will have to pick up a copy and read it at some point over the next week. But it was nice to finally see someone actually asking the questions that I do! Yes OK the Moto G is ridiculously cheap I admit. But Apple are more ridiculously expensive than the Moto G is  ridiculously cheap!

Oddly I saw a question referring to asking yourself why, or ulterior motives, manufacturers price their products the way they do. In fact it occurred to me that the remarks about the Moto G phone on the Internet should have had me realise sooner. It was purely designed to sell in large numbers, fast! In doing so Google would not only keep a great deal of people on their operating system but also acquire a large number of new ones too. My Windows Nokia mate I think will switch over to the Android OS and may do this sooner now he has seen what the Moto G can do?! He also works around water too so the water repelling nature of the Moto appeals to him.

That leads me on to the fact I said the word 'repellant' and not 'proof'! After owning the Moto G a week or so I suddenly realised that on the Moto G's box it stated it was water repellant! Now I am not entirely sure why but one of the reasons I dived in and bought one was that I had it in my head it was water proof?! I assumed that it had the same nano-coating that the Sony Xperia Z has?! Now I am not exactly sure and will be disappointed if it is not water proof! Good job I found out it was not before it ended up getting a dunking!

So I am currently convinced that several reviewers worded things wrong in their review?! Many of you already know I am suspicious of reviews anyway and that deliberately steering the word 'proof' instead of 'repellant' would sell more phones! I wish I could remember who the reviewers were that stated this as I would email then and give them a ticking off and asked them what they received to say that in the first place?!

OK maybe for the price a nano-coating is expecting a bit much but it was reading this that made me plump for this phone! It is the only reason I decided that I could live with no SD CARD slot!

I will have to find out because now the warmer weather is here I am around water on a daily basis even without it raining! I cycle along a river to go to a wildlife park that is full of lakes, ponds and other rivers! My friends store had fish and amphibians in it and a river runs past my front garden! That is before stating that I currently do not drive so it's at the mercy of the elements when I am out, lol!

But then I believe that with the cost of most of the phone being £300 to £700 depending on where you but our who your ripped off by, eh Very, that they should all be bloody waterproof anyway! We live in a planet that is 90% water on its surface and it rains, a lot in some places! Plus smart phones are actually smart mobile phones so intended to be taken outside on a daily basis! I think that with this in mind it had been dreadfully lacking of the manufacturers not to waterproof everything £300 and over long before now! Well several years ago I owned a Motorola Defy I paid £245 for and that was waterproof! Oh yes OK it was not nano-coated but rather cleverly had few sockets and each had a rubber seal cover and it worked well! But the nano-costing is here now and the Sony Xperia Z has even been replaced once and soon will have been again.

Hmm I wonder if the reviewers for the Nexus 5 phone are now hiding their faces in shame for stating that the LG Nexus 5 cost close to £300 to manufacturer and that the profit margin was tiny?! Yes mate and as PC Pro have now stated an iPhone 5S is a much more premium feeling phone and costs under £100!!

Muppets!! Lol!

GOBBY WITH GOOGLE

I am not sure if I posted about this and I apologise if I have.

I have just contacted The Big 'G', I think stands for Gods lol, and had a go at them. This is because I have contacted them more than half a dozen times and had no response. I contacted them because I suspected my issues may be down to them?! Now I know that they are!!

My Moto G is doing the exact same things that my nVIDIA TEGRA NOTE has been doing!

Now this could have been argued by Google that this was down to KitKat, or Android version 4.4.2, but despite both devices being KitKat the tablet did this on the versions of JellyBean! Or ICS and two versions of JellyBean.

Now the odd thing is that I read a great deal of magazines when I am about to make a purchase. Magazine are so expensive today and I remember when they reached £2.00 and I thought that was dear!! Today they are £6.00 a shot! But what do you get for the best part of £20.00 I spent?!

Well in all honesty I felt like I was lied to and in this instance it will be difficult for any of them to talk three way out of it!!

This is because I have TWO DEVICES one of which is Google's own Moto G and the issues seen to be mainly down to text based things! Or in other words the simplest and most basic things that even 8 bit oppressing systems had no trouble handling!!

But my devices are new. I am sure the phone is but the tablet has a question mark over it, down to the fourth one they handed me missing volume buttons?!

But both devices are doing the same things?!

Now here are a couple of things for many of you to think about...

1 How come that no magazines managed to have issues when claiming to fully test dozens of devices? (I have 100% fault rate and had a go at nVidia unnecessarily)

2 Considering how much noise I made on my blog about faulty used items sold as new for over inflated prices and all the bodies I contacted about it that a year later I still have another device on my home that was used and faulty?! Possibly two that were used.

3 I have had nine out of 12 items in 12 months that were purchased as NEW but were nothing of the kind. 

This does not include my tablet and another in the hands of the daughter of some friends.

I only ever count the things I am sure about and do not count the things I am not sure about.

TESTING TESTING ONE TWO THREE

Right this is a little test post if sorts, you could say.

While at the save time I am going to explain what happened today with another test, of sorts. Lol.

Yesterday I saw the Doctor and he raise the dosage of my Amitriptyline from 20mg to 30mg and as some will know I started on 10mg.

So today was the first day after the first dosage taken of 30mg. Follow? Lol.

This morning I was mellow. Fairly mellow and was surprised at this. Now pretty sure that I have not had these before which now begs the question how did I know the name?

I was also planning to do something else today and that was to finally replace my broken phone. As some of you know this has been broken, screen, for several weeks now and I have lost count. Many of you will also know that I did think I might have been earning a small monthly amount from Google, huh fat chance! You will also note that I have note been out on my bike three times now but only locally? Well the were several problems I had. One was that typing out on that faulty phone has been a headache from day one and typing blog posts a real nightmare. Well the screen was pretty much shattered and the crack reached three edges. Push the screen with your finger and you will feel the screen flex quite a lot. So I did wonder a great deal about having that screen in my pocket and having an accident on my bike?!

That could be calamitous.

So I was going to travel to Tesco on foot to test these pills on their new dosages and plus they said it would rain today.

I got down to the A10 and bought a drink and a chocolate bar then realised I did not have my damn wallet?! That was after going back once already for something else!! While back at home I then realised I spent more money than I thought!

Also I had one of two deliveries I was waiting for and decided to have Tescos. But then at my friends store I started to change my mind!!

Two friends were trying to talk me out of buying a phone to just pay my landlord as I would have needed to dip into my rent... damn it meant to text my landlord!! Lol!

Cut a long story short the Vodafone store did the 8GB Moto G for £100 so I bought it. Phones 4 U had it for £120 so I figured most of my big apps are on my tablet. I also have a Sony Walkman which has my music and use with a Fiio Portable amplifier. You also get 50GB Google Drive Cloud space for two years which should have me sorted.

I can tell you the screen is amazing. Especially for the money! Yes I am sure there are sharper screens but there is precious little in it. Very little.

It asked then automatically downloaded my apps which with hindsight I should not have done. But it did not run out of space oddly enough?!

I was also shocked to discover Android 4.4.2 KitKat on it out of the box and then it did a small update?! Mad.

As for the typing out of this blog it took awhile for me to realise it did not have swipe, which oddly enough the stick Android KitKat on my tablet did?!

Two stock Android devices with a slight difference. So the typing is different and better than the tablet PC but it so dues odd things! Like when I just typed out odd it have me 'I'd' which is not even a word! Lol! They really need to alter that in their coding. Only suggest alternatives that start with the same bloody letter the use started with! It's not ticket science is it?

The thing with Android and Google is that these swipe keyboards are supposed to make it easier but it is slower than a proper keyboard. Well if you can type with a damn?!

In my degree we studied HCI which Human Computer Interaction. This involves adding together all the times it takes a user to do something. You get times for each key on a keyboard that is pressed, mouse clicks timed, reading menus and just about everything you can think of. This is so businesses can rest assured that anyone coding a before system that employs the science of HCI will come up with a sleek, fast and intuitive system. Thereby saving as much time as possible which to a business is money.

So then if you consider that they try to save themselves time you can imagine that when I an wading through pages due a hidden or non existent email address or anything wise I get annoyed...

Either the morons have been Todd nothing about HCI so have a crap system done by idiots or time saving is only important to them whereas the public or customers time is unimportant because we obviously have all the time in the world and cannot live in the UK with bills and taxes coming out your backside, e ask live in a Utopia?! Lol!

Yeah I do not always explain everything in detail straight away, lol. With anything I point out is wrong I leave clues that should make people realise but then hid a few things back. Will I have mentioned HCI on here previously but did not really go into it. HCI was merely an option in my third year and I chose it. The other option was coding games using Sony systems, called Yahtzee or something similar. I did not really see it to be easy to get a career in games programming so opted for HCI. Oddly the only interview I had was as a games company which I would have got had I done the Sony modules!! Lol!

Still what is done is done.

Well typing out this post was a lot less painful than it is on the broken phone, oddly this is now my THIRD Motorola smartphone and at least fifth overall! I should get a medal... Or a free phone?! Lol.

As for the pills... very mellow. Did seen quite nice for the first few hours. Did have a headache and feel a bit sick in the afternoon so I am hoping that these do not have the same effect as 900mg of Gabapentin?!

If the feeling was down to the pills I will be bitterly disappointed as well as completely shocked to the point of saying.... BLOODY TYPICAL!!

Oops I see Google did not get the bold and italic text sorted out with that last update?! Lol! It's only text Google?! Sort yourselves out for God sake!! Even 4bit computing did not have this issue!! Lol!!

Yes to have had two drugs to actually work to the point I actually noticed prescribed to be which are also the only two drugs I have EVER HAD that have given me side effects which BOTH INCLUDE feeling sick is, or will be bloody typical!! Lol!!

Anyway at least typing posts is easier, not always ideal to pull out the Tablet PC. Plus this thing is waterproof too!!

Hopefully (did not like that word!!) by the time I need another phone the manufacturers and Google would have sure themselves out?!

Or if there was a £500 phone that I simply had to have it would also be waterproof just like this £100 phone?! Lol!

Now I do not have to have visions of a hospital I have pissed off removing large bits of glass from deep within my abdomen?! Lol.

Now I just need some decent weather as I saw a butterfly today which blew me away! Think it was a Peacock. 

Need to get fit on the bike... something else that needs replacing!! God, it's never ending!! Cheers Google!!

Lmao!

MY PHONES BETTER THAN YOURS

Not my words, Lol.

I saw this and simply had to pay it, Lol.

According to the Daily Mail's report a survey was done to test the intelligence of period using certain phone operating systems, it seems if your an Android user your a bloody dunce, same applied to Windows phones.

But if your an iPhone user your super smart, which you have to be of course because your phone is a dunce, Lol.

Now it due turn out that the Daily Mail is a Tory newspaper and the Tories do not seen that bright to me in sour of their famed educations. So I suppose it stands to reason the those associated with newspapers that are in favour if then that this would reflect on them too?!

Now I wonder what the most commonly used phone at The Daily Mail would turn out to be?! Lol.

I would not like to see their comments pages, if I were then I might get the soapy water ready for my eyeballs?

Added to this now can people using iPhones be smarter? They are for simpletons and added to this I just posted an article about Goggle's Moto G phone costing one eighth the price of a single iPhone, proving Apple take the absolute piss while giving you very little extra for this 800 quid or more phone over the last one.

So to me people that upgrade every single iPhone are simply bunkers and very naive. How can it be classed as intelligent to firm out a load of cash just so you can show off your new fashion accessory?

That is stupid. But in all honesty even if the iPhones were a third of the price this report would still be stupid. What Igor dues a survey like that?! What a pointless and stood exercise because there simply is no answer. I just like to make a point by poking fun at iPhones for all the things I do not like about them. Android annoys me too but not nearly as much as iOS. Windows Phone I have hardy used but it duress about me and I am out off buying one. Because there are stupid restrictions on Windows that is so typically narrow minded of Microsoft on my mates Nokia phone. Oh and he often looks for apps I have shown him on both Android and iOS and they are never there. Not even the Opera Browser in any form!

The truth is you cannot say what someone is like based on their phones and is typical of people that think they are of a higher calling than your average Joe. I have an iPhone 4S and it got used for awhile and now I admit be bothered. I could hack it to turn it into a proper phone to replace my thoroughly annoying Motorola Atrix which is faulty. But I simply do not like the iOS enough to even bother.

The OS is just basically an app tray and a boring one at that. There are no widgets bit desktop screen at all. Before any fanboys even think about saying anything, sorry but if it was so great why do the Apple Computer desktop screens not look exactly the same?! Beaches people using them would probably go to Windows.

Now it's no secret that I do not like, correction I hate, the new Metro look of Windows 8. No option for a proper Start Button and waste of screen space with those big tiles. In effect they are all very bland looking widgets. But at least the Windows desktop and Windows Phone do look similar?

To be honest I for one have been stunned at the pidgeon steps that Apple have taken for their forward motion in recent times. I fully suspected that many would migrate over to Android as that does at least get better, minus the odd balls up.

So quite how this report states that iPhone users are smarter than others I am at a loss to understand. Provoking a fight or acting on a cash incentive?!

Oh I forgot about BlackBerry! A favourite of businessman (bankers? Of dear!) and journalists (oh crap?!) Rico dues tend to make me think it had not faired to well? Lol!

iPhone users smartest, Test of Wits says. BlackBerry? Sorry - http://pulse.me/s/JQBtK