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TS, forming a contrary opinion is one thing, but inventing and spouting misleading statements is quite another! It can do real damage, and thus should be considered in the same light as physical assault (which I believe is illegal in the US?)!
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Nothing's guaranteed, sch, but I too can see plenty of room for both, even given my personal dislike of WP8, and NOK now have an attractive alternative with the Asha line, which must surely be a winner in the Third World. So most likely will the Q5, but at a higher price level, so it's not an either or situation as they are not in direct competition; each will survive (or not) according to its own merits...
Hey Rog and log, you've almost got me curious about what Truthfirst commented (but a quick scroll failed to find his post...)! Are you guys perhaps allergic to the "Reply" button?
al, we are looking at two very different phones, for sure, but put yourself in the position of someone who has to skip meals for several months to raise even 99$; is an extra .1 inch of screen or more pixels (and 5MP is hardly mega) really worth doing it all over again? As for battery size, the Asha doesn't need that much, and it remains to be seen what the battery life (the only important measure) is for the Q5.
I must have missed those Charles, but why retaliate in kind (even if your responses didn't merit being removed)? This should be a place of adult discussion (with occasional humour...)!
Interesting Karl, but I'd really like to know just how "decontented" the Q is! If not by much, then it will likely eat into sales of Z & Q10, but if by quite a lot, then Nokia's Ashas (particularly the 501; have you looked at it yet?) will steal its thunder, particularly if they can access BBM. All the 501 lacks is QNX, and using BBM will make up for some of that, so a price of above 199$ for the Q5 looks uncompetitive to me!
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Anybody know which, if any, of Nokias phones will have access to BBM? If the Asha 501 can, it looks like the phone to beat, given the much lower price than suggested for the Q5.
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I'd hold fire until we find just how stripped down the OS is! I'd have expected that it lose multitasking, but it's been reported that this is built into the QNX, so what else could they ditch, and still make this a better buy than the 99$ Asha 501? If there is very little lost, then it'll eat into sales of Z&Q10, so it's a delicate balancing act, and success is by no means assured!
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Abu, it's different strokes for different folks; I can live happily inside my own head with no concern for tomorrow (at least until hunger intervenes) and can't imagine suicide unless in great pain in a terminal condition, so "hope" is not an issue for me.
dwd; I once saw a cartoon of one guy asking "how does one deal with the angst of existing, between two periods of eternal nothingness?" to which he got the reply: "You could take the classes on Diosgenes (or some such ancient Greek...); it's a laugh a minute...". Worth a try?
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dog, there does seem to have been some communication issues; I've taken part in such collaborations myself, and they are bad news, with the "collaborators" pulling in different directions, so best avoided!
Just wondering; couldn't the phablet use something based on MS's Surface OS?
I'm afraid the Android option leaves me cold, as I like it no more than WP8, but I've nothing against Nokia; their Asha 501, and its OS looks very tasty (especially considering the price)! Maybe that could evolve into a high end system? Then they'd be able to give MS the boot, which really would be the best thing in the long run...
Charles, you've answered your own question, as the issue with the colours (and yes, it transpires that they do go all the way through with polycarbonates, just as with other plastics) is one of intensity, not process (try reading the articles you cite, but be aware of the errors therein) and there's also the high gloss aspect, with the white version:
In stating "The Nokia N9, Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 900 are moulded from a single piece of polycarbonate plastic." the author demonstrates a lack of technical understanding (so hardly an "authority", but then, that's true for much of what's available on the web) as it is moulded from pellets, and it is the moulding process itself that transforms these into "a single piece of polycarbonate".
"Unlike most phones, the colour isn’t skin deep – scratch one and you’ll see it’s black, cyan, magenta or white right through." 'Nough said?
Incidentally, I clicked the "like" by mistake, and I do not like the way you are attacking Systembolaget, as he's been pretty much spot on, and has stated nothing (at least to my mind) to justify your ire! You haven't questioned my own credentials, but for the record I spent my career mostly in new product design, using pretty much everything from titanium to Teflon, and including two companies which produced plastic parts (car interiors and switchgear). This doesn't make me a plastics "expert" as such, but I understand the process, have designed for it, and even done some trouble shooting for some flow problems in the moulds used, so am as much an "authority" as you are likely to find in any number of poorly written web articles...
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dwd; I once saw a cartoon of one guy asking "how does one deal with the angst of existing, between two periods of eternal nothingness?" to which he got the reply: "You could take the classes on Diosgenes (or some such ancient Greek...); it's a laugh a minute...". Worth a try?
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Just wondering; couldn't the phablet use something based on MS's Surface OS?
I'm afraid the Android option leaves me cold, as I like it no more than WP8, but I've nothing against Nokia; their Asha 501, and its OS looks very tasty (especially considering the price)! Maybe that could evolve into a high end system? Then they'd be able to give MS the boot, which really would be the best thing in the long run...
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In stating "The Nokia N9, Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 900 are moulded from a single piece of polycarbonate plastic." the author demonstrates a lack of technical understanding (so hardly an "authority", but then, that's true for much of what's available on the web) as it is moulded from pellets, and it is the moulding process itself that transforms these into "a single piece of polycarbonate".
"Unlike most phones, the colour isn’t skin deep – scratch one and you’ll see it’s black, cyan, magenta or white right through." 'Nough said?
Incidentally, I clicked the "like" by mistake, and I do not like the way you are attacking Systembolaget, as he's been pretty much spot on, and has stated nothing (at least to my mind) to justify your ire! You haven't questioned my own credentials, but for the record I spent my career mostly in new product design, using pretty much everything from titanium to Teflon, and including two companies which produced plastic parts (car interiors and switchgear). This doesn't make me a plastics "expert" as such, but I understand the process, have designed for it, and even done some trouble shooting for some flow problems in the moulds used, so am as much an "authority" as you are likely to find in any number of poorly written web articles...