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Yep. But the new one is dual core. How much advantage Android can make of that is open to speculation at the moment. The Linux kernel underneath is multi-core by default, but the Android Dalvik VM isn't allegedly fully multi-core capable and/or optimised yet. That said, it's all open-source. Samsung hacked dual SD cards into their builds even though Android doesn't support it. It's not beyond the realms of possibility for HTC and Samsung to optimise Dalvik themselves for dual-core.

I'm ecstatically happy with my Nexus S, but for these reasons: 1. Any new updates Google produce will be built for the Nexus S first and foremost. It came with Android 2.3.1 and has already had 2.3.2 and 2.3.3 since it was released on December 23rd. 2. I can run CyanogenMod on it. CM is like Android on steroids. Every little modification and capability and improvement available is added to it. Google's Android builds are plain and fast, CM is very feature-rich http://www.cyanogenmod.com/ 3. I like to fiddle. I like to be able to get the latest build of something and try out the latest features. Some people may feel uncomfortable with that. I know there are some fantastic Android phones coming out, but even as a geek I have no real desire to get one because I know the pain associated with getting a branded, locked phone. The only thing that's going to replace my Nexus S is whatever the next Nexus S. As Google are concentrating on tablets for a while, I doubt they'll bring one out for some time. The only real downside is you'll get people constantly saying it's old hardware and you need dual-core etc. If you can be happy with the fact that it's the software that's the key to how it functions as a device (and the hardware is still excellent) then you'll have no problem with that. Non-geeks will be wowed by the smoothness and responsiveness of the device. All others will wonder what the hell it is as they won't have seen one before. I constantly see people looking at my phone confused because it's obviously a high-end smartphone but they can't work out what.

It's all about support and responsibility. Who makes the hardware is not as relevant these days as to who 'packages' it. Google package the Nexus S, even though the hardware is made by Samsung. When you buy an iPhone, the hardware is made by a company called Foxconn, apart from the screen, which is made by LG (LG stands for Lucky Goldstar, and they're the same company as Goldstar who used to make all the cheap midi systems and microwaves). Foxconn make all the connectors and IO ports for pretty much every PC motherboard out there, and will actually make the whole motherboard for certain companies such as Intel. But no-one considers the iPhone to be a Foxconn phone. Inside your TV you'll find lots of Samsung components and lots of Philips stuff, no matter what the manufacturer. So the hardware market is very incestuous. Everyone uses everyone else's bits. What's most important now is who 'supplies' the device, and in the case of the NS, it's Google. They've specified to Samsung how they want the device and Samsung have built the phone, even down to using someone else's NAND to ensure there is no lag. As I've said above, Samsung have no interest in making OS updates for any of their phones. Once they're sold, Samsung make no more money from you after you've paid for it, so they want you to buy the next one they'll release with the latest Android. The Nexus phones on the other hand, are Google phones. Google only have an interest in moving Android forward so will push the latest Android to any Nexus phones as soon as they can.

On an unbranded, unlocked phone you're not at the mercy of anyone. On a branded phone, even if you buy an network-unlocked one, you will still have the manufacturer branding on there, and it will be locked where you can't (easily) load whatever OS updates you want. When I had my Galaxy S, it was a nice phone. The screen was amazing and the hardware was undoubtedly excellent. Unfortunately it was absolutely crippled by Samsung's modifications of Android. They put their own launcher on there called Touchwiz - every manufacturer has these. With HTC it's called Sense, with Sony Ericsson it's called Rachael, Motorola have Motoblur etc. Touchwiz as a launcher is actually quite nice. Apart from being far too much like the iPhone interface there are some nice touches. But the problem is, Touchwiz has feelers in everything. You can't do anything with the phone without Touchwiz being in the way. Apart from that there were quite a few issues such as the memory management and the lag - Samsung saw fit to change the autokiller Google have put in place in Android, where it magically tries to use as much of the memory as possible and keep everything running, to a system like a PC, where you have to shut down apps you aren't using. With the lag, Samsung used their own NAND chip called the MoviNAND. It's their latest and greatest flash memory and they wanted to push it. The problem is, it's not ideally suited to a phone. The only way to fix it was to root the phone, install a custom kernel and then use a lagfix. Samsung then said that if they find your phone rooted on a warranty claim, they'll void your warranty. Google came along, made Samsung change the moviNAND chip to their flash memory competitor Sandisk's oneNAND and then made a plain, vanilla Gingerbread build for that device, and called it the Nexus S. As soon as it was released, all the code for the Nexus S was open-sourced and the day after there was an alternative OS called CyanogenMod released for that phone. That's the major difference. With any phone, you're at the mercy of the manufacturer to fix issues and supply OS updates, and they have no real interest in doing so as they won't sell new phones if they upgrade their old ones. With the Nexus phones, you're fully in control. Every now and again you get a new drop of Gingerbread, or an update to the latest and greatest over the air. Or you load something like CyanogenMod on it. It's up to you. To show the main difference in philosophies : 1. Google telling you to root your phones and criticising manufacturers blocking you from doing so: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/12/its-not-rooting-its-openness.html 2. Samsung notice to repair centres to void warranties if the phone is rooted http://www.samfirmware.com/I9000%20NOTE.jpg

Loving what he is doing - 6 wins in 24 with 10 defeats. Interesting. I have come across other fans like you though but they have on the whole been supporters of West Ham, Wolves, Blackpool, Wigan, West Brom and Sha. If he continues to do what he is doing we will be sailing very close to relegation.If that's how you get you kicks mate fair enough. Enjoy. If you can't see the positive signs for yourself and the improvements Houllier has made already then I can't help. The reasons we're lower half of the table have been done to death on other threads, but I'm personally very happy with the direction we're going as of now.

Started playing Zelda 3 again on the Wii. The kids have been absolutely glued watching me find Sahasrahla near the East Palace, then Get the Power Mitt at the Desert Palace, then up the mountaint to the Tower of Hera. Just about to get the Master Sword so I can go and fight Agahnim and then go into the Dark World.

I'm really confident about this game. We have far too much quality for them and should comfortably win. The obvious strongest team should be: Friedel Walker Cuellar Clark Young Albrighton Makoun Delph Downing Young Bent Quality all over the pitch. No weak points. I love what Houllier is doing with our club.

The main reason I got the Wii in the first place was so I could play all these games. They play perfectly. Just before they announced VC I was going to by a SNES again.

Zelda games are awesome, but the Mario series are the best. Marioworld SNES - Brilliantly playable even now. Donut Land, that music near Bowser's end castle, Cheese Bridge etc. wow. Mario64 - Astounding paradigm shift in games. Took guts to do a 3d platformer but it rocked and still does. The scenes are still incredible. Mario Galaxy / 2 - Uses every last bit of the Wii's hardware to incredible effect, and fully exploits the control system. I'm undecided which of those 3 is the best game of all time.

I was a SNES teenager so I lived on games like Marioworld, Pilotwings and Zelda: Link to the past. I still have dreams where the scenes are from these incredible games. Unfortunately I got to the point in my life where I didn't have a lot of time to play the later Zeldas but I may go back now and try again, as even Link to the past on Wii virtual console is still brilliant. I remember the feeling of getting the master sword and going around to get all the people who had previously stiffed me

We'll finish 8th this season.

May as well close the thread now as far as I'm concerned. That's the perfect reasoned comment.

I'm normally one of the happy brigade, but even I'm fookin seething after that. I do think the officials did us right over though. How was Wheater still on the pitch? Bent was way onside when clear near the end. Bent on penalty duty from now on. Man marking on every corner. We can't keep giving every team goals from corners every game.

Will people please learn the difference between of and have.

second run, same route tonight.. distance: 1.90miles/3.05km average speed: 8.22mph / 13.23km/h fastest: 10.44mph / 16.80km/h time: 13m 51s so i beat my time comfortably, but never again will i eat a burger 5 minutes before, i felt like death! That's very, very fast. Too fast I'd say unless you're going for short, sharp runs. Have you tried any long distance runs?

If you can do a 10k you can easily do a 15k. To train for my half-marathon I used to do 6m every Sunday, then a couple of 10m for the 2 weeks before, and then the step up to 13m isn't noticeable.

That's very quick actually. Well done if you haven't run for years. I've done running off and on for about 3 years. I ran 13 miles down the Bromsgrove-Worcester canal 2 years ago in just over 2 hours. Did quite a hilly run the other day which was 6 miles in 59m and was quite proud of that. I think once you get to a certain level of fitness it's difficult to fully lose it and you can quite quickly get it back. For new runners I'd recommend getting some Asics running shoes from start fitness. They do last year's models at much lower prices and I paid about £40 for mine to last me about 3 years. Will probably have to change them soon though. Don't wear too much. With the weather it is now, you'll be fine with just shorts and a base layer with maybe a running jacket on top if really cold. Stretch your calfs, hamstrings, neck and shoulders before setting out. Start jogging really slowly and warm up as you're going. DON'T go right after food, try to go just before eating as it will get your body ready for food. As you're going slow, it will feel like you could probably walk faster, this is fine, just go really floppy, relax your arms, wrists and everything. Just pad your feet forward, using your floppiness to ensure you're not impacting on your legs too much. Relax as much as possible and have nothing tensed. To start off, probably 1-1.5m would be a nice workout without stopping. Don't try to run on legs with torn muscles. If you have to wait 3 days for them to feel right, don't bother going out until they're healed. You'll do no good at all. If you have a smartphone, use a running app to speak your speed to you. 10 mins / mile is a decent steady pace. If you're feeling good, try and maintain 7 - 8 mins / mile. Finally, as you're running, feel the breeze on your face and realise how nice it is to be out, fit and free. It gives you much more motivation to get out there the next night. My last run

I signed up to another 18 month contract with T-Mobile to get a free HTC Desire, so I could sell it on eBay and fund the purchase of my Galaxy S and then Nexus S. Without paying £400 out for a phone which I couldn't do at the time I needed the contract, but the contract is quite good and I couldn't get better so I didn't mind being tied in for 18 months. But, if you don't have to be tied in for 18 months, it would have to be an amazing deal, if you already have the money up front for a Nexus S. Let's be honest, the Desire HD isn't going to hold its value very well and if you get a 3 branded, network locked DHD you'll have a job selling it if you need to, after you've decided you don't like the screen and the battery is as bad as people say. But you can pay another £200, get an unbranded phone on a monthly rolling contract with the freedom to do whatever you want, and it's a fully unlocked, unbranded phone that will hold its value well and you'll have no trouble selling if you want to do something else. As for unlimited on GiffGaff, I was trying to find any mention of a FUP, and it doesn't seem that there is one. If you start tethering 10 laptops file sharing a day and use 20GB / month they will apparently get in touch and ask you to stop.

Reminds me a lot of Delph. They're pretty similar players in most respects. Makoun is just the older, more experienced, mature version of Delph.

That looks really impressive. Only downside is that it's O2, which pretty much means it's mostly not 3G anyway.

I know screens are personal choice but I couldn't go to an LCD again after using a SAMOLED for a year. Out of the SGS and LG optimus 2x I'd say wait for the Galaxy S2. Unless there is an AOSP + source code drop for the LG released so you can run CyanogenMod on it. This seems to say the NS will work fine on three? Such a shame France Telecom dropped the data FUP to 500MB otherwise I'd say go T-Mobile. But you could always go sim-only on a monthly with T-Mobile and see how you go? I can't say enough good about their data network.

Hello General. When I go to the games I can't help but feel that a lot of tricks are being missed by the hierarchy. We seem to be stuck in the same mindset as all other clubs, in that everything is done in a certain way, and that must be for a good reason. I always expected that with yourself and Randy bringing fresh ideas from outside the box and across the pond, we'd see some pioneering developments in English football. Allow me to elaborate: Internet Access / mobile cell : Most people can't get a mobile signal and / or mobile data inside the stadium (Personally I'm fine, I'm on T-Mobile and get incredible signal, if anyone needs a good connection around VP, look for the AndroidAP hotspot and I'll share ). It would be easy to get someone in (or do a deal with a mobile provider) to set up a cell inside Villa Park, and charge an extra £2 per ticket if required, or run a membership scheme etc. Food court / restaurants / pubs inside the stadium : Even if the North Stand doesn't need to be rebuilt for current attendances, for the price it would cost, it would still be worth rebuilding this over the car park with lots of money-making potential housed above. You could have lots of franchisees such as Subway, McDonalds, KFC etc. and make it so the act of visiting Aston Villa for a match doesn't just consist of turning up 5 mins before kick-off and making it out as quick as possible after the final whistle. This kind of thing would really enhance the match-day experience. Cash-points inside the stadium : Every single time I go to a match I spend more than I thought I would and need to get more cash. I think the club must miss out on so much revenue from people running out of money and not being able to spend more on food and drinks. Redesign of the food areas with more modern approach : There has to be a more effective way to sell 20,000 people a Balti pie or Chips n Curry sauce within 15 minutes? Separate queues for simple items? Industrial-scale vending machines for drinks / cold food. McDonalds do that kind of thing in their busiest stores. Ability to select specific seats on eTicketing : Speaks for itself. Easy to do, coupled with Print-Your-Own-Tickets, and as mobile phones are starting to support NFC in the same way as Transport for London works with Oyster cards, why not a wireless entry system, with Oyster-type passes available to buy, or data downloaded direct to someone's phone? I've got loads more, feel free to give me a shout if you want any more ideas / details It seems that Randy has supported the club by allowing the fans to take the lead with items such as the McGregor statue, Holte Pub refurb etc. which are brilliant gestures but now, to me, I think the club has to maximise revenue from every area. Thanks for reading.

They're fully unlocked and have absolutely no operating or manufacturer branding. The only restriction is in the types of 3G networks they connect to, with some US networks not supported. Everything in the UK will be fine. No new Nexus phone for quite a while I would have thought. The S is only just out so at least a year I'd guess. If you want a branded phone, you should be able to get a Galaxy S for a decent price / term now, but you will have to fiddle to get them to perform well. As for why, have a read over the past few pages. If you don't mind waiting then you could wait a few months to see just how good the dual-core phones are going to be, but they'll need Honeycomb / greater to fully support that, otherwise it'll be hacked into the manufacturer's framework like dual-SD card support on the Galaxy S being hacked into Samsung's Touchwiz (base Android only supports one SD card).

I get about 2 days worth of general use out of the Nexus S. I'm on WiFi a lot and I get strong 3G almost everywhere I take my phone. In fact I turned tethering on yesterday and got a steady 290KB/s download, because the home broadband at the person's house topped out at 50KB/s. I really have to compliment the T-Mobile 3G network.

Yesterday was a pretty good performance. Fulham are no mugs and they drew with us from 2 defensive errors on our part. No-one was terrible. Petrov was pretty good, Makoun excellent once again, Downing bit more direct, physical and determined. I thought Gerard should have made changes around the 60 min mark when we started to lose concentration and make silly mistakes. Architects of our own downfall at the time and we needed NRC and Heskey for a bit of presence further up the pitch. I could see why he didn't, he probably thought we were still able to step it up and get another couple and it almost worked out like that. Their first goal Friedel probably should have done better with. Took too long to go down but was probably unsighted. Once he got down to the shot he didn't have time to parry it or hold it. Even then one of Dunne or Collins should have been there before Johnson. Their second goal shows why Friedel should stay on his line. He came for the ball but got impeded by Dunne, who successfully shielded Dempsey and allowed him to get his head on the ball. My Ratings: Friedel - 7 - Two errors for the two goals but some good saves too, especially saving a point near the end. Walker - 5 - Wasn't having a great match before the goal, superb run and shot though. Bent's lack of deflection put Schwarzer off for that one though. Collins - 6 - Can't remember anything he did right or wrong. Dunne - 6 - Didn't help with their second goal. Clark - 6 - See Collins. Downing - 7 - More direct, made a few hard challenges. Don't agree it was an intentional dive. He saw Sidwell charging at him and thought 'this ****'s gonna break my leg here' and just threw himself out the way. When the expected reducer didn't come him he looked a bit daft. Petrov - 7 - Composed play. Makoun - 8 - Superb. Gabby - 6 - Tried hard but not great on the wing. He does help Clark a lot out there though, which is why I think Gerard likes to keep him there. Young - 6 - Take a few tips from Downing I think. Bent - 7 - Always dangerous, off-side mightily close to the point of he probably should have got the benefit of the doubt. Maybe could have controlled 2 through balls better instead of letting them run past him.