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Invisible wrote:
> my grandparent's favourite authors
Who are some of these authors?
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Invisible wrote:
>>> Besides, who wants a system that can delete the books you've paid for at
>>> any time, for no defined reason?
>>
>> That's what backups are for.
>
> Can the Kindle actually do that?
Yes. Plug it into a computer. They're in the "documents" folder. Your audio
books are in the "audio" folder. Etc.
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scott wrote:
> The audio DAC is probably one of the simplest
> parts in the phone for the designers to do.
You probably have separate DACs for the MP3 player and the rest of the phone
anyway.
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scott wrote:
>> PS. Why is there a 20-minute delay between turning a phone on and being
>> able to use it? Even my PC isn't /that/ slow...
>
> Probably because they don't anticipate you doing it very often,
There's an intentional 20 second delay between the phone being ready and the
phone registering (at least in CDMA) because registration is a lot of work
on the server side (looking up roaming lists, etc) and they don't want you
screwing things up by intentionally cycling the phone over and over.
As for a long boot time, chances are you have a crappy slow SIM, and it's
taking 20 minutes to copy the data from the SIM into the volitile memory of
the phone
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Invisible escreveu:
>> yes, DRM is illegal.
>
> In which legal system? :-P
>
>>> Riiight. So I can pay £40 or more for the headphones with the special
>>> phone-specific plug and listen to low-quality MP3 playback.
>>
>> why low-quality? are you still in the 56kb/s era?
>
> What, you think they're going to put a top-of-the-range DAC into a cheap
> device intended for relaying speech?
that cheap device is more computationally capable than your average PC
from 15 years ago. One day it'll be running Crysis and quality DAC's
will be common in even the cheapest models, let alone models geared at
multimedia playing as today's.
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:20:50 -0800, Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> On 13/01/2011 05:22 PM, Darren New wrote:
>>
>>> That's the link I was looking for.
>>>
>>> http://www.slashgear.com/qualcomm-mirasol-color-ereader-hands-
on-0869191/
>>
>> That display looks very, very dark. Maybe it's just a bad picture, but
>> it looks almost unreadable.
>
> I was thinking as I looked at it that it didn't really show off the
> product too well. Hard to say whether it's the photography or the
> device.
>
> Altho around 15 to 25 seconds, it looks pretty good.
I thought it looked pretty good, myself - going to be interested to see
what comes out in the fall to have a look for myself.
Jim
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BTW, all this talk, the fact my cell phone was quite old already and the fact
Santa gave me nothing at all ;) made me buy a... *drums roll* Motorola
Milestone! :p
So I guess I need to apologise to Stephen, since I'm now on the small screen
side too... :)
Amazing lil pocket computar with 1Ghz CPU and all bang Androide apps can
provide...
This posted from it too. :) kinda hard typing with fingernails in the lil
qwerty kbd or the swype touch one but I will survive... LOL
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On 15/01/2011 1:01 PM, nemesis wrote:
> So I guess I need to apologise to Stephen, since I'm now on the small screen
> side too...:)
No need to apologise, I hope that you enjoy your experience.
12.3 cm if you prefer. About the size of a cheap paperback.
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Stephen
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Stephen <mcavoys_at@aoldotcom> wrote:
> On 15/01/2011 1:01 PM, nemesis wrote:
> > So I guess I need to apologise to Stephen, since I'm now on the small screen
> > side too...:)
>
> No need to apologise, I hope that you enjoy your experience.
> 12.3 cm if you prefer. About the size of a cheap paperback.
>
Me and my big mouth... LOL
Only 6x11cm here... :p
But resolution is damn good at 480x854. And parchment for IF works... :)
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On 14/01/2011 05:21 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> my grandparent's favourite authors
>
> Who are some of these authors?
I can't possibly remember the names now. But basically they like reading
crime / mystery / detective type stuff.
Like I said, you look under "books", and each author has a stack of
stuff. Look under "Kindle", and the lists come up blank or nearly blank.
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