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I think the thing is that both Amazon and Google hope to make money on their tablets by selling you content, either to store locally or to stream from the cloud. As such they make it a bit harder to actually play your own content on them, hence why USB drives are not (or were not with 4.1 it might be different now) supported by default.

I don't think they are supported by default but have seen workarounds that claim to work.

For anyone wanting an android phone that is not as large as the S3 and prefers to buy sim free rather than on a contract the new Google Nexus 4 phone: https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_16gb&feature=device-featured looks good. £239 8Gb, £279 16Gb. Latest android, NFC, Wireless charging. Plus being unadulterated android likely to be upgradable to latest version for a couple of years at least.

So let me get this right. Essies argument in favour of apple is he has found one posting on twitter from someone we have never heard of? Still what is the fact that samsung now outsell apple 2 to 1 in smartphone sales compared to that?

Correct that no sign of win2k though.

Lets look at a well respected gadget site like t3 shall we... http://www.t3.com/best-gadgets/smartphones Android phones: 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th and 9th iOS phones: 3rd and 7th. * or maybe tablets http://www.t3.com/best-gadgets/tablets Android tablets: 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 10th iOS tablets: 3rd and 9th. (* 4S third, 5 seventh, part of reason 5 seventh is iOS6 so one would guess that a 4S upgraded to iOS 6 would be further down the list than 3rd)

They are hypnotised by the salesmans excessive use of superlatives. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7enHsvlbgA

They had to price the mini so as to try and be competitive but did not want to lose normal ipad sales (possibly why it has no retina display?) and have ended up in no mans land.

You do wonder what their thinking was with the ipad3/4? The timing between them is a awful lot shorter than their usual upgrade cycle. Did they feel they needed to announce the ipad 3 when they did but did not want to announce the new port till the iphone 5 release? Did they have problems with the production of what is now the ipad 4 so decided to release the ipad 3 instead?

In my mind apple have shot themselves in the foot by: a) Sticking to their 4:3 aspect ratio b) making it nearly 8 inch diagonal. This obviously gives them the boast of having a larger screen but one of the main appeals of tablets like the nexus is they are pocketable where as the ipad mini is going to be a good inch wider and will not fit many pockets. Also on the subject of the nexus its expected that google will give them all a memory boost on monday so the £159 one will be 16G and the £199 one will be 32G.

I believe they are now going for the fashionable eastern european cell look.

I have my doubts about the £9000 per day figure. This may have been the cost per day at the start of the admin, or an average over the first few months but I would expect there to be a lot fewer PKF staff involved in the day to day running at the moment so would not be surprised is the figure is now significantly lower.

So what's the next deadline for something? Is there one?

They are home to Notts County in the FA cup. Tricky tie I think.

For those of a sensitive disposition I suggest waiting till well after breakfast before reading this article in the independent about SOS pompey and how they single handedly saved pompey. Both nauseating and pretentious in equal measures. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/the-last-word-the-spirits-of-pompey-past-can-heal-us-all-8219495.html

Its all part of how people justify things to themselves. If you are going to buy something for twice as much as another item that would do the same job then people have a tendency to both exaggerate any advantages in what they bought whilst also exaggerating the disadvantages of the cheaper option. That is why you hear mac owners saying things like "Well at least I don't get the blue screen of death every day" or that "everything works perfectly on a mac".

For music on android you may want to consider converting to lower bitrate ogg files. I have a somewhat complicated system where I have ripped all our CD's to FLAC format. As this is lossless it means I can convert to anything else without reripping or degrading the audio by going between lossy formats. I then use dbpoweramp batch converter to convert to both a high bitrate mp3 (typically 192 or 256) for streaming in house and to low bit rate ogg (typically 80) to go on phones.

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Yes I do and after all apple is a company that spends more money on lawyers than engineers and they don't come cheap... Not to mention any sensible company would have to spend money to correctly licence any images they use in their publicity. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/13/apple_misappropriates_swiss_photographers_image/ not to mention making sure the licence other design elements copied from elsewhere before shipping rather than being taken to court. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/12/apple_licenses_swiss_clock/

Yes its not like I quoted an article that pointed to a professional break down report that identified how much an iphone cost to make is it?

Did you know Apple make about £400 profit on each iphone 5?

Get yourself a network storage device (NAS, network attached storage) with at least 2 drives and set the drives up so that they mirror each other so if one fails the other is safe. If you want to keep an offsite backup one of the cheapest ways to do this for large amounts of data is to get a USB docking station for SATA hard drives. Then get a cheap hard drive large enough to hold your data and every so often bring it home and backup the contents of your NAS to the drive.

I assume swearing and shouting "How the hell I am supposed to get that text back!" at the same time is optional?

Interesting article about how apple managed to shoot themselves in the foot by a) managing to imply via their lawsuit that the galaxy SIII was a viable alternative to the iphone and b) releasing a less than impressive iphone 5. http://www.mobilebloom.com/samsung-galaxy-siii-shows-no-signs-of-slowing-down/2222862/

Strangely I believe EVERY government minister relating to the department of transport was moved in the reshuffle. Not that the goverment claimed to know about the problem then...