I dont see what the obsession with selfies is either...
I have to say, being around University students a lot due to work location, the chinese students are obsessed with taking selfies and photos on their iphones.
Comes with the ability to block certain phone numbers such as international calls
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Called the BT Home SmartPhone S, the touchscreen phone comes loaded with Android and apps like Facebook and YouTube.
It also comes with BT's Nuisance Call Blocker, which means users can choose to block all international numbers, withheld numbers and unknown callers. In addition to being able to block those groups, users can also block up to ten individual numbers.
The phone also comes with a Do Not Disturb mode that can switch off the ringer at certain times of the day and week.
BT has also included the ability to block calling certain numbers, including all premium rate lines.
"The new BT Home SmartPhone S allows customers to enjoy the features they would expect from a smartphone combined with the great features of a BT home phone, including nuisance call blocking to put them back in control of who they want to speak to," commented Erik Raphael, director of Wi-Fi and Devices at BT.
"The Home SmartPhone S makes the home phone central to family life again, allowing you to look up numbers online and communicate with friends and family via email, facebook or calls."
The BT Home SmartPhone S is available now from the BT Shop. It is priced at �170.
The HTC One X Was most definitely the most awesome phone I ever had in terms of speed, size, everything really. But I must admit, even the HTC One is a whole new level.
The Build, the quality, the camera, the UI, the moving gallery, the Zoe feature, t be gallery highlights, the sound quality, the speed, the battery, almost every but the size has changed.
Although, the one X can do almost everything, the difference is like comparing the iPhone 3GS with the iPhone 4S. Same software layout etc, but major hardware and some additional software enhancements make it a whole new league.
If it's time to upgrade, then I would definitely go for the HTC M8 after the One X.
If the One is so brilliantly made, the new version will be better even though it looks and feels identical.
Just curious about what Huawei has to offer, next handset will most likely be HTC. I've been a HTC owner since the HTC Desire and prefer their phones and think the Sense UI makes it tough competition for the others.
My first HTC handset was a HTC wildfire, it served it's purpose, it was lovely and light phone but the internal memory was very poor, I went on to HTC desire s, which was an excellent handset, and I've still kept as a spare phone, but went on to buy the HTC one x purely for the screen size, it's proving to be quite a high spec phone, wouldnt part with it for anything.
However I would be interested in the HTC m8, depending mainly on two main phone specs, bigger screen size, and weight, if it's going to be a heavier phone I'd have to give it a miss, in that case id be happy sticking to what Im already using.
Take it back, it comes with a 2 year warrantee unlike other ibrands that cost a lot more and only comes with 1 year.
Since the first HTC's have been around, I've tried many of them as well as other brands and so far the most reliable and efficient has been HTC.
It could just be the way the phone is being used and the screen blanking out could be down to a rubbish app. It could be anything, but don't waste time, get it sorted ASAP.
HTC One could be the best-looking, powerful smartphone for 2013 but just like any other smartphones available in the market today, it is not free from problems and errors. Digging a little deeper into the world of HTC One owners, there were several problems we found out that are still bugging users even until now. This post will enumerate some of the most common issues with HTC One. We also provided possible solutions and workarounds.
Please note that the steps we've provided are recommendations only. We do not and can not force you to follow them. If you have other problems that weren't included in this short list, feel free to tell us about them by emailing us at [email protected]. We guarantee to help find solutions for them, although we may not be able to respond to every email we receive.
#1. HTC One Keeps Freezing Caused By Apps
There are a number of reasons why your HTC One becomes unresponsive. But so far, the most common of them all is cause by an unstable application. Majority of those who complained having experienced this problem said that they have installed a new application that could have triggered the problem.
To solve this problem, the user would have to remember what application(s) he or she has installed prior to the problem. In that way, the issue can easily be isolated and correct troubleshooting steps can be done right there and then.
Supposing you already know what applications caused the issue, the next thing you must do is try to disable or uninstall it to know there is an improvement after that. Otherwise, you would have to find the application that could have caused the problem. Start by looking at larger and heavier apps.
It is recommended you clear the cache and data of the applications you suspect to have affected your phone's performance. But you should know that by doing so, your personal settings as well as saved games (for game apps) would be lost.
#2. HTC One Goes Low On Internal Memory
You would know that your phone has memory issues because it would start displaying low memory error messages. Or, you wouldn't be able to download and install new applications from the Play Store. Consequently, your device will run incredibly slow to the point that you'd be disappointed with its performance.
Fortunately, problems like this can easily be resolved:
1.Find apps you are not using anymore and uninstall them to free up some space.
2.Clear the cache of large applications on your device.
3.If you're on Sprint, the carrier offers a tool to determine the amount of storage memory left in your device using the Sprint Zone application, which comes natively installed.
Low internal memory would always be solved with proper management of files and apps.
#3. Lags Due To Multiple Apps Running In The Background
While HTC One does not come short in terms of performance, there are times when there were too many applications running in the background causing the device to lag or even freeze from time to time. This problem is very common especially to people who don't usually reboot their phone daily.
In times that HTC One lags, the owner should immediately check for the apps running in the background and close each one of them to optimize its performance. Here's what you need to do:
1.Double-tap the Home key to see a grid of recent apps.
2.Swipe each one upward to close them.
Rebooting your phone would also clear all third-party apps running in the background, or at least some of them. If you're always experiencing this problem, we strongly advise you use a third-party task manager for your HTC One. Advanced Task Killer has a paid version that would disallow apps to run in the background automatically.
#4. HTC One Home / Back Button Unresponsive
Another common problem users have experienced with their phone is the lag or even unresponsiveness of the capacitive Home and/or the Back button. Fortunately, this problem is nothing serious at all, or at least, no user ever reported not having to use his/her device because the capacitive buttons won't function.
First thing to do when this problem happens is to check whether there is a slight corrosion over each capacitive button. It is advised that they should be cleaned used a soft cloth to make sure fingers make contact with them better. If this has been done and the problem persists, you may have to check a few settings.
Go to Settings => Language & Input => Advanced => Calibration tool. Use a light touch to calibrate it. Doing this may solve the problem and would add a little more responsiveness to the capacitive buttons.
#5. Background Noise While Playing Music
Many have been complaining of a static sound or a background noise while playing media files, especially music, and it started since the time of HTC One X last year. Some users said the problem was with their headset and others said it was with the headphone jack. Actually, the problem may be caused by both / either hardware or software.
For software-related issues with audio, owners are advised to try to disable Beats Audio by tapping on the gear icon on the Notification Panel. It is one of the features of HTC devices and it affects the overall quality of the audio. A small portion of users said turning off the NFC function would also solve this problem.
But after doing those things that are believed to remedy software-related audio issues and the problem still exists, owners are advised to use a different kind of headset / headphones to isolate the problem. If it persists, an appointment with a technician should be required or they might consider having to request a replacement.
An iPhone would have set you back $3.56 million in 1991
Here's an interesting look at the rapid advancement in mobile phone tech: an iPhone released in 1991 with a similar spec to today's 5S would've cost around $3.56 million. A "back-of-the-envelope" analysis on TechPolicyDaily by Bret Swanson compared component prices between then and now to reach the figure, though he admitted that the requisite technology just wasn't around or easily available at the start of the 90s.
Before you go reaching for your calculators, bear in mind that Swanson's calculations are "very roughly" worked out and don't consider other factors, such as inflation. "This account also ignores the crucial fact that no matter how much money one spent, it would have been impossible in 1991 to pack that much technological power into a form factor the size of the iPhone, or even a refrigerator," he says.
Even with those caveats in mind, it's still an interesting exercise to see how far we've come in the space of a couple of decades. In 1991, for example, a gigabyte of hard disk storage cost $10,000; today, you can pick the same amount of drive space up for 4 cents. Apple's new A7 CPU processor inside its latest devices outpaces the desktop PC standard of 1991 by a factor of 1,242 - something to think about the next time you're waiting for Flappy Bird to load.
Swanson's calculations haven't factored in the cost of the motion detectors, cameras and software inside the iPhone, so the actual figure is much higher, which is worth bearing in mind if you find today's smartphone prices hard to swallow.
Travel back to a time when an external hard-drive literally weighed a tonne
7th Feb 2014 | 15:03
Think yourselves lucky, in 1979 you needed a spare room to store under a gig!
By today's standards, the first 'data storage' options, would struggle to fit in your house, let alone your hip pocket or upon a magical 'cloud.' However, a peer back through computing history does give us the opportunity to reflect on and appreciate just how far we've come with today's solutions.
One of those is the Dell Ophelia; a small HDMI stick that offers users completely unlimited, secure, personal storage in the cloud. It's a computer on a USB-sized stick that runs on Android and can be hooked up to any compatible screen.
The advances in storage make having unthinkable amounts of data at our fingertips almost second nature in 2014, but it wasn't always this way as Dell explains in its great, interactive History of Data Storage timeline.
Did you know the first external storage device, built by IBM in 1956, weighed a tonne (yes, a literal tonne) and just about had enough capacity in its giant frame to store a copy of that year's hit song.
The guys at IBM were so pleased with the innovation, they charged the likes of Chevrolet nearly �2,000 a month to lease it! That's about �16,000 every four weeks in today's money. Ever since, hard disk drives have been the dominant form of external storage.
The IBM 1311 first removable drive, which arrived 7 years later, was the size of an industrial photocopier and held even less data. Just 2MB. Approximately a single hi-res photo! It needed 5 disks the size of dart boards to pull off the feat too!
The first floppy disk arrived in 1976. They were a giant leap forward, but in order to store that year's Oscar winner, Rocky, you'd need 14,400 of them.
The floppy and the smaller, less floppy 3.5-inch version which followed in 1983, inspired a revolution in home computing, but those of the era may remember the first personal computing software arriving on a stack of them and the endless swapping using them entailed!
These disks held 360KB, barely enough for a thought and it wasn't until 1991 that we got a drive that could hold 1GB, thanks to the dawn of Magnetoresistant Heads, bless them.
CDs-ROMs arrived in the early 1990s, soon to be joined by the unforgettable zip drives, the next generation of 'floppy' drives and then the digital photographer's best friends, the Compact Flash Microdrives and Secure Digital cards before the turn of the century.
Meanwhile, companies like Seagate and Western Digital were producing giant capacity HDD drives with faster transfer speeds and affordable prices.
Today of course, we're greeted with a variety of storage options. From pocket sized Terabyte hard-drives that cost under �100, to 32GB USB sticks that can be attached to your keys!
Of course, all of those solutions have limits, where Dell's Ophelia system does not. Entirely cloud-based, you can store all of your precious data, safely, with the knowledge that, as long as this tiny stick is with you, so are all of your files.
This cannot be undone and I am sure it will be greatly appreciated.
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