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    Mute Benedict Humperdink
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    Feb 24th 2014, 12:55 PM

    Every time I read a story like this, I feel like I’m a step closer to finally ditching apple.

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    Mute Ancient History
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    Feb 24th 2014, 12:57 PM

    What’s keeping you?

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    Mute Benedict Humperdink
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    Feb 24th 2014, 2:42 PM

    The fact that, as it stands, apple are putting out some of the best phones on the market. But they’re crazy expensive and restrictive. It looks like the competition are catching up to them, which is a good thing. I hinted at this in my post. You must have missed it.

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    Mute Animal
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    Feb 24th 2014, 3:01 PM

    On the negative side it’ll cost about 1200 euro pay as you go and have two hours battery life…. You all must buy now…!

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    Mute Animal
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    Feb 24th 2014, 3:07 PM

    In fairness to Sony they have gotten their act together the last few years and have some tasty gear now a days. They’d remind you of an ex girlfriend who keeps walking past your work place trying to get your attention wearing a sexy black dress equipped with a new boob job. Pretty damn tempting to go for …!

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    Feb 24th 2014, 3:15 PM

    In fairness the high end HTC, Samsung’s etc. easily compete with the iPhone

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    Feb 24th 2014, 3:26 PM

    Apple is cra*, I’ll never have one again. Samsung all the way

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    Mute Thomas O'Brien
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    Feb 24th 2014, 3:50 PM

    I’m getting fed up with apple, my 2 year old 4S won’t even last a day on a full charge. The only thing that is keeps me with them is all the apps I’ve purchased, if only they were transferable to android.

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    Mute Cpm
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    Feb 24th 2014, 4:29 PM

    “The fact that, as it stands, apple are putting out some of the best phones on the market.”

    This may have been true 4, or so, years ago, with the exception of build quality their phones are currently way behind their counterparts.

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    Mute Martina Lavin
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    Feb 24th 2014, 4:47 PM

    Same! Had iPhone for two years, now I have my beloved Samsung! IPhone overrated, over priced and i’m over it! :)

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    Mute Diarmuid O'Connor
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    Feb 24th 2014, 5:38 PM

    Also like sony products it can’t possibly last, and it’ll be high maintenance.

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    Mute sonyvaio23
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    Feb 24th 2014, 5:58 PM

    I was always an Apple man for years… switched to Samsung and never looked back….
    Way more options and better specs!
    Sheep signing up to an iTunes restricted device

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    Mute Ian James Conway
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    Feb 24th 2014, 1:14 PM

    I love my Z1. It’s the first no apple phone I’ve had in years and I will never go back.

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    Mute Nigel Sinnott
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    Feb 24th 2014, 12:56 PM

    This is my next phone. Absolute class piece of kit!!

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    Mute OU812
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    Feb 24th 2014, 12:54 PM

    “4K resolution, a similar quality to what you would get on HD TVs”

    No it’s not. 4K is approximately four times the quality you’d get on a HD TV (1080p). 4k is similar to 35mm film quality.

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    Mute Kevin Carroll
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    Feb 24th 2014, 1:04 PM

    that last sentence isn’t really true either. Film for the most part film has better dynamic range than digital (save one or two really high end cameras). 4k would have much better resolution than 35mm. However caparison to hd wouldn’t be too inaccurate as You literally have to stand in front of the screen to notice the difference. The real advantage of 4k is that there is more colour space, meaning that there is more room for colour grading of footage and better colour rendition in general. man I’m a geek :-/

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    Feb 24th 2014, 1:18 PM

    Right there with you in geekdom. Was trying to make a reference comparison (but doing it badly)

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    Feb 24th 2014, 1:19 PM

    Annnnnnnddddddd… now it’s been corrected & I look like a dick.

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    Mute Pat Fortune
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    Feb 24th 2014, 1:33 PM

    Hardly news…..the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 has been on the market for quite a while…. it also shoots 4k video

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    Feb 24th 2014, 3:15 PM

    It’ also a hideous piece of plastic.

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    Feb 24th 2014, 3:20 PM

    About the only bad thing to throw at the note 3…it’s easily the best phone ever made… The powerful hardware and screen size more than compensate for its body material.They have to keep the price down somehow.

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    Feb 24th 2014, 6:25 PM

    I got a free Note 3 with 32gb memory…
    Happy out once I got a good case for it….
    My problem with that Sony Z2 is that it’s nearly the same size as the note but the screen is good bit smaller and I think it’s base is gona be the 16gb which doesn’t cut it anymore

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    Feb 24th 2014, 1:47 PM

    Xperias are more trouble than they’re worth…

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    Feb 24th 2014, 2:19 PM

    You will just have to stop dropping them Erica.

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    Feb 24th 2014, 5:07 PM

    Okay, but that’s not the reason they give trouble haha

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    Feb 24th 2014, 5:22 PM

    With 4K image resolution just imagine the mirror selfie possibilities

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    Feb 24th 2014, 5:37 PM

    Hahaha :P

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    Feb 24th 2014, 1:57 PM

    You would need to attach several external hardrives to take advantage to the full ultra hd file size,

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    Feb 24th 2014, 5:41 PM

    And you’ll get about twenty second recording time on full had due to a crap battery.

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    Feb 24th 2014, 5:41 PM

    *hd, not had.

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    Feb 24th 2014, 1:07 PM

    I wish more emphasis was put on manufacturers not using child labour and conflict materials and protecting our privacy. These are much more interesting phones as far as I’m concerned: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/01/a-phone-for-the-age-of-snowden.html and http://www.fairphone.com/

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    Feb 24th 2014, 4:31 PM

    They’re lucky to have jobs, Kevin

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    Feb 24th 2014, 6:45 PM

    Does anyone have any ideas for a good phone that has a good battery life(24 hours), put up with a good bit of dust(I don’t mind buying a cover) and may be used in the rain occasionally. Something that will last the life of a contract. Thanks in advance

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    Feb 24th 2014, 8:17 PM

    Sounds like you need the old Nokia’s, my brother still gets them as his often ends up under tractor wheels and in 3 foot of mud!

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    Feb 24th 2014, 10:43 PM

    Ah yes, I once threw one 70feet across the workshop(i swear I don’t have a temper but an incompetent co worker drove me to it) I simply put in the battery and made another phone call. Unfortunately they weren’t great for email, maybe I could convince everyone not to use email for work, I’d actually prefer that.

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    Feb 24th 2014, 7:15 PM

    Nice one, hopefully this impending release will lower the cost of the Z1 Compact.

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    Feb 24th 2014, 5:49 PM

    Could have used one of these in gansbaai a couple weeks back.

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