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For the third time, Clove sells out inventory of the Nokia Lumia 920 before it arrives at the store
0. phoneArena 12 Jan 2013, 05:58 posted on
The Nokia Lumia 920 may yet turn out to be the Windows Phone 8 device that makes the platform a real challenger to iOS and Android in the same manner that the Motorola DROID kick started Android in 2009; for the third time, U.K. retailer Clove sold out of the Nokia Lumia 920 before the inventory arrived at the store and backordered units will start shipping as soon as this coming Monday...
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1. wendygarett (unregistered)
Stupid clove, you should stuff more lumia on the stock... Now we have to wait again lol :p
2. alterecho (Posts: 1098; Member since: 23 Feb 2012)
Nokia sure showed the other OEMs how to do the hardware side of things. Am sure they can dominate any platform they adopt.
9. aokde (Posts: 186; Member since: 09 Jul 2012)
i agree with you, and add that sony also showed how to do the hardware side of things.
12. drubicha (Posts: 19; Member since: 08 Jan 2013)
They are fighting in a battle of ecosystem as they repeatedly declare. Just switch, WP is a better OS with a better foundation. Android only hide their performance through specs.
39. Just_a_boy (Posts: 183; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)
the best definition for android yet!
54. cripton805 (Posts: 1440; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
Please specify what makes Windows better than any other OS and please be very specific. Im going to come back and I better not see some comment about tiles that makes Windows mobile the best OS in the world.
I will be waiting.
60. cripton805 (Posts: 1440; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
Instead of people trolling and giving me a thumbs down. Answer the question, and make some valid points.
Step up to the plate.
69. mgignon278 (Posts: 5; Member since: 08 Jan 2013)
1. Has An Easier-To-Use Interface
2. Microsoft LIVE Integration Is Bad Ass
3. Microsoft Mobile Office Integration
4. Microsoft Isn't Constantly Getting Sued by Apple
5. Stability
6. No Ad-Ware!
7. and more...
72. cripton805 (Posts: 1440; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
1. Not easier. Simpler. Less customizable.
Remember, on Android you make it how you want it.
This would make Apple KING!
2. Thats like saying Google+ is better. All preference.
3. Really? Android has office / pdf readers, etc.
4. How does that make windows better?
5. Stability? BE SPECIFIC. Android is very stable. Some phones arent. Has nothing to do with the OS. It would he like if the Nokia was stable and HTC wasnt.
6. There adware on you home screen bro!
You still have not said one single thing that makes Windows better.
73. cripton805 (Posts: 1440; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
I forgot to add that Apple is very stable too..
78. cripton805 (Posts: 1440; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
Im not being BIAS. Im taking Apple, Android, and Windows into consideration. I havent said one is better than one or the other. Im simply proving a point that Android and Windows currently offer the same things and it all comes down to user preference. I AM NOT TALKING PHONES! Im talking PURE OS.
The only problem I see with Apple is their UI. Android and Windows currently offer live updates through widgets and tiles and iOS does not. Android can also run more apps at once even video while you do something else. Windows has good camera software.
Each has their miniscule perks, but it all comes down to WHAT YOU WANT and need.
85. bon24x7 (Posts: 206; Member since: 30 Aug 2012)
well if that was what you meant before..then +1 to you..it comes down to personal preferences..every os has their own advantages n disadvantages.. :)
128. jsdechavez (Posts: 731; Member since: 20 Jul 2012)
Android is good if not excellent. Windows Phone is also good and it's still early to say what it can grow into. Look at early Android versions and look at it now. Windows phone will also grow. Keep up with your Android. Let others explore as well. You may think WP as no good but others don't see it that way. Perhaps they just want a phone with easy to hit buttons or tiles.
84. bon24x7 (Posts: 206; Member since: 30 Aug 2012)
"Android has office / pdf readers, etc. "
but nothing even close to office
"Android is very stable. Some phones arent. Has nothing to do with the OS. It would he like if the Nokia was stable and HTC wasnt"
all phones in windows ecosystem are stable its not brand or model specific like android..everyone gets the same user experience.
"There adware on you home screen bro! "
Seems like its in your head.
"You still have not said one single thing that makes Windows better."
State what makes your android better..?
108. cripton805 (Posts: 1440; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
Nothing close to office? We have a great word processing system and readers. Youre really tripping out if you think Windows is better its really the same thing.
How many phones currently run windows? I hope that was a joke. Sure its smooth, but theres really nothing too extensive for it to stress out the phone because the windows OS does less. What part of that dont you understand? Theres over a hundred of Android phones.
Some apps that run on a GS3 wont run on the original droid. Again, that has to do with the phones NOT the OS. Windows is too new to see anything yet. Same thing happened with iPhone and the original phone. Its obvious.
Windows live tiles resemble ad like looks with Fb, twitter, etc... Also, The only ads are on the apps which are usually free!
Well the better things on Android...
1. Rooting.
2. A hell lot more customizable. Stock
3. More free app options (expense of ads)
4. Can run more at the same time including Video! Seperate window.
5. Each manufacturer can add their own skin on top of the OS. So you have more freedom to choose exactly what you want.
6. With my use of Microsoft devices in the past, they might require paid usage for some of their services.
I didnt say Android was superior. There are some advantages to both OS. The thing I like about Windows is that Microsoft sets a low spec limit. So they can not make a extremely low spec phone. It has to meet minimum requirements. One thing I very much dislike is that they do not fully support coparable devices comparable to the high end android phones as far as specs go. That limits developers from being able to develop apps that require a lot of power and that may be why it may feel smoother. In reality, it may be that the apps are too basic right now.
118. Altair (Posts: 367; Member since: 02 Feb 2012)
Sorry to break your bubble dude, but Android is just unefficient, powerhungry copycat os. It uses those cute tiny noninofrmative icons like apple products. Icons comes from -90.
WP8 is making strong steps forward, while others stands still and try to make os more efficient (yeah, IOS is the most antique one).
I luv my 920
136. cripton805 (Posts: 1440; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
You must have never used Android because Androids widgets display information like live tiles wayyyy before Windows mobile.
You didnt know that? Nothing at all.
83. abate (Posts: 43; Member since: 19 Dec 2012)
Android need an 8 core phone to match the smoothness of a dual core WP8.
I know you won't accept this and brag about jellybean being much smoother now. But smoother means neither "Smoothest" nor "Lag free".
But I can give you one simple test to prove the fact.
A very simple task.
01) Get a WP8 and get a Nexus 4 (because we all know stock stock android is faster than bloatware skinned Androids like Touchwiz, Sense, etc.,
02) Restart both devices (To ensure WP has no advantages)
03) Tap the caller icon on "Nexus 4" and caller tile on "WP8"
04) See which one is faster to show up dialler screen first.
05) You can do other tasks too, like opening message hub. But don't open "contacts" on nexus 4 and "people hub" in WP8. Because you will be even more disappointed to show how quick WP is.
NOTE: If you used a flagship like "Note 2", "DNA", "Galaxy S3" or "HTC One X+" instead of Nexus 4, the results will be even badder for you.
I own HTC One S, but I adore WP. It's so smooth that android can only dream. Because android's every new version is going heavy. That's why a two year old phone can't even get updated to newer version, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE ALL RUNNING BASED ON SAME KERNEL.
I will be happy, if Google concentrate on optimizing Android rather than going heavy with the next major build. Because if google continue to do what they do now, then next year or in 2014, only quad core phones with 2 GB RAM, will be able to get the update.
For example, just look at APPLE. All the iOS versions are based on same kernel, but almost all of their devices are running the latest version of iOS. That's what called optimization.
98. cripton805 (Posts: 1440; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
Do you understand how technology works? Im going to use a TV for example. Older TVs were indeed faster than the newer TVs, but it takes time to process the image, etc... and bring it to you in better quality.
So, can you assume why the Nokia Lumia 920 has a higher frame rate? Why the iPhone can process faster.
I remember when the Droid Incredible came out and people were complaining of the frame rate even though it was one of the best phones at the time. Its really self explanatory why some stuff in Windows is faster. I really shouldnt need to explain that.
Android runs a lot more at once and it can handle A LOT more at once.
Also, the videos are so moronic not to go into developer options...
I can make my GS3 open up pages a hell of a lot faster. Its in my settings. I have the choice to choose how fast my windows transition. This is without rooting or modifications.
112. abate (Posts: 43; Member since: 19 Dec 2012)
You are a downright idiot.
You have no idea what you are talking about?
You are desperately searching for your own ways to prove your choice is the best and perfect.
But in reality nothing is perfect. Everything has it's flaws and strengths.
Fools like you won't accept the reality. Because you like one of the usual blind folded followers, who has no self-sense, like a frog in a well.
You asked what makes windows phone OS better than other OS. So I said it's speed. With the perfect scenario to test that yourself.
Now you come up with some useless example like TV or something. you understand what the F*** you are talking about.
First try to respect everything. Don't hate something because you don't own it. Who knows it may be better than what you have. First untie your blindfold.
Don't reply me. I have better things to do here than argue with an A** following, senseless fanboy.
126. cripton805 (Posts: 1440; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
Accept reality of what? That I have a great phone that runs smoothly, doesnt crash and does everything that I want it to do?
Again, I own this phone. I would know if runs smoothly or not. If its quick or not or what its capable of.
You insult me and that makes your right? I can call you a bunch of names and that would do nothing. Are we going to make this a name calling contest????
What am I blind of? Out of 4 Android phones in the past 2 years have all run smoothly and that is the reason why I have stuck with Android. Its a great open OS that runs just fine.
People tend to take things over board a whole damn lot.
Windows and Android are great OS. But to call one better than the other is pretty stupid because its all about choice. They currently offer most of the same features, but of some that are better on Android that I prefer BECAUSE I WANT IT.
That doesnt make me stupid or a moron.
Even if it was a stupid example. I tried to make it simple for you, but here it goes.
My GS3 has MANY times more animations than over any Lumia. My GS3 has the same processor, so you might see 1/10th of an already FAST transition of what you CALL SLOW. I can also choose to turn it off and go into the developer options and turn any animations and transitions off and make these transitions intant or I can choose to kill apps if I leave them... I choose not to because I like my animations. ITS WHAT I PREFER! The main difference between this Lumia 920 and my US GS3 is that I have twice the RAM, so I can run a whole lot more than a Lumia 920 and it doesnt even slow down. So, again for the (x) time, IT COMES DOWN TO WHAT YOU WANT!
119. Altair (Posts: 367; Member since: 02 Feb 2012)
I agree with you about everything. Although IOS is not optimized at all. It is JUST so simple, too simple that it doesnt need anything. Thats why its also 1st in aging pipeline.
Using IOS feels like playing with dublo bricks, instead of real legos!
122. abate (Posts: 43; Member since: 19 Dec 2012)
I think you are confused the word "Optimization" with the word "Conservatism / Evolution".
iOS = I will give number one place for Optimization. WP will only come second in this category even though the difference won't be that much. One good example for it is, it's battery life. iPhone and iPad has great battery life, while maintaining smoothness.
But it's at the bottom when it comes to "Evolution". They are being too stubborn to change.
WP => It's on top when it comes to "Evolution". (Look at the change (UI) from WM6.5 => WP7 => WP8)
They also continue this trend in PC OS too.
Optimization is also at the top just below iOS.
Android => It's at the bottom, when it comes to "Optimization"
But takes second spot when it comes to "Evolution".
It's changes way from 1.0 to 4.2 is acceptable.
101. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
Speaking from my 7 months of experience with my Lumia 900, and years of use of Android, Symbian, and others, allow mr to share my thoughts/experiences:
Regarding Windows Phone:
• It makes customization less necessary due to its ease-of-use and more modernistic interface (UI) which accomplishes natively what typically requires a third party app, widget, or macro to accomplish on other platforms, creating a satisfying and even PLEASANT user experience.
•It. Just. Works.
• The apps are top-notch, and without a bunch of junk trying to hog all the resources in the background (or poorly-written apps trying to hit the foreground), crashes are extremely rare (maybe once a month, but the system goes right to the Start screen), and 0 (yes, ZERO) force-restarts. The system shows it ls optimizations, cleverness, and straightforward simplicity at every turn.
• Microsoft's app design guidelines are excellent for making everything, even third-party apps, feel unified, as well as quelling the riot of designs and styles prevalent on other platforms. Someone here recently mentioned that some apps on other systems (and the systems themselves) have a "MySpace" feel, being chaotic, unrefined, and unpleasant. This sentiment is not unrealistic.
• Being of a smaller user base, there is a sense of tight-knit community of users, as well as being less-likely targets of malware and such (much like macintosh was in the early 90's) due to the relatively low user count. Also, Microsoft is good about patrolling, auditing, and stripping nefarious apps from the marketplace, if they get there at all. Much like google back in pre 2.3 days, when there were a smaller number of apps to patrol.
• There is also a sense of being ahead of the curve, early-adopter status, if you will, being part of something that's great and becoming more widespread, much like Facebook when it was college-only. It isn't a selfish or haughty feeling, just one of satisfaction knowing you have something before others do.
• The phones themselves are great. While android is beating them on specs, the phones still keep up with speed and fluidity. There isn't as much of a need for such potency, except for only top-tier games, and even then such astronomical hardware is overkill. Top-quality phones nonetheless, I.e. ATIV S is essentially a reskinned GS3, WP8X essentially a reskinned OneX, etc. There is also a strong innovative attitude, debuting novel concepts and technologies in phones rather than the constant game of one-upmanship prevalent on other systems.
• I know I mentioned this earlier, but I must reiterate, the phones just WORK, and not only that, are even pleasant to use. This Lumia is THE most satisfying phone I have yet owned, period, and the only reason I want to replace it is that its younger sibling, the 920, is so much more improved in areas I frequently use and would use more with such an excellent device.
102. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
Regarding Android:
•Extremely capable.
•Lots of options for phone sizes, types, and customization.
•Lots of other users, with a large network of communities dedicated to ekeing as much out of each decent model as possible
•it has a steep-ish learning curve
•it can be chaotic and messy, and mostly due to its almost overwhelming customization options.
•phone models are frequently replaced with newer models, so they lose value more quickly, and the user is filled with a constant desire to get the next thing, even if what they have was top tier previously. This creates a difficulty as few users can afford a new model every few months, and carriers only allow upgrading every 18-22 months. Also, there are those that upgrade because they are hoping that the new release night fix the issues they experience on their owned models, bringing me to...
•there is such a frenzied pace to update models they can come out seemingly half-baked, unpolished, and incomplete. Thus the user has to wait for updates with the hope and expectation that those issues will be fixed. However the manufacturer is typically working on the next release, and the old model is old news and if and when the update comes out, it, too, can be seemingly incomplete and doesn't resolve the original issues. Thus, the customer is kept waiting for the next model with the hope that maybe it, finally, will be near-perfect in launch form. But the cycle continues. It is vicious and unsatisfying, and frustrating.
• App developers seem to write most of the decent apps for the top-level devices, and any device that tries to use them less than top-end tends to be overwhelmed, so the app runs poorly, the device fails, and the user is frustrated. Similarly, it seems most apps aren't really written with restraint, that is, taking too much processing power on both front and backgrounds. The phone runs slowly, the processor gets hot, the battery life decreases dramatically (so if/when troubleshooting, the first steps tend to be resetting the device to factory-fresh), and the user gets frustrated. Noticing a pattern? It's like buying a car from a particular brand, having it fail repeatedly, but buying the same model a model year newer /ad infinitum/. Granted, some phones are better/worse than others, but I've seen this even with users of the Galaxy S3, Note 2, Nexus4/Optimus G, and a OneX+.
•The system itself can lag and crash, even with Jelly Bean, not because it is a bad system, but because the system runs on top of an outdated Java virtual machine setup, which is in dire need of an overhaul, or the system made to run without the VM. Realistically this should be done within the next 2-3 updates to stay abreast of specs, cost, and user satisfaction/retention, despite recent improvements (octa-cores, more advanced GPUs, etc).
•The not-infrequent freezes, page, restarts of both launcher and device, are frustrating, time-wasting, and are indicative of a flawed product. Android deserves better.
109. cripton805 (Posts: 1440; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
You do realize that a lot of the problems you mention are probably with the phones and not the OS. My GS3 runs perfectly. I have not had to force restart even once and my phone runs perfectly. Sometimes I run into problems with certain apps, but thats the developers fault, NOT the phone, NOT the OS.
Of course the developers focus on the top notch phones. I would expect them to or they would get many complaints about why they dont support 1080p, etc... if its already available. Windows doesnt have too many phones out right now and youre judging based on their Lumia phones. Once those Lumias start getting older, you have to reach a wider audience because technology
advances at a very very fast rate. So, even if you have a top notch Android or Windows phone, it wont be for long. Its just the way it is and you will start running into compatability issues. Obviously when the original droid came out, it was a lot easier to develop. Windows is VERY new. This is why the iPhone is so stable because they worry about one phone only and its really easy to control the updates and software compatability. It might be similar to Windows because Windows wont be running skins. I like and prefer Samsung and Motorola skins over the stock OS. Some prefer the naked Nexus. We have a choice and Windows only has a phone choice. Its all about preference. Would I buy a Windows phone? Probably. Would I buy an iPhone? Probably not because I dont like Apples business strategies and I do not support them. It all comes down to the user. I like the extra stuff my GS3 does. The rippling water animations when I touch the screen, the developer options that let me make my phone snappier or prettier, the way I can watch a video while I text or read this comment, the way I can change the fonts, colors, widgets, settings, etc... I can even replace and create my own OS! This is why I like Android. Because I can root my phone and some manufactuers even condone it!
I love my Android phone because I can make it do exactly what I want it to do and Android is cool with that.
86. c1pher (Posts: 9; Member since: 12 Jan 2013)
well, i think it's alright. even if android need higher spec, as long as that android phone run well, we should be gratefull. we shouldn't hate other OS, android is nice too, while my self loves windows phone more. ^^ cheers.
sorry for the bad english though.
3. the_best (Posts: 139; Member since: 14 Oct 2012)
if you guys says its worthy then its got to be true!
4. MeoCao (unregistered)
There's one big difference: Droid was successful BECAUSE of Android, while 920 sells IN SPITE of WP8.
5. wendygarett (unregistered)
I just spent half and hour on wp8 on Nokia store. You should try it as well, it's not that bad :)
6. MeoCao (unregistered)
It's not bad against iOS, it's bad against JB.
10. drubicha (Posts: 19; Member since: 08 Jan 2013)
Android will go down. People will soon realize how messy the UI is like your underwears in your room hanging around every nook and corner.
14. lumia920 (Posts: 112; Member since: 27 Nov 2012)
hahahhahahhahahha so true said.
15. lumia920 (Posts: 112; Member since: 27 Nov 2012)
it's bad against JB? biggest joke of 2013.
32. TROLL_IS_AHA (banned) (Posts: 10; Member since: 11 Jan 2013)
The only good thing about Wp8 is its frame rates are at 90 frames per second while iOS and OS JB is at 60 or else it's just another iOS wannabe immatation which windows had 7 years to develop and look they still couldn't succeed nor overtake android and Apple and they never will no matter how hard or what they put in!
Android and iOS rules others will follow
49. putyongka (Posts: 36; Member since: 08 Jan 2013)
Android & iOS will go down and will be replaced by Nokia and BB in the future. I see the trend. iSh$$p/crapDroids will turn into zombies for still sticking with outdated OS.
52. cripton805 (Posts: 1440; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
Android outdated? (point 1) You do realize that Windows has been out for a little over a year and its already abandoned some of its devices. Like Android (point 2) are you saying Android is outdated even though theres been 8 different Android versions excluding Honecomb in the past 3.25 years? They have all been different visuals wise and features. (point 3) further proving my point, you have lost all credibility of arguing for such a stupid comment.
Please, do some research instead of just typing stupid nonsense. Is this the start of a new Sheep?
56. drubicha (Posts: 19; Member since: 08 Jan 2013)
Whatever you're saying, Android is still a jungle with poor foundation. Not as customer friendly as WP. Just like in the Digital world - "keep it simple, stupid!". But don't mistaken simplicity over stupidiy. WP has a lot of power behind it, and performance speaks for itself. In Android, non-geeks pretend to be geeks. It's a MySpace world all over again as history dictates.
57. cripton805 (Posts: 1440; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
What are you talking about? You have not mentioned one thing about a phone or the OS.
What is this jungle with poor foundation? What is customer friendly?
Im reading this jabber and Im not reading anything to back your statements up. Youre just making comments about something you probably know nothing about just because you like Windows OS.
58. papss (unregistered)
Couldn't agree more.. It's funny that the people that bash WP8 don't own it nor have they had a WP in recent times.. However most WP8 fans have tried and have owned android..and yes it's very MySpace like.. I want something fresh and new to use and android most certainly isn't it... Stutter much android?? Even with "project butter" ha what a joke
64. cripton805 (Posts: 1440; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
So youre saying Windows is better because its newer and you feel that its new and fresh?
You really need an award for that one bro.
That REALLY makes something better than something else. Im dead set on it.
103. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
@cripton No Windows devices I know of are not getting 7.8. ALL have been updated to at least 7.5. They may be out of warranty, but they are still supported.
89. c1pher (Posts: 9; Member since: 12 Jan 2013)
this is the kind of coment that makes these kind of sites interesting. flame war usually begin with this kind of comment.
sorry for the bad grammar. ^^
88. c1pher (Posts: 9; Member since: 12 Jan 2013)
i never used iOS, but is iOS really that bad?, i think iOS has it's own cool feature too.
120. Altair (Posts: 367; Member since: 02 Feb 2012)
I own Nokia Lumia 920 and "the new ipad 3rd generation". IOS is a simple os. For those who likes easiest and most simpliest os, it is just fine.
Android works just fine for geeks and specwise custom fanatics.
I've testedvthm all and say easily, wp8 overall experience beats them all easily and Noka makes the best hardware.
19. darkkjedii (Posts: 21201; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
So what is it u don't like about wp8?
21. No_Nonsense (Posts: 826; Member since: 17 Aug 2012)
Like many others have stated, this seems to be the only site where you can't love or comment anything pro-WP/BB/iOS, etc. Only pro-Android comments are well received. It's annoying.
27. asseek (Posts: 164; Member since: 12 Sep 2012)
yea true, this site is full of Android fans, who accept nothing but Android, and always claim they are using their freedom of speech by bashing and trolling, not by givings facts (not all)
33. TROLL_IS_AHA (banned) (Posts: 10; Member since: 11 Jan 2013)
Why wouldn't they are you or why would any android users would leave there open free unrestricted prison OS and migrate are u crazy LINUX VS DARWIN
59. papss (unregistered)
Huh? Garbled mess of a comment
75. asseek (Posts: 164; Member since: 12 Sep 2012)
and what exactly has Darwin to do with WP8?!!
Darwin OS was made by Apple, Mac OSX and iOS are based on Apple's Darwin, and it has nothing to do with Microsoft's WP8 OS, so don't post crap, enlighten yourself with some informations and then come and post
29. MeoCao (unregistered)
it depends on article, this 1 is about 920 and most people are against Android, pro WP.
similarly in articles about Android people are decidedly pro Android and Google.
in short dissidents are not welcome in PA. And that makes the discussion 1 sided and boring.
107. nwright94 (unregistered)
I said something very similar on a few other articles. They're getting nuts. It's such a hostile comment section now, you can't post a comment without your intelligence being called into question by the android folk. Yes, I know the apple folks were like this but it doesn't make it right for these android people to get so hostile.
25. TROLL_IS_AHA (banned) (Posts: 10; Member since: 11 Jan 2013)
Everything it's closed like iOS and messy confusing one thing leads to another no dev supports no jailbreak you have no rights of you're phone which you own
30. asseek (Posts: 164; Member since: 12 Sep 2012)
is this the new version of TROLL?
34. TROLL_IS_AHA (banned) (Posts: 10; Member since: 11 Jan 2013)
Smart boy!
95. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 3751; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
He's the new version no doubt... Upgraded from 128mb>256mb RAM
500mhz>1ghz crackdragon A$$
And has the lastest version of TROLL OS; 10.99.26...with project cheese.
Got the latest shiz inside his frame...but still is downright laggy!!
96. wendygarett (unregistered)
Lmao for that :D
61. papss (unregistered)
If android was great why do you need to jailbreak it?
87. c1pher (Posts: 9; Member since: 12 Jan 2013)
why hate the windows OS. i think it's nice to have more OS to choose. i understand you love android. both android and windows has their own nice feature.


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If you're wondering where the delay is for Android updates, Verizon has the answer
0. phoneArena 15 May 2012, 19:32 posted on
Everyone loves to complain about how slow Android updates can be, and more than that, everyone loves to play the blame game, which mostly means saying that Google should be acting more like Apple and locking down control...
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. Zayuh24 (Posts: 149; Member since: 21 Nov 2011)
I've been telling people for a LONG time that it's both the carriers and the manufacturers... Google gives developers from the manufacturers and suppliers (carriers) the source code before they even release it! Yet we never see it implemented. I had the original droid that got Gingerbread lord knows how late; then I got the G2X which we don't even know if it will get ICS (LG says the Optimus 2x will, but of course, T-Mobile runs the show with the G2X).
I can understand the frustration, but I am not ready to void my warranty with a root. I would rather wait for a fully functional build to come OTA than use an 80% build. But with the long wait still ahead, and no legit release date for updates until around the corner when they arrive, I might rethink my position.
9. corrifa (Posts: 34; Member since: 28 Sep 2011)
Most roms are around 100-110% on usability... i.e. cm9 adds plenty of extra functionality, and speed is probably 150% compared to a phones stock rom. Only at the beginning of a release are they not fully working, then devs do their magic and "kink" them out quickly
12. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
I completely agree with your first paragraph... and I think you need to rethink your position on the second.
A custom rom on version 1 might be 80% complete. But if you give it a month a good developer will have it running better than the manufacturer ever did. If your a fan of the stock experience, you can do small things like just installing a custom kernel to drive the phone a bit faster and a heck of a lot more smoothly.
ROMs give you more choice, better battery life on some, a way better experience on most compared to stock, and newer versions of the OS months/years before an official update if it ever gets one.
If there is an issue that you need to send it into warranty, you can almost always revert everything back to stock before you send it in. And honestly, most people dont even care/check for custom roms anymore.. its just so common. As long as they cant attribute the damage done to the phone from you fiddling with it, they generally dont bat an eye at it.
18. Zayuh24 (Posts: 149; Member since: 21 Nov 2011)
I've been looking everywhere researching stable ROM's. To be honest, I'm not savvy enough with the languages used to write the source codes, so I deem myself unqualified to do my own rooting lol. I have a friend that "claims" to know how to root, but he seems much more clueless than me on the basics.
Hell, if I can get away with rooting my G2X (or throwing a custom kernel on it), I will. The only thing I've rooted was my PSP years ago in high school when Sony gave out the firmware. I should do more homework on this before I lose my hair waiting on OTA's.
20. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
if you go to forums.xda-developers.com and look up your phone, there is a "bible" or "root wiki" for each phone that gives you detailed step by step instructions on how to root.
its a lot of reading, but in practice, its not really that hard. it seems worse than it is.
I got my lil brother a G2X real cheap off craigslist, rooted it, and threw on a custom rom within 2 hrs of having it. Not a biggie.
35. cepcamba (Posts: 717; Member since: 27 Feb 2012)
I agree with remixfa. Step by step procedures on xda-developers are really a treat. So easy and straight forward. If you can install a windows program on a folder you created on your desktop you can easily root and flash your droid.
I didn't know anything about flashing and rooting before, then I tried it on my international Galaxy S. I got it bricked. And even when I got it bricked there were tutorials on how to unbrick it. After fixing it I was able to install a custom rom (CM7) and everything improved. Fluidity was nowhere near stock levels and even benchmarks skyrocketed. With a 1Ghz hummingbird powerVR540 the phone got 2300+ on quadrant and I didn't even overclock it. And it's not just benchmarks, I felt it in real life performance too like in gaming, web browsing, longer battery life, faster camera, etc.
Just like in the Matrix movies, you can take the red pill or the blue pill. It's a choice between the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue/stock) and embracing the sometimes painful truth of reality (red/custom).
The hardware of phones today, even the old ones , are much more powerful than what the manufacturers show them to be. And the dev community is there to help us unleash this potential hidden in the tweaks and software of OEMs.
29. Synack (Posts: 677; Member since: 05 Jul 2011)
It takes almost no time at all to learn how to do the coolest things with Android. If you have a Galaxy Nexus you don't even have to learn anything. We have a Toolkit where you press a couple keystrokes and your phone is unlocked and rooted and then you can go back to locked and unrooted with the same amount of ease. I just got mine replaced today because the 4G radio died. I was modded out the wazoo. Plugged in my Nexus to my laptop and had it wiped, locked, and unrooted and back to stock within 5 minutes and the Verizon store never knew I did anything to it.
38. ojdidit84 (Posts: 458; Member since: 16 Jul 2011)
I'm with you completely on this. Been rooting my phones since my Sprint Hero and haven't turned back since. Have had the leaked ICS running on my Rezound for a month now and this phone run so much smoother than it ever could have on Gingerbread, not to mention that the ridiculous almost 2 days of battery life I'm getting with the stock kernel. I don't see that happening with the official, unrooted release.
I could just imagine how much smoother and how much better the battery life would be on my Razr Maxx but I haven't bothered to root that yet.
41. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
the battery life on ICS is waaay improved. I keep making fun of a coworker that is afraid to take the leap to ICS roms with his SGS2 hercules. At the end of the day we both used our phones heavily.. he had to switch batteries and back, I was at 60% off the original charge.
There are a lot of tweaks built into ICS that you can fiddle with that do so much to improve things. GPU rendering makes the phone smooth, and the tweaks make the battery last longer. Pair it with Juice Defender for even longer battery life. I've hit 3 days on a charge before.. and I just have my old SGS1.
45. Zayuh24 (Posts: 149; Member since: 21 Nov 2011)
Now all of the rooting/flashing methods I see are for 2.3.3. Will the same methods work for 2.3.4 (I updated as soon as the OTA hit my hands).
44. Numz (Posts: 34; Member since: 31 Oct 2009)
It's very ironic to me that this article posted today because I called Verizon and complained about this very issue just yesterday. I complained about 2 points, the first point being that the GSM version of the galaxy nexus has received a couple updates as well as the sprint version so why hasn't Verizon's? I also complained that I bought the Galaxy Nexus with the assumption that I'd receive timely updates because it was a developer phone but several weeks after I purchased it, Google announced that the Verizon version wasn't considered one. They then proceeded to tell me that they have nothing to do with the updates, that the manufacture is the one that tells Verizon they are ready to push out the update at which point Verizon starts rolling it out. I told them I find that hard to believe since, all other versions of the phone have received updates. They then attempted to put me through to Samsung at which point I got disconnected (convenient right?). Anyway, thanks for posting this article cause I think we all need to flood Verizon's call center with these complaints and maybe they will finally realize that it's worth it. The point I was trying to make with them was, if they find 1 bug in the update but it fixes 5 others, push out the damn update, I'd rather have the 5 bugs fixed and you can fix the 1 later.
2. Twitch016 (Posts: 23; Member since: 26 Jan 2012)
This has been killing me recently. Anyone seen a change.org petition or similar to get Verizon to communicate and push updates? It's bad business and falsely selling a product - my GNex has been iffy on connection for a few days and all VZW and Samsung say is to wait for the update - which they don't know when it's coming.
3. rockstarlive (Posts: 307; Member since: 19 Oct 2011)
I heard from a very good source ICS could come as soon as the end of the month for the Nexus Raze and Rezound. Good source as in some Verizon reps.
8. DigitalBoy05 (Posts: 218; Member since: 04 Jun 2011)
As a Verizon Rep I can say that there has been no internal document floating around our trainings or hot news for when these devices are to be updated. A lot of reps use sites like PA and Engadget etc to find out this info cause its usually leaked on here before our internal sites. Not always but a lot of the time.
10. dmckay12 (Posts: 243; Member since: 25 Feb 2012)
That sounds familiar. Oh yea, that was last month. But I do hope that it is true.
39. Tatperson (Posts: 58; Member since: 21 Oct 2011)
Nexus Razr? Never heard of that before :P
4. Cha7520 (Posts: 221; Member since: 31 Oct 2010)
I called Verizon about this phone for the third time. To Date, I have still not gotten the supposed "OTA Update", which I heard never passed the beta testing stage and that is why it hasn't been "officially" rolled out. This phone is a peice of crap! It reboots on my daily....3G goes out all the time...I'll be talking to a person on the phone...the phone will say I have 2 bars of signal, but for whatever reason the person says they don't hear me anymore, even though I hear them perfectly. The phone takes up to 5 seconds to rotate to land scape which is really annoying. I'm sick of this phone and was told by Verizon Agent to call Tech Support and they may be about to switch me to another phone....LOL...yeah right!
7. RORYREVOLUTION (Posts: 3108; Member since: 12 Jan 2010)
All they will do is just a send you another Galaxy Nexus. I feel the same way as you though. I really thought the Galaxy Nexus and ICS would start a new age for Android and it's updating process. But I am sick of waiting on Verizon to finally OK the next update and be done with it.
The original EVO got 2.2, and even 2.3 way faster than the Droid X did and it was a much better device all in all.
14. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
This was a lot of our fears when we heard that VZW was getting a "nexus" device. Honestly, I think its bullshyt. Apple still retains direct control of iphones even on VZW. A nexus is a direct controlled device. I dont know if I should be more mad at VZW for monkeying around with it and ruining the Nexus experience for their customers, or at Google for not using their massive weight to push VZW out of the way like Apple did.
As an X-VZW employee I can tell you that the long update process has always been there.. its just much more visible now with the fast paced world of Android.
As a tech enthusiast, I can safely tell you that the only way to have updates immediately is to buy unlocked GSM Nexuses or dig in and learn how to root and update your device manually.
16. RORYREVOLUTION (Posts: 3108; Member since: 12 Jan 2010)
Yea I know. It's a damn shame because this is one of the things that the sheep boys keep rubbing in our faces. That Apple pushes out updates on time for all their devices, yada yada yada.
I agree with that, that IS one of the things I missed about having an iPhone.
If the rumors are true(which I doubt) I might have to switch back if it is a 4 inch display. I am really getting tired of spending 300 dollars on a phone, over 100 a month for it and be stuck at the same version it was running since the day I bought it nearly 6 months ago.
Yes I understand a lot of devices are still on Gingerbread. But a NEXUS device should be a different story. Even the Samsung Nexus S is running a more updated version of ICS than VW Galaxy Nexus.
5. networkdood (Posts: 6330; Member since: 31 Mar 2010)
Well, the RAZR has received a few updates since November, and I have been running the latest AXIOM ROM ICS 4.0.4. Very little wrong with it. Screw Verizon and/or Motorola as the dev community does the best job of all with open source.
6. Saamic (Posts: 119; Member since: 20 Feb 2012)
Can Verizon just has the least compatible everything
11. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
Hey Michael, I thought I read somewhere that ICS is supposed to somehow prevent slow updates due to manufacturer UIs? And is there any reason why manufactures won't just make their overlays into a downloadable app instead of baking it into the OS? Seems to me if GO Launcher, ADW, and LauncherPro could do it, these guys should be able to as well.
15. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
its supposed to lessen the update length from google dropping code to it getting to your device on ICS devices. Manufacturers can speed up the process quite a bit compared to what it used to be. Both HTC and Samsung have found ways to "lighten" their UI's so updates could/should be faster for the long haul. But none of that matters if the carrier sits on the update for long periods of time.
The final update launch is completely in the controls of the carrier and no one else. They give the "OK" on testing and the give the OK on roll outs.
17. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2703; Member since: 26 May 2011)
I think the difference will be seen with the transition from ICS to Jelly Bean and going forward. The jump from Gingerbread to ICS is a huge one, which is why there have been such big delays.
Manufacturers won't make overlays separate, because that would mean users could turn it off. I'd love to see Google force that on manufacturers though. I've always felt that UI customizations should be handled like alternate launchers.
21. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
thats a long standing sentiment about the launchers. We'll get that right after Obama flies on a pegasus with a tatoo of Taco on its butt.
aka, not gonna happen. :)
funny visual though.. lol
13. tedkord (Posts: 11549; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Wrong, wrong, wrong. It's because of Google. Randall Stevenson said so. Are you going to try to tell me he's a lying, weasely, retarded, underhanded, four flushing, scumbag d**k?
19. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2703; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Who the F*** is Randall Stevenson?
22. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
isnt that the dillhole ATT CEO or whatever that was saying that it was all google's fault that they wouldnt update their devices?
27. RORYREVOLUTION (Posts: 3108; Member since: 12 Jan 2010)
and the same moron who said the wifi tablets are going away because they arent needed?
24. ckingt4 (Posts: 26; Member since: 15 May 2012)
Sounds about right.
23. Cha7520 (Posts: 221; Member since: 31 Oct 2010)
OK...so get this! I JUST got off the phone with Verizon Tech Support, that guy told me "THERE WAS NEVER AN OTA UPDATE TO 4.0.4!!!!". I'm like....um....are you serious?
The OTA update was NEVER Officially announced by Verizon because it never got past the initial testing stage, thats why they are denying the existence of an update. He stated since I'm still in my one year with the phone Samsung would replace it with the same phone. I told him no thanks, because I would just be getting another device nexus device. I knew I should have never left Virgin Mobile and done the whole contract thing...what a waste. I guess I'm stuck with this crappy phone...sigh.. :-(
26. ckingt4 (Posts: 26; Member since: 15 May 2012)
Honestly, if it never got past the soak test there was obviously an issue. As controlling as VZW is, I don't think there just sitting on the update to tick us off. I know that's the thought of some of the irrationalist on here and every other phone enthusiast site but it's just that, irrational. I have 4.0.4 leak installed, the only I'll effect I've noticed is battery life is somehow worse, but that doesn't mean there's not more. But the thought that it's being held back because they can, well that just doesn't seem to make sense.
28. RORYREVOLUTION (Posts: 3108; Member since: 12 Jan 2010)
lol NOT to mention that Virgin Mobile is getting the EVO V 4G at the end of this month.
4.3 inch super lcd qhd display, 1.2 dual core processor, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of ROM, expendable memory slot, and the best feature of all ICS preinstalled.
I am done with Verizon and contract devices for a while. The EVO V 4G just sounds too good to pass up. Selling my Galaxy Nexus and will save over 70 dollars a month with no contract.
299 for a prepaid phone, same that I paid for my Galaxy Nexus.
25. cncrim (Posts: 823; Member since: 15 Aug 2011)
carrier and manufacture it's the 90% of guide blame, 10% is google. why can manufacture just make driver that work then release update NO they want all the crazy UI then after that carrier want to add all stupid bloatware on it regardless we like it our not.......... now we get the idea slow update come from., on top of that how many device each manufacture make each year? blah blah blah
ROOT is fastest way to get the taste the latest OS.
30. DOGIEFRESH (Posts: 302; Member since: 15 Jul 2009)
All this updates fiasco is Google's fault, they developed the OS not the Cellphones Makers nor Carriers, it cannot be left on somebody who making money selling devices or carriers that charge for service......!!!!!!
31. RORYREVOLUTION (Posts: 3108; Member since: 12 Jan 2010)
Dude The makers slap on their own custom UI skin over Android, GOOGLE does NOT make HTC Sense, Touchwiz, etc.
32. DOGIEFRESH (Posts: 302; Member since: 15 Jul 2009)
Those customs UI don't run apps or represent an operating system and doesn't exempt Google responsibility to keep the software they created up to date they simple blaming others for their own slack........!!!!!!
33. alpinejason (Posts: 262; Member since: 06 Sep 2011)
cdma sucks.unlocked gsm is the only way period
36. ckingt4 (Posts: 26; Member since: 15 May 2012)
That's all well and good if you don't need the network. I'm a consultant, travel a lot and need reliable communications. I pick reliability over updates any day. Not afraid to root
34. DigitalMD (Posts: 226; Member since: 17 Feb 2010)
Remember that Google is a advertising company, not a software company. They don;t make much money on Android. Nexus is just a brand, a marketing device. It doesn't come with any better support and is still tied up by the hardware vendor and cell carriers. Google cannot control them.
37. tyson3 (Posts: 49; Member since: 15 May 2012)
I bought the galaxy note and was told that ics would be on the phone in a week after I purchased the phone! it has been two months now and no ics or even a release date! I called samsung and they said talk to at&t and they said talk to samsung! We pay all this money for phones and get stuck with 2 year contracts and we cant even get the best out or our phones! then when the update comes out a new one shows up and it is built for quad-core phones and we will be stuck again! People complain about apple and i understand some gripes but at least they keep their products updated and running smooth. I had the infuse for a while and it just got gingerbread several months ago!
40. StillStuckWithDroid (Posts: 65; Member since: 19 Jul 2011)
I bought the Droid Bionic on the day it was released....sat on my upgrade for over 4 months waiting for the phone to be finally released. I recently checked Motorolas update chart for the Bioniic and it is STILL in stage 1 (Under Evaluation) for ICS?????
I am fully convinced at this point the Bionic may never see ICS......the phone is nearly a year old now.
I have tried the different ROMS out there and some of them are very nice but the main issue I have and the reason I dont use them is they can not seem to get the Bluetooth working properly and there is a TON of static. I work on the road and Bluetooth is an absolute must.....so I cant use the ROMs for a daily OS
Axhiom made a very nice one but I guess he cant do anymore with it because he hasnt updated it since march
I think it is reprehensible that these phones that were supposed to be the "Flagships" and top of the line phones have been completely undersupported by Verizon and they have basically flat out lied about the support they woould recieve.
I HATE to say this but I am seriously thinking about just going with my work phone and giving up my personal phone all together
42. tjobrien21 (Posts: 1; Member since: 16 May 2012)
I think if Android devices had a BIOS or HAL sort of thing, then Google could have ONE build of Android that works on ANY standard device. Then, when updates are made available, WE could install them instead of waiting forever.
That's where the iPhone is win - there are just a few hardware platforms, and they're all well known (after all, Apple designed them). No oddball hardware, no strange skins, just straight OS as they designed it. While I like Android better, easy updating is one place Apple has it hands down.
43. Numz (Posts: 34; Member since: 31 Oct 2009)
It's very ironic to me that this article posted today because I called Verizon and complained about this very issue just yesterday. I complained about 2 points, the first point being that the GSM version of the galaxy nexus has received a couple updates as well as the sprint version so why hasn't Verizon's? I also complained that I bought the Galaxy Nexus with the assumption that I'd receive timely updates because it was a developer phone but several weeks after I purchased it, Google announced that the Verizon version wasn't considered one. They then proceeded to tell me that they have nothing to do with the updates, that the manufacture is the one that tells Verizon they are ready to push out the update at which point Verizon starts rolling it out. I told them I find that hard to believe since, all other versions of the phone have received updates. They then attempted to put me through to Samsung at which point I got disconnected (convenient right?). Anyway, thanks for posting this article cause I think we all need to flood Verizon's call center with these complaints and maybe they will finally realize that it's worth it. The point I was trying to make with them was, if they find 1 bug in the update but it fixes 5 others, push out the damn update, I'd rather have the 5 bugs fixed and you can fix the 1 later.


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What Happened Next
Hello, Kickstarter!
This isn't an update about Sir, You Are Being Hunted, but about what we did next. It's not going to be on Kickstarter this time, but we think... Read more
So That Multiplayer Thing Has A Test Phase, And It's On Steam.
Hello! Multiplayer test is now live on Steam. THERE WILL BE BUGS. This is very much an early release designed to test and stress.
Other distributions will follow once we've... Read more
Coming This July: The Sir, You Are Being Hunted Multiplayer Test
Hello there. Long time! How've you been?
This is a quick update to say that the Sir, You Are Being Hunted multiplayer test will start on July 1st. It's been a... Read more
Today's 1.2 Patch Fixes Some Things
Just a very minor patch today fixing menu bugs and implementing 5.1 sound.
With regards to multiplayer, it's still a long way off, unfortunately. While we've got... Read more
Customise Your Worlds In 1.1! (That's Today.)
Hello, all!
Today we're serving up the 1.1 patch for you all, which fixes a bunch of minor issues but also adds a custom biome and a global robot... Read more
Oh My. Sir Has Hit Version 1.0!
So we're finally here.
Here's the most important thing about that: you did this.
I know it gets said of Kickstarter so often that is basically banal, but... Read more
One More Update Before The Big Day!
We're pushing out an update with a bunch of small fixes and tweaks today, but really big news is that Sir's single player mode will hit v1.0 on... Read more
Update #38: The Castle Biome!
[Note: This is live on Steam now, and will appear on Humble later this evening.]
Today's update adds a new environment type, our fifth and final. As we promised way... Read more
Update #37 - The February Update Update!
THIRTY-SEVEN! Blimey.
Hello you!
The new build is out now on Steam, and will be available this evening on Humble.
Well, it's the end of an era. For many months... Read more
Update #36 - The January Update
Hello you!
Firstly, sorry it's taken a bit longer that usual to get this update out. The Christmas break didn't help, but mostly the delay is due to a massive... Read more
An Update About The Next Update
Hello! We're breaking cover to tell you what's going on with the next update. Unfortunately it looks like it's not going to land until the end of January, and the... Read more
Update #34 - Reading The Roadmap: How Sir Is Coming Along
We thought that the release of this latest update - our December offering which recently arrived on Steam and Humble - might a good time for a catch... Read more
It's A December Update!
Hey All,
The December update is here, and available on Steam or Humble. If you are a backer who for some reason hasn't claimed their key yet, go to https://www.humblebundle.com/store/keyresender... Read more
Update #32 - October's Update Is The Pumpkin Update
Another big content update this month! This phase is all about adding in loads of cool new stuff, so we hope you're enjoying it. Pumpkin contains an entire new environment,... Read more
Update #31: Steam Keys
Just a quickie for those who keep asking about Steam keys: There has been no delay in sending them out. They are available via your Humble page, and have been... Read more
Update #30: New Build! The "Dead Haggis" Update
So the latest update has arrived. It's live on Steam now, and Humble later this evening. Here's a video that covers a small fraction of it, or you can read... Read more
Update #29 - The Alpha Is Now Live For All
Hello there! Sir's alpha build has arrived for all, and Kickstarter (and Paypal) backers can now get their builds of the game over at Humble Store.
PLEASE NOTE: This is... Read more
Update #27* - Sir, This Is Actually Happening
It's happening!
People who contributed to the Kickstarter at £30 or higher tiers now have access to the closed alpha test. If you are a backer at an appropriate tier... Read more
Update #27 - Rezzed Victory And Presentation
Today you guys all share in the glory of Sir, You Are Being Hunted being highlighted by Eurogamer's Game Of The Show award for Rezzed. Thanks to all of you... Read more
Update #25 - Surveys Deployed!
All backers - Kickstarter and Paypal - should now have surveys. These will arrive via email or notifications in the KS interface, and can be filled in right here if... Read more
Update #23 - Landscapes And Hats
Hello there!
Update time again, and we thought we'd brew your figurative pot of tea by talking about a couple of the new "biomes" we've been building.
When you generate... Read more
Update #21 - Fresh Footage Via A New Video Series
Jim is putting together a new series of videos to show you what we've been up to.
This first video (below) is an introduction to the series, so it... Read more
Update #20 - Big Robot And Sir At Rezzed!
Hello there!
Sir, You Are Being Rezzed
This is just a quick update to say that the Big Robot team are going to be at Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Eurogamer's... Read more
Update #19 - Questions? Answers!
Hello! This update is based on your questions from the comments section from the last update. But before we get to those, we wanted to point to this post on... Read more
Update #18 - The Hounds! The Hounds!
Hello, everyone! How have you been? Fancy a cup of tea? Well, let us put the kettle on and talk to you about the past couple of weeks.
While all... Read more
Update #17 - Sir, You Are Being Optimised
Another busy fortnight at Big Robot HQ. We've been playtesting – Fleeing! Horror! Feedback! Robot noises! - and we've been optimising. Next up: mechanical dogs.
But anyway...
One of... Read more
Update #16 - Hello From February!
Hello! How are you? We've been quiet. That's because we've been so busy.
Sir, You Are Now Town Planning
Yep, we've decided to scrap the Hunting/Robot aspects of Sir... Read more
Update #15 - New Year, New Animations
Hello everybody! We hope that 2013 is treating you well.
It's already been a busy month at Big Robot, as you can see. We've also had a tricky holiday period,... Read more
Update #14 - Happy Holidays, Sir's Work Progresses
Hello, everyone!
Just a brief update to say that we'll probably be fairly quiet until the new year. We're sorting out physical rewards for all the higher tier backers, and... Read more
Update #13 - Unlucky For Some, Payment Issues!
Hey everyone,
It looks like Kickstarter UK's payment method is having some trouble processing a lot of international card payments, which is obviously going to hurt us. If you get... Read more
Update #12 - And Now For The Interesting Bit...
Thankyou, Everyone!
The Kickstarter is complete. We're funded, and we've been able to unlock a whole bunch of brilliant stretch goals. It's been an amazing experience.
We're leaving the Paypal... Read more
Update #11 - Just 48 Hours To Go.
And Thankyou To Everyone Who Has Contributed!
We are amazed and thrilled. This has been a nail-biting, heart-stopping experience. Thankyou for making sure it was so positive. We are -... Read more
Update #10 - Multiplayer Unlocked, But Can We Get To Character Customisation?
We've unlocked multiplayer with £80,000, with just over four days left on the clock!
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR ALL: Multiplayer will NOT ship with the initial release of the game. We... Read more
Update #9 - Physical Manifestations, Exciting New Final Week Tiers
As we'd mentioned earlier in the week, we wanted to detail some of the physical rewards and we now have produced samples of everything from the £100 tier to... Read more
Update #8 - £70k! Can You Help Us Reach 4000 Backers?
Splendid Stretch Goal Victory!
We hit £70,000 last night, which means rider NPCs will be unlocked. To answer the most common questions on this:
- Yes, the horses will be... Read more
Update #7 - A New Video And That Tee Design
Hello, everyone! This will be a busy week as we head into the final half of our Kickstarter. As you'll already have seen, we're now over 164% funded, with a... Read more
Update #6 - 150% Funded! Final Stretch Goals?
Incredible! We're now 50% past our goal, with eighteen days to go. Needless to say, we're enormously pleased.
£60,000 has unlocked Hot Air Balloon Spotter Patrols .
You can... Read more
Update #5 - One More Stretch Goal Revealed
This really is amazing progress, we're all stunned and very pleased! We're going to add a stoat to the general wildlife, too, for some reason.
So far you guys have... Read more
Update #4 - What Funding Means, Where Stretch Goals Can Take Us
As you know, the basic result of our being funded is to expand our prototype into a full game.
You've already seen the results of our work in the videos... Read more
Update #3 - Wow, Funded!
Wow, we're stunned by how quickly we've hit target. Thanks, everyone! This money is going to help us turn our prototype into a fully-fledged game of being hunted by robots.... Read more
Update #2 - Gameplay, Tea, Answers
Hello, everyone!
It's been quite the ride so far, and everyone at Big Robot thrilled with our progress. Thanks for all your support. It's been amazing to see all the... Read more
Update #1 - The Hunt Begins, Kickstarter UK, Paypal
Hello! Welcome to the first day of the Sir, You Are Being Hunted Kickstarter. Thanks for being here, whether you are just browsing, or if you've decided to pledge.
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Born in October, the little boy is staying with his mother in Los Angeles during Hollywood's awards season.
On an outing Monday to West Hollywood baby boutique Bel Bambini, Adele – who won a Golden Globe for her James Bond tune "Skyfall" and is scheduled to perform at the Oscars – was spotted wearing a gold necklace featuring the name "Angelo."
Could that be her angel? The singer, who has referred to him as a "little Peanut," won't likely say.
"I am not sharing his name at the moment. It is very personal to me," she told PEOPLE backstage at the Golden Globes. "I am enjoying him on my own."
A rep for the singer did not return calls for comment.
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When I was young, I liked to sew, play baseball, and read. I was drawn to poetry early in life. I loved to read, and one of my favorite books as a child was A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. Also, my mother had several small poetry books on her bookshelf. With their leather covers and gold titles, they were treasures to me.
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Frank Calidonna Photograph Collection, 1991.
1 box (0.25 linear feet).
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A teacher at the New York State School for the Deaf since the 1970s, Frank Calidonna is a professional photographer based in Rome, N.Y. A long-time member of the Association for Gravestone Studies, Calidonna has a long standing interest in Victorian cemeteries and, among other projects, made a photographic study of the Victorian Mount Cemetery in Rochester, N.Y., in 1991.
The Calidonna Collection contains 55 black and white prints (5×7″) taken of monuments and gravestones in Mount Hope Cemetery, ca.May 1991, documenting the stylistic variation, ranging from high Victorian to relatively recent. The collection also includes two brochures for Mount Hope.
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An encounter with the alien enigmas confirms Geary's fears. Attacked without warning, he orders the fleet to jump star systems—only to enter the crosshairs of another hostile alien armada. Ignoring the First Fleet's peaceful communications, this species sends its ships into battle while it guards the exiting jump point with a fortress of incalculable power. Now Geary must find a way to reach the jump point without massive casualties—even though the enigmas could be waiting on the other side…
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quote: Apple created a system whereby publishers could not charge less for an ebook at any of Apple's competitors thus ensuring Apple always had the lowest possible price per product. This eliminated any price competition between Apple and Amazon. That elimination of competition was, since it was due to a collusion between publishers and Apple, illegal.


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In the 1960s and '70s, a high school planetarium-building boom took place in the United States.
Local and national high school planetariums were, for the most part, built in that time period, Hollidaysburg biology, chemistry and astronomy teacher Rick Imler said in an email.
During that time, high schools received support from the National Defense Education Act, which "provided funds for science education in response to the perceived superiority of the Soviet space program," he said. "The present status we enjoy in science and technology can be traced back to this series of historical events."
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Altoona Area High School teacher James Krug projects a star field at the Neil Armstrong Planetarium at Altoona Area High School. The planetarium was installed 40 years ago.
Today, other countries have since forged ahead.
"We are now facing a similar situation in which there is an erosion of our science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) standing relative to countries such as China and India. We need another NDEA-like initiative to refocus national goals that will allow our country to remain competitive in an increasingly science/ technology fueled global economy."
Despite the needed reboot, local planetariums still offer an education in astronomy to area students and to the community.
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What: Sky shows
Where: The Neil Armstrong Planetarium, Altoona Area High School
When: Hubble Vision 2 is showing at 6, 7, and 8 p.m. Friday. Reservations for the show began April 8. Dinosaur Passage to Pangea is showing at 6, 7, and 8 p.m. May 24. Reservations for the show will begin May 6.
Tickets: $4, adults; $3, students. To make a reservation for a show, call 946-8300. Private sky shows are available for parties up to 50. Show attendees should enter the planetarium via the 13th Street entrance.
What people can learn from stars and astronomy includes "an understanding of our origins," through the elements carbon, iron, uranium, forged in stars, that is found on Earth, and insight into the sun's history and its fate, Imler said.
"Astronomy is a science that students can be directly involved in," he said, by observing planets, comets and stars.
Hollidaysburg school's planetarium, which was built in the late '60s and so takes a "fairly high-degree of maintenance," is currently under repair, Imler said. Although it is used primarily for student education, it does offer shows for community groups.
Altoona astronomy teacher James Krug runs the high school astronomy club and the elementary and public sky shows at the high school's Neil Armstrong Planetarium.
The Hollidaysburg Area High School doesn't have an astronomy club, but it does have a STEM Club.
"I use the planetarium almost every day in my astronomy class," Krug said. "By the time students get done with either the semester astronomy course or the full-year academic course, they'll know anywhere from probably 40 to 60 constellations, 50 to 70 stars and other objects in the sky."
Altoona's student astronomy club is popular, but does face a challenge, he said.
"It's actually a pretty big challenge, because a lot of people don't realize it, but our part of Pennsylvania actually has less clear nights for stargazing than any place in the country, even the Pacific Northwest.
"So one of the problems you run into with the club is you almost can't have an event that is 100 percent dependent on clear sky, and so you sort of have to have events that are dual purpose."
Krug takes students to Fort Roberdeau in Sinking Valley for camping and a rocket launch.
They also visit neighboring colleges to learn what they offer in astronomy.
Seniors Patrick McClure, 17, and Kadee Stephens, 18, are members of the astronomy club.
Patrick, who plans to study biology at St. Francis University, Loretto, took a half-year astronomy class.
Kadee, who will attend Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, took academic astronomy.
In class, Patrick said he was surprised to find out how astronomy is related to everyday life. Kadee was surprised to learn about "all of the space missions. Some of them I didn't actually know about, and I thought it was really cool."
Kadee's class recently started exploring extra-terrestrial life and watched a video of a trip Krug took to Area 51, she said.
Krug incorporates some of the public sky shows into his classroom curriculum, he said.
This year, the planetarium is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
Since February, the planetarium, which seats 50, has offered three sky shows at 6, 7 and 8 p.m. entitled "Oasis in Space," "Origins of Life," and "Mars Quest."
The next show, "Hubble Vision 2," will take place Friday. The final show is "Dinosaur Passage to Pangea" on May 24.
"We do traditional slide-based shows that we used to show on slide projectors, but we've modified for our digital system, which was installed in 2006," Krug said. "And we also have newer full-domed digital sky shows, which are a really immersive experience for the audience. They are non-stop animation on the entire dome, and we've been trying our best to grow our listing of shows that we can provide in that manner."
The shows are popular with the general public, he said.
"I think our full-dome digital shows are definitely a little bit more popular, but some of our slide-based shows are still very, very popular, too. For example, we still show a Christmas slide show called 'Season of Light' that's probably one of our most popular sky shows," he said. "I try right now with the amount of shows we have to just offer them on a three-year cycle. I try to rotate them enough that we aren't showing the same things every single year with the exception of the Christmas sky show. But they've been very popular. The majority of our 40th anniversary shows that we have shown have sold out and usually sold out fairly quickly."
Sky shows have changed over the years, Krug said.
"The sky shows you used to get for planetariums were all strictly astronomy based, and now the subject matter is definitely expanding," he said. "Like, 'Dinosaur Passage to Pangea' is definitely our first earth science-based show. But we also have some history shows like 'Origins of Life," and even some shows touch on biology like 'Origins of Life' does, and then we have a show called 'Natural Selection,' which is about Charles Darwin and it's probably one of the best shows that we have. ... It's more of a biology-based show, so I'd say our subject matter is really expanding."
Mirror Staff Writer Amanda Gabeletto is at 949-7030.


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Rachel Weisz (born March 7, 1971) is an Academy Award-winning English film and television actress. She became known after her roles in the Hollywood films The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, and has since continued appearing in major film roles.
Weisz (pronounced "Vice") was born in London, England and grew up in Hampstead. Her father, George Weisz, is a Hungarian-born inventor whose family fled to England to escape Nazi persecution. Her mother, Edith Ruth, is a Vienna-born Austrian psychoanalyst and aspiring actress. Weisz's father is Jewish and her mother has been referred to as either Catholic, Jewish, or having Jewish ancestry. Weisz was raised in a cerebral Jewish household and refers to herself as Jewish. Weisz has a sister, Minnie Weisz, who is an artist.
Weisz was educated at North London Collegiate School , from which she was expelled[citation needed]. She was then sent to Benenden School and eventually settled when she was about 13 in St Paul's Girls' School. She then...
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The Lady from Shanghai is an upcoming film to be directed by Wong Kar-wai scheduled for a 2008 release. Nicole Kidman, Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman are set to star in the film. It is based on the novel "If I Die Before I Wake" by Sherwood King. An earlier adaption of the novel, also called The Lady from Shanghai, was released in 1948. That version starred Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth and was directed by Welles.
Sin City 2 is the announced sequel to the 2005 movie Sin City, which was based on Frank Miller's comic book miniseries Sin City, which were later collected into bound graphic novels. It was originally scheduled for release in the summer of 2007, but due to scripting and other delays, the current release date of the film is unknown. Although the film's script has been completed, a start date has not been set for the project.
It was revealed by director Robert Rodríguez that the story for the film was to be based around A Dame to Kill For, as well as a new story to be written by Frank Miller. The new story revolves around the character of Nancy Callahan (Jessica Alba). It will weave in and out of A Dame to Kill For, and will show "a whole new side of Nancy", according to Miller. Frank Miller has also expressed interest in including other Sin City short stories in the film, mentioning a couple of 'Blue Eyes' stories, which introduce the assassin Delia, and an 'Old Town Girls' story.Even...,
The Lovely Bones is an upcoming film adaptation of the 2002 novel The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. The film will be directed by Peter Jackson and will star Irish actress Saoirse Ronan as Susie with Rachel Weisz and Ryan Gosling as her parents.
Feature rights to Sebold's novel had been bought by Film4 Productions when it was only a manuscript with Lynne Ramsay attached to write and direct, but the company was eventually shut down. Director Peter Jackson and his producer partners eventually acquired the rights independently and developed a script on their own, later selling it to DreamWorks. Production will begin in October 2007 in Pennsylvania and New Zealand.
Susie Salmon is a girl who is murdered and finds herself in the afterlife, observing her family on Earth. She watches her family grieve for her and watches her killer, having covered his tracks successfully, prepare to murder again. Susie struggles to balance her desire to find revenge on the killer and to have her family...,
Eragon is a 2006 fantasy-adventure film based on the novel of the same name by author Christopher Paolini. The cast includes Edward Speleers in the title role, Jeremy Irons, Garrett Hedlund, Sienna Guillory, Robert Carlyle, John Malkovich, Djimon Hounsou and Joss Stone.The film was directed by Stefen Fangmeier, a first-time director, who had previously worked as a visual effects director on Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. The screenplay was written by Peter Buchman, who is best known for Jurassic Park III. Principal photography took place at the Mafilm Fót Studios in Hungary, starting on August 1, 2005. Special visual effects and animation were by Weta Digital and Industrial Light & Magic.Eragon was released worldwide between December 13 and December 15, 2006. It was the 10th worst reviewed film of 2006, and the 31st highest grossing film of 2006 in the US. A DVD of the film was released March 20, 2007.Eragon is...,
The Fountain is a 2006 science fiction/fantasy film directed by Darren Aronofsky that follows three interwoven narratives that take place in the age of conquistadors, the modern-day period, and the far future. The film stars Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz, whose characters' romance exists in all three time periods. The Fountain explores the themes of love and mortality, drawing influences from Mayan mythology. The film is framed with visual language by using transition scenes, light, and shapes.
Originally to be filmed in 2002 on a budget of $70 million with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett in the lead, The Fountain shut down production as a result of Pitt's departure. Aronofsky was able to resurrect the project in 2005 with half the budget. The director incorporated visual effects into The Fountain by using minimal computer-generated imagery. He reduced the use of computers by using inexpensive footage provided by a macro-photographer. The Fountain was commercially released in the United...,
The Constant Gardener is a 2005 Academy Award-winning film based on the John le Carré novel of the same name. Directed by Fernando Meirelles (City of God) and produced by Simon Channing-Williams (Secrets and Lies and Vera Drake), it tells the story of Justin Quayle, a man who finds his wife murdered and then seeks to uncover the reasons behind her death. The film stars Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Hubert Koundé, Danny Huston and Bill Nighy.The story was filmed in Loiyangalani and the slums of Kibera, Kenya. The situation affected the cast and crew to the extent that they set up the Constant Gardener Trust in order to provide basic education around these villages. Weisz, Fiennes, and Le Carré are patrons of the charity. Most critics enjoyed the cinematography and the depth of character as portrayed by the actors and writers.
Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes), a civil servant working for the British High Commission in Kenya, sends off his wife Tessa (Rachel Weisz) and her friend Dr. Arnold...,
Constantine is a 2005 American film loosely based on the Hellblazer comic book, with some plot elements being taken from the "Dangerous Habits" arc (issues #41-46). It was released on February 8, 2005 in Hong Kong, and on February 18, 2005 in the U.S. and Canada.
The film opens in a ruin in Mexico, where a young man finds the Spear of Destiny wrapped in a Nazi flag. This historical artifact, incidentally, was an obsession of Adolf Hitler's and allegedly was the same spearpoint used by Roman soldier Longinus to pierce the side of Christ on the Cross. The character seizes the spearpoint and becomes possessed, heading for Los Angeles.
In Los Angeles we see John Constantine (Keanu Reeves) perform an exorcism on a teenage Filippino girl; although he is successful he is unnerved by the boldness of the demon, who attempted to leave the girl's body to cross over into humankind's realm. After meeting a detective named Angela Dodson (Rachel Weisz), who wants to know if her twin sister...,
Envy is a 2004 comedy film, starring Ben Stiller and Jack Black and was directed by Barry Levinson. The film was poorly received by both critics and audiences in the U.S. The film had been stalled for some time, and it was only the success of School of Rock that prompted the distributors to release the film to theatres. Many scenes were cut out of the film due to bad test screenings, evidence of this can be viewed in the Envy trailers. Ving Rhames's role as a private investigator was also deleted from the film. Originally scheduled for release on May 30, 2003, it was finally released 11 months later on April 30, 2004. Filming of the movie took place in the summer of 2002.
Tim and Nick (played by Stiller and Black) are best friends who are also neighbors and co-workers at 3M. Nick is constantly coming up with crazy ideas to get rich quick, and when he invents the Vapoorizer, a spray that instantly removes dog excrement, he actually succeeds.
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Confidence is a 2003 film starring Edward Burns, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz and directed by James Foley.
A group of confidence artists attempt to rip off a corrupt bank president in order to make restitution to another one of their victims, a sociopathic nightclub owner. A federal law enforcement agent complicates the situation.
Runaway Jury (2003) is an American drama/thriller film.
The film adaptation of The Runaway Jury, which drops the "The" and is simply titled Runaway Jury, makes one big departure from the book. Grisham's novel pits the plaintiff, Celeste Wood, against a large, fictional tobacco company on the grounds that her husband's premature death was because of the company's cigarettes. The scriptwriters substituted a major firearms manufacturer for the tobacco company and firearms for the cigarettes, presumably to differentiate Runaway Jury from The Insider, a 1999 thriller featuring the tobacco industry.
Other significant changes from the book include the circumstances surrounding the husband's death, an increased role for the plaintiff's attorney (and thus for Dustin Hoffman), and more angelic motives on the part of the protagonists.
Roger Ebert's critique of this movie stated that the plot to sell the jury to the highest-bidding party was the most ingenious device in the story because it...
About a Boy is a 2002 film directed by brothers Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz, based on the book of the same name by Nick Hornby. The film stars Nicholas Hoult as Marcus, Hugh Grant as Will, Toni Collette as Fiona and Rachel Weisz as Rachel. An interesting aspect of the movie is the use of double voice-over narration, where, at crucial moments in the plot, the audience can follow Will's as well as Marcus's thoughts.Will Freeman (Hugh Grant) is a content, willingly unemployed Londoner in his late thirties who lives comfortably off the royalties of his Father's lucrative one-hit wonder Christmas tune. He compares himself to the party island Ibiza, because he believes he is enjoying his life at its fullest and that, contrary to John Donne's thoughts (which he jokingly misattributes to Jon Bon Jovi), some men are islands. He keeps himself occupied by shopping, playing snooker alone, and having his hair "carefully disheveled." He dates often, but has never had a relationship last longer than...,
The Mummy Returns is a 2001 American movie starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and Arnold Vosloo, and is directed by Stephen Sommers. It is a sequel to the 1999 movie The Mummy, and is set 8 years later, in 1933. Filming took place in London, Morocco, and Jordan. Most of the original characters make a return, with a few new ones.
The Mummy Returns also had a 2002 spin-off The Scorpion King, which is set 5000 years prior and focuses on The Scorpion King, who is introduced in The Mummy Returns.
The movie begins before the gates of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes in 3067 BC as a warrior known only as the Scorpion King leads his army against the defenders on his road to conquest. The Scorpion King loses a decisive battle and is forced to retreat into the desert with what is left of his army. As his soldiers die one by one from the desert's heat, only the Scorpion King is left alive. Swearing an oath to the god Anubis, the Scorpion King's soul is exchanged for his life and the...,
Enemy at the Gates is a 2001 motion picture directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Jude Law and Ed Harris.
The film is based on William Craig's 1973 book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad, which describes the events surrounding the Battle of Stalingrad, 1942-1943. The movie follows Soviet sniper Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev and his German rival, Major Erwin König, as they stalk each other during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Stalingrad, 1942. The German invasion of Russia has reached the city of Stalingrad, reducing the city to rubble as the Soviet and Nazi armies battle for the fate of Russia. Vasily Zaitsev (Jude Law), a poorly educated peasant from the Urals conscripted into the Red Army, manages to survive both a suicidal charge without a weapon into the front lines of the German attack and the NKVD machine gunners shooting survivors who tried to flee. Acquiring a rifle, Zaitsev — an expert marksman — manages to kill five German officers in a row with the only five...
The Mummy is a 1999 American film written and directed by Stephen Sommers, starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, with Arnold Vosloo as the reanimated mummy of the title. The movie features some dialogue in ancient Egyptian language with the assistance of a professional Egyptologist. It is a loose remake of The Mummy (1932), which starred Boris Karloff as the mummy.
The Mummy does not take place at the famed Giza pyramids where several Old Kingdom Egyptian kings (Egyptian monarchs were not called pharaohs yet) were buried. Instead, most of the action takes place in the fictitious Hamunaptra — the "City of the Dead" that lies "deep into the desert" beyond Thebes that has buried treasure that several characters are searching for.
It was followed in 2001 by a sequel, The Mummy Returns and The Mummy: The Animated Series, followed by The Scorpion King in 2002. Another sequel, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is expected in 2008. Universal Studios opened a roller coaster, Revenge of...,
Sunshine is an award-winning 1999 historical film directed, written and produced by István Szabó. It follows three generations of a Jewish family (originally called "Sonnenschein" but later changed to "Sors") during the changes in Hungary from the beginning of the 20th century to the period after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The central male protagonist of all three generations is portrayed by Ralph Fiennes. The film also stars the real-life mother and daughter team of Rosemary Harris and Jennifer Ehle as well as Rachel Weisz and John Neville.
Although fictional, the film weaves events drawn from several real sources into the story. One of Fiennes's three roles is based at least partly on Hungarian Olympian Attila Petschauer, but also includes allusions to the early life of George Soros (orig. Schwartz), Miksa Fenyő and other famous Hungarians of Jewish origin who suffered from anti-Semitism and the persecution of Jews in WWII Hungary.[citation needed]The film was an ...
Chain Reaction is a 1996 American film starring Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Morgan Freeman and Fred Ward. It presents a fictional account of the invention of bubble fusion using sonoluminescence (the emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound).
Eddie (Reeves), a machinist, and Lily (Weisz), a physicist, are part of a hydrogen energy research team at the University of Chicago that has made a discovery of bubble fusion. One evening, Eddie returns to the lab late to find that his boss has been murdered and his experiment has been rigged to produce enough hydrogen gas to explode with the force of a small atomic bomb. Eddie flees the scene, and soon learns that he and Lily have been set up by someone who doesn't want their breakthrough discovery to become public. Soon upon investigation the police find $250,000 in Eddie's name and suspect that he has murdered his boss and triggered the bomb blast.
Large portions of the film were shot on...,
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- Works with IFTTT, connecting you to a whole world of Web apps
- Installs quickly and easily for Do-It-Yourselfers
- Free WeMo App for Android and iOS
- Decorative face plate included
- One-year limited warranty
System Requirements
- Wi-Fi® router
- Android 4.0 or later
- iOS v5 or higher
- Max 1800 W, ½ HP at 120VAC
- Neutral Wire Required
- Replaces single pole switch
- Not compatible with 3-way (multi-location control) switches
- Works with your existing single/double/multi-switch rocker-style plates
- Not designed to work with metal faceplates
Compatible with Apple and Android Devices
The Belkin WeMo Light Switch works with the following Apple devices with iOS 5 or higher: iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad. It also works with Android devices with version 4.0 or higher. A Wi-Fi® router with an Internet connection is required.
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Manufactured by: Belkin
Warranty provided by: Belkin
UPC No: 722868979785
Mfg Part No: F7C030FC
Box Size:
( Length:7, Width:5, Depth:2)
Shipping Weight: 0.4500 pound(s)
Dimensional Weight: 1pounds
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