Perhaps Nokia users are just easier to please

Robin, our chief technologist (he posts here occasionally as "Eyemags"), has done some interesting research on user voting patterns on eyemags. He's posted the preliminary analysis at the Nokia Forum blogs, but the gist of it is, that when asked to vote on the quality of an Eyemag, Nokia users tend to rank their experience higher than any other handset owners. We've a bunch of theories about this (they have better screens, they can only see the first option, they're more enthusiastic by nature than Samsung owners) but nothing definite. Robin's story also got picked up at the Register in their inimitable nudge-nudge, wink-wink style.

Big news from Samsung

64Gb worth to be precise, cos that's how big the new SSD hard drives are according to this magisterial post from DigitalWorldTokyo. At the moment these things are only found in the big Windows Mobile devices but with a 1.8 inch footprint (that's a smidge over 45mm) it would fit in the beefier variety of normal phones (yes, Nokia we're looking at you.)


64Gb would take my entire music collection and leave me with just enough space to store my contacts. Now I just need to find someone willing to build an audiophile headphone preamp for mobiles and my perfect phone could be around the corner.

These things will be everywhere soon: according to DGT Samsung is predicting an increase in revenue from $400m a year this year to $6.1bn by 2010. That's like a gazillion per cent or something.