Where will smartphones stop?

[cjolley]

There are several Note II users around here, from attorneys to techs and they all seem to like theirs.

[UtwigMU]

Bulgarian Chess player Borislav Ivanov has been accused of cheating. They suspect he wore contacts or implants to have moves relayed to him.

http://whychess.com/node/6798

Knowledgeable sources thought the Bulgarian was cheating. However, they were wondering why he would take part in a tournament, which costs a couple of thousands of euro, while the cheating equipment, which can be integrated into contact lenses, for instance, costs thousands of Euros more. The suspicions about Ivanov’s cheating were based on the fact that when the organisers stopped the broadcasting of the round before the last one, when Ivanov played vs Predoevic, the Bulgarian lost the game. Croatian grandmaster Zlatko Klaric said that Ivanov was cheating, because he was already accused of this at chess competitions in Bulgaria and Serbia.

“Ivanov is chess programmer, who since mid-2011 until now had won only one rating point, while at the Zadar tournament he won 60. He made moves like a computer, which was obvious in the game vs Jovanovic,” Klaric remarked. “Technologies are so developed now that theoretically, since the games were aired live, Ivanov’s friends in the neighbouring room, from Sofia, or even from the Antarctic, could have sent him hints for his moves through chips, which could have been placed under the skin, in the ear, or in the teeth,” Klaric added.

[Dr Mordrid]

Just ordered my new LG Optimus G Pro using the AT&T Next (no fee upgrade) and a Walmart online promotion

$59.99 (!!)

http://mwireless.walmart.com/product...ro/?plantype=1

$99.99 via AT&T's site. Just saved almost $40.

[cjolley]

Sweet deal
Give us a review.


PS It wasn't an option for me because AT&Ts coverage here is too bad. It's AT&T only. Dang.

[Brian Ellis]

Where will smartphones stop? Wherever you happen to be when the battery runs down.

[Dr Mordrid]

Where will smartphones stop? Wherever you happen to be when the battery runs down.

Might be a while - there's a 9300 mAh accessory battery available for the Optimus G Pro.

[Jammrock]

With graphene-based processors in the work that are expected to hit 100+ GHz and sub-10nm die processes, produce very little heat, and thus consume small amounts of power ... the sky is really the limit. Add in "cloud" assistance and high speed mobile networks and you will eventually have a super computer wherever you go.

I'm getting a Samsung ATIV S NEO this weekend or next. Not the most robust phone out there but I'm not a huge smartphone user.