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Actually, Vatanen didn't even run for European Parlament in this years elections.
Somehow I find this whole mess unfounded. For the last few years I've been boarding all my flights by just showing my passport or id at gate where they check that I'm on the list. The boarding information and place number arrives by sms. This is quite commonplace on all European carries even on intercontinental flights.
I don't really like how you advertise your blog but I absolutely agree with the fact that Symbian is a pain in the ass to program.
Good bye Qualcomm!
They mostly use AGPS to get quick fixes. A friend of mine has the 6110 Navigator and its GPS cold starts in matter of seconds where as with N95's earlier firmware getting the fix can take hideously long.
There shouldn't be any difference in sound quality between wifi and gsm. And if there is, it is UMA that sounds better as it uses either a/µ-law (same as pstn) or gsm codecs. And if a bluetooth headset affects sound quality, it has nothing to do with either uma or gsm.

And about the sound quality when going further away from wifi base station. Gsm codec takes 9,6 kbps and law 64 kbps (+ ip overhead ~20%) of your precious bandwith and wifi can deliver that as long as there is any connection no matter how shitty between your phone and ap.
Hahaha. Nokia's press release has one gem:

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Nokia retains the right to ask Qualcomm, and its customers, to respect Nokia's patents rights. The retained rights have significant value, and Nokia believes it is well positioned to offset any claims Qualcomm may make against Nokia products to claim more money in license fees.

"It is important to note that as of April 9, 2007, Qualcomm's entire chipset business becomes exposed to Nokia's extensive GSM, WCDMA and CDMA patent portfolios and Nokia will use all rights from those portfolios when defending itself against any new Qualcomm litigation", Simonson concluded.

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It is BD-J. Or how on Earth would it work on all players? Somebody has just made a ready product for studios to use and calls it Metamenu.
>Thanks for the explaination. I assume I can get better results from using the multi-channel analoge output then?

I'm under that impression. Though the perfect solution would be buyinga receiver which allows you to hook it up with hdmi and use the digital uncmpressed pcm signal instead of either using an analog or recompressed version.
The DTS thing isn't a bug. The player decodes the original DD+ audio and mixes it with content from menus in pcm. If you use the analog outs or the hdmi interface to carry your audio to receiver, you'll get this pcm content which is something like 5.1 48 khz / 24 bit with DPL2. The s/pdif / toslink hasn't got enough bandwith for this and thus the player encodes this to DTS @ 1.5 mbps to get it fit the s/pdif connection.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I just switched to Sprint from Verizon about three months ago for the Pre. Then I went for the Hero about a week ago. Now, I miss my hardware keyboard and am thinking about switching to the Moment. I am still able to switch back to Verizon if I want and get the Droid when it arrives. Should I just trade up to the Moment when it comes out, see if I like it, and if not switch to the Droid? Or something else entirely? Help!"

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