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The assumption is that Mata gets a proper go at no. 10. One will be against Chelsea too, so the curse of the former player may kick in. Ideally you'd want the defence to be a bit more settled, because Rooney is more of a scurrier than Mata. Still hoping its Pardew's last game tonight.

What a goal!

If you're going to Charmant anyway, Myoko makes the most sense. Note that smaller can just mean smaller and less to ski. Unique and local character mightn't be part of the deal. As a guess, Zao is possibly the most unique ski resort in Japan, but its also one of the top ten (top five?) largest.

Apparently Apple have come out and said they'll replace a bent one, but only after some kind of inspection. Even so, ours is going in a hard-to-remove rigid case when it comes in readiness for the 9 year old vs a 6 year old tug'o war in the back of the car. On the Apple store you can buy an Iphone split over 60 payments. It will be almost 2020 by the time you've paid it off.

Didn't the story originally break with most of the photos on the macrumors forum? The rest of the media is just doing their normal job of "here's some content online we can use to fill our site".

I think its more to do with the thickness. This isn't Apple's first aluminium device but this is the first time this has been a big issue. It may have happened before, but to nowhere near this extent. Most of them are bending at the same place, which is a design problem, not something inherent with the material.

Someone reckons theirs bent by bumping into someone! When you traded yours in gg, did au ask for the charger back? I'd like to keep ours if it doesn't cost any points. The phone I bought didn't come with one. Its a docomo version of the LG G2 off Amazon and I've stuck a sim in from U mobile. I get reception, which was worry number one, and the data speed (displayed as LTE) is fine, if not blazingly fast. About 1 meg during the day and 2 at night. For some reason, the upload is really fast, about 15 meg, so some photo backup/transfer thing on the cloud should be a goer. Our au iphone gets a

Two derbies at the weekend, which at least guarantees big teams playing in the early game slot. Maybe time for Balotelli to make an impact, one way or the other. Man U are coming to the end of their "easy start" and have W ham home before its Everton, Chelsea, Citeh, and Arsenal in the space of six games. Felliani is fit though!

Wow, that's well cheap. At inaka supermarket prices you might struggle to make them yourself for that.

I think the new one is "Will it bend"?

Yes, of course. I brought up the sales tactics of the Japanese carriers because it is about the only basis for thinking that the iphone is not a smartphone. It's a bit ironic for snowdude to take that thinking on, because he doesn't have a very high opinion of Apple's stuff. Thankfully, the 220,000 hits for "iphoneなどのスマートフォン" (like the thread title here) shows that plenty of ordinary Japanese people too view the Iphone as the smartphone that it is, regardless of how they are marketed.

fwiw, the Japanese carriers have always had their own release schedule with summer and winter models, and their phones are not stock. A Japanese Galaxy, HTC etc. is quite different to the international model. Japanese models are usually waterproof, get tv reception, and can be used for pasmo, felica, and all the nfc based payment things you can do. Conversely, most of the Android phones with the highest ratings on the international tech sites are not available on Japanese carriers. Apple clearly have their own international release schedule, hype the hell out of it, and don't include the J

Docomo and au treat the iphone differently and do not list them under their smartphones. I don't even think the iphone is listed in the same catalogue as anything on Android. I think this is just Apple being poncey and there is really no need to go along with it. In the real world, google gives 220,000 hits for "iphoneなどのスマートフォン"

"Does it last a day?" is about the only measurement I'm interested in. We got the 6 plus and the bigger battery was a factor over the 6. Our kids like to watch videos and it hammers the battery.

Au have emailed my missus after we upgraded and told her to use the "fast coupon" for a bigger discount! We didn't get one in the mail, so hopefully they'll send us another or add it on anyway. I'm pretty sure we didn't get the coupon. How's the battery life gg? We don't get a day out of the 5.

I didn't see the game but the report talks of individual errors, so maybe don't get too concerned. Spurs lost too, and there is a view that the constant Thurs-Sun of teams in the Europa League takes it out of your club, more so than CL where there are fewer games and the clubs have better backup players. Hull going out straight away was seen as a blessing by some. Martinez had bad defensive record at Wigan, which relegated them. It'll be interesting to see if he can make the replacements required to keep up the standard of the established defence he inherited off Moyes. They've conceded 13

My brother voted Yes and he's a Geordie! With the last-ditch promises made, the issue isn't going to go away.

Wow, four unanswered goals. The first pen was a bit dodgy but after that it was MK Dons all over again, this time after all the big signings. Di Maria can run all day, so I wouldn't have taken him off and leave RVP on. He's also more of a box-to-box mid than Mata who came on with Man U already under the kosh.

Liverpool should have bought Remy. Apparently the failed medical was an excuse and they simply couldn't agree on wages. It sounds like Balotelli was cheaper in the end.

Lunch a few times and a potted plant are about the only freebies I've had off my clients! I've signed up for U mobile and bought an LG G2 phone off Amazon, as recommended that mvno-navi site and some blogs I saw. I can't comment on the service till I try it, but over two years it should be 4,000 a month cheaper than au for the same amount of data but no calls. The phone is the same size as the iPhone 6, but the screen is 20% bigger. My contract is not up till next summer so it's 10,000 to leave au. I've been on them since it was Kansai Cellular, so maybe 17 years. I don't think that c

Nope. The only ones they had in the shop were the 6 with 128GB, but they had it in all three colours. There's a good site in Japanese about 3rd party sims called mvno-navi.com. Lots of info about different sim providers and recommendations about phones that work well on them.

This is a bit like Major vs. Kinnock where loads of people told pollsters they were going to do the protest vote even though they were actually going to go for the "better the devil you know" choice. If in doubt, expect people to be more conservative than they let on in public. The referendum was only held because Cameron etc. expected a no landslide. They didn't get it, so yes still wins, on the huge condition that yes supporters keep up the pressure to keep the issue alive. All sorts of promises were made at the death for devo max, and the likelihood is that they won't be delivered on. I

We went and ordered one today too. About an hour and a half in the shop. They drag it on and on. We ordered the big one too. Its not humungous and its for my missus and it goes in a handbag. I can't say I'm all that impressed with the design (to an almost laughable extent given the hype in the reviews), and the 5 is nicer and more metally and the camera doesn't stick out. The big screen is good though, and side by side, the bigger one is better for smartphone-y stuff. The 25,000 trade in has improved further for some reason, so we'll get 33,000 points for our old one. It makes the new iPho

The big mutha! Does it fit in your pocket? I might go today and order a 6 for my missus. I wouldn't mind seeing how big they are in person.

It's a bit long, and the CL teams dropping into it is crap, but other than that the Europa League is a good competition. I think there's a long overdue CL place for the winner too. There are big protests planned at Newcastle this week, which sound more interesting than the game.