2007 CALLED. THEY WANT THEIR PHONE BACK.

[kuzanagi_]

So after a couple of weeks with an iPhone 3GS I can safely say the following...

• The Good
• The screen is great, really vivid and clear. The touch functionality is impressive too giving a very tactile natural feel with inertia.
• Call quality is very good.
• Voice activated control is awesome. It's the first phone based implentation of such a thing that's

Comments

Addressin' the Badz

[stainsteelrat]

I hated iTunes, but was forced to use it with "the switch". It grew on me like a frickin' fungus though, and now I have no issue with it. Deleting the library sounds like a sync issue, but I have no idea what. FORMAT C: ?

Protip: to convert tracks to ringtone, make sure they're M4A (without DRM), copy, and re-extension-ise to M4R. Drag and drop into iTunes, et voila! Stupid though that they make this so difficult.

Had no problem with attachments. What are you trying to view?

Battery life is a joke, but the phone is so much tHe AWeSOmE I can live with it. And have chargers coming out of every orifice.

My only real gripe is you can't change the text message sound. Why Apple, Why?

Re: Addressin' the Badz

[kuzanagi_]

I can't see iTunes growing on me, I'm way too old school for that.

iTunes 9 seems to convert M4R's back to M4A's whenever it feels like it. I've managed to get a couple of tones done but they occassionally revert back to M4A whenever iTunes feels like it.

I can't actually remember what I was trying to view... It was something last week, nothing too exotic though. Images I think actually?

Yeah, I pretty much charge it from my laptop during the day, and I've got the obligatory overnight charge and car charger too.

You mean the text message sent sound?

Re: Addressin' the Badz

[stainsteelrat]

Awwww, come over to the dark (iTunes) side! ;-)

Strange. I've got something of the order of 50 M4R files in there. None have dissappeared, although I only use a couple of them. I don't let iTunes manage my files, FWIW.

In terms of attachments, it's been simply great at JPGs, MS Office files and PDFs. I've yet to have anything fail, although equally I've not had anything particularly exotic - I wouldn't expect it to handle anything beyond basic graphics formats, Office and PDFs.

The text message received sound.

Re: Addressin' the Badz

[kuzanagi_]

Oh and any app recommendations are welcomed :)

[hannah_honey]

The only time I go near Jim's iPhone (it's his "company phone" lolz, not his personal) is to play a game where you fling a hotdog down a hallway. That, or to look after my iPhone Labrador Bob. Ahem. ;X

We don't even get to play with the stuff that costs money! I'm excited by this prospect. I'm sick of freebies.

Next time I come visit, I WANTS TO PLAY ON UR PHONNEEEZZZZ. ♥

x

[kuzanagi_]

I used to have a virtual dog called Bob :) He was on Nintendogs and his full name was Bob the Bastard :D

[hayleyk]

Flinging hot dogs down a hallway? Is this a euphemism!? If not, I want a go!!!

[kuzanagi_]

I was going to ask that too ;)

[fyremaven]

you might want to check out Mobile Me, you can get a free month's trial and then pay about $99/year for it. very useful tool, gives you something like 20gigs of extra storage and lets you track your iPhone anywhere...also lets you send remote messages to your iPhone should it become lost or stolen and lets you delete info from your iPhone in the same case.

as far as the iTunes thing you might not have the latest update on your phone, they update ridiculously often, and i noticed that if your update is more than two or three updates old you lose songs. just a personal observation.

for the ringtones, try ZEDGE.COM all ringtones are free and you can upload them into your itunes account and then they are readily available for your phone use. FREE all the time and not illegal.

battery life, the bane of the iPhone's existence. i've got a charger in the car, one on the computer, and one next to the bed. basically if i'm not at work and it's not in my pocket it's on the charger, otherwise at best i get about 12 hours. sucks, i agree.

[stainsteelrat]

If they produced a track-your-iPhone only version I'd subscribe in a shot. I just don't need the other stuff, and it's too expensive with all that.

[fyremaven]

i agree with you about the expense and in truth next year i might not get the thing again. having said that, i love it for NOW and you can't beat the extra gig space. or the fact that you can access your entire gallery of photos from any computer should you so choose.

kind of gimmicky, but cool.

btw, gps tracker (the app) does let you track any phone if you just have the imei number.

[stainsteelrat]

Ahhh cool! I'll go checkout GPS Tracker :-)

[fyremaven]

oh, a cool app is red laser. you scan the barcode of any item (usually best used with big ticket stuff) and the iPhone will scan the universe for the cheapest price and location.

awesome!

[kuzanagi_]

Thanks :) I've got a UK equivalent that does the same thing. Very handy :)

*Takes up a chant*

[gbcrush]

RETURN IT! RETURN IT! RETURN IT! RETURN IT!

With most things it's Apple's way or the highway. Difficult to customise or do anything in any way other than the way they want you to

This one really bothers me. I'm laughing that they made one developer change their app description so it no longer said "Finalist in the Android App Challenge" before they would allow their app in the market. Hah!

That being said, I really, really could get behind Android, and aside from discovering the possibility of backwards compatibility (so that I could play an X-com clone on my mobile) didn't think I could really care two shits about WinMo.

Damn, did you see the new Win7/Zune/Xblox phone? :D

Re: *Takes up a chant*

[kuzanagi_]

It's their excuse for not having a Flash player that makes me laugh. Apparently it "doesn't perform well enough" for them to consider releasing it. Which is a joke because Flash runs like shit on any and all platforms. The reality is that Flash would seriously threaten the App Store. I wish they'd just admit it!

(so that I could play an X-com clone on my mobile)

STOP THE FUCKING PRESS. X-Com (well, UFO: Enemy Unknown as it was known here) is the greatest game ever made. I sunk so many hours in to that it's unreal. Did you used to name your soldiers?

I haven't seen it yet but my experiences with Windows Mobile devices in the past haven't exactly been positive...

Re: *Takes up a chant*

[gbcrush]

I'm not sure the official website is working anymore (last update 2+ years ago, and links seem broken) but....

If I was in the market for a smartphone two years ago,
pocket UFO would have seriously tempted me to the dork side.

Hell yes I used to name my soldiers. I added little rank/squad# abbreviations to them too so that I could easily tell what roles I'd use them for when looking at the soldier roster. The ones that sucked I added "FIRE ME" to and either sold them... or after getting a hold of the alien grenade technology, let them run into the middle of the enemy lines carrying half a dozen primed boom-booms :D

w000t

[gbcrush]

http://www.xcomufo.com/x1dl.html