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Funny but people use to bitch at me when I'd claim limited utility for push.

dagamer34 said:
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Off-topic: I still think push notifications are broken though. If you have multiple push apps or any IM push app enabled, you end up getting so many messages that it becomes annoying! Without anything like priorities set for push notifications, my phone is buzzing all the time from the slightest thing. I'm really hoping they don't wait until iPhone OS 4.0 to fix it, because it can't wait a year.
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I'm not sure what people expected out of push notifications. It is being pedaled as a broad solution but really only has a hope of being useful in very narrow cases. It isn't that push is broken, it is servicing all those apps you have it set up for, it is just that multiple apps mean multiple messages. For most people I can't see push notifications as being all that useful if you have a large number of apps registered to use it.

What it comes down to is that push notifications are an extremely limited solution to make up for the lack of multitasking. So much so that I really think that Apple eventually will have to implement multitasking.


Dave
 
elfxmilhouse said:
hahah my thoughts exactly.


the only reason i dont like to use my iphone as an ipod is for this very reason.

I hate having to take out the phone, press the home button twice, then press next track on the screen. and all of this has to be done while looking at the phone since there is no physical button
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Why not double click the microphone on your iPhone headphones? This skips to the next song?? Clicking it three times skips to the previous song and clicking it once pauses it......

Im annoyed that the iPod headphones with remote & Microphone dont work on the 3G. It's annoying having to adjust the volume from the phone itself.....
 
MMS WORKING in Las Vegas

Updated to the 3.1 b2, never jailbroken or messed with that sketchy AT&T 5.0 carrier file.
I tested this after I installed 3.1b2 and can say without any hacks it finally works.

Just to make sure I am adding my brothers iPhone and he is in San Fransisco so Ill update when he is done, here are some screen shots
 

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wizard said:
I'm not sure what people expected out of push notifications. It is being pedaled as a broad solution but really only has a hope of being useful in very narrow cases. It isn't that push is broken, it is servicing all those apps you have it set up for, it is just that multiple apps mean multiple messages. For most people I can't see push notifications as being all that useful if you have a large number of apps registered to use it.

What it comes down to is that push notifications are an extremely limited solution to make up for the lack of multitasking. So much so that I really think that Apple eventually will have to implement multitasking.


Dave
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I don't get this...how is multitasking any different form having push with apps like aim and other IM apps? If you have say the pre and you are on browsing and you get the aim tone, don't you also have to leave the browser and go to the aim app I guess you can say anyway? Just like you would with the iPhone?I don't really see the difference...with both phones you would have to stop whatever you were doing and go to aim to reply.

I do see the difference however with like streaming and other things, but from the push point of view, I see it the same as the pre. And if myspace or facebook get push, I think it would be better than just having it open since you can get a notification that you have an update rather than having to keep going back to check...
 
wizard said:
I'm not sure what people expected out of push notifications. It is being pedaled as a broad solution but really only has a hope of being useful in very narrow cases. It isn't that push is broken, it is servicing all those apps you have it set up for, it is just that multiple apps mean multiple messages. For most people I can't see push notifications as being all that useful if you have a large number of apps registered to use it.

What it comes down to is that push notifications are an extremely limited solution to make up for the lack of multitasking. So much so that I really think that Apple eventually will have to implement multitasking.


Dave
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How are the push notifications any different that what has been available on the Blackberry for years? Nobody complains about those. On the blackberry, you get a star over the icon when an email, text, IM, etc comes in to the device. You can set up your iPhone to work the exact same way.
 
PezCore said:
Updated to the 3.1 b2, never jailbroken or messed with that sketchy AT&T 5.0 carrier file.
I tested this after I installed 3.1b2 and can say without any hacks it finally works.

Just to make sure I am adding my brothers iPhone and he is in San Fransisco so Ill update when he is done, here are some screen shots
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wtf? you're shaving your legs? great use of mms. lol.
 
PhoneI said:
How are the push notifications any different that what has been available on the Blackberry for years? Nobody complains about those. On the blackberry, you get a star over the icon when an email, text, IM, etc comes in to the device. You can set up your iPhone to work the exact same way.
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Exactly that's what I'm saying. At least with push you get an option to reply right away!
 
Anyone else confirm their MMS is working? it will hang at the 95% but will push through after 5 seconds



I'm on a 16gb 3g
 
PezCore said:
Anyone else confirm their MMS is working? it will hang at the 95% but will push through after 5 seconds



I'm on a 16gb 3g
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Tried it on a 8GB 3G but to no avail. Still hangs then the red exclamation shows up. Did you restore as a new iPhone or from backup?
 
1. I want to print files, it doesn't matter what.
2. Still not able to enable the full iPhone interface over A/V out.
3. This seems pretty simple to implement.
4. Why not, iPods can do it!


MikhailT said:
1) What are you printing from your iPhone exactly? I am curious. Didn't HP showcase a wireless printing app? Most likely this is not going to be added to the OS. Doubt 90% of iPhone users will print anything. Less stuff to the OS, the better. We still have a very limited device with low memory.
2) (AV out) That would be nice, I thought that was already working before? Did they stop that or take it out in 3.0?
3) I don't think Apple will enable keyboard bluetooth. Very small market for it.
4) Maybe when they release iDisk App, it can be used to send files over email. I doubt Apple will add a user file system to the iPhone, it's a smartphone not a laptop.
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