pull the trigger man. it is great. sure there are some issues but nothing in the realm of "i just made a bad purchase"
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pull the trigger man. it is great. sure there are some issues but nothing in the realm of "i just made a bad purchase"
I was going to wait as well but I ended up visiting some friends out of town who just bought two of them. After spending two days playing around with their phones I was sold. I flew back home and went straight to the Apple store. All the hype up until the release actually turned me off quite a bit so I had originally decided to wait until Gen 2. Thats what I thought. I don't think you'll regret it if you walked out and bought it today. The iPhone gives you the same kind of "How could I have lived without this before?"-feeling that I got when the 1st Gen iPod came out. I haven't had any issues with it so far. I am sure Apple will fix what ever issues are out there with software updates. Like flash support on the browser for example. I think this article explains it really well: http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2007/07/iphoneipod/index.php
Not sure if this was already answered but it does indeed show the city they are calling from. Don't remember if its when they are calling or afterwards when you see the details of a missed call. But regardless, it only happens for people who are not in the address book.
Icon Next To Blue Tooth Icon????
QUESTION?
can anyone tell me what the icon to the left of the blue tooth icon is? it looks to me like an old fashioned phone receiver on top of two small rows of squares the first row has 4 2nd row has 3 squares and what it represents, i cannot find reference to it any where.
thanks
found the answer i had my tty in the on position in my settings
QUESTION?
can anyone tell me what the icon to the left of the blue tooth icon is? it looks to me like an old fashioned phone receiver on top of two small rows of squares the first row has 4 2nd row has 3 squares and what it represents, i cannot find reference to it any where.
thanks
found the answer i had my tty in the on position in my settings
I answered all the questions that I could.
It's working fine on the MacRumors forums for me, just as if I'm using my browser on a laptop or desktop Mac. For flash, it just says you don't have flash installed.
I've had Safari crash a couple times so far. The iPod feature seems to crash a lot when I'm listening to music while browsing the web.
It starts in about 20 seconds.
Surprisingly it does not seem to scratch at all.
After two days of typing on it I'm getting pretty fast with the virtual keyboard, much faster than the regular keypad that I had on my old phone.
It was like importing all your music and videos to an iPod.
It was surprisingly easy to set up mail to work with my Gmail account. Contacts are easy to set up also.
Well I have no scratches, but fingerprints are showing on the screen when it's off. Unless you look for the fingerprints when your using the iPhone, you aren't going to notice them.
It's pretty good, I was at the beach yesterday and I could easily surf the web and watch videos on the screen in the sun.
I really like multitouch, this is by far the best touch screen I've ever used.
There is a button that shows up on the lower left of the keyboard to switch between qwerty and symbols, etc.
I'm using a FiOS internet connection right now, but I still find EDGE to be bearable. I don't have any benchmarks though, if someone could point be to a non-flash based benchmark I'll try it out.
It fully supports my WPA encrypted WIFI network.
It's decent, it finds some WIFI networks that my MacBook Pro can't find and vice-versa, so they are comparable.
Yes, this sometimes happens when you are typing in a text field on a website while it's still loading. As soon as it's done loading, the lag disappears.
While you're visiting a website, you can press the home button and it will save what websites you are viewing.
It does feel a bit slippery, but it doesn't feel like you're going to drop it. It feels really nice in your hands.
I love the interface, it nice and easy to use, while holding a lot of features.
You can only do this in Safari unfortunately.
A long time, I didn't exactly gauge how long it took, but it was more than my old 60GB iPod took to charge.
It's great, it lasted me almost all day yesterday while I was at the beach. I surfed the web, watched a couple videos, listened to music and it gave me a good 9-10 hours.
I found the headphones surprisingly good for calling and very convenient.
Yes, you can, and it sounds decent.
There was 7.27GB of free space on there when I first synced the phone.
It's working fine on the MacRumors forums for me, just as if I'm using my browser on a laptop or desktop Mac. For flash, it just says you don't have flash installed.
I've had Safari crash a couple times so far. The iPod feature seems to crash a lot when I'm listening to music while browsing the web.
It starts in about 20 seconds.
Surprisingly it does not seem to scratch at all.
After two days of typing on it I'm getting pretty fast with the virtual keyboard, much faster than the regular keypad that I had on my old phone.
It was like importing all your music and videos to an iPod.
It was surprisingly easy to set up mail to work with my Gmail account. Contacts are easy to set up also.
Well I have no scratches, but fingerprints are showing on the screen when it's off. Unless you look for the fingerprints when your using the iPhone, you aren't going to notice them.
It's pretty good, I was at the beach yesterday and I could easily surf the web and watch videos on the screen in the sun.
I really like multitouch, this is by far the best touch screen I've ever used.
There is a button that shows up on the lower left of the keyboard to switch between qwerty and symbols, etc.
I'm using a FiOS internet connection right now, but I still find EDGE to be bearable. I don't have any benchmarks though, if someone could point be to a non-flash based benchmark I'll try it out.
It fully supports my WPA encrypted WIFI network.
It's decent, it finds some WIFI networks that my MacBook Pro can't find and vice-versa, so they are comparable.
Yes, this sometimes happens when you are typing in a text field on a website while it's still loading. As soon as it's done loading, the lag disappears.
While you're visiting a website, you can press the home button and it will save what websites you are viewing.
It does feel a bit slippery, but it doesn't feel like you're going to drop it. It feels really nice in your hands.
I love the interface, it nice and easy to use, while holding a lot of features.
You can only do this in Safari unfortunately.
A long time, I didn't exactly gauge how long it took, but it was more than my old 60GB iPod took to charge.
It's great, it lasted me almost all day yesterday while I was at the beach. I surfed the web, watched a couple videos, listened to music and it gave me a good 9-10 hours.
I found the headphones surprisingly good for calling and very convenient.
Yes, you can, and it sounds decent.
There was 7.27GB of free space on there when I first synced the phone.
Absolutely agree with you, you can't make any appoint,ent,while you didn't try it for yourself. I live in Europe, so i still don't have iPhone yet, but i hope sooner or later, when it arrives in Europe iPhone will became mine...
Probably Biggest Apple iPhone community
i have a question, why dosent my iphones spell correction feature work all the time... this problem is irratating me... its difficult to spell every word perfectly.
My iPhone review:
I held off for the first couple of weeks on getting an iPhone. I was tossed between the Treo 750, and the iPhone only because of cost ect. I decided to get the Treo because AT&T had them onsale 149.00 refurb so I went to the store saw the iPhone and after 2 minutes bought my 8 gb. Never even held the treo.
I like everything about the iPhone so I'll list what I don't like (it's easier). For someone like me that doesn't want to "HACK" the iPhone no ringtones, or especially no AIM sucks. I want AIM, I paid for the damn unlimited plan with AT&T fine, but gimme AIM. Apple kinda misrepresents the word widgets when it comes to iPhone the only widgets I see is weather, and the stupid stocks thing (who cares about that). I would like to be able to add/purchase additional applications, ringtones, games i just want more.
I do like the fact that the iphone will dock in my Logitech speaker dock in case with the universal adapter removed gives me more charging options and that the charger is the same as the ipod.
I would just say I wish it was a full on iPod replacement which it's not it's good for a day trip or when you just dont want to lug the ipod also but over all it's awesome just gimme more with out having to HACK things
I held off for the first couple of weeks on getting an iPhone. I was tossed between the Treo 750, and the iPhone only because of cost ect. I decided to get the Treo because AT&T had them onsale 149.00 refurb so I went to the store saw the iPhone and after 2 minutes bought my 8 gb. Never even held the treo.
I like everything about the iPhone so I'll list what I don't like (it's easier). For someone like me that doesn't want to "HACK" the iPhone no ringtones, or especially no AIM sucks. I want AIM, I paid for the damn unlimited plan with AT&T fine, but gimme AIM. Apple kinda misrepresents the word widgets when it comes to iPhone the only widgets I see is weather, and the stupid stocks thing (who cares about that). I would like to be able to add/purchase additional applications, ringtones, games i just want more.
I do like the fact that the iphone will dock in my Logitech speaker dock in case with the universal adapter removed gives me more charging options and that the charger is the same as the ipod.
I would just say I wish it was a full on iPod replacement which it's not it's good for a day trip or when you just dont want to lug the ipod also but over all it's awesome just gimme more with out having to HACK things
i heard that before, i guess i will just have to make it a habit to do this. Its pretty sad that features like this dont work all the time.
I called the new Apple store in Glasgow and asked, would all the other features work if I didn't avtivate the sim, ANSWER: was yes! It would be just like the iPod touch
I couldn't wait til Novemebr 9th so I had my mate buy me one yesterday and it's now on it's way to bonnie scooterland, should have it in a few days.... I will NOT unlock the phone! I want to wait and see what happens with o2, I assume I could sign up with O2 come Nov 9th?