Uhhh... We get excited about them because we don't have them... Because we haven't/choose not to jailbreak our phones.
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Latest iPhone OS 4 Beta Gains Orientation Lock and iPod Controls in Multitasking Interface
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Uhhh... We get excited about them because we don't have them... Because we haven't/choose not to jailbreak our phones.
I just don't answer calls in the winter when I'm outside
(I'm afraid the phone will stick to my cheek.)
Either way you have to remember something....
It's either which frickin button do I push, or which combination of homebutton clicks do I use.
Up to this point, the home button clicks are not that obtrusive and are fairly intuitive, IMO.
just DL'd it havent played much with it since i'm still loading all my stuff back onto the phone. Can anyone report on any other improvements or BUG FIXES anyone still getting random crashes or problems with email, have these been cleaned up? I noticed Itunes still will not backup the phone which in my opinion needs to be a huge priority, these little tweeks that they are adding are great but I want to see the things that should be working, work, before the new little settings are added. Just a thought!
Well, iTunes froze on the restore, but the phone fully restored and restarted... don't ask I don't know.
Seems like the orientation lock is 3gs only.
Camera/screenshots/saving is fixed. Camera roll still lags on an update.
Wallpaper still an issue. My phone has crashed getting into the wallpaper settings pane and has crashed when applying the wallpaper. (It's rebooting as I type.) Oh and still no home screen wallpaper for the 3g either.
Internet connection troubles for apps seems to not be present.
Runs so much smoother, typing is better, it has much less of a "beta" feel to it. It seems like the GM could come soon... as it should.
Other than that, nothing seems out of the iPhone ordinary.
Does anybody want to start a list of incompatible apps for 4.0 Apps that continually crash on launch? Could be helpful to the developers of said apps... though I'm sure they know... but it could be helpful to end users as well.
I agreee. I actually wrote a blog post about this about a month ago:
http://www.cameroncooke.com/2010/04/09/has-apple-gone-too-far-making-the-iphone-simple/
This home button thing is just getting plain silly. God would it be so hard to add a few extra hardware buttons?
Oh I just noticed... notification tags on folders have numbers now instead of just "!".
To an already released device... yes. There needs to be a way to access these functions from the current devices that they are designed for. Who knows the next gen will have in store. Probably nothing, but at least for the time being it kind of has to be this way.
To an already released device... yes. There needs to be a way to access these functions from the current devices that they are designed for. Who knows the next gen will have in store. Probably nothing, but at least for the time being it kind of has to be this way.
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=9837381#post9837381
Just started this lets see if anyone hits it!! good idea!
why do you want extra hardware buttons? learn to use one button to maximum capacity. much more elegant.
it would not be "hard" to add buttons, but a step in the wrong direction for the design which has become iconic, and which makes all optional shortcuts easy to remember and execute.
if users find themselves having difficulties with Home button combos, maybe next we'll see users complaining about complicated multitouch / gestures? indeed we might as well start demanding a simpler touch screen interface, not allowing more than one finger on the screen at a time, and instead an array of buttons around the screen. of course a smaller screen would be good, since the buttons take up space, we could demand a lower resolution screen since the present screen shows too much detail and causes headaches; black and white would be good, the colours can be confusing when looking at the home screen. some people seem to find the united inbox approach of OS4 too difficult to handle --> we could ask apple to limit the number of mail accounts which can be accessed from an iphone. it's so complicated to remember which account you're checking. instead carry multiple phones , each for one mail account- and please: no forward facing camera, we'll never work out which one is which,
here's the device i would propose for you. guaranteed without key-combos. i'm sure you agree it's the obvious direction future iphone hardware should follow - very elegant and non-confusing
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IMO something like this would be greater and easier:
and swipe left can be for toggles...
how about that with notifications on the bottom
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This is now the sole reason my phone is jailbroken. Now that Im used to being able to do this, theres no way I'm giving it up. Shame theres no sign of something similair in 4.0
Yes, more and more people are noticing the need for either a couple of user-configurable buttons, or a revamp of the home button Morse code syndrome.
When adding functionality requires so many workarounds to shove them into the original design, it's clear that a redesign would be helpful.
One button with one function = elegant.
One button with two functions = clever.
One button with over a half dozen functions = kludge.
a shortcut is not a workaround, it's an optional shortcut.
without a doubt true for some people, absolutely untrue for others.
btw: ctrl-key on my laptop keyboard is implemeted in well over half a dozen differnt shortcuts, keystrokes, workarounds, whatever. used in finder, FCP, after effects, etc. I still have not found the need to print out a list of these. use them and your fingers remember them. much more elegant than more buttons, in my humble opinion.
I just don't answer calls in the winter when I'm outside
(I'm afraid the phone will stick to my cheek.)
I live in Miami to rid myself of this issue.
I didn't know people had to do that! Haha...Okay, so I'm with aardwolf on this one. You don't technically *need* to turn left while driving your car, when 3 right-turns will do, but yet they keep making these cars that can turn in both directions.
And aardwolf, thank you for finally explaining that you actually tested the orientation lock vs. simply stating it didn't work as described.
haha, people take things too far. How about halving the need for key combos by adding 1 button? No need for exaggeration
It's also a button combination... It doesn't rely on timing or patters. You just have to remember a single letter of the alphabet because the common rule is to hold Ctrl and press that letter.
Remembering, single-double-tripple-etc... tapping with pauses and holds in there would get tedious. Granted, currently there are only a few thing and it's not so bad. It's just becoming evident that the device could benefit from additional physical buttons.
Haha... yes. Like shortTap-shortTap-longTap-shortTap-longTap to bring up Safari...
(No, that doesn't work)
I think I have to actually try the home button as a thumbpad and do:
Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right, volume up and volume down, power
i agree!!!! been using 3G for 2 years, definitely time to move on.... can't wait!