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[LaneDS]

So has anyone tried out the augmented reality apps from acrossair? I've download the nearest tube station app and although it's quite sensitive, it's pretty cool to get a first look at where this tech is going.

It'll be a lot cooler when it can decipher what is actually on your screen and overlay precise directions.

These all require the compass in the 3GS, correct? I read about the one hidden inside of Yelp! or whatever that app is called, and was bummed by my inability to try it being a lowly 3G owner.

 

[Nameless]

Precautionary Question. Have there been any reports of AT&T potentially charging
for tethering since the 3.1 update outlawed it? Been using it sparingly the past couple days, but it's great.

You guys still using it?

 

[scorcho]

Precautionary Question. Have there been any reports oh AT&T potentially charging d
for tethering since 3.1 outlaws it? Been using it sparingly the past couple days, but it's great.

There's little way they can tell unless you completely abuse it.

 

[I should be doing hw]

It has been jailbroken for almost two weeks now. There is only a mac version of the pwnage tool.
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/

I'll rephrase then. What's the current situation for lowly Windows owners then?

 

[Dez]

It has been jailbroken for almost two weeks now. There is only a mac version of the pwnage tool.
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/

There is no jailbreak for 3.1 iphone 3GS

 

[Blackhead]

TomTom clears up iPhone car kit slip: £99.99 [~$160] for the hardware alone, app sold separately

Yep, outside my pay range :/

I'll rephrase then. What's the current situation for lowly Windows owners then?

Get a Custom Firmware 3.1 For iPhone 2G/3G and iPod Touch

There's little way they can tell unless you completely abuse it.

Are you sure? I'd assume that Apple put a flag in there. I've only heard of someone in Germany being billed though...

 

[Sean]

TomTom clears up iPhone car kit slip: £99.99 [~$160] for the hardware alone, app sold separately.

WTF? :lol

That car mount kit should've been like $60-70 bucks tops. Might as well get a dedicated GPS unit for that price ($160 for the mount + $99 for the app).

 

[LaneDS]

WTF? :lol

That car mount kit should've been like $60-70 bucks tops. Might as well get a dedicated GPS unit for that price ($160 for the mount + $99 for the app).

Wow, seriously. That's some terrible pricing right there. Sadly they'll still probably sell a shitload of them.

 

[scorcho]

Are you sure? I'd assume that Apple put a flag in there. I've only heard of someone in Germany being billed though...

I used it somewhat frequently on a recent trip to Chicago and didn't incur any charges, but you could be right.

 

[Terrell]

Hey Canadians, buying an iPhone 3G online, 2 questions:

1) Even if I'm using Rogers and they are an official carrier, will I still be required to jailbreak/unlock it for it to work, or can I call Rogers and have them recognize I'm using an iPhone?

2) If I call Rogers, will they give me the $20 iPhone Visual Voicemail value pack, or do they only offer that to customers who buy the phone from them directly?

 

[Buckethead]

Awesome Note (+Todo) - $3.99 - Click to Visit iTunes Page

Since I went to the farm for a month I haven't been able to whore out Awesome Note. It's $3.99 and now has To-Do support, so fuck the other Apps. This is Awesome note-taking and Awesome To-Do making! Boo-yah!

Peep it with your peepers:

 

[AirBrian]

MMS is almost here. What are we going to complain about after today?

 

[Oni Jazar]

Precautionary Question. Have there been any reports of AT&T potentially charging
for tethering since the 3.1 update outlawed it? Been using it sparingly the past couple days, but it's great.

You guys still using it?

You're still on 3.0?

 

[scorcho]

oh, fyi. if you used the tethering config before you updated to 3.1 you'll still have tethering access when you finally do. well, at least on my phone it works.

 

[Shanks]

Question about AT&T upgrade. I was planning on joining AT&T in early December and figured I'd go ahead and wait till this coming June for the next iPhone. I was going to use my room mates phone until then. So if I went in with his basic old phone, could I still use my upgrade in June or is it only when you sign up at that moment?

 

[Blackhead]

What does Apple mean by you can send "locations from Maps" with the MMS? GPS coordinates or a link that opens up in the Maps app? Can you send directions?

I used it somewhat frequently on a recent trip to Chicago and didn't incur any charges, but you could be right.

i've used it heavily recently (2GB+ i think) and haven't been billed yet. *fingers crossed*

oh, fyi. if you used the tethering config before you updated to 3.1 you'll still have tethering access when you finally do. well, at least on my phone it works.

Are you going to install the AT&T's MMS update that should be released today?

MMS is almost here. What are we going to complain about after today

Clunky notification system? Running third party apps in the background? Flash plugin for the browser? Flash for the camera?

 

[Keylime]

Clunky notification system? Running third party apps in the background? Flash plugin for the browser? Flash for the camera?

My only complaints after having this thing for so long is why I still have to buy any other device to do anything on the go.

The fact that you can go to the airport RIGHT NOW and hold up your phone to act as your boarding pass gets me tight in the pants that society is going to get awesome in my lifetime.

 

[scorcho]

Are you going to install the AT&T's MMS update that should be released today?

Not a chance. The only person I know who uses MMS is my sister, and I have enough pictures of my nephew.

 

[Tobor]

1.Clunky notification system? 2.Running third party apps in the background? 3.Flash plugin for the browser? 4.Flash for the camera?

1.Don't care, it works fine for me as is.

2.Don't need, I like battery life.

3.Don't want, I prefer better browser performance.

4.iPhone 4G! Summer 2010. :lol

 

[PatzCU]

TomTom clears up iPhone car kit slip: £99.99 [~$160] for the hardware alone, app sold separately

:lol Seriously? Buy a stand alone GPS at that price. Not only will you not be completely draining your phone's batteries, but I would imagine no iPhone with a case on it would fit into that thing.

Horrible idea, it should be $50 tops.

Also, how do we activate MMS? Do I need to connect to my iTunes and update the phone via PC?

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

WTF? :lol

That car mount kit should've been like $60-70 bucks tops. Might as well get a dedicated GPS unit for that price ($160 for the mount + $99 for the app).

I said this when the pricing was announced the first time. So many reasons to get a dedicated GPS for less money.

 

[LCfiner]

1.Don't care, it works fine for me as is.

2.Don't need, I like battery life.

3.Don't want, I prefer better browser performance.

4.iPhone 4G! Summer 2010. :lol

welcome back.

I would say..

1. notification system does need improvement. menu bar is wasted. modal pop ups kinda suck. time for apple to copy android here. fingers crossed for OS 4.0

2. agreed.

3. agreed. fuck flash on webpages.

4. meh. the way most people use flashes to take pics in low light environments, pictures look blown out and crappy.

 

[Tobor]

welcome back.

I would say..

1. notification system does need improvement. menu bar is wasted. modal pop ups kinda suck. time for apple to copy android here. fingers crossed for OS 4.0

2. agreed.

3. agreed. fuck flash on webpages.

4. meh. the way most people use flashes to take pics in low light environments, pictures look blown out and crappy.

Good to be back. I'm nice and refreshed after a month in the hole.

 

[minx]

Do we get MMS today?

 

[AirBrian]

Do we get MMS today?

Yes, we should be getting it late morning PDT.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2353267,00.asp

 

[mrkgoo]

Good to be back. I'm nice and refreshed after a month in the hole.

toboooooooooor

 

[Blackhead]

Not a chance. The only person I know who uses MMS is my sister, and I have enough pictures of my nephew.

So because you're on 3.1 you can't install the hacked carrier settings to add MMS and you can't install the official update without losing tethering? It's not just pics you can send though, there's voice memos and... yeah nothing much. If you could send directions from Maps (that a regular phone could see) that'd be awesome. A friend called me up last week from asking for directions to where she was going. She wasn't even in my state at the time :lol

Good to be back. I'm nice and refreshed after a month in the hole.

Just in time to rain on my parade
Re: flash on iPhone, I actually mean flash+flashblock or clicktoflash. I only need flash for the live video streaming as no other plug ins seem to have made inroads in that area. Don't care much for flash besides that.

 

[SnakeSlashRO]

HEY GAF... Anyone know how to cancel dataplan with ATT Iphone 3G?... I want to save some money... FFFF the online app's I never use em. My phone is jail broken.. what I gotta do? :lol

 

[Bboy AJ]

1.Don't care, it works fine for me as is.

2.Don't need, I like battery life.

These things are acceptable for you and the general masses but what about us power users? And I also never understood the battery life argument. Just give us the option, Apple.

 

[Angry Grimace]

HEY GAF... Anyone know how to cancel dataplan with ATT Iphone 3G?... I want to save some money... FFFF the online app's I never use em. My phone is jail broken.. what I gotta do? :lol

What does iPhone even have if you cancel the data plan

 

[scorcho]

So because you're on 3.1 you can't install the hacked carrier settings to add MMS and you can't install the official update without losing tethering? It's not just pics you can send though, there's voice memos and... yeah nothing much. If you could send directions from Maps (that a regular phone could see) that'd be awesome. A friend called me up last week from asking for directions to where she was going. She wasn't even in my state at the time

Most of my friends have either iphones or G1s, so we send pictures/locations through gmail. At worse I'll wait for the hacking gurus to figure out a way to push a new carrier setting to an unlocked phone. Otherwise I don't miss MMS.

 

[Bboy AJ]

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What does iPhone even have if you cancel the data plan o_O[/QUOTE]
wifi

 

[Tamanon]

HEY GAF... Anyone know how to cancel dataplan with ATT Iphone 3G?... I want to save some money... FFFF the online app's I never use em. My phone is jail broken.. what I gotta do? :lol

If you have a contract with ATT, then you can't cancel the data plan, they have automatic sweeps that put it right back on even if you were able to talk a rep into doing it. The only real way to get it from being put back on is to lie to the rep and say you have a new phone, then give them an IMEI number from a non-iphone to change it to. That'll negate the sweep.

 

[LCfiner]

Awesome Note (+Todo) - $3.99 - Click to Visit iTunes Page

Since I went to the farm for a month I haven't been able to whore out Awesome Note. It's $3.99 and now has To-Do support, so fuck the other Apps. This is Awesome note-taking and Awesome To-Do making! Boo-yah!

Peep it with your peepers:

btw, am I the only one who finds awesome note to be a fucking UI disaster? it's trying to do too many things and there's a mess of bottom bar buttons and icons and places to store shit and it's way more confusing than any note app should be.

i think their failing was trying to add tasks to the UI.

plus some of the hideous skins going on.

 

[SnakeSlashRO]

If you have a contract with ATT, then you can't cancel the data plan, they have automatic sweeps that put it right back on even if you were able to talk a rep into doing it. The only real way to get it from being put back on is to lie to the rep and say you have a new phone, then give them an IMEI number from a non-iphone to change it to. That'll negate the sweep.

So, buy a cheap phone, give them the number on that phone. Then Swap the simcard out?

Also turn off 3G on my Iphone right?


I want to do this cause I got an awesome Referb Jail Broken I phone. I do not use data constantly, Anyone who is sitting around looking at their phone that much has got to be a busy person or, busy waisting time. I found my self texting messaging etccc to much.........

But I love the phones design and other things.... Plus all my music.

 

[Tamanon]

So, buy a cheap phone, give them the number on that phone. Then Swap the simcard out?

Also turn off 3G on my Iphone right?


I want to do this cause I got an awesome Referb Jail Broken I phone. I do not use data constantly, Anyone who is sitting around looking at their phone that much has got to be a busy person or, busy waisting time. I found my self texting messaging etccc to much.........

But I love the phones design and other things.... Plus all my music.

Don't even have to swap the SIM card out. Just need an IMEI from anyone else's phone, it's just for record-keeping purposes at ATT, nothing else. Once that's updated, it won't show up as an iphone in their systems anymore so you'll be able to easily remove the data package.

 

[mollipen]

MMS is almost here. What are we going to complain about after today?

The return to GPS that actually works? Apple's stupid policy for blocking apps that people want? (I don't give a shit if it "duplicates built-in functions" - give me the full Google Voice app.) Still not giving us the ability to have custom backgrounds for our home pages?

 

[Sean]

MMS is almost here. What are we going to complain about after today?

Shitty notifications is my big complaint - they need to copy WebOS/Android in that area.

I'd like to see a better way of organizing Apps on the iPhone too. And a quick battery toggle thing (swiping the status bar up top will open an overlay screen that you can quickly disable some power-hungry things like 3G, Bluetooth, WiFi, etc to save battery without having to navigate around Preferences).

 

[mrkgoo]

btw, am I the only one who finds awesome note to be a fucking UI disaster? it's trying to do too many things and there's a mess of bottom bar buttons and icons and places to store shit and it's way more confusing than any note app should be.

i think their failing was trying to add tasks to the UI.

plus some of the hideous skins going on.

I think it's pretty neat looking personally. But nothing beats the simplicity of the default note app - I just load it up, type, close. I'm not sure I need anything else, really.

To do apps are good in theory, but I'm not in the habit of checking my device frequently enough to make it worthwhile.

 

[Tobor]

These things are acceptable for you and the general masses but what about us power users? And I also never understood the battery life argument. Just give us the option, Apple.

I don't have a problem with background processing being enabled as an option, as long as it's an option I can turn off. And I would prefer it to be turned off by default, so I don't have to listen to people at work bitching about how the battery life on their iPhone is suddenly so much worse.

 

[Tamanon]

MMS Update out. Have to get it off itunes, then reboot your phone.

 

[Juice]

btw, am I the only one who finds awesome note to be a fucking UI disaster? it's trying to do too many things and there's a mess of bottom bar buttons and icons and places to store shit and it's way more confusing than any note app should be.

i think their failing was trying to add tasks to the UI.

plus some of the hideous skins going on.

It is disgusting.

 

[LCfiner]

It is disgusting.

internet high five.

 

[Jet Grind Radio!]

Ha! I told ya there would be an update for MMS. Well, it looks like it's not a full update, but just carrier changes.

 

[scorcho]

Ha! I told ya there would be an update for MMS. Well, it looks like it's not a full update, but just carrier changes.

That's the only update that's needed.

 

[Vyer]

hmm. big delay in trying to send my first picture in a text

 

[Marty Chinn]

oh, fyi. if you used the tethering config before you updated to 3.1 you'll still have tethering access when you finally do. well, at least on my phone it works.

Wait, everywhere else I read was that tethering was disabled once you upgraded to 3.1.

 

[Buckethead]

btw, am I the only one who finds awesome note to be a fucking UI disaster?

Just you and the other guy.
The skins for the notes aren't the best. Will agree there.

 

[LCfiner]

Just you and the other guy.
The skins for the notes aren't the best. Will agree there.

you have to admit that the location of the tiny "done" and "cancel" buttons when using the quick add interface are horribly, horribly positioned.

 

[AirBrian]

Got the update. Sending pictures to other numbers and email addresses works like a charm.