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My girlfriend went abroad for this semester and was wondering if she'd be safe from data roaming charges by simply setting the phone to airplane mode. Let me know, gaf experts.
 
burgerdog said:
My girlfriend went abroad for this semester and was wondering if she'd be safe from data roaming charges by simply setting the phone to airplane mode. Let me Should be safe. As it turns off all radio communication.

That said, why doesn't she just pull out the sim-card at that point? Can the iPohne work without a sim?
 
mrkgoo said:
burgerdog said:
My girlfriend went abroad for this semester and was wondering if she'd be safe from data roaming charges by simply setting the phone to airplane mode. Let me Should be safe. As it turns off all radio communication.

That said, why doesn't she just pull out the sim-card at that point? Can the iPohne work without a sim?
Airplane mode and no-sim mode should do the trick.
 
mrkgoo said:
burgerdog said:
My girlfriend went abroad for this semester and was wondering if she'd be safe from data roaming charges by simply setting the phone to airplane mode. Let me Should be safe. As it turns off all radio communication.

That said, why doesn't she just pull out the sim-card at that point? Can the iPohne work without a sim?

yeah

you can use the iphone over wifi with no sim card

skype or any of the chat clients
 
Charred Greyface said:
See:

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Brilliant!

I just see the same pic twice. And Comiczeal has a decent one-tap-to-zoom, how much better is this?
 
mrkgoo said:
I know what you mean. In a way, the iPhone has SAVED me money. Why? I can NEVER look at another iPod or cellphone again. It's like the iPhone has single-handedly killed my desire to EVER buy either device again. I nearly don't bother looking.

Obviously things like the Zune HD are very intriguing, with great hardware, great music pass, and potentially great software too...but really, will I forego the iPhone for it? I don't think I'd carry around an iPhone AND a Zune HD. (of course it's moot since Zune doesn't exist outside of US, and it won't sync with macs anyway).

Before the iPhone, I looked at a ton of different phones and small handheld electronics. After the iPhone, I'm exactly like you... I look at them, but I have zero interest in them. I don't know how a device could singlehandedly do that. Even when I got my DS, I still checked out the PSP (and still need to get one). But when my friends who don't have iPhones talk about the latest tech gear in the phone/handheld market, I'm kind of "meh, it's not the iPhone." It could have loads of "ZOMGZ" features, but the interface is clunky as hell, the touch screen feels like it fell out of 2002 or 2003, there aren't any apps you would care about buying, and it's casing is ugly as sin. It really has an all-in-one package that I love.
 
Fusebox said:
I just see the same pic twice. And Comiczeal has a decent one-tap-to-zoom, how much better is this?
The pic on the right has a textbox(?) enlarged - in the top right, the third panel.

Comiczeal zooms in, ComicReader Mobi blows up. For Comiczeal I have to tap to zoom out to see the big picture, then tap on another section to zoom in again. With ComicReader Mobi I can tap on each word ballon (or anything actually) in turn and the big picture is always in sight. Plus, if you really want to, you can pinch to zoom in ComicReader Mobi as well.
 
Charred Greyface said:
The pic on the right has a textbox(?) enlarged - in the top right, the third panel.

Ahh sooo, I see it now! Not a bad concept. I quite like zooming into picture panels and checking out the art a lot closer as well though, I read stuff like Transmetropolitan where there's tonnes of picture detail, can this reader zoom into panels as well as doing its fancy text thing?
 
VanMardigan said:
I don't see any phone or device on the market right now that remotely interests me either, but a ZunePhone would fit the bill if it ever came out. Obviously, the games that I've bought are a big deterrent, but my wife would likely still have her iPhone. Some of the Apple limitations still annoy me, but there's no guarantee that the hypothetical ZunePhone would fix the issues I have like the lack of multitasking, low battery life, closed system, one computer sync, and iTunes. iTunes plain old sucks, and I have a badass computer. It runs slow, looks ugly as a media player, and of course abides by the limitations of library sharing and syncing. I prefer the Zune software.

I like that there are different things for different people out there. I actually don't have any issues with any of the things you've listed. Granted, the iTunes issue is a non-issue for me for two reasons: 1) I'm on a Mac and 2) the iTunes library is on a drive that is shared across a network that multiple computers can connect to at will. We have zero problems syncing from any computer we own because of this.

You know what's funny? The only time multi-tasking becomes anything of an issue for me is when I'm texting more than 3 or 4 people at once. Or when I'm texting AND on Beejive, though it's less of a multi-tasking issue, and more about me being a social whore with my phone.

When it comes to battery life, I don't see any phone capable of 3 or 4G speeds being able to last longer than 7 or 8 hours during regular/heavy usage. I think if you come from a non-smartphone to a smartphone expecting that, you are mistaken. On a daily basis, from a 100% charge over the course of 12 or 13 hours, I surf GAF, I text a bunch of people, I tweet, I look at the Woot app, I play some Peggle, I watch a bunch of video podcasts, and listen to a couple hours worth of music, and my battery gets to about 15%. This includes my time at work (8 to 9 hours) with no wifi in site, and my time at home with wifi. I'm pretty heavy with my usage on the device, so battery hasn't been an issue for me at all. My laptop battery lasts less time than that doing roughly the same things.
 
Alfarif said:
from a 100% charge over the course of 12 or 13 hours, I surf GAF, I text a bunch of people, I tweet, I look at the Woot app, I play some Peggle, I watch a bunch of video podcasts, and listen to a couple hours worth of music, and my battery gets to about 15%. This includes my time at work (8 to 9 hours) with no wifi in site, and my time at home with wifi.

I call bullshit, nobody gets 12-13 hours of constant iphone activity.
 
Fusebox said:
Ahh sooo, I see it now! Not a bad concept. I quite like zooming into picture panels and checking out the art a lot closer as well though, I read stuff like Transmetropolitan where there's tonnes of picture detail, can this reader zoom into panels as well as doing its fancy text thing?
Yes
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If you tap on background art, it'll usually pop up a rectangle lens box like the one above. Or you could pinch to zoom in and then tap to enlargen further
 
Fusebox said:
I call bullshit, nobody gets 12-13 hours of constant iphone activity.

Listening to music and even watching videos is a suprisingly low drain on the battery.

I remember when my iPod 5G (new) could barely do a 2hour movie. I watched two hours on my iPhone and there wasn't so much as a dent in the battery meter. Even though the screen is constantly on, I suspect it was movie processing and HD access that took up a lot of that battery. On an iPhone, I'm guessing the screen is a big part, but processor use and radio communications are the big ones. I also suspect it has been optimised for video handling, so it's minimal drain on the processor.

And I don't think he meant constant, just high use over the course of 12-13 hours.
 
Well if I leave the house at 10am, have music on all day, hit the occasional web-page, open the occasional app and take a few phone calls then I get home at 5pm on about 15% battery.

'High use' for 12 hours is something my 3GS won't do.
 
Fusebox said:
Well if I leave the house at 10am, have music on all day, hit the occasional web-page, open the occasional app and take a few phone calls then I get home at 5pm on about 15% battery.

'High use' for 12 hours is something my 3GS won't do.

I might be able to eke a little bit more out of my 3G than that, but it wouldn't be much. I just have EDGE, however. Having push notifications on had a process running constantly, and would reduce time to about 5 hours, regardless of whether I was using it or not.

On that note, are push notifications part of 'data'? As in, do I need a data plan to use push?

I can't remember if I had data or not while I was experimenting with push. If it doesn't, what network does it use? SMS?
 
mrkgoo said:
On that note, are push notifications part of 'data'? As in, do I need a data plan to use push?

I can't remember if I had data or not while I was experimenting with push. If it doesn't, what network does it use? SMS?

Yes you need a data plan.
 
Fusebox said:
Well if I leave the house at 10am, have music on all day, hit the occasional web-page, open the occasional app and take a few phone calls then I get home at 5pm on about 15% battery.

'High use' for 12 hours is something my 3GS won't do.
It'll be a great day when I don't need to manage the battery life on this wonderful thing.
 
Alfarif said:
Before the iPhone, I looked at a ton of different phones and small handheld electronics. After the iPhone, I'm exactly like you... I look at them, but I have zero interest in them. I don't know how a device could singlehandedly do that. Even when I got my DS, I still checked out the PSP (and still need to get one). But when my friends who don't have iPhones talk about the latest tech gear in the phone/handheld market, I'm kind of "meh, it's not the iPhone." It could have loads of "ZOMGZ" features, but the interface is clunky as hell, the touch screen feels like it fell out of 2002 or 2003, there aren't any apps you would care about buying, and it's casing is ugly as sin. It really has an all-in-one package that I love.
What'll happen when the new video conferencing iPhone 4G OLED comes out next year? Will you feel the itch even though you're still under contract and might have to drop $500+?
 
So I was thinking...yeah, a blackberry style LED is never going to happen because that's not Apple's MO, but what about a pulsing white light LED like on the Macs for a future iphone revision? That seems suitably apple, wouldn't be gaudy or distracting, and would really make sense since we don't really have a good notification "dock" or anything.
 
Y2Kev said:
So I was thinking...yeah, a blackberry style LED is never going to happen because that's not Apple's MO, but what about a pulsing white light LED like on the Macs for a future iphone revision? That seems suitably apple, wouldn't be gaudy or distracting, and would really make sense since we don't really have a good notification "dock" or anything.


aside from the whole 3rd party app multitasking, the main area where the iPhone lacks is in notifications.

there’s no external light for notifications, the modal boxes that pop up are intrusive, the menu bar is underused, the lock screen is near useless.

I really like your idea of the pulsating white light for messages or notifications as a next hardware rev and I hope, HOPE, that Apple uses OS 4.0 to address the software deficiencies it has with notifications.

we know they’ve created some patents for better lock screen info messages. let’s hope they roll that up with some other stuff they’ve seen from Palm and Android and fix up the rest of the OS.
 
Fusebox said:
Well if I leave the house at 10am, have music on all day, hit the occasional web-page, open the occasional app and take a few phone calls then I get home at 5pm on about 15% battery.

'High use' for 12 hours is something my 3GS won't do.
The iPhone battery sucks ass if you are using 3G. But this is true of every device that uses 3G as far as I know. You probably get closed to 2x the battery life if you go down to Edge.

This will only be solved with a better battery or more efficient 3G chipset.
 
bionic77 said:
The iPhone battery sucks ass if you are using 3G. But this is true of every device that uses 3G as far as I know.
It's one of the best for 3G battery life. The Android G1's battery life is hilarious in comparison.

The problem is people either had shitty dumbphones before or phones they didn't actually use, so the iPhone's battery life is a new world for them.
 
DjangoReinhardt said:
This is my hope for a big new feature of the 2010 iPhone.

I wouldn't go that far. Apple's done amazing things with conservation, push inefficiencies aside. They're at the mercy of 3G chips and battery tech catching up.
 
SnakeXs said:
I wouldn't go that far. Apple's done amazing things with conservation, push inefficiencies aside. They're at the mercy of 3G chips and battery tech catching up.

I think that, by next year, a new 3G chip could come out that can push the 5 hour 3G talk and internet time up to, say, 7-8 hours.

for all but the most voracious of users, those extra 2 hours could push the phone into the “good enough" realm where you get home at night after a very busy day on the device and there’s still 20% left in the battery. as opposed to now where it could die by 4 PM if you’re on it all the time.

I wouldn’t expect 3G time to exceed 10 hours for another 2 years or longer, tho.
 
selling my 2G tomorrow (got $200 for it) and just cleaned it up for the new owner, and I realized that while the all aluminum body hurts the signal strength, I'm really going to miss it's durability and look
 
anyone using themes on a JB phone get iElegance..the best theme out there...I just got Modern Combat Sandstorm, wow the graphics are the best and it plays great.
 
megateto said:
After some fast search, I found out that Spain is pretty much without stock of 3GS phones. And has been for some weeks.
Got mine 2 weeks ago, huge store in gran vía. I think they get the phones on tuesday morning and they aré sold out by midday
 
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Has anyone had this problem? My lower icons have that stupid loading thing in the corner. This happened after i updated my jb'd apps thru Cydia.

Any idea on how to fix?
 
Iron_Scimitar said:
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Has anyone had this problem? My lower icons have that stupid loading thing in the corner. This happened after i updated my jb'd apps thru Cydia.

Any idea on how to fix?
I just means they're running in te background. Trun off push or just kill the processes wih sbsettings
 
Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
Yo dawg, I heard you like iPhones.
I don't know why, but this coming from you slayed me.

I feel like you've just gotten to the point of "Fuck it..." with all the custom Springboards posted :lol
 
Iron_Scimitar said:
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Has anyone had this problem? My lower icons have that stupid loading thing in the corner. This happened after i updated my jb'd apps thru Cydia.

Any idea on how to fix?
There is an option to turn it off in Backgrounder
 
bionic77 said:
The iPhone battery sucks ass if you are using 3G. But this is true of every device that uses 3G as far as I know. You probably get closed to 2x the battery life if you go down to Edge.

This will only be solved with a better battery or more efficient 3G chipset.


I never turn off 3G. Mainly because I hate that 'tick, tick,tidididididick' sound in the car when a call comes through, or I receive a text via Edge.
 
Charred Greyface said:
There is an option to turn it off in Backgrounder

Critical Jeff said:
I just means they're running in te background. Trun off push or just kill the processes wih sbsettings


I see it now, thanks. When I updated Backgrounder, it enabled it when i never had that notification turned on.

Thanks for the assistance.
 
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Worm_Buffet said:
Can you get the calendar icon on the iPhone in the background to show the current date?
What do you mean? It already shows the current date, but you want it next to the clock to be seen all the time is that it?
 
DaCocoBrova said:
I never turn off 3G. Mainly because I hate that 'tick, tick,tidididididick' sound in the car when a call comes through, or I receive a text via Edge.
I never turn off 3G either but that is really the only way to significantly extend the battery life.

I just keep a car charger handy if my battery is running low.
 
Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
It's one of the best for 3G battery life. The Android G1's battery life is hilarious in comparison.

The problem is people either had shitty dumbphones before or phones they didn't actually use, so the iPhone's battery life is a new world for them.

I keep trying to tell people this when I'm selling phones; everyone says "My friend says the iPhone battery life sucks and can't last a day". I have the Pre and since I really don't use my phone as much as others, it lasts me through the day (though I can see how it wouldn't work for some people)...but when I had the iPhone 3G (not sure of changes with 3.0 software) the battery life was good. Having a screen that size, it has to be one of the best smartphones in terms of battery life. Blackberries are probably the best, but they (besides the Storm) don't have a >3 inch screen on them. I'm not too sure of the Storm battery life situation.

Anyway, the iPhone is one of the better smartphones for battery life considering what you get. Windows Mobile phones are bad in that regard and the Pre is even worse.

I think it's exactly as you said, people are comparing it to their 2 year old flip phone that can go probably 5 days, but they aren't doing much with their phone over those 5 days either.
 
I apologize for asking this because I know it's been covered, but the search function wasn't very fruitful.

What's the best multi-type IM applications? I currently use Trillian on my PCs, but there's no iPhone version. Or is it just better to get the AIM and YIM apps?
 
AirBrian said:
I apologize for asking this because I know it's been covered, but the search function wasn't very fruitful.

What's the best multi-type IM applications? I currently use Trillian on my PCs, but there's no iPhone version. Or is it just better to get the AIM and YIM apps?
BeejiveIM. It's $10 but so worth it.
 
AirBrian said:
I apologize for asking this because I know it's been covered, but the search function wasn't very fruitful.

What's the best multi-type IM applications? I currently use Trillian on my PCs, but there's no iPhone version. Or is it just better to get the AIM and YIM apps?

I use eBuddy, free and pretty good imho.
 
Costanza said:
BeejiveIM. It's $10 but so worth it.

Seconding this. I was using another freeware app and while it got the job done with Google Talk, it still was pretty clunky to use. Decided to take the plunge with BeejiveIM and I couldn't be happier as it's so worth the $10.
 
jts said:
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What do you mean? It already shows the current date, but you want it next to the clock to be seen all the time is that it?

Nah, I was just investigating the limitations of the awesome iPhone-in-iPhone background picture.
 
Worm_Buffet said:
Nah, I was just investigating the limitations of the awesome iPhone-in-iPhone background picture.

I love that wallpaper because if you ever forget what phone you’re using, you can just look at the wallpaper and, BAM, back in business.
 
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