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mashoutposse said:
Any way to select all of the songs of an artist or album without doing it manually/selecting everything in the library?
If you select an artist, the first thing listed is "All Songs". Press that and you can then press "Shuffle" to play their songs randomly. If you instead select an album from that artist, again you can select "Shuffle" to randomly play all tracks on that album.
 
BrandNew said:
This works out pretty good then, cause my plan last till this time in 2009.

I don't really care right now, I quite like my VX9400 LG model. Does everything I want to be able to do at the time.

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but it looks fugly.
 
My fault; I was talking about within iTunes on the computer. I want to be able to sync a few select artists/albums to my iPhone without having to check things off manually. Any way to do that?

BTW, posted from the iphone (this keyboard ain't bad at all...)
 
Sean said:
I dunno if it's a problem with my reception or what, but the voice quality is lacking imo... voice mail volume sounds really low for example, even on the speaker. My music and ring tones play much much louder... am I missing a secret volume control, or is everyone else having the same experience?

Try going into the settings tab, then the sound tab, and under the ring options make sure the volume slider is all the way up
 
If anyone here is looking for a steady supply for blowjobs for an iPhone and live in the MA area PM me. I'm looking for a 2-year cumdumpster plan.
 
This is the funniest video I've seen all week: http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages...ale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1

A lady think she's slick and tries to pull up to an AT&T store just 15 minutes before it opens and plans to buy every iPhone available just to sell them on eBay for a profit. Has a huge smile on her face the whole time while flaunting her thousands in cash thinking she's so clever, with the news crew following her around.

She pays the first person in line $800 to cut him and she gets inside the store and they tell her it's limit one per person. Oh snap! (after that you don't even see her anymore in the rest of the segment was probably too embarrassed to show her face on camera) :lol
 
This is the funniest video I've seen all week: http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages/...d=1.1.1&sflg=1

A lady think she's slick and tries to pull up to an AT&T store just 15 minutes before it opens and plans to buy every iPhone available just to sell them on eBay for a profit. Has a huge smile on her face the whole time while flaunting her thousands in cash thinking she's so clever, with the news crew following her around.

She pays the first person in line $800 to cut him and she gets inside the store and they tell her it's limit one per person. Oh snap! (after that you don't even see her anymore in the rest of the segment was probably too embarrassed to show her face on camera)

now that's sweet :lol.
 
Sean said:
This is the funniest video I've seen all week: http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages...ale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1

A lady think she's slick and tries to pull up to an AT&T store just 15 minutes before it opens and plans to buy every iPhone available just to sell them on eBay for a profit. Has a huge smile on her face the whole time while flaunting her thousands in cash thinking she's so clever, with the news crew following her around.

She pays the first person in line $800 to cut him and she gets inside the store and they tell her it's limit one per person. Oh snap! (after that you don't even see her anymore in the rest of the segment was probably too embarrassed to show her face on camera) :lol

Best part about this is that she is so high on herself because she has $16,000 to spend on some iPhones.

Actually... the guy in line who got the $800 kicks major ass too. He's like WTF... PWND!
:lol
 
mashoutposse said:
Damn, that other guy was really hatin'.

well its not like he lies, Apple will have this phone on the faster network sooner than later

I'm just shocked that all 4 reviewers loved the phone
damn I can't wait to get mine just a few more weeks
 
Smiles and Cries said:
well its not like he lies, Apple will have this phone on the faster network sooner than later

I'm just shocked that all 4 reviewers loved the phone
damn I can't wait to get mine just a few more weeks

No, he definitely hit on the negatives -- he was pretty fair in that he said he would be ready when it had 3G and GPS. He was a little tough on this first version of iPhone, though -- he wouldn't recommend anyone buy it? Come on now. The phone is excellent even as-is.
 
I just found another cool thing, go to apple.com/trailers on your iPhone.... it redirects you to an iPhone specific version of the site.

You can stream all the trailers from there (which appear to be formatted for the iPhone screen) and it's even kinda like the YouTube player, where you can rotate it into landscape view and you've got all the same controls etc.
 
So any Canadians browsing this thread? Has anyone heard anything about a decent data plan from Rogers? This thing is essentially useless without it...
 
anotherworld said:
The Iphone could of been soo much better but lacks alot of features that a normal phone has.

Yeah, no.

SanjuroTsubaki said:
If anyone here is looking for a steady supply for blowjobs for an iPhone and live in the MA area PM me. I'm looking for a 2-year cumdumpster plan.

:lol :lol
 
Smiles and Cries said:
so what is this unlimited data part of the plan?

does this mean I can surf the net and it wont count against my minutes?
Yes. Data and voice are counted independently. Data is unlimited (except text messaging). Voice starts at 450 minutes.
 
DoctorWho said:
So any Canadians browsing this thread? Has anyone heard anything about a decent data plan from Rogers? This thing is essentially useless without it...
Kind of irrelevant when Rogers seems to have no plans to carry it, as far as their CEO is concerned. Might as well just wait for the 3G version, I'm sure Telus is foaming at the mouth to offer it.
 
Terrell said:
Kind of irrelevant when Rogers seems to have no plans to carry it, as far as their CEO is concerned. Might as well just wait for the 3G version, I'm sure Telus is foaming at the mouth to offer it.

****ing Rogers doesnt deserve the iPhone. I really hope some other carrier picks it up.
 
Slurpy said:
****ing Rogers doesnt deserve the iPhone. I really hope some other carrier picks it up.
Then I hope you enjoy waiting for an iPhone until 2008 when they release a 3G version that Telus can pick up. From what I've read, Telus seems to be ejaculating at the mere thought of Rogers not being willing to carry it, and the longer Rogers sits on its hands about this, the more of a possibility it becomes.
 
Sean said:
Battery just died out on me after heavily usage (mostly non-stop) from around 9:30 PM to 5:18AM... Pretty impressive.

I had Wifi on the whole time and was watching video podcasts, brightness was around 80%, volume at highest level, etc. Was using every single feature for hours pretty much. Very surprised, I thought it would be only around half of Apple's battery life claims. I'm impressed.



Heh, will probably happen very soon. I'm expecting the iPhone will be hacked before the weekend is up. Maybe one week tops.


Why would you think the battery life is less than Apple claims? Most of my Apple products have had MORE battery life than they publish. Well, at least initially...
 
So I got to play around with the iphone today at my local Apple store. Just an FYI, they had about 15-20 4gb units in stock...

Anyway, when I first picked it up I was shocked at how slim it is. I thought it would be a little bulkier, but hey I am not complaining.

Next I tried using safari, and while I liked it, I couldnt really enjoy it that much. My biggest issue is with the onscreen keyboard. I have big digits, so when I was pressing keys to type in an adress, it would sometimes take the letter next to the key I was trying to hit. I think by the end of my demo, i was a little better. The other issue I had with safari was the way you scrolled in and out. I liked the concept, but if you happen to put your fingers over a clickable link, it would go to that page, or give you an error that say couldnt open pop-up. Whatever, I guess thats minor. The other thing that kinda sorta irked me was that certain video sites I tried like funnyordie.com didnt work, because you needed flash, and obviously you cant DL flash to the phone.

After I was done messing with Safari I tried out the ipod, and let me tell you I LOVED IT!! The way the screen scrolls through your music so fast is great, and when you turn it sideways and you can browse by album cover that was awesome as well. While I was playing with the ipod, I decided to make a call to a buddy to test out the clarity, and I loved how the song stopped playing, let me make the call, then when I hung up, the song started right up again where it left off.

As I mentioned above when I made a call I was surpised at how clear and loud the voice on the other end was. It blows my RAZR out of the water.

Last I tried the camera, and I liked it. The screen gives you a good idea of how your picture will look... just a shame there is no flash... oh well.

Anyway thats my brief impression of the iphone. After I was done, I was talking to one of the employees and asked her if she got her free one yet, and she looked at me like I wasnt supposed to know, but then she admitted it and said she hadnt received it yet, but that when she does, she is canceling her verizon and is going to sign up at AT&T.

I have one question for the owner of the iphone... Can you take any of your mp3 that you might have on the ipod part of the phone and make it a ringtone? Or do you have to use ringtones made especially for the phone?
 
I wonder if BELL is willing to carry it, but honestly in my opinion I don't think the Canadian marketplace is ready for it JUST yet.
 
mrkgoo said:
Why would you think the battery life is less than Apple claims? Most of my Apple products have had MORE battery life than they publish. Well, at least initially...

No.

2 12" PB adv = 5 hrs actual: 3-4
1 MBP adv = 4-5 hrs actual: 2-3.5
 
Terrell said:
Then I hope you enjoy waiting for an iPhone until 2008 when they release a 3G version that Telus can pick up. From what I've read, Telus seems to be ejaculating at the mere thought of Rogers not being willing to carry it, and the longer Rogers sits on its hands about this, the more of a possibility it becomes.

You made my point. Rogers doesnt seem to even want to carry it. Therefore, they dont deserve it. Its probably the shittiest company Ive ever dealth with. They have a knack for doubling my cell phone bill month after month.
 
Futureman said:
In my opinion, UMPCs are a joke because of the operating system. I think you need an OS specifically designed for a smaller device. Just throwing Windows on these things is just stupid.

That's where Apple has the step here. They will be able to continue to evolve the iPhone OS overtime and make it a great OS to use on smaller devices.

Really, for 90% of people out there, they don't need something like a UMPC. Most people don't want to be carrying around a full featured OS like Windows in their pocket. I think something more in the direction of the iPhone's OS X lite is ample enough for the time you are away from your computer.

For someone from the future, you are too oblivious of the past. Unlike you guys, those who are right now driving the UMPC space has gone through many iPhone-esque devices already in the past and know to well the limitation of devices promise "teh internet" with a embedded CE device. The lesson learned over and over was that you can't have these limited capability CE device providing satisfying internet experience when the internet experience is defined on the full OS computers and is a constant moving target.

I personally went through Palm OS5 Clies with Wifi internet option 5 years ago (coincidently, the same resolution color screen as the iPhone @ 3.8" 320x480 transreflective LCD). There are tons of internet tablets that provide more full featured internet experience than the iPhone (Nokia n800 for instance, which has a 4.1" 800x480 color LCD allows for viewing flash websites).

The only new wrinkle the iPhone is adding to all this is that the web viewing for a phone is closer to the real web experience than what's already being offered for ages on the Windows Mobile smartphones. But they accomplish this by cramming a huge OS (OSX in the iPhone has a footprint that's around 700MBs! Compare that with your usual 32MB footprint for Windows Mobile phones) into a device with a processor that's not able to maximize it (iPhone uses ARM processor that can barely handle flash, just like the Nokia n800).

Eventually, many iPhone users will find the web experience on the iPhone to be too limiting and will be wanting to move up to a device that can give them the real web. And not too far off (months), you can have those devices for not much more money.

Oh and BTW, the great thing about UMPC platform is that you can have both the full computer experience (whether on the device or on the desktop via a docking station), or a tailored for on the go experience with launcher/wrappers for the OS like this.
 
So far I'm absolutely *stunned* at how durable the thing is. I suppose tomorrow I'll have to post video of this, but the drop tests got a little boring, so we took to playing soccer with my 8 gig yesterday, watching it ricochet at various angles off of everything inside.. and the thing still is in perfect shape. Even the metal casing around the outside didn't nick (!!!!). I tried the toss up into the air about 10ft and drop to the ground on a hard linoleum and carpeted surface with no damage. I grabbed my key and with a fair amount of verve jabbed and scratched at the glass, no damage. I can't say that I've ever had a phone period that could handle the impacts this thing has taken already, let alone a smart phone.

Still getting used to the phone, but overall... yeah. You just can't compare the OS to anything you've ever seen on a mobile device before, it just isn't close. If I could describe it in one word, I'd say "flow". Everything about the iPhone is about flow

On another note, AT&T's 3G network isn't HSDPA, it's UMTS. There's a difference in speed and latency between the two (and power consumption by virtue of the packeting differences).
 
Shogmaster said:
But they accomplish this by cramming a huge OS (OSX in the iPhone has a footprint that's around 700MBs! Compare that with your usual 32MB footprint for Windows Mobile phones)
huh? really? where did you read that?
 
Shogmaster said:
I don't remember. Probably one of those thousand iPhone links from Engadget. They had a 2 week long carpet bombing of iPhone new items.

Yeah, I know for a fact I read that somewhere, too. It's difficult to cite sources after the bombardment of the past 2 weeks.

I think I saw it in a review, too.
 
White Man said:
Yeah, I know for a fact I read that somewhere, too. It's difficult to cite sources after the bombardment of the past 2 weeks.

I think I saw it in a review, too.
Yeah, i think you are right about it being from a review.
 
After a day of heavy use, I'm completely in love. The included headphones actually work pretty well for calls, and people say I sound better/clearer than my beloved old phone, the SE 810. The screen looks great in bright sun, or complete darkness, and everything in between. Like the reviews say, if you go into a location with wifi -say, a cafe - it'll tell you, then offer to connect. Connect once, and it'll always switch to that wifi when you are near. Pretty sweet. EDGE wasn't that bad - it's usable, but you'll definitely notice Wifi. The speed upgrade of EDGE definitely makes a difference.

I got plenty of people saying "ohhhh" when I used it around NYC. One old woman - I would guess 70 - says to me, "oh is that the iphone? How is it?" So I tell her a bit, but not much, thinking what does a 70 year old woman care about an iphone? Then she says, "if it was 3g, I'd have bought it. At least it has wifi." I must say, I was pretty shocked to hear a 70 year old woman talking about 3g and wifi.
 
commish said:
After a day of heavy use, I'm completely in love. The included headphones actually work pretty well for calls, and people say I sound better/clearer than my beloved old phone, the SE 810. The screen looks great in bright sun, or complete darkness, and everything in between. Like the reviews say, if you go into a location with wifi -say, a cafe - it'll tell you, then offer to connect. Connect once, and it'll always switch to that wifi when you are near. Pretty sweet. EDGE wasn't that bad - it's usable, but you'll definitely notice Wifi. The speed upgrade of EDGE definitely makes a difference.

I got plenty of people saying "ohhhh" when I used it around NYC. One old woman - I would guess 70 - says to me, "oh is that the iphone? How is it?" So I tell her a bit, but not much, thinking what does a 70 year old woman care about an iphone? Then she says, "if it was 3g, I'd have bought it. At least it has wifi." I must say, I was pretty shocked to hear a 70 year old woman talking about 3g and wifi.
Don't sleep on the old folks. Some of the users I support at my job (I am a network admin) are older and they are pretty damn savvy.
 
Took mine to a party last night, and everyone there wanted to see it and play with it. Everyone was amazed and thought it was very cool. One woman, probably about 30 or so in age, doesn't even own a cell phone and says she has no desire for one, but after she played with it and asked about the price, she said she thought that that was a very good deal and she expected it to be more. They also were amazed at the size of the thing.

As for battery life, I'm pretty impressed so far. I left it fully charge up before I started using it, and that was yesterday at 3 PM. It's gotten plenty of "typical" use since. I've made phone calls, read e-mail, surfed the web, watched YouTube, and even used it to navigate to the party. Right now, the battery is at about half-strength, and I intend to run it completely down and recharge it to condition the battery today.
 
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