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Very weird, sounds like the phone is a bit borked.

I've never had any of the issues you have had. Just worked. Only ever done it once because I installed Windows 7 and it wouldn't let me switch on Manually manage music without blanking all that was on there.

You did hard reset before you did that didn't you. Not sure it would make a difference now but worth a try.
 
Sunray said:
Very weird, sounds like the phone is a bit borked.

I've never had any of the issues you have had. Just worked. Only ever done it once because I installed Windows 7 and it wouldn't let me switch on Manually manage music without blanking all that was on there.

You did hard reset before you did that didn't you. Not sure it would make a difference now but worth a try.
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Yeah the phone thing might be the case...very weird the problems the Editor had above.
 
I still recommend booking an appointment in the Apple shop to see if they can do anything. Might just replace it.

I did and they replaced my screen in about 15 min.
 
I've finally got the thing working and am having to reinstall everything from scratch - which means I'm going to end up £15 down because one of the apps was a freebie from the US store (and I'm not going back there again!).
 
If you have sync'd with the app on the phone then it will have been copied off the phone to the itunes\mobile applications folder. Go to the app's section of iTunes, tick the box by the app and sync.

If it was downloaded via itunes on the app store then the app store remembers ever single application you have ever downloaded and will let you download it again.
 
Sunray said:
If you have sync'd with the app on the phone then it will have been copied off the phone to the itunes\mobile applications folder. Go to the app's section of iTunes, tick the box by the app and sync.
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Nope. T'was empty, despite being synced numerous times.

I've redownloading the apps now but have to pay for the US review ones because I can't be fucking arsed to dance to Apple's tune again.
 
Whenever they decide to issue forth the next iphone, they are going to have to provide a higher res screen to match the competition. Over the past few weeks I've gotten used to a 480x800 one and twice today people have handed me their iphone to look at a photo or whatever and frankly it looks rubbish. All grainy and pixelly. This is not opinion - it's fact.
 
teuchter said:
Whenever they decide to issue forth the next iphone, they are going to have to provide a higher res screen to match the competition. Over the past few weeks I've gotten used to a 480x800 one and twice today people have handed me their iphone to look at a photo or whatever and frankly it looks rubbish. All grainy and pixelly. This is not opinion - it's fact.
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It'd have to be double in either direction as none of the apps would work properly...well they'd work but would look utterly crap as the pixel wouldn't scale exactly.

Not sure that a 640x800 screen is really necessary on a mobile that small.
 
Kanda said:
They need to improve the camera. The screen is fine.
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I haven't really got any issues with the screen (although a higher res OLED screen would be nice). The camera desperately needs an upgrade and a flash, but the bigger single improvement for me would be be some form of multi tasking.

Having to open and close a game, every time I want to read an email or reply to a text message is hideously 2008.
 
teuchter said:
Whenever they decide to issue forth the next iphone, they are going to have to provide a higher res screen to match the competition. Over the past few weeks I've gotten used to a 480x800 one and twice today people have handed me their iphone to look at a photo or whatever and frankly it looks rubbish. All grainy and pixelly. This is not opinion - it's fact.
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No, it's opinion.
 
ChrisFilter said:
No, it's opinion.
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No, it's scientific fact.

Once I got used to a phone with iphone-like resolution, the screen on my old N95 (which had looked great a couple of years earlier when it came out) looked rubbish.

Now, I have gotten used to a higher resolution than the iphone, and the iphone display looks rubbish. As does my old phone with a similar res screen.

And anyone else will find the same, once they get used to better.

Fact.
 
What I'd like in order of priority:

Better battery
Multitasking
Better camera

I can wait for the last two but the first one is increasingly annoying...
 
teuchter said:
No, it's scientific fact.

Once I got used to a phone with iphone-like resolution, the screen on my old N95 (which had looked great a couple of years earlier when it came out) looked rubbish.

Now, I have gotten used to a higher resolution than the iphone, and the iphone display looks rubbish. As does my old phone with a similar res screen.

And anyone else will find the same, once they get used to better.

Fact.
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My Sony TH55 PalmOS PDA had a higher res screen than my Treo 650, but I was more than happy to move on to the Treo.

Screen res is just one part of the experience, unless you're solely interested in viewing photos/films.
 
editor said:
My Sony TH55 PalmOS PDA had a higher res screen than my Treo 650, but I was more than happy to move on to the Treo.
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I just looked those two up and the difference is not massive (320x320 compared with 320x480)

In this case we are talking a massive difference - about three times the number of pixels on screen.

It really does make a big difference when you are looking at websites or maps.
 
Kanda said:
I'm sure if it starts to fall behind significantly, they'll do something about it.
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There's every chance that the iPhone may be usurped, just like Motorola came and went, Nokia faded and Palm nearly vanished (and may still do).

Apple is rapidly losing the app advantage but their phone remains the slickest package in town.

Android is starting to really heat up as a platform, but the market can change quickly so I wouldn't like to predict how things will look in two years time.

I'd hate Apple to be totally dominating because their restrictive and censorial 'walled garden' practices really aren't good for developers and consumer choice.
 
teuchter said:
No, it's scientific fact.

Once I got used to a phone with iphone-like resolution, the screen on my old N95 (which had looked great a couple of years earlier when it came out) looked rubbish.

Now, I have gotten used to a higher resolution than the iphone, and the iphone display looks rubbish. As does my old phone with a similar res screen.

And anyone else will find the same, once they get used to better.

Fact.
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teuchter said:
No, it's scientific fact.

Once I got used to a phone with iphone-like resolution, the screen on my old N95 (which had looked great a couple of years earlier when it came out) looked rubbish.

Now, I have gotten used to a higher resolution than the iphone, and the iphone display looks rubbish. As does my old phone with a similar res screen.

And anyone else will find the same, once they get used to better.

Fact.
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I think you need to relearn the concept of 'fact'. Yes, it's a fact that certain devices have a higher res screen than the iPhone, but the iPhone having a "grainy and rubbish screen" is in no way fact. It is opinion.

Crikey :D

Oh, and btw, I went from a Touch HD to an iPhone and barely noticed a difference.
 
For those who refuse to accept that [what teuchter says] = [scientific fact]


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iPhone






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Current competitors
 
teuchter said:
Maybe you don't have very good eyesight.

I can accept that for older people and others with bad eyesight, the iphone res may well be perfectly sufficient.
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:rolleyes:

You're just trolling now, you silly sausage.

And re: the images above, compress them to the size of the iPhone screen, and the lower res one will be perfectly legible.
 
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