Apple iPhone and related items (cont.)

[editor]

Yep. Android's going to get better and better, offer a wider range of handsets and serve up more or less the same suite of apps as the iPhone - and it'll be considerably cheaper and (huzzah!) not be burdened by Apple-style app censorship.

It hasn't got the 'sex' appeal of the iPhone yet, but there's some great phones coming up.

All win!

 

[Gromit]

Out of interest I just a quick look at my iPhone reciepts.

Since November 2007 I have bought through iTunes.

£41.03 of apps
£36.15 of music.

If I moved to a new platform I could probably export the music somehow (hoping that the digital manangement doesn't screw me.) but the aps I'd have to repurchase. Would it be worth moving or not?

 

[grit]

Out of interest I just a quick look at my iPhone reciepts.

Since November 2007 I have bought through iTunes.

£41.03 of apps
£36.15 of music.

If I moved to a new platform I could probably export the music somehow (hoping that the digital manangement doesn't screw me.) but the aps I'd have to repurchase. Would it be worth moving or not?

in 3 years your spent under 80 quid? Hardly seems like a show stopper. No gurantee that the exact apps you use on iPhone will have Android ports either. Of course they will prob have equivalents.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Looks like the dream is getting close:

[UK] You know how it is, you wait for a bus and then three arrive at once. And while NextBuses (iTunes link), a new iPhone app by London-based developer Malcolm Barclay, doesn’t quite solve this problem, it does promise to make it easier to know when the next bus is due and even, in some instances, tell you if it’s running on time.

The app, which costs 59p, delivers departure information for 370,000 bus, coach and tram stops throughout England, Scotland and Wales to Apple’s smartphone. It gives access to a mixture of scheduled and real-time (where available) information based on the user’s location, postcode or general locality.


The data is licensed from Traveline’s NextBuses service, which already exists in SMS and WAP-based form, although the iPhone version is obviously a lot richer on the UI side and overall much more user-friendly.

 

[Badgers]

Looks like the dream is getting close:

Good good, we mentioned this earlier on..

The buses send data out so you should be able to get an accurate idea of arrival times etc.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Good good, we mentioned this earlier on..

The buses send data out so you should be able to get an accurate idea of arrival times etc.

Yep!

 

[teuchter]

Looks like the dream is getting close:

I didn't know you could already get this information from a WAP site -

nextbuses.mobi

Have just bookmarked that.

 

[Badgers]

Just saw this software on the shelf in Currys. Sure there is another way of doing this but wondered if anyone has tried? I have some good tv series on DVD and can pick up new ones much cheaper on DVD than iTunes are likely to ever offer.

 

[teuchter]

What is Badgers talking about?

 

[Badgers]

Woops, this software

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Just saw this software on the shelf in Currys. Sure there is another way of doing this but wondered if anyone has tried? I have some good tv series on DVD and can pick up new ones much cheaper on DVD than iTunes are likely to ever offer.

Does it rip DVD to iPhone without faffing about with decrypting first?

 

[Badgers]

Does it rip DVD to iPhone without faffing about with decrypting first?

No idea

 

[Badgers]

Just hooked up the home wi-fi and the difference in speed from 3G is great

 

[Kid_Eternity]

And it's easier on the battery...

 

[sim667]

Woops, this software

just use handbrake. its free.

 

[Badgers]

just use handbrake. its free.

Any more info on this?

 

[Lazy Llama]

Any more info on this?

More info and a video showing how to use it - OS X, Windows and Linux

 

[sim667]

More info and a video showing how to use it - OS X, Windows and Linux

^^ sorry, didnt look at the thread for a bit

 

[Badgers]

Cheers guys

Will have a play with this tomorrow.

 

[kittyP]

Ok. Any help appreciated but not sure.
I have just downloaded the free google app so I can see my gmail calendar from my iPhone.
All is ok and normal apart from the calendar is in german!
My mailbox is in English but calendar in german.
Any idea how to change the language whilst not being a german speaker?
All else failing I kinda know german woman at work...

 

[neonwilderness]

This page gives a different address to try - http://google.com/calendar


On a completely unrelated note, has anyone got any experience of using an external battery? There's been a few times when I've not had access to a power supply for most of the day and have nearly ran out of power, so a bit extra would be useful at times.

 

[Crispy]

Ok. Any help appreciated but not sure.
I have just downloaded the free google app so I can see my gmail calendar from my iPhone.
All is ok and normal apart from the calendar is in german!
My mailbox is in English but calendar in german.
Any idea how to change the language whilst not being a german speaker?
All else failing I kinda know german woman at work...

You can make the built-in calendar sync to google calendar. there's instructions on the gcal website - get your calendar up, go to help and search it

 

[Kid_Eternity]

You can make the built-in calendar sync to google calendar. there's instructions on the gcal website - get your calendar up, go to help and search it

Yep this and very useful it is too.

 

[Structaural]

This page gives a different address to try - http://google.com/calendar


On a completely unrelated note, has anyone got any experience of using an external battery? There's been a few times when I've not had access to a power supply for most of the day and have nearly ran out of power, so a bit extra would be useful at times.

I carry one of these around, you get about 2 charges from it:

http://us.kensington.com/html/15458.html

 

[editor]

Styletap - the nifty program that lets you access the Palm OS catalogue of over 30,000 apps on other mobile platforms - has been released for the iPhone.

Sadly, you'll have to jailbreak your phone to use it.

Naturally, we would prefer to be able to offer this product through the App Store, but unfortunately this is not currently possible due to Apple's restrictive policies, and instead this version of StyleTap will run on jailbroken devices.

http://www.styletap.com/product_apple.php

 

[Sunray]

In this instance 'restrictive policy' means that you can't be running applications of dubious legality on the iPhone. Hard to argue with that.

So here we are, someones got Palm applications running on an iPhone and your all telling me that running iPhone applications on another phone is never going to happen?

 

[grit]

So here we are, someones got Palm applications running on an iPhone and your all telling me that running iPhone applications on another phone is never going to happen?

No, someone has made what looks like a really shitty implementation of the very old Palm OS applications (god knows why the fuck they bothered).

Comparing that to other devices natively executing Objective-C is laughable.

 

[editor]

No, someone has made what looks like a really shitty implementation of the very old Palm OS applications (god knows why the fuck they bothered).

On what basis are you concluding that it is a "very shitty implementation" of the Palm OS please? From the specs, it seems a fairly sophisticated job, supporting cut and paste across both OSs, GPS, audio and video recording/playback and support for a “virtual memory card.”

http://www.wirefresh.com/styletap-run-thousands-of-palm-os-apps-on-your-iphone/

 

[editor]

In this instance 'restrictive policy' means that you can't be running applications of dubious legality on the iPhone. Hard to argue with that.

It's only of "dubious legality" because of Apple's highly dubious developer agreements - as pointed out by the leading digital civil liberties group, EFF:


http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/iphone-developer-program-license-agreement-all

 

[grit]

On what basis are you concluding that it is a "very shitty implementation" of the Palm OS please? From the specs, it seems a fairly sophisticated job, supporting cut and paste across both OSs, GPS, audio and video recording/playback and support for a “virtual memory card.”

http://www.wirefresh.com/styletap-run-thousands-of-palm-os-apps-on-your-iphone/

Meh, your right its a good implementation of a shitty OS. I dont like emulators they always seem to be missing that one crucial thing.