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Interesting new iPhone 4S related experience. A family member just got one (they've always had normal Nokia style phones and never had any interest in smartphones), had text messages all week asking how to do stuff! Looks like the 4S is a little more feature packed for the novice than iPhones used to be...
 
Turn your iPhone into the ugliest camera around with this ludicrous attachment:

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http://www.wirefresh.com/turn-your-...om-camera-with-this-249-lens-dial-attachment/
 
The 4S has a fantastic camera but this is just plain nuts! Can't even see your average camera geek wanting something this absurd...
 
Haha had my iPhone 4S for just over five weeks and have used 3.8 gigabytes of data in downloads! All you can eat data from 3 is sweeeeet! :D
 
Oh yeah seen that one! Personally I've found the camera on the 4s fucking great so much so that I never bring my point and shoot out with me anymore but if I needed anything more I'd buy a camera not get some odd attachment...
 
Finally got a 4 from ebay after having my 3gs for a couple years.

Cancelled my exisiting 02 rolling and opted for a giffgaff thing for the 4, till something better comes out next year or whenever.

I would like to

1) save all my 3gs content onto my computer
2) plug in my 4 to the laptop, to download the latest update, BUT want nothing, including my contacts, from the 3gs to be on my 4
3) delete all content from my 3gs so I can sell it on

I don't plug in my iphone too often to the laptop, so don't have much of a clue

So, do I plug my 3gs, drag and drop all pics, music to my laptop, then delete the old itunes. Then plug in my 4 afresh, let the new itunes download and new software update? Then somehow factory reset the 3gs?

Clueless, as you can tell, please help!
 
plug in your 4, when prompted 'do you want to set this up as a new phone' click 'yes'

plug in 3gs and click restore. Just restore it as a new phone, not from backup.

As for backing up all of your 3gs content, syncing with the computer *should* save all your pics and contacts, apps, and purchased music to your computer.........

I think thats right anyway, I've been on icloud/mobileme for a good couple of years so not 100% sure about contacts etc.
 
Why do you want to back up your 3GS if you're not going to transfer that info to the 4?
 
Sorry, just to add, I want to ONLY transfer the apps from the 3gs to the 4. So how would the above process differ please, sim667, or anyone?

Crispy, just want to back up old pics mainly, which I don't want transferring to the new device, just the laptop.
 
The apps are linked to the iTunes account registered for that phone, rather than specifically phone data.

If you want to transfer the _data connected to those apps_ - saved games, scores, documents, settings etc - then I think you will have to restore the new phone from the backup of the old one, and then delete everything you don't want on it afterwards.
 
Basically I want to do it this way incase the 4 remembers any autofill data, eg email addresses, contacts, etc from the 3gs, which I do not require it to.

So will restoring the new phone from the 3gs back, remember some of the pointless autofill etc?

If it doesn't backup the autofill, then I don't mind doing that, and then manually deleting some of the old pictures, data etc that I want to get rid of on the new phone.
 
I'm not sure, but if sync the phone as your old one, then turn off all the stuff you don't want, that should sort it

Why don't you want passwords and everything?
 
Don't mind keeping passwords, purchased apps, even some music and pictures to the new device. Need to get rid of some contacts too.

But I received unsolicited emails, which seem to be saved in autofill, which I hate in general, and despite not responding to the emails and having just read them, they still, for some reason, appear in autofill.

So will restoring the new phone from the back up of the old one then get rid of the autofill?

If not, what's the best way round it?
 
Was it a man or woman? I had fairly heated discussion about the shape of the 3G/3GS being more attractive to woman, the 4 being a more manly design with its architectural sharp edges.

3GS can handle iOS5. Just don't use a 4 before you get one. The 3GS screen looks like a retro video game compared.

I was wondering about the original competitors to the 3G and I found this

http://www.mobilewhack.com/top-ten-list-of-iphone-3g-competitors/

Made me chuckle. The 3G still looks good I reckon, uncommon in tech devices to continue to look good years after its release, testament to Jonathan Ives skill. Compared to the rabble of crappy hardware and software that was pitched against it at the time, it looks a masterpiece.
 
I was lookin at switching my iPhone 4 to giffgaff but it looks like you can't use the personal hotspot with them ..... Does anyone know any work around??
 
sim667 said:
I was lookin at switching my iPhone 4 to giffgaff but it looks like you can't use the personal hotspot with them ..... Does anyone know any work around??
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I've been using my phone as a hotspot on GiffGaff with no probs, but that's only occasionally.
 
They haven't blocked it, they haven't released a carrier file for it, however as giffgaff piggybacks of o2 I'm wondering whether its possible to edit the carrier file to allow it to work.
 
editor said:
It's locked out by Apple because GiffGaff aren't one of their "official carriers." Android and other users don't have this trouble.

More: http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Co...on/iPhone-Personal-Hotspot/td-p/508475/page/3
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sorry are you attempting to blame apple for giffgaff offering a service for handsets they don't support...

GiffGaff should cease selling sim cards for phones they don't support on their network it's not like any other phone uses a micro sim yet so its not like they are using a default sim or something which is industry standard...
 
editor said:
To repeat: It's locked out by Apple because GiffGaff aren't one of their "official carriers."

I'm just stating the facts.
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To repeat. Apple lock out all partners who have not signed their deal to provide certain service levels. So GIFFGAFF are selling a service they know they cannot support.

How is this Apples fault?

and you're not just reporting it, otherwise you would have said GiffGaff don't support tethering on their network not Apple have locked it out which isn't true as this is the case for all carriers who haven't signed up to the Apple TOS.

You are putting a spin on it to support your standard defacto anti apple sentiment...

So no you're not stating facts you are spinning something to portray it as such...

which in most circles would be considered dishonest...
 
GarfieldLeChat said:
To repeat. Apple lock out all partners who have not signed their deal to provide certain service levels. So GIFFGAFF are selling a service they know they cannot support.
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I'm not 'blaming' Apple and Giffgaff aren't 'selling the service' either.

I'm just stating the facts, annoying though they may be for iPhone users wanting to take advantage of GiffGaff's generally excellent service.
Now calm down and stop making a twat of yourself.
 
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