Apple iPhone and related items (cont.)

[Kid_Eternity]

Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Contents and Settings

Cheers, much appreciated. Another question, can you delete specific contacts on the iPhone?

 

[Lazy Llama]

Cheers, much appreciated. Another question, can you delete specific contacts on the iPhone?

Sure.

Contacts, select the contact, Edit (top right), and there's a big ol' Delete Contact button at the bottom of the edit screen.

 

[Sunray]

You can, but I guess not with Fring.

Exactly, we use a conference bridge for work on an 0800 number but you need to dial the pin once connected. Fring allows you back to the buttons but they don't beep.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Sure.

Contacts, select the contact, Edit (top right), and there's a big ol' Delete Contact button at the bottom of the edit screen.

Cheers!

 

[Sunray]

Left bud on my Apple headphones has gone a bit shit. Not dead but its crackling a bit.

2 1/2 months of use.

 

[zenie]

Get some aftermarket ones the ones phone companies give you are crap.

Seen any good bluetooth handsfree kits at all?

 

[ChrisFilter]

You can't use the iPhone as a modem?! That's shit.

I'd get one if it had a slide out keyboard and could be used as a modem.

Phones are shit at the moment, when will someone grab the market by the balls and release a phone that does everything?

 

[zenie]

You can't use the iPhone as a modem?! That's shit.

Crispy says you can....no idea what jailbreaking is mind!!

He's talking about jailbreaking, which afaik does not require removing the sim.

 

[Crispy]

Means installing a hack to allow non-official software on it.

 

[ChrisFilter]

So not sleeping with 16yr old girls then? Damn...

Oh! Jailbreaking!

 

[Crispy]

Crumbs. The iphone outsold the blackberry this last quarter. 6.9 versus 6.1 million units. (worldwide). And took twice as much in revenues. 4.2 versus 2.1 billion $.

 

[tarannau]

Even more amazingly:

Jobs said that when measured by revenues, at $4.6 billion in phone revenue Apple “has become the world’s third-largest mobile phone supplier,” after Nokia ($12.7 billion) and Samsung ($5.9 billion), and ahead of Sony Ericsson ($4.2 billion), LG ($3.4 billion), Motorola ($3.2 billion), and RIM ($2.1 billion). “Pretty amazing,” Jobs said. “Not bad for being in the market only 15 months.”

Are they including the itunes apps store revenues in there? It's a fuck of an achievement whatever.

 

[Sunray]

I think that shows that those phone suppliers were resting on their laurals happily churning out one similar hand set after another, with little regard to what people actually would like from a phone.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Them some amazing stats, wonder if the Android phone will get anywhere near them in 15 months?

 

[Gromit]

I think that shows that those phone suppliers were resting on their laurals happily churning out one similar hand set after another, with little regard to what people actually would like from a phone.

Nah. All apple have done is what they usually do. Take an existing product coolify the controls and add a easy to use UI. They did it with MP3 players and now a phone.

Expect a Apple motor car next with funky but easy to use controls that make driving more fun.

 

[Crispy]

And they did it with computers back in the day, tbf.

 

[Sunray]

Nah. All apple have done is what they usually do. Take an existing product coolify the controls and add a easy to use UI. They did it with MP3 players and now a phone.

Expect a Apple motor car next with funky but easy to use controls that make driving more fun.

Err, so what I said then. What Apple do is identify the most common use cases and stream line them to the absolute minimum forgetting about adding bells and whistles and then make the product look cool as well.

 

[untethered]

All apple have done is what they usually do. Take an existing product coolify the controls and add a easy to use UI.

And that's just so easy that the other manufacturers didn't do it because they couldn't be bothered and aren't really interested in profits.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Google Street Maps on iPod and iPhone

 

[Sunray]

I'm still thinking of a use for street view beyond it being very cool indeed. There must be something more than being cool for all the effort Google have put in to create it.

I have this suspicion that someone pulling the strings at Google is fascinated by it all, rather than it being something of real use. Perhaps they're just digital gold mining for want of a better term.

 

[editor]

Google Street Maps on iPod and iPhone

I would have thought that users would have preferred the firmware 2.2 update to add copy/cut and paste text, MMS support, landscape mode email composition and video recording rather than Street View seeing as they're fairly basic requirements for a smartphone.

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone...st-iphone-firmware-and-still-no-ctrl-c-479428

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I'm still thinking of a use for street view beyond it being very cool indeed. There must be something more than being cool for all the effort Google have put in to create it.

I have this suspicion that someone pulling the strings at Google is fascinated by it all, rather than it being something of real use. Perhaps they're just digital gold mining for want of a better term.

Yeah I know what you mean. It might become a practical use once additional info can be over layed onto it...

 

[Kid_Eternity]

At&t are polling the iPhone users about which features they'd like to see:

AT&T has recently begun surveying some of its longer-term iPhone buyers asking what features they would most like to see added to the Apple handset.


The survey chiefly touches on post-purchase satisfaction with both Apple and AT&T and is described by AppleInsider readers as a follow-up to a similar survey from a few months ago, or shortly after the iPhone 3G launch.

It's also said to be gauging reactions to iPhone firmware 2.1 and whether or not the update improved the phone's features.

A single page of the survey, however, is committed just to judging which features customers would most likely to see added to the iPhone in the future. The questionnaire asks owners to pick the top five hardware or software add-ons they'd like to see and include many of the most prominent requests made in the community, including cutting and pasting text, built-in instant messaging, Flash/Java support and MMS messaging.

It'll be interesting to see if any of these filter their way up to Apple...

 

[editor]

This isn't exactly the most useful of updates, but it sure looks cool and a lot of fun:

Google already has customized some of its Web sites for display on the iPhone, but now the company also dived headlong onto Apple's highly regarded mobile phone with a full-fledge application, a handheld version of its Google Earth geographical software.

Google Earth lets people virtually fly around a 3D view of the world made from satellite and aerial imagery mapped onto the planet's mountains and valleys. The iPhone version reproduces this core experience, downloading imagery from Google's servers as the perspective shifts and dotting the map with landmarks, photos, and other information.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10075543-37.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

At&t are polling the iPhone users about which features they'd like to see:

Considering the iPhone's phenomenal success, it's kinda funny that all of those wishlist features have been available on a ton of smartphones for years!

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Yep no idea why they're so slow but then the iPhone got some things right from the start that G1 owners are gonna have to wait for like desktop sync...so I guess no company has got it right in terms of form and function yet.

 

[elbows]

Google Earth does look fun. Its a shame some essential are missing, but having loaded last.fm onto my iphone last night, I can say without doubt that this is the most interesting & fun device Ive ever bought.

 

[Sunray]

I would have thought that users would have preferred the firmware 2.2 update to add copy/cut and paste text, MMS support, landscape mode email composition and video recording rather than Street View seeing as they're fairly basic requirements for a smartphone.

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone...st-iphone-firmware-and-still-no-ctrl-c-479428

Here is my list of current software flaws with the iPhone :-

SMS doesn't
Allow me to forward texts,
Edit existing text.
With the the proper keyboard, MMS text would be useful and could save me money, 4 free text for 1 MMS message but that can be huge.
Phone
Send and receive contacts via text or bluetooth. Grr.
Email
Ability to disable images in html email (huge security flaw),
Mark all as read.
Create folders

The camera's sensor is too cheap and slow for it to be able to take decent video (or even 1/2 decent pictures for that matter). If people hadn't moaned about it being so expensive then it might have got an upgrade and video might be available. Still if you want shitty videos you can always hack the phone. They might get that app onto App store.

I look forward to v3 of the iPhone software.

 

[Gromit]

They might get that app onto App store.

Apple would never approve it. Any app that makes the phone look inferior isn't going to get through. Ropey videos taken by iPhones going on youtube and looking crap would be a real embarressment.

 

[Sunray]

Google Earth.

Someone with financial power at Google is definitely fascinated with seeing the globe from a height and any other way he can.

Very interesting application that is cool and one hell of an educational tool as far as geography and where countries are. I can't think of a commercial use so at the moment its very municipal of Google? Bit like public loo's of the 19th Century.

 

[editor]

I downloaded Google Earth on to my desktop and have used it precisely once. I know it's well clever and all that but.... meh.