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Two more sleeps 'till iPhone 3G-S 32GB =DDDD
Oh man, I wish my life wasn't validated by comerical products.
(, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:10, 2 replies, latest was 17 years ago)
Or by Fischer Price My First Electronics equipment...

(, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:12, Reply)
Aside the 'average' camera, I can't think of anything wrong with it.
It can do pretty much anything any other phone can do, and a lot more.

Plus I really want to develop something for it.
(, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:15, Reply)
Can you
"right-click" yet?
(, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:18, Reply)
I can't get on with OSX, dispite a lot of my job being photography and design.
Can you Pinch and Spin? Actually, you probably can, I'm waiting for symaatics to release drivers for my laptop for all that.
(, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:25, Reply)
Lost me a little there...
I'd hear that with the iphone it wasn't possible to "right-click" stuff online. Or was it copy and paste? I can't remember!
Whichever it was, sounded annoying!

The pinch and spin stuff is rather sexy though!
(, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:28, Reply)
Copy'n'paste, but they've got that now, along with RichText C&P.
Macs can 'pinch', 'Rotate' and 'swipe'... so you use two-fingers to 'pinch' an object and zoom in, or use one finger still with the other one moving, to re-orientate an object.

But Synaptics now have that: www.synaptics.com/solutions/technology/gestures
(, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:33, Reply)
Can it suport Flash and Java yet?

(, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 12:16, Reply)
do
you have an existing iphone under contract? Do you know you cant upgrade, without paying the remainder of your current contract first? Its a bit shit.

I have a 3G one, I wont buy another one. Its been meh. Sick of having to jailbreak it just to get it do normal stuff.
(, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:19, Reply)
Contract ran out on the 5th of this month, with an epic bill of just under £1400 (they gave me credit for the vast majority of it though ;)
=D
(, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:23, Reply)
HTC magic
Runs Google Android, does pretty much what the iPhone can do, with the advantage of being an open platform (so you can get apps from places other than the official store without jailbreaking) and being able to multitask. And it's cheaper too. (only available on Vodafone at the moment, though there are other Android handsets around the corner)
(, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:19, Reply)
I've only briefly used Android.
But everything feels a bit, I donno, just not as slick.
(, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:36, Reply)
i think
the apple fanboism actually genuinely scares me now. I put them up there with scientologists, or Michael Jackson fans. People who queue, outside shops, for anything, are demented.
(, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:22, Reply)
I'm not really an Apple fanboy, I don't get on with OSX.
This is their one product I really like.
(, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:37, Reply)
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(, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 12:23, Reply)
Much as I like my Apple kit
I have absolutely no desire for an iPhone, or indeed any smart phone.

My little Nokia thingy makes phone calls well, and allows me to send (and indeed forward) text messages. I don't really need anything else from a mobile phone.
(, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:16, Reply)
My sony ericsson has all these functions,
I've only ever used the camera, call, and text buttons. :S
(, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:18, Reply)
The only apple stuff I own is a Touch, and it's the best PDA I can think off.
Although all smart phones can do this, the way it clouds with Google is great.
The way you can call from apps, like the Facebook one, is fantastic.
The games on it are way better than the DS or PSP.
The media playing is second-to-none.
Chicks totally dig guys who have apple products.

Now they've opened up Bluetooth properly, allowed Teethering* and added Notifications.... it's everything I want in a phone.

I got to admit though, if the Pre was out in the UK, that would be a serious competitor. Ditto with N97.


* That was the only reason why I didn't get the 3G.
(, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:22, Reply)
You cant tether
an iTouch.

When you tether an iphone 3g to a laptop (possible for years with a jailbroken phone) you see how damn fast O2 3G speeds really are. Its like good broadband. Its so slow on the iphone (and other phones) because the processors are far slower than your phone.

The worst aspect of the iphone for me is the web browsing. Its endlessly frustrating and feels like web access in 1996.


edit, sorry you talked about tethering to a phone. soz.
(, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:26, Reply)
O2 are accepting teethering on the 3.0 software now, so that's why I'm going with the iPhone now and not before.
Before, I used JoikoHotSpot on my N82 to get my other devices online.
(, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:35, Reply)
youre joking right?
* 3GB Bolt On = £14.68 a month, Wi-Fi is Unlimited in 5,000 hotspots via The Cloud, You need to have it for at least 30 days, if you go over your bundle plan it will cost you 19.6p a MB.
* 10GB Bolt On = £29.36 a month, Wi-Fi is Unlimited in 5,000 hotspots via The Cloud, You need to have it for at least 30 days, if you go over your bundle plan it will cost you 19.6p a MB.

Charging for something that already costs them nothing. Its appalling.
(, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 14:51, Reply)

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