[CAT] Scratching Post

I still use the prepaid phone I got in 2002. It works, costs me about $10 a month. Got a nice bit of cancer in my ear but other than that all's well.

This one tells my thoughts, especially the keyboard part :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuYkH60w4Ns

\ Vadar

Going to pick it up tonight.

Finish work at 16:30 and the place shuts at 18:00 so I have an hour to make it through the traffic to the depot.

Annoying thing is that it was delivered by DHL. There are about 4 DHL depots in Trafford Park (the place where I work and live 5 mins from) and yet they return my phone to fuckin Warrington which is dangerously close to stinky Liverpool.

I can barely contain my jealousy. Don't blow you paycheck at the Apps Store!

Sorry to interrupt. But...

1. Is there a new and an old model of the IPhone productline ?
2. Will Iphone survive manhigh drops to concrete floor and rough handling in general ?
Because IPhones is on sale here right now. 8 - 16 - 32 GB. Dirt cheap. What equals ~ 140 £.

There's the iphone, iphone 3G and the iphone 3GS.

The iphone 3g is pretty cheap right now cos the 3GS is the new kid on the block.

As for dropping it... I wouldn't. Though no doubt you can buy it some armour of some sort. Which I may well do.

Oh and I'm DLing itunes in preparation of firing up my iphone as I type. Woooo!

Wtf, I made a long post in reply to vadar, and now I'm realizing it's not here.

Posting this from my iPhone. Fricken sweet.

Prove it!

He's a useless shite that boy!

rossi wrote:Prove it!

Doing it again now. Can you not tell the difference?

Totally badass this thing.

My initial concern was battery life cos it seemed to be killing its battery and was struggling to make 24 hours between charges. However I then figured out that was cos I had everything turned on. It was using it's GPS, it's "push" (ie. it was pinging my mail server plus various app servers looking for new info), wifi and 3G and it was getting slaughtered. Turn off all that (essentially turning it into a phone and ipod) and it lasts over a week. A bit of tweaking of the settings depending on what you're doing and I'm getting about 4 days out of it. Not bad.

Obviously the GPS and google maps are cool. Being able to know exactly where you are (including what direction you're facing) and find pretty much anything (with the Yell.com and AroundMe apps along with Google) is great. As is the combined functionality that lets you just hit a button to instantly phone or email anything you've just found on the map. Nice.

The GPS also allows for some interesting dating apps. I tried a couple and wasn't getting much until I put a pic of Steves cat in my profile and put "kittens" in my Likes box. Then I started getting hit on by all the local middle aged lonely cat-ladies. Uninstalled that app.

Games are sweet and the motion detector and touch screen are simply superb. Means some fun games.

Latest aquisition is Shazam - If you haven't heard of it, it basically recognises music for you. Hit a button and it listens to the track and then tells you what it's called, who sang it, what album it's off, when it was released, where you can buy it (including itunes obv.) and a link to it on Jewtube. Offering it a random selection off the radio it got 5/5 successfully recognising an eclectic mix of Gloria Gaynor and the Pips, The Enemy, David Bowie, Lighthouse Family and some chart R&B cheesedick off Radio One (I had to check the Jewtube link on that cos I'd never heard of the cunt).

How is the phone service over there? Are you tied to At&T? I'm still trying to decide whether to buy one or not, and though I don't plan on using the phone much, AT%T is basically taking it in the ass from angry iPhone customers over here. AT&T service is creaking under the load of downloaded apps, Jewtube streams, etc. etc, and many people are reporting that their iPhone is useful for everything but making phone calls. The phone doesn't ring when called, voicemails pop up days after they were left...shit like that. Just wondering if you have experienced like that or know anyone who has. Not that it helps me over here, but I want to get as much info from iPhone users as possible before I make a decision.

On a related note, why the fuck does the iPod Nano have a video camera and the iPod Touch no camera at all?

Different network over here. The iPhones are tied to O2 which according to my research and limited experience so far are pretty damned good. Reception for both calls and 3G internet/app frippery is good.

I have heard the same as you though, that AT&T suck and is possibly the worst thing about the iPhone. Maybe the fact that it's Apple and all the proprietry bullshit that entails edges it out.

The only other thing is the complexity of it takes a bit of getting used to. In terms of just using it as a phone, taking calls and texting folk it seemed a bit fiddly. Gotten used to that now though and the little touch-screen keypad is easy to use in landscape. Still making a few mistakes with it in portrait though.

One thing I would add is a "Phone" mode. A simple button that automatically turns off your 3G, wifi, push and GPS but leaves your phone stuff intact. As it is I can either use "Airplane" mode which turns off all incoming and outgoing signals or do each aspect manually. A bit fiddly really. Basically it means I have 3G, push and GPS turned off 90% of the time and switch on wifi when I'm in a hotspot.

I'll have to suggest to Vick that she turn some services off. Her battery is always dying in the middle of a conversation, and she always calls back on a landline complaining that she just charged the phone yesterday.