OT - anyone have an iPhone or something similar?
RalGrl
something else like a BlackBerry or PDA? And if so, how are you
liking it and what features do you like the most? What don't you
like? Do you check personal and work email on it? Can you surf any
sites?
thanks.
charliekilo
news:44770856-e8de-4d59...@13g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
I have a Blackberry 8800 -- it is SO much better than the Treo 650 I had
previously. The phone quality is good, including it's Bluetooth and I like
the email app -- but I like the iPhone's email application much better. The
web access functions very well. I only use the phone for business purposes.
I'll probably go to the iPhone (or similar) after a few more generations.
cuh...@webtv.net
unplugged except for when I want to use at.A few days ago, I plugged it
in and I phoned that divorced woman [Julie] whom works for Bell South in
Natchez, about a nail mail card (better pay those $690.93 taxes on that
house of yours next door to me, Julie!) concerning taxes on her
house.She said, Let me pull this car over!
Her skinny twin sister (Jeri) works off shore for Shell.Meanwhiles,,,,,
www.cowboysnightmare.com [Jeri]
cuhulin
Anim8rFSK
<44770856-e8de-4d59...@13g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
RalGrl <ralg...@gmail.com> wrote:
My friends like their iPhones but I won't deal with a dishonest outfit
like AT&T, especially at a premium.
Me and Olivia Munn.
sigh
I like the sound of that
"Me and Olivia Munn" . . .
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No Shat, No Show.
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S'up
<cuh...@webtv.net> wrote in message
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>I have a Bell South (at&t) (G.E.) land line corded phone.I keep it
> unplugged except for when I want to use at.A few days ago, I plugged it
> in and I phoned that divorced woman [Julie] whom works for Bell South in
> Natchez, about a nail mail card (better pay those $690.93 taxes on that
> house of yours next door to me, Julie!) concerning taxes on her
> house.She said, Let me pull this car over!
WTF?
Zombie Elvis
wrote:
I use a Treo 680 and a Palm TX together which work quite nicely for
me. The Treo is my cell phone, crappy camera, and PDA while the TX is
my web tablet, e-book reader, and video player. You might want to ask
this question in a different newsgroup like comp.sys.palmtop where the
question is on topic and the users are more knowledgeable..
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rebel, fighting the establishment" like an Aibo on
a skateboard.
- Seen on Slashdot
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roberto...@ameritech.net
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cuh...@webtv.net
Cell phones have turned people (who own/use cell phones) into zombies.I
dont own or use a cell phone.
cuhulin
Mark Nobles
I have an iPhone, and I like it. No problem with AT&T either.
I use my gmail account for email on it, and no problem with that. I
would like to be able to create a folder to save mail instead of having
it all in Inbox.
Safari works like the desktop version and doesn't require special
mobile versions of sites. It doesn't have, and probably never will
have, Flash. There are stupid sites that don't work without it. This is
not a problem with the iPhone, it's a problem with stupid site
designers who ignore accessibility requirements. On the plus side, you
don't get any of "hit the monkey" ads.
It relies on iTunes, so if you don't like iTunes or use Linux, you may
have a problem with the iPhone.
My car bluetooth connects with it but doesn't download my Contacts List
from the phone. I don't know if that's because it can't or because I
haven't told it to. It has wifi, so when I'm in a hot spot it tries to
use that for surfing and email.
This is my first phone with texting. One friend insists on texting me
pictures and movies and they don't come to my phone. AT&T saves them on
a website and sends me the address, but I can't just poke the address
to look at them. I have to copy it down (no copy and paste) on paper
and type it back in. On the subject of texting, typing on the tiny
QWERTY keyboard with no tactile feedback is sometimes a little tricky.
Touch typing is flat impossible.
What else?
Anim8rFSK
Mark Nobles <cmn-n...@comcast.net> wrote:
> This is my first phone with texting. One friend insists on texting me
> pictures and movies and they don't come to my phone. AT&T saves them on
> a website and sends me the address, but I can't just poke the address
> to look at them. I have to copy it down (no copy and paste) on paper
> and type it back in.
That's horrible!
RalGrl
<DELETEMETOREPLYrobertocasti...@ameritech.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:56:20 -0700 (PDT), RalGrl <ralgrl...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Way OT here.... wanted to ask if anyone here has an iPhone or
> >something else like a BlackBerry or PDA? And if so, how are you
> >liking it and what features do you like the most? What don't you
> >like? Do you check personal and work email on it? Can you surf any
> >sites?
>
> I use a Treo 680 and a Palm TX together which work quite nicely for
> me. The Treo is my cell phone, crappy camera, and PDA while the TX is
> my web tablet, e-book reader, and video player. You might want to ask
> this question in a different newsgroup like comp.sys.palmtop where the
> question is on topic and the users are more knowledgeable..
Thanks for pointing me to that group! Definitely better to ask the
more knowledgeable... was just hoping us gossip groupies were
connected, too :-)
Thanks!
RalGrl
This is great feedback, thanks. Sounds like there might be a few
things that they would want to address in the next generation. My
main goal is to have a tool that will allow me to check my personal
email while not at my home computer. As I understand it, the iPhone
has a lot of pretty cool features and innovations that I'm hoping will
only improve with future releases.
Mark Nobles
> As I understand it, the iPhone
> has a lot of pretty cool features and innovations that I'm hoping will
> only improve with future releases.
I think you understand it pretty well.
Mark Nobles
> Mark Nobles <cmn-n...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > This is my first phone with texting. One friend insists on texting me
> > pictures and movies and they don't come to my phone. AT&T saves them on
> > a website and sends me the address, but I can't just poke the address
> > to look at them. I have to copy it down (no copy and paste) on paper
> > and type it back in.
>
> That's horrible!
I tell you, it's the Dark Ages all over again. Only with less burning
at the stake.
chicagofan
>> As I understand it, the iPhone
>> has a lot of pretty cool features and innovations that I'm hoping will
>> only improve with future releases.
From the NY Times - March 13, 2008 about upgrades coming in June 2008:
From the Desk of David Pogue
Hello BlackBerry, Meet the iPhone
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/technology/personaltech/13pogue-email.html?8cir&emc=cir>
By DAVID POGUE
Before you start reading this, a word of warning: this column is about
the iPhone. If you’re one of those people who are sick and tired of
hearing about the iPhone, then scroll on while you still can.
Then again, if you’re one of those people, you’ve got much bigger
problems than this column. Maybe you’d better take six months off to
explore the Serengeti.
That’s because last week, Apple announced iPhone 2.0. It’s not a new
phone model (although that will be coming this year, too)—it’s new
software for the existing phone. And in my considered opinion, it will
be an even bigger deal than the iPhone itself.
The new software, slated for the end of June, will have two parts.
First, it will tap into Microsoft Exchange, the e-mail distribution
system used by hundreds of thousands of corporations. You’ll get “push”
e-mail, meaning that messages appear in real time on your iPhone. And
when anybody changes your calendar or address book on your computer at
work, your iPhone will be automatically, wirelessly updated, wherever
you happen to be.
All of this is already on the BlackBerry, which is Apple’s obvious
target here. Without an actual keyboard, the iPhone won’t kill off the
BlackBerry entirely (although I do like the way the on-screen keyboard
forces iPhone people to be super-concise). But it will carve away a
certain chunk of the BlackBerry’s market.
The big knife is Part 2 of iPhone 2.0. That’s the SDK—the Software
Development Kit—which Apple has released in beta-test form. The idea
here is that any programmer can now write software for the iPhone. Not
illicit, hacky apps like people have been writing so far, but
authorized, tested, legitimate software, much of it free, that can tap
into all the features of the iPhone.
There’s a video of Steve Jobs’s announcement
<http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/rtp20e92/event/index.html?internal=fj2l3s9dm>.
About two-thirds of the way into it, you can see demos of five iPhone
programs that software companies came up with when given two weeks with
the SDK. There was an AIM chat program, a sales-force automation tool,
and so on, all good-looking and natural-feeling on the touch screen. And
there was an Electronic Arts game that exploits the iPhone’s
accelerometers, which detect how you’re tilting the iPhone in any
dimension; in this game, you navigate the 3-D world by tipping the
iPhone forward, back, left, right, up or down.
I can’t tell you how huge this is going to be. There will be thousands
of iPhone programs, covering every possible interest. The iPhone will be
valuable for far more than simple communications tasks; it will be the
first widespread pocket desktop computer. You’re witnessing the birth of
a third major computer platform: Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone.
Sure, there are add-on programs for the Treo, BlackBerry and Windows
Mobile. But they’ll never achieve the ubiquity or popularity of iPhone
apps, because Apple will preinstall the iPhone Apps Store right on every
phone. That’s an online catalog of iPhone programs, which you can
browse, download and install wirelessly, wherever you happen to be.
That’s several thousand fewer barriers and steps than you’d encounter on
the other smartphone platforms. That, and the fact that the iPhone is
already the second most popular smartphone (after the BlackBerry),
spells good things for the success of this initiative.
Software companies and programmers can charge anything they like for
their programs—Apple keeps 30 percent of each sale—but I expect many or
most of the apps will be free.
The one thing that raised my eyebrows, though, is that Apple intends to
be the exclusive source of all iPhone apps. You won’t be able to get
iPhone add-ons from the usual shareware sites like Downloads.com,
Shareware.com or VersionTracker.com, or even from the developers’ own
Web sites. (Or, rather, you will, but you probably won’t be able to do
that effortless wireless finding-and-installing thing.) Once again,
Apple is doing things its own way, tradition be damned.
On the plus side, this arrangement means that Apple is responsible for
approving the quality and safety of each program you install. It also
means that it’s easy to find some program you’ve read about, since
there’s only one place to look. And I’m guessing that Apple will make
paying for the for-fee programs effortless, like clicking BUY SONG on
the iTunes store—even fewer barriers to entry.
All of this, of course, will have the side effect of enriching Apple;
Apple’s shrewd that way. But aside from the usual Apple-bashers online,
nobody will mind. The release of iPhone 2.0 is over three months away,
but I’ll stick my neck out and make a prediction: it will be a gigantic
success, spreading the iPhone’s popularity both upward, into the
corporate market, and downward, into the hands of the masses. iPhone 2.0
will turn this phone into an engineering tool, a game console, a
free-calls Skype phone, a business tool, a dating service, an e-book
reader, a chat room, a database, an Etch-a-Sketch…and that’s on Day One.
In short, it’s not going to be a pleasant summer for people who are sick
of hearing about the iPhone.
Anim8rFSK
Mark Nobles <cmn-n...@comcast.net> wrote:
I blame Al Gore.