Update: Well for starters, if you think the Amazon Appstore sucks, then iTunes will make you want to hang yourself. OMG what a miserable piece of shit. It took an hour to download Plants v Zombies over a broadband connection (72mb), and the refresh rate makes me feel like I'm browsing the catalog in Matrix Bullet-time. I haven't used the phone as a phone much yet, but initial impressions are that the earpiece sucks. The touchscreen is responsive and the interface seems to be fluid. I feel like it's really great for people like my brother and mom who don't really know anything about tech but want to feel like they know something about tech. It's very polished and cartoony and the stupid update it wants is something like 760+mb (and it says minor revisions wtf). So over iTunes that should take something like 5-6 hours just to fetch the update and then who the hell knows how long it will take to actually apply the update. I have currently not been set ablaze upon using it, nor have the Android police arrived to 'set me straight', and it plays PvZ so it can't be all bad. The internal media player(s) are crap, however, so I'll be trolling for replacements.
Need for Speed Most Wanted has been installed giving me adequate mobile gaming without carrying extra devices. I like the built-in playlist creator for iMusic or whatever its called but I could see that becoming a nightmare with more than a few hundred songs, I'm guessing there's a way to manage them in iTunes, I just haven't taken the guided tour yet. NFS:MW and PvZ run smoothly.
It seems the iWidget doesn't close applications, it 'freezes' them and stacks them up until the iWidget is rebooted or you force them closed using that little 'app switcher' thing by pressing the home button twice. I have found that battery life is great, as long as you remember to close out te games wen you're done, if PvZ or something is left open it seems to siphon the juice from the little bugger pretty quickly.
Who's got cool suggestions for neat or fun iPhone apps (games ) that they enjoy? I've got 2gb left to fill on teh new shiny.
After using the iPhone for almost a week, I must admit the simplicity of the interface is a nice contrast to the rest of my tech and it's rather nice to be able to use the device without much tweaking. It's easier to use for the simple things, like music playback. I hated the music management setup on my Torch, it was involved and convoluted, the iTunes interface makes it simple to organize my music into lists quickly. Game play is nice and smooth for the handful of games I put on there (NFS: Most Wanted, Plants v Zombies, Tower Defense, Dead Trigger, and Angry Birds Star Wars). Netflix runs great over the wifi and the Camera is rather impressive when compared to the camera on my torch. Big fail is the missing flash on the camera for night pictures. Not sure who dropped the ball on that one, but I hope they fixed that guffaw on the 4 and 5 versions.
be careful with your iShit toy http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-apple-siri-queries-20130419,0,7117017.story
If that what the 'Voice Control' thing is? I have an iPhone 3gs I'm not sure if it has 'Siri', but either way I don't talk to my phone it's odd. But that's good information to have, good thing it's a new sim card.
siri isnt on iShit 3 just a reminder of one of those reasons you REALLY DON'T like apple or its products, in case the iShiney made you forget here is another one. prolly deserves it's own thread, but i will post it here, maybe give it its own thread on my forum http://gizmodo.com/5993071/dna-is-the-linux-of-the-natural-world
Haha. No, I haven't forgotten. Nor do I praise Apple. But I can understand why so many people find it comfortable to use, there's pretty pictures for everything and the entire process has been simplified about as far as it can be. There's slick little toggle buttons for this and that, but in the end you're still locked into the Apple engine and it's storefront. I'm not comfortable jailbreaking any of my phones. The iPhone was a free pass along, so it was worth the swap checking it out, my Blackberry was having touchscreen issues and I didn't feel like buying a new Android phone just yet. I've been eyeballing this little sucker, however I don't know if I can get one on my carrier (AT&T), and I'm not sure I want to flip to Verizon.
Ok, WTF with Autocorrect, seriously. I was trying to text Bunnie while in a hurry and this is the end result. Actual conversation from my iWidget (iWidget correct in bold, what I was trying to type in italics): Lain : I'll come home now and u go to Safeway for I've been. (I'll come home and u go to Safeway for ice cream.) Lain: I've cremated. (Ice cream.) Lain: Cream duck. (Cream.) Lain: Gas assasin. (Gaaaaah). Seriously Apple, what the fuck is going on over there?
http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com/ There is a reason there is an entire website just for iphone autocorrect fails
Apple iPhone has too much autocorrect, BlackBerry has too little. I can't even get it to consistently offer me {it's, its} as choices when I type "its." It just offers, {its, itself, it}. I have to stop at "it" in order to let it offer {it, it's, its}. Who stops at "it" when typing "it's" or "its"? Not I, but those Blackberry programmers must. <sigh> <grumble> Will somebody please change my Depends? Grrrrr.....
So here's a funny story. Not funny haha, but funny so I don't have to go into a rage and burn something down funny. Bunnie decided to go fetch some food yesterday for us and takes the iPhone with her, standard practice. She was gone for, maybe a half hour. Previously the iPhone was in perfectly working condition with no issues. She gets home, and pulls the iPhone out, and it's dead. The screen has gone totally white washed and it will not do anything. The touchscreen seems to work, because I can hold the power button down for a few seconds (which would usually show a red swiper widget to turn the phone off) and swipe the poweroff bar and the phone turned itself off. Google this, Google that, best solution..... return the phone and get a fresh new one. Seriously? This seems to be a common issue that iPhone users experience, and it appears to be totally acceptable to them to hand in a loaded phone (because you can't restore a phone you can't see) for a fresh one that they will fill up with their information. Now I'm sure Apple is all above board on this and such, and that Apple 'Geniuses' are a completely benign and upstanding species, but come on. How fucking stupid do I look? It's bad enough the fucker is tethered to iTunes, but now I'm just supposed to take time out of my day randomly when the phone decided to take a shit, travel to the nearest iWidget store and have the wanker there deal with my issue because I'm apparently to stupid to handle it. Well, fuck that shit. I tore the phone down three times to it's core and reset it and managed to get the screen back for about 30 seconds once but the touchscreen wasn't working. Currently shopping a Verizon/Droid solution, will update when I find something that tickles my fancy without emptying the bank. In closing, Fuck AT&T and Apple, I will be posting images later of my iPhone's final demise, as I intend to drive over it with the car and record it for posterity. Good Times
The apple store support is half of the 'apple experience'. Seriously. It is why I recommend Apple to the really big tech noobs, cause the people in the store are the only ones who have patience to explain it to them, plus there is no DYI. They will fix everything for you. My mom came down to visit. I was driving her around, and she mentioned offhand that her iphone wasn't working. I asked what was wrong, and she said it wasn't ringing any more. I asked her if the volume is turned up/ on. Yup, she said. I asked if she had a ringtone selected. She scrolled through the ringtones, they made sounds, but it still wouldn't ring. She explained to me it is probably just old, as it was my sister's old phone. I didn't know much about iphones, plus I was driving and she was fairly concerned over her non-working phone. Instead of me potentially messing something up from fiddling with it, I suggested we just go the the Apple store as we were putzing around. If it needed to be replaced, she could get another one. She agreed. The store was PACKED. Waited only a few minutes to be greeted by a geek. She explained her problem. He clicked a few buttons, then asked what her number was to check it. He called her phone, it rang. She thanked him profusely as he handed the phone back to her with a smile, and she turned to walk away. But I was DYING of curiosity. I asked him what was wrong with it. "The volume was turned down", he replied. :| I scolded my mommy for making me look like such a tard! If I had doubled checked my instincts on the matter, I would have fixed it just as quickly. She just laughed it off then offered to buy me Starbucks from across the street. *sigh* A year later, she left me a frantic message. Her contacts, all of them, gone. She needed mine and Mulch's contact info again. I called her back and explained to her that she didn't need to worry. That is one of the 'features' of Apple. The phone should automatically back up and sync her stuff to the cloud. She was confused as to how this helps when her phone is broken. I had to explain cloud-based systems to her while browsing art galleries with my sisiter in Arizona. It was kind of funny. She told me she was pretty sure she did the sync already. Remembering last time, I didn't believe her this time and told her to go to the store again. A few days later, she told me everything was, in fact gone. For some reason, her phone had sync turned off. She did an update, or the phone puked, she doesn't know exactly WHAT happened, but it erased everything. And there was no backup in the cloud. Apple fail. I expect Apple products to prevent such oversights from non-techie people. People like my mom are the majority of consumers, and they need to be saved from themselves! That is why I recommend them to tech noobs. I am HIGHLY disappointed by their product that such a thing happened. I am sure she isn't the first.
I don't want the Apple experience I want a reliable smartphone that doesn't take an Apple asshole to put it right when it takes a nosedive.
My contacts are probably in the cloud, none of that matters because iTunes will not allow me to access the mother fucking thing as it is locked with a passcode and you need the screen to un-fucking lock it. Madness. Why can't I enter the passcode in iTunes when it's linked up to the phone? Even my old Dell Axim PDA would allow you to do that. What the fuck is wrong with Apple?
You know this, Lain, but to those who don't: Blackberrys allow one to get data from it with a linked computer if the user recalls and uses her password from the linked computer. My husband's Storm2 was chomped by his service dog, the screen impossible to use reliably. We transferred all his data from it to his replacement Storm without any trouble.
You should be able to get at your iCloud info by means of the website. I've not done it, but in setting up my husband's iPhone, I saw stuff about that in passing. He backs up using Verizon's backup service, so I didn't bother learning how to do it Apple's way.
I'm trying to get into my iCloud account now. It's insisting my password is wrong. I sent a reset request two hours ago and I haven't gotten a reply. Maybe they know I'm a hater.
