The iPhone thread

[ZrByte]

Originally Posted by Stuart C

Htc tytn 2

I think if you google you will find the handset was to blame more than the OS on that one

Originally Posted by punky

I think what helped this slip under the radar is that the iPhone had to be tested outside with a case on that disguised it as a 3GS. Although this should have been detected in a lab really.

Yes, The fact it will only be naturally held in that position by people who are left handed and it's sporadic between phones probably helped it slip though the next as well. Glad I waited, Will wait for a month or two until the newer batch of phones are out.

im right handed and hold my phone when talking with my left hand

[Jimmy-J]

Originally Posted by zing

im right handed and hold my phone when talking with my left hand

Same here, when it comes to mobile phones, I'm ambidextrous.

[Tezcatlipoca]

Re. Three's pricing:

24 month contract only. Pushes the total cost of ownership up quite a bit...

I think the best deal is probably still with Tesco, despite the discrepancy in data limit (the main tariff table says 1GB, yet the Terms underneath say 500MB). Higher up front cost, but only £20pcm for 12 months.

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I got my iPhone 4 today

Queued up at the Apple Store in Cambridge's "Grand Arcade" this morning.

I had one Reserved, so was guaranteed of getting one so long as I turned up today.

Two queues... One for Reservations, one for Hopeful Walk-Ins.

Both were huge.

The store opened at 8am. I got there at about 7:45, & didn't get served until nearly 10, IIRC.

The store had paid Starbucks to provide everyone with drinks & snacks while we queued, plus there were Apple Store staff on hand talking to people & answering questions.

Took a couple of hours for my SIM to be provisioned/registered (O2's systems have obviously been very busy today... I know someone else who was still waiting a couple of hours ago).

Very happy with the phone so far. Not noticed any issues. Can't see any yellow discolouration or yellow blobs on the screen. Haven't noticed any reception issues when holding the phone in my left hand (the hand I always use, being a lefty).

Don't know whether the reception thing varies between phones. I think it must at least be down to quite how it is held...e.g. I don't have my hand wrapped around the entire thing covering both sides *and* the bottom. I would have thought though that it's not something which could be corrected in later batches though, given the placement of the antennae... what could Apple do?

Regardless, I got a Bumper anyway which I fitted later on after testing the phone. I actually prefer the look of it with the Bumper. Unlikely to bother with a screen protector, but I'd like to get some sort of pouch or slip case when the 3rd party manufacturers start releasing stuff.

[Graham M]

Originally Posted by zing

WHICH have just done a test of smartphones and HTC come bottom. Now my experience of my HD2 has been good but I have modded it and installed custom firmwares. I had an Omnia for nearly 18 months without issue on WinMo6.1 and later in its life 6.5

I have the HTC HD Mini (basically a smaller version of the HD2) and I've had no problems to report so far

[nffc]

Originally Posted by zing

im right handed and hold my phone when talking with my left hand

I'm two handed. But I usually write right handed, so I hold my phone in my left so if I need to, I can write and talk.

Originally Posted by Matt D

Re. Three's pricing:

24 month contract only. Pushes the total cost of ownership up quite a bit...

I think the best deal is probably still with Tesco, despite the discrepancy in data limit (the main tariff table says 1GB, yet the Terms underneath say 500MB). Higher up front cost, but only £20pcm for 12 months.

Three's £15 a month, rolling contract, unlimited internet SIM only deal is good. How did you get your phone, unlocked or did you go for contract (and which one?).

The store had paid Starbucks to provide everyone with drinks & snacks while we queued, plus there were Apple Store staff on hand talking to people & answering questions.

They do that in London as well. Especially those people that camp overnight as well as providing blankets and such.

[Tezcatlipoca]

Originally Posted by Damien

Three's £15 a month, rolling contract, unlimited internet SIM only deal is good. How did you get your phone, unlocked or did you go for contract (and which one?).

Yeah, Three's SIM only deal is better than O2's Simplicity equivalent I think. £15 for a rolling 1 month contract with 1GB data, instead of £20 & 500MB data. 300 mins on both, with unlimited SMS on O2 or 3000 SMS on Three.

I'd avoid their contracts though, purely for the 24 month length.



I kept changing my mind about what to go for. Nearly went unlocked, but as I hadn't been able to get a micro SIM from O2 I decided not to. Also, the total cost of ownership of O2 PM vs. O2 Simplicity is fairly similar, while any saving I would have had in monthly payments would probably be swallowed up by random crap & not actually be noticed.

So in the end I just upgraded... £35pcm for 18 months, as before, with £179 for the 16GB. Also means I have more than enough money left in my £500 "iPhone fund" to get a 360 Slim.

If iPhone5 is enough of a jump for me to want one next year, I'll just get one unlocked or PAYG, swap SIMs, & see out the remaining six months of my contract before switching to PAYG/Simplicity/A.N.Other.


If I wasn't impatient , or if Tesco had released prices earlier & let people pre-order, I would most likely have jumped to them. Orange & Vodafone's contracts are not any better than O2's, for me, but Tesco's 12 months tariffs look liek the best deal available.

Originally Posted by Damien

They do that in London as well. Especially those people that camp overnight as well as providing blankets and such.

I thought it was very good of them. I don't know if the network shops did anything similar. There was a very large queue outside the O2 shop, & none outside Vodafone.

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I tried "Air Video" last night. It's awesome! Why the hell didn't I use this before?!


It's a video streaming server for PC/Mac and video streaming client for iOS devices.

http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/index.html

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/air-v...306550020?mt=8


Anything natively supported by iOS (e.g. .mp4) will stream as is. If you have divx/xvid within .avi, or a variety of other codecs and containers, it will transcode them on the fly while streaming.

Works great, streaming stuff from my PC to my iPhone using WiFi at home.

It can apparently also stream over the internet, so you could stream vids from home while at work, but I haven't tried that yet.

[Stuart]

Further to the above, if you have your media on a DNLA compatible server or NAS (as I do), there are several DNLA compatible media players on the iphone.

I haven't tried any of them, but the one at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/media...335036887?mt=8 seems to have the best reviews. In the UK, it's currently £0.59 for the audio version and £4.99 for the version that can play video as well.

[iFrankie]

This is called left hand discrimination LOL, good job i can't afford one lol.

I personally think the iphone 4 deserves the class of epic fail lol

[Jimmy-J]

I WAS seriously contemplating getting the iPhone 4. Not anymore.

See the new iPhone commercial on Funny or Die

I wont put a direct link to the video here, because it's a tiny bit rude.

[vanman]

Apple delays white iPhone 4 due to manufacturing "challenge"



http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/20...-challenge.ars

What could possibly affect white iPhones and not black ones? Apple isn't giving details,

[Cobbydaler]

iOS 4.01 may fix 'death grip' problem...

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles..._ios_4_01.html