The iPhone thread

[Tezcatlipoca]

Roaming mobile data tends to be very expensive.

The iPhone actually has a setting called "Data Roaming" under General > Network. It is set to "Off" by default, which means that when you are roaming, the iPhone will *not* use mobile data (GPRS/EDGE/3G/HSDPA) & will only connect to the internet via WiFi (if available).

When Mrs D & I were in the US in March/April, we made sure to only use free WiFi wherever possible, e.g. hotels, coffee shops, etc. I think the only time we paid for internet access was in the hotel in LA (as you have to pay for everything there!).

Just wondered if anyone could recomend a decent 2 player game on the iPhone and are there any games that can connect without a wireless router to the other iphone / itouch?

[Pushkar]

Originally Posted by Slyder

Just wondered if anyone could recomend a decent 2 player game on the iPhone and are there any games that can connect without a wireless router to the other iphone / itouch?

Bomberman is quite nice, it has the Bluetooth thing so you can play with a mate on your iPhone and them on their 2nd Gen Touch.

[bopdude]

OK, looking for some help here, I'm trying to back up my contacts from the iphone 3G firmware 3.0 (7A341) to my sim card, I've googled it to death but can't find a work around, anyone have one ?

Thanks

[Raistlin]

Aren't things like contacts backed up in iTunes as part of the normal backup?

[dilli-theclaw]

Yup - but bop want's to put all the contacts on the sim card not the phone.

[bopdude]

Originally Posted by Rob M

Aren't things like contacts backed up in iTunes as part of the normal backup?

Yep, but I cant see / find any way of transferring them into another prog or to a file

Originally Posted by Thomas T

Yup - but bop want's to put all the contacts on the sim card not the phone.

Yep, 'kin Apple, I mean, what's the point of having a phone that stores numbers for 2 years and you can't put them onto a sim after that

[Tezcatlipoca]

Do you have Outlook? You can sync the contacts with that.

Or, if you have a Google account, you can set up Google Sync on the iPhone (uses Exchange) & sync your contacts to Google Contacts.


EDIT: Sorry, seem to have ignored the whole "copy to SIM" side of what you wanted! Prob. not much help then . Although if you're wanting to copy them to the SIM so they can later be copied from the SIM to a different phone altogether, then perhaps sync'ing to Outlook or Google could help as an intermediate step instead of the SIM (iPhone > Outlook/Google > new phone, instead of iPhone > SIM > new phone).

[bopdude]

Thanks, will look at that, I have both Outlook and a Gmail account, is that the same as a Google account ?

[Tezcatlipoca]

Yep, Gmail account = Google account.

If you have a Gmail account, then you also have Google contacts & calendar - both of which can be sync'd OTA with the iPhone.

Google sync info:

http://www.google.com/support/mobile...44&topic=14252

http://www.google.com/mobile/products/sync.html#p=apple

[bopdude]

Thanks for that

[bopdude]

Another daft question or 2, I'm trying to jailbreak ( unsuccessfully ) then I had a thought ( dangerous I know ) would I need to jailbreak the iphone to use an ) O2 payg sim ? if so, why ?

TIA

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by bopdude

Another daft question or 2, I'm trying to jailbreak ( unsuccessfully ) then I had a thought ( dangerous I know ) would I need to jailbreak the iphone to use an ) O2 payg sim ? if so, why ?

TIA

If its an O2 sim then you won't need to jailbreak the phone.

[bopdude]

Thanks, just found out for sure by sticking the payg in So now son of bop has an iphone, what does bop get ? Ii was looking at the TG01 and now the HTC Hero, but I'm not rushing HTC have some great looking phones due soon.

[webcrawler2050]

I jail broke my 3G with Firmware 3.0 - whilst the jailbreak was fantastic, custom ringtones, with Cydia, it seemed to slow the phone down even more and caused even more wierd randonmess - so I wiped it and started a fresh..