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Not Everyone Loves the iPhone
Topic Started: Apr 7 2009, 02:17 AM (471 Views)
1hp
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Again, none of the apps mentioned (I forgot about the camera and web browser) are exclusive to iPhones, nor did Apple invent them. I have gps on my Windows mobile phone from HTC. Other than the user interface there is nothing unique about the capabilities of the iPhone. And the user interface advantage is fast disappearing. Also, as some have mentioned AT7T is not the best mobile phone service either. I would wager that Sprint has a faster data service.

I turned off the wifi on my phone - seems to drain the battery much faster if it's enabled.
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1hp
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The one feature on my HTC diamond that I really like is voice dialing - the ability to talk to it and have it initiate a call to someone.
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HOLY CARP!!!
Aqua Letifer
Apr 7 2009, 09:29 AM
musicasacra
Apr 7 2009, 09:26 AM
Then that's great for you.

But if I'm learning a new area, I GPS my directions. The GPS shows me the overall map while giving me directions -- so I can see how the roads relate to each other. I'm also more relaxed and able to take in landmarks and other visual cues.
It's great indeed. Like I said, it's a personal gripe, not an "everyone should do what I do" one. ^_^ Maps are crap; they've screwed me over too many times in the past for me to trust them over experience.
Ok, I had read your comment as saying people use GPS too much. My point was that people have various needs for using GPS and different ways of learning layouts.
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QuirtEvans
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Frank_W
Apr 7 2009, 09:00 AM
Okay.... So... I'm cruising along, using my GPS, and the phone rings. NOW what? :lol2:

I'm listening to a song that I really love, and the phone rings. DAMMIT!!

:lol2:

I think the consolidation is a cool idea, and Quirt, I didn't know it was basically an iPod, but it certainly doesn't surprise me that they are having battery issues with it.
Here's the deal. The phone sucks up a lot of battery. Other uses, nowhere near as much. With a car charger and a home charger, I never really run too low on battery.

When I'm listening to music, if the phone rings, the song stops in place ... ready to resume when the call is over. Same for other utilities.

It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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QuirtEvans
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Oh, another thing that's really nice ... visual voicemail. Your voicemail appears as a list, with the names (or numbers) of who called, and you can pick which ones to listen to, in which order, and replay only the ones you want to listen to, one at a time.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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So that's why you never return my call. :hat:
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Frank_W
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Hrmmm... Maybe if I have some extra money that I just have no other use for, someday, I'll buy an iPhone. :)
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HOLY CARP!!!
PS - I'm posting from a chair at the dentist -- on my iPhone. :D
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My god... Those things will clean your TEETH, too??? :hair:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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Frank_W
Apr 7 2009, 10:39 AM
My god... Those things will clean your TEETH, too??? :hair:
Not only that... you can get a colonoscopy app too.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

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:weeping:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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Red Rice
Apr 7 2009, 10:41 AM
Frank_W
Apr 7 2009, 10:39 AM
My god... Those things will clean your TEETH, too??? :hair:
Not only that... you can get a colonoscopy app too.
IOW, shove it up your ... ???? :lol2:
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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The cell phone rant was a different thread... :lol2:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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ZOOOOOM!
QuirtEvans
Apr 7 2009, 10:32 AM
Oh, another thing that's really nice ... visual voicemail. Your voicemail appears as a list, with the names (or numbers) of who called, and you can pick which ones to listen to, in which order, and replay only the ones you want to listen to, one at a time.
YES.

That does indeed rock.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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