Robbo
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FPMSL @ all you iPhone goons on FB gettign hacked off cos nothign works properly 
BUY A PROPER 'PHONE INSTEAD OF SOMETHING WITH A HALF EATEN APPLE ON THE BACK AND YOU'LL BE GRAND 
i'm really sorry you can't afford one
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Nath
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Sean you couldn't be more wrong
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Robbo
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Sucks to be me, so poor I cant even afford an iPhone 
And Dom, my point was still pertinent, my N95 can do all those things off the cuff (well most anyway) and doesnt NEED updating/ballsing up... so 
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Nath
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Poor little pikey accountant Robbo.
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Ian
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I did read that list thinking that my 6310i did a lot of that in 2002.
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James
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I like my iPhone not so much because of what it can do, but the way it does it.....
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Dom
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Sucks to be me, so poor I cant even afford an iPhone
And Dom, my point was still pertinent, my N95 can do all those things off the cuff (well most anyway) and doesnt NEED updating/ballsing up... so
Yes nice one! But what has that got to do with the price of bread?
The thread is about the new firmware, not whether or not the phone is good and that X and Y phones are better  And if you want to go down this route, then you cannot deny that Apple have sold millions of units, making the iPhone one of the most popular handsets to date, so clearly they must be doing something right 
As for updating and ballsing up, at least you can update firmware on the iPhone. Operators are all too keen to ship out branded firmware, that's usually about 2 major versions behind, which cripples the phone and is generally flaky. And even when the manufacturer does update the firmware you can't download it because the operator can't be arsed to distribute an update branded version. So you're then forced to either live with shite firmware or spend ages changing the product code in order to force an update of the lastest version (something i've done many times).
Anyways rant over, back to topic anyone? 
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ed
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New firmware is good. Landscape texting is all I needed for my fat thumbs 
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Jakey
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Same here ed. Im also a fan of actually being able to share the pictures i take.
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VegasPhil
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Mine updated without any problems. Landscape texting is the best improvement.
And I can search my Gmail inbox 
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VegasPhil
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Was just reading yesterday's Sun, It says there is a feature that you can track the phone on google maps if you lose it?
Wondering if that was built into the 3.0 update?
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ed
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It's to do with MobileMe. It shows you an approximate position for your phone to help you find it, so long as the person who nicked it doesn't disable to feature. You can send flash messages to the phone and wipe all the data from it remotely too using the function. Personally, I think you should be able to brick it remotely too
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Tim
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I like my iPhone not so much because of what it can do, but the way it does it.....
Exactly why I like mine. A lot of people I know who put the iPhone down have never used one... fanboys strike again. I don't pretend to have used every phone in existence though
On paper, there's hardly anything the iPhone features that my old phone didn't . However, using them day-to-day is a million miles apart!
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IvIarkgraham
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htc touch hd is far better
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Sean-B
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Sean you couldn't be more wrong
oh bollocks oh well still a mint phone!
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Paul_J
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Originally posted by ed
It's to do with MobileMe. It shows you an approximate position for your phone to help you find it, so long as the person who nicked it doesn't disable to feature. You can send flash messages to the phone and wipe all the data from it remotely too using the function. Personally, I think you should be able to brick it remotely too
I was discussing this with my mate, I don't see why you couldn't make a custom app that does the same as what mobile me are offering??
All you'd need is a web server.
Basically have a app that fires off on a time based event (say every hour) ... and just posts it's current location from the gps to a web server. Providing the phone is on / not wiped, it should work.
Tempted to make an app like that and sell it for 99p.
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ed
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Would be nice and simple. But would Apple allow it in the App Store because it would be taking money away from their own prducts? It just depends on what the API allows you to do, whether it you get it to perform tasks like that from a push update or not?
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Paul_J
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Would be nice and simple. But would Apple allow it in the App Store because it would be taking money away from their own prducts? It just depends on what the API allows you to do, whether it you get it to perform tasks like that from a push update or not?
From what my mate was telling me... there's a event loop in the background - so although you can't run a app in the background, you can trigger a process to happen on a background event.
Since the phone has the capability to do things like 'alarms' based on time. I would propose doing a event based on a time (like a alarm would do), but instead get current location, post it to server and then set a new time in a hour to be triggered from.
Even if it isn't sellable, I'd be looking to do it as i wouldn't want to pay £12 per month for mobile me shite
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John
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There are loads of programs that do this on other platforms, i'd be surprised if something hasn't either already been or is in the process of being ported/
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Paul_J
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There are loads of programs that do this on other platforms, i'd be surprised if something hasn't either already been or is in the process of being ported/
Hope so.
My main fear of getting another iphone is losing it like i did my last one
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hmm i dont get the hype about them tbh, yes ive used one and found it quite slow and really didnt see what the fuss was about, touch HD is far better, the palm pre looks amazing also.
apple are very good at marketing though.
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Tim
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I've never used an older iPhone, but the combo of OS 3.0 and the 3GS hardware is rather quick. Not sure what you found to be slow? It certainly needed MMS before I bought one...
It's all a matter of opinion which is "better". I was tempted by the Pre/Touch HD, but the initial Pre reviews weren't great and unfortunately I've been scarred by WinMo.
I used to be so anti-Apple/iPhone. Hate to say it but I'm converted, and I've got enough crap for it already at work
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jezza
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Originally posted by IvIarkgraham
htc touch hd is far better
I have an HTC Touch HD, and an iPod touch. Although you can do more with the HTC, it's too fiddly man compared to my iPod (and therefore iPhone).
I'd rather have an iPhone, but the fact I've got free, fully fledged TomTom on the HD is what keeps me with it.
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Tim
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I'm really curious to know how much TomTom are going to charge for their TomTom iPhone app (or the holder). Hopefully won't be anywhere near the price of their actual hardware
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bubble
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samsung jet is a good rival
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