Dec 5th, 08
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While I love the iPhone. I have to say some of it’s quirks are really annoying. Here’s my list. If anyone can find work arounds let me know.
1. Activesync doesn’t work in airplane mode! Man ur on an airplane reading your exchange mail and it won’t delete messages. Just says can’t do it. Works fine with IMAP. Who doesn’t need to read and delete mail?
2. Dial anything. Ur looking at your calendar. There is the conference call number but u can’t dial it. Blackberry allows u to dial anything that looks a phone number.
3. Edit contacts. U can only edit an entry that u search for. If u call someone notice their contact info is wrong, u have to re-search for gem because iPhone has this strange idea there is a read-only contact form and an edit one. Should just be one so u can fix contacts anywhere
4. U see some text on the web and want to copy it over. Why is there. I general copy and paste.
5. There is no way to delete a photo other than thru the photo app. Like contacts there is this idea of view only and edit panes why? If u see a photo u should just be able to delete doesn’t matter where it came from.
6. Return exactly where u were. With blackberry if u task switch say to look at email for an address when u flip back to say the contact app ur exactly where u left it. So u can edit lookup and return. Buy with the iPhone apps just return to their start state so U look up. Then u have to write down on scratch paper the phone number and then search again for the contact. Worse yet if u partially edit and switch then u lose all edits! Arrgh.
Sep 8th, 08
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EA is going to town on the iPhone. I like these games, hope they don’t crash too much. My favorite will be Sim City and the golf game!
Aug 5th, 08
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It is a 256MB download, so hope you have a fast connection
Apple Releases iPhone Firmware 2.0.1 – Mac Rumors Not clear what has changed, but early claism are
- Backup process for the iPhone is much faster.
- Netshare still works
- SMS typing faster
Apple releases iPhone 2.0.1 Software Update – AppleInsider has a forum thread and here is what users are seeing:
-Contacts are now more responsive.
Sync problems are fixed. It will backup the first time you sync after the update. The updates after that for me have only synced data in about 15 seconds rather than requiring a backup on every sync before.
fixed the lagging keyboard in e-mail and texting
iPod lags are much improved as well.
Email loads appear to be quicker.
Browsing names in the address book, switching between the keypad, addressbook, voicemail is instantaneous. Thank God! Much faster all-around. The camera boots up in half the time it used to.
Jul 18th, 08
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I got this cable trying to sync the new iPhone 3G, but kept getting an unknown 0xe8000001 error. I tried a bunch of things and was using the combo Bluetooth headset charger plus USB connector. On a lark, I swapped cables and the error 0xe8000001 went away. I think the cable was flaky. I did notice that when I pushed in harder, the iPhone 3G would actually connect.
So next time this happens, it might be the cable. Makes sense to me this particular cable has been everywhere traveling in my bag.
Jul 18th, 08
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Got it! AT&T dropped shipped it. The least painful way in the US anyway to get it. Lines at Apple store are still 3 hours long. Apple is going to sell 3M in a week at this rate. In any case, things that are unclear are how to setup Exchange. It needs yet another site called the Outlook Mobile Access site (aka Active Sync according to Computer Repair Service
For those you use Bizatlarge.net, this is just
oma.atlarge.net
As reminder, you need login with the user name bizatlarge\_youruserid_._yourcompanyid_
That is how hosted Exchange works. So if your company id that is set when you first create the account is ABC and your user name is, rich, then you login with the user name
bizatlarge\rich.abc
Jul 11th, 08
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Apple has a tool showing what is available where. The stores open at 8AM. Amazing the demang. All models except the Black 16GB in Alderwood Mall are available at all four Seattle area stores in Bellevue, Lynnwood, Seattle and Tukwila. 16GB Black not surprisingly is the most popular model. And there are activation issues that make the line super slow
MacRumors has a good summary of initial reviews with the top line being:
- All plastic feels cheaper but you get a little more range because plastic lets in more radio waves
- The screen is warmer and to some looks too yellow
- Audio quality sems to be better although iLounge disagrees. It definitely could use a better speakerphone which was nearly useless in the first iPhone
- GPS is fast and TeleNav will soon release a turn-by-turn navigation system for the iPhone (cool!)
- The iPhone 3G has already been jailbroken and hactivated and we should see that coming out soon
- Activation problems seem to have eased by afternoon (pacific time), so maybe tomorrow will be better
- iTouch users can upgrade to 2.0 and get ActiveSync for instance, so they can read email and see calendars in real time when they are in wifi range. That is pretty cool!
- Not surprisingly avoid the AT&T stores, they don’t have much stock but let you queue up and take your name for later when they might be in stock next week.
As an aside, some think Apple could ship 1M iphones this weekend. Wow!
Jun 13th, 08
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iPhone 3G reviews are out. Big differences are it is all plastic insted of metal. GPS is included and it supports 3G jof course. The headphone port is flush (yeah! so no need for special headphone adapters!). You’ll need a protector for this one.
The new iPhone is the same width as the iPod touch now (not thinner). It is a little bit taller than the touch and 0.48″ deep so still pretty thick. But it is tapered around the sides.
Apr 5th, 08
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Well, it took me three days to do this, but finally figured out how to get an iPhone to use its internet connection over EDGE to be used with your laptop. Its convoluted because most phones allow what is called Bluetooth sharing and you are in. In the iPhone’s case, it is more complicated as Lifehacker explains.  Here is the outline of what you have to do: Â
- Ziphone. Use this to jailbreak your phone. Then use installer to put in the openssh client and server
- Set you Macbook to create an adhoc network in System Preferences/Network
- Connect you iPhone to the network and note the IP address typically 169.254.x.y where x and y are randomly assigned.
- Now the magic, start Terminal on your Mac and type in _ssh -DN 9999 root@169.254.x.y
- Type in the password where the default is alpine for iphone firmware 1.1.1 to 1.1.4
- The terminal session will then hang as it is running and that is good
- Go to System Preferences/Network/Advanced/Proxies and select SOCKS proxy and fill in localhost and socket 9999
- Now you should be able to browse, but DNS is broken, so you need to find AT&T’s DNS servers
- Go back to Terminal and choose Shell/New Windows/Basic and then ssh root@169.254.x.7, type in alpine as password and then _cat resolv.conf and you will see two IP addresses which are the DNS Servers which are currently 172.16.8.223 and .224
- Go back to System preferences/Network/Advanced and type those into DNS/DNS Servers
It should work but slowly. Actually I haven’t gotten the DNS to work quite right, so another workaround is that everytime you want to see something you your laptop, you have to type the domain into Safari on your iPhone. This caches the IP address and the laptop works. A little wierd but it functions.
Mar 11th, 08
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Now that there are so many devices and I’m using a laptop with a small hard drive (80GB), it is really hard to keep iTunes synced because you need to use half disk just to keep music, so you really want to have iPod or iPhone have its own libary and just add to it rather than have it synced. ilounge recommends Anapod Explorer for Windows and CopyGear for Mac. Both cost money.
Here are some other Mac choices and a good list of iPhone related software at iLounge.com
- YamiPod. It is freeware equivalent for copying mp3s from your iPod/iPhone to your computer.
- Senuti
