Apple iPhone

[bc917]

Actually the iPhone is meant for one hand/one thumb texting, but other people have adopted the much quicker two hands/two thumbs technique.

 

The iPhone is definitely not for you if you're into texting a lot. There's no way to disable the auto-complete/spell-check feature. Try to text in tagalog, and the software will automatically try to predict an english word with it think you're trying to type. It gets pretty annoying as you have to intervene each time it auto-completes a word.

 

Also, you can't send text messages to multiple recipients, and you can't forward messages either. No MSS.

 

to add to that, if you go overseas and try to access any application using EDGE, you can't. also, there's an sms virus that disables your sms and you have to do a master reset - erasing all contents. apple has been pretty silent about this. its an iPod with a phone, that's what it is. fancy but i got tired of it after a week.

[kLique]

actually, there are unlocked iphone units being sold in greenhills between 18k and 20k ... but i'm not sure if it's worth the buy...

 

between 18k-20k? where?

I went to ghills and it's selling between 25k-27k

[artvader]

to add to that, if you go overseas and try to access any application using EDGE, you can't. also, there's an sms virus that disables your sms and you have to do a master reset - erasing all contents. apple has been pretty silent about this. its an iPod with a phone, that's what it is. fancy but i got tired of it after a week.

 

an Apple-made product susceptible to a virus? Unbelievable...

[castertroy101]

not sure if the apple product is susceptible to any virus, but they do have sms virus that is out that should only affect pc/palm phones. As for Apple being silent about it they did a public report already on it claiming its not a virus. http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/doh!/first-...rror-281022.php

[bc917]

not sure if the apple product is susceptible to any virus, but they do have sms virus that is out that should only affect pc/palm phones. As for Apple being silent about it they did a public report already on it claiming its not a virus. http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/doh!/first-...rror-281022.php

 

i have 2 iPhones and both received an sms that showed only symbols. after i deleted it, i can no longer access sms. the other applications continue to work, though. the sim card that i used on these iPhones is the same sim card that i originally used for my palm treo 680 and, from time to time, with my SE P1i. No problems with the palm and SE. Mine is not an isolated case. Can't recall the website but similar complaints were received from India and Australia, if I am not mistaken. So if Apple says its not a virus, what the heck is it?

[artvader]

An easter egg, maybe?

[bc917]

i have 2 iPhones and both received an sms that showed only symbols. after i deleted it, i can no longer access sms. the other applications continue to work, though. the sim card that i used on these iPhones is the same sim card that i originally used for my palm treo 680 and, from time to time, with my SE P1i. No problems with the palm and SE. Mine is not an isolated case. Can't recall the website but similar complaints were received from India and Australia, if I am not mistaken. So if Apple says its not a virus, what the heck is it?

 

found the website

http://www.pmptoday.com/2007/07/21/iphones-got-a-virus

[fry]

Do any of you people actually read the links that you post? That "virus" is nothing more but a feature in the iPhone that displays the name of the song that iPod is currently playing after you've woke the phone up from standby.

[castertroy101]

Do any of you people actually read the links that you post? That "virus" is nothing more but a feature in the iPhone that displays the name of the song that iPod is currently playing after you've woke the phone up from standby.

 

 

Uh yea I did.. Like I said its not virus. My link did say that. Its "User Error" on Apples part.

[artvader]

Uhm... doesn't the term "user error" usually imply it is the end-user's mistake?

[boomouse]

Miffed AT&T CEO 'Leaks' 3G iPhone

 

 

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson announced that there will be a 3G iPhone. Stephenson’s comment isn’t new information. When Jobs introduced the iPhone earlier in the year he said that 3G iPhone would have to wait until next year after Apple worked out power usage / battery consumption issues. However, the timing of reiterating/reinforcing the idea of a 3G iPhone at a time when people are shopping for the December season will more than miff old Steve Jobs. This probably feels like a long-nailed finger up his nose.

 

US PBS commentator Robert Cringely said that this was AT&T's way of saying they were not pleased with Apple's alliance with Google in bidding for the 700 MHz frequency spectrum which can be used not just for wireless data but for mobile and voip communications as well--which puts it right up AT&T's backyard. Well, no one ever likes emerging competition especially if it might come from a so-called partner.

 

"AT&T thought its five-year 'exclusive' iPhone agreement with Apple would have precluded such a bid, but that just shows how poorly Randall Stephenson understood Steve Jobs. Steve always hurts his friends to see how much they really love him, so AT&T probably should have expected this kind of corporate body blow," Mr. Cringely wrote. Of course, we here at MTC understand what this all means... you hurt the one you love? Hmmm… never thoguht I'd see it in the tech world though.

 

According to "The Mac Observer" this may well result in Apple losing up to one million units in sales of its current 2.5G iPhone. While this does nothing for the price of my pitifully small Apple stock holdings, it does bode well for the rest of the market because:

 

1. Expect Apple to dump their inventory of the current iPhone right after Christmas and just before Macworld in (is it Jan or Feb? i forgot-don't remember-don't care.). This will be the ideal timing to announce a 3G model as it comes right off a buying lull after December. Apple will have to be ready with ready-to-ship inventory though because they have an older model in the market and a new model will definitely cannibalize its older sibling if there is not a wide enough pricing gap to serve as a moat.

2. They can't dump the iphone without ever adjusting their pricing on the ipod touch if they don't want to create a price dislocation.

3. they can't price down the ipod touch without adjusting the prices of the other ipods.

4. This means that Microsoft's Zune will be screwed again seeing that its only driving force in the market today derives from its aggressive pricing.

5. Apple will have to scramble to rollout the 3G iphone if it wants to continue riding the crest of the initial wave created by the current model. Not doing so would be very expensive in regaining share-of-mind. Infineeon has already delivered over 1 million 3G iphone modules to Apple--all proudly made in the Philippines (well, assembled in the Philippines anyway).

 

Now Apple has additional impetus to just rapidly rollout the old iphone ahead of the 3G one or they end up shooting themselves in the foot. Prices are going to come a-tumbling too. I would not be surprised to see P15k iphones in Greenhills before Valentine's day. Ladies, you know what to ask for!

Edited December 1, 2007 by boomouse

[qtarvin]

Proud iPhone owner here!....although i still use my Treo 680 and N93 as my primary and secondary phones....i just like the iPhone with it's unique features and cool interface.

[castertroy101]

Uhm... doesn't the term "user error" usually imply it is the end-user's mistake?

 

 

uh...no..read the link..Apple said it was their fault. "User Error"

[boomouse]

uh...no..read the link..Apple said it was their fault. "User Error"

 

I read the Gizmodo link. You are wrong. Well, a least your comprehension of the English is. This is what it said in part:

 

"UPDATE 3:30EST: Actually, there's a very simple explanation: it was a software glitch or a human error. That's a bloody song title, which apparently got stuck on the interface and only was cleared after a power cycle."

 

It was "a human error". This implies that the error was committed by the person who last touched the thing before this event presented itself. When an iPhone is in the hands of someone who bought it, "user error" can never refer to the manufacturer, only the guy operating the darn thing. Besides, there was no mention of "user error".

 

Seeing that the complaints were from early buyers in India and Australia, I would surmise that one possible problem might have been caused in the language packs. US version equipment rarely have complete language packs because they consume a lot of space especially the double-byte non-romanized scripts like Japanese, Chinese, and the several dozen scripts used in India like Devnagari. If you receive something with these scripts on a US phone, you will be presented with garbage symbols and the double-bute per character nature of the message can really throw off a parochial US-only device. And this problem is not exclusive to iphones.

 

The moral of the story: it pays to wait. If you don't you have no cause to complain because the product was not defined for your market. In fact warranties would already have been voided. They were lucky Apple support talked to them or they omitted certain details which could have explained the problem better.

[fry]

Viruses don't exist on the iPhone for the simple reason that 3rd party software (viruses are basically software) cannot be installed on the iPhone. The only substantial security hole that the iPhone had was the TIFF exploit, which the 1.1.1 update patched. Though people who have jailbroken their iPhones for the purposes of installing 3rd party apps have experienced a slew of issues, none of them concern viruses however.