the... iPhone.... ooooooohhhh

10 Nov 2009

Okay... I admit it... I have sold out to the great god that is "the iPhone"...I have turned to the dark side...Thought I would never end up being a mobile phone snob!
anyway....mine is coming on thursday... is there anyone that could advise me of any good (and preferably free) apps that you could point me in the direction of.....
thanking you in advance
"mobile phone snob" of tyneside
p.s kinda looking forward to it...but if you say it out loud to anyone.... I will so deny it and send the kneebreakers round...

10 Nov 2009

I've had an iPod Touch for a couple of years now, and it's great for apps. I get all mine from iTunes... and it lists the free ones in order of popularity. There are hundreds!
Enjoy! :bounce:

10 Nov 2009

Quote by fabio
Okay... I admit it... I have sold out to the great god that is "the iPhone"...I have turned to the dark side...Thought I would never end up being a mobile phone snob!
anyway....mine is coming on thursday... is there anyone that could advise me of any good (and preferably free) apps that you could point me in the direction of.....
thanking you in advance
"mobile phone snob" of tyneside
p.s kinda looking forward to it...but if you say it out loud to anyone.... I will so deny it and send the kneebreakers round...

Hello Fabs.
I have had the I Phone for a while now, and believe me it is the best out there.
There are applications for everything, just go into the Apple store on your phone, and do a search like you would on Google.
I have a weather thingy and Sky Sports, and there is a brilliant one that you can keep track of your minutes and texts that you have left.....all these are free btw.
There is a new Tom Tom sat nav app, which is about 58 quid but my business partner has it, and it is brill.
There are apparently thousands of apps, some are as little as 59p.
To use the phone you have to plug it into I Tunes and create an account which is easy.
A wise choice as I love it but buy yourself a cover for it as they scratch quite easily.
Any questions about the phone PM me and I will see if I have the answer.

10 Nov 2009

Okay... I'm weakening.
Do I get the 16gb one or the 32 gb one?
redface

10 Nov 2009

Quote by noladreams
Okay... I'm weakening.
Do I get the 16gb one or the 32 gb one?

Nola you will never ever use 32 gig, so is a waste of time for the extra money.
Get the 16 gig and save your money.x

10 Nov 2009

Jeez this phone is selling like hot cakes.

My God I even saw this in the Guardian...help me. wink

10 Nov 2009

I bet ya don't know what a text is though?
:shock:

11 Nov 2009

Orange are giving theses away free on contract xxx

11 Nov 2009

Brucie dear chap....I have 500gig of music, that is about a zillion songs, but 16gig on a phone I would hazard at a guess would equate to what 7000 songs? Probably more.
When and how are you ever going to listen to the ammount of music on a phone? :shock:
8 gig is ample IF you wanted to put music on your phone....some do not.
The extra money is just so not worth it.

11 Nov 2009

I have an Iphone and its not a very good phone IMO, the battery life sucks and you can never hear it ring. People have trouble hearing you on it and it was very disapointing to have one as a mobile and the signal strength is also bad TBH.
I just use mine as an Ipod now and got a decent phone that you can actually use as a phone not a toy phone that plays MP3s etc.
Get a google android IMO far better and all the apps as well along with everything you would expect from a Google phone. lol

11 Nov 2009

Quote by brucie
Brucie dear chap....I have 500gig of music, that is about a zillion songs, but 16gig on a phone I would hazard at a guess would equate to what 7000 songs? Probably more.
When and how are you ever going to listen to the ammount of music on a phone? :shock:
8 gig is ample IF you wanted to put music on your phone....some do not.
The extra money is just so not worth it.

there are very few things im anal about. but since teh invention of the ipod i have to have all my music to hand. i cant risk not being able to listen to a tune at a whim... redface

Well ya talk out ya arse at times. wink

:wink:
Only joking brucie. :P

13 Nov 2009

just to let you all know.. I got it.. loving it so far, if anyone can say me a weekend worth of typing and tell me how to copy my contacts over to my new phone (apparently the old save it from old sim - to old phone - to new sim doesn't work....)I will love you forever!!!

13 Nov 2009

Fabs...Outlook express is one of the best ways to do this...

It worked when I did it this way.

13 Nov 2009

Quote by brucie
something not very nice!

This kind of pejorative term is acceptable here these days?

13 Nov 2009

Quote by TheLovelyOne
This kind of pejorative term is acceptable here these days?

No.... it's not. (Which is why I've edited it out of your post too. ;-) )

14 Nov 2009

Quote by fabio
Okay... I admit it... I have sold out to the great god that is "the iPhone"...I have turned to the dark side...Thought I would never end up being a mobile phone snob!
anyway....mine is coming on thursday... is there anyone that could advise me of any good (and preferably free) apps that you could point me in the direction of.....
thanking you in advance
"mobile phone snob" of tyneside
p.s kinda looking forward to it...but if you say it out loud to anyone.... I will so deny it and send the kneebreakers round...

I don't know what you are used to phone wise Fabio, I had always had Nokia phones until I got my iPhone. I'll be honest with you, it did take a while to get used to it, but now me and my iPhone are inseperable. There are a number of free apps that you can get from iplayer, the facebook app is very useful if you use that site, as is the utube app. Then again if you jailbreak your phone you can download literaly hundreds of apps, games, themes etc, but you will need to run an update or upgrade of your firmware if the phone us returned for any reason which would mean losing all your apps. I have Navigon on mine, it is a great turn by turn sat nav app that has got me out of trouble many times, oh and Tiger Woods golf. Of course your iPhone will come with an eight or sixteen gig memory, iPod, it's own email program and Safari browser. It can switch effortlessly between 3G and wifi connections. Once you get used to it you will love it, Im typing this on mine now.
It is a good idea to buy a cover for it, I bought a rubber one and although Ive dropped it a couple of times there is not a scratch on it. You can get all kinds of covers on eBay, plus little prodding gadgets for those of us with sausage fingers!
Enjoy!

14 Nov 2009

Brighton....you have an I Phone too then?
See...smart guy. lol

I think it is the best phone out there by a mile, and Brighton is right....buy a cover for it.

14 Nov 2009

I've got a new iPhone. Can someone please tell me how you can download music as a ring tone on it? There's no instructions anywhere sad

In edit hiya fabio long time no see. smile

14 Nov 2009

Quote by hisandhers
I've got a new iPhone. Can someone please tell me how you can download music as a ring tone on it? There's no instructions anywhere
In edit hiya fabio long time no see.

You cannot download it as a ringtone.
As far as I am aware you cannot set ringtones, one of the small probs with the phone. I wanted to set ringtones for different people, but I am not aware you can do this.
A good web site to view if you have any problems and need some answers is the o2 website.
It has a dedicated section on the I phone.
Hope that helps.

14 Nov 2009

Kent, you can def set different ringtones on the 3Gs. I have found that bit out.
wink

14 Nov 2009

Quote by noladreams
Kent, you can def set different ringtones on the 3Gs. I have found that bit out.

As I have got the phone before the 3gs, maybe it can.
But I know it is not that easy to do.

Seems like a lot of hard work just for a ring tone.

15 Nov 2009

Welcome to the dark side, Fabs xx

Once the upgrade came along, I started to enjoy it...at last. The camera on this model is still a bit pants, but I'm finally appreciating the phone.
My favourite apps......
Shazam........have completely reinvigorated my love of music with this.
Twitter....don't really get facebook, but love to tweet.
The geocaching app.......hello my name is Kitty and I'm a geocacher.:shock:

15 Nov 2009

Quote by kittysin
hello my name is Kitty and I'm a geocacher.:shock:

do we have Missy to blame for that?
Im still getting Geocache newsletters...
and where is Missy?
lp

15 Nov 2009

Ha ha, glad Missy is getting the blame for introducing geocaching to SH.
I've been involved in the nerdy underground hobby for about 6 years.

17 Nov 2009

ahh haa i got my iphone a few days ago, im a bit of a tehcno geek at times but did not want to change to o2, but now its on orange, well im happy as a pig in shit.
i love my iphone :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love:

17 Nov 2009

I love mine too and with apps, there is something for everyone.

18 Nov 2009

Quote by Ukwineman
ahh haa i got my iphone a few days ago, im a bit of a tehcno geek at times but did not want to change to o2, but now its on orange, well im happy as a pig in shit.
i love my iphone :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love:

so that you, me and nola that have become converts.... it like a like a running joke now that my iphone has become my baby......
have spent 20 pound on apps (scrabble, monopoly, arsenal, rockband ect ect) but there are enough free ones to keep me going.....
and i finally managed to transfer across all my numbers today... so i am offically the happiest bunny in the world.... lol
sean xxxx