Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’

Ok so you have a shiny new iPhone 3G and you are looking to accessorize.

Well if you can do without your phone for a couple of weeks and want something that is unique among your mates try THIS

Colorware will color your iPhone back, front, home button and ear buds starting at a measly $150 for the back.

I’ll take one in Orange for Orange Sands, at least the cost would be a tax deduction.

Then again, my phone is so new I couldn’t bear to be without it for two weeks.

Cheers,

Shane

Well I’ve now had my shiny new iPhone 3G for two days.

I have to say, I like it. I was a little worried the hype would overshadow what the gadget’s strengths are.

As a phone, especially paired with a blueant Z9i the call quality is excellent. I think the speaker phone is also quite good. I haven’t had any reception issues although 3G is sometimes a little sparse inside buildings. As I live in the North West of Arkansas, having 3G at all is a lucky thing. It will be interesting to see what the 3G quality is like around Harrison.

The mail was a breeze to setup and imap seems fine for what I’m using it for at the moment. The minimum default email polling is 15 minutes but you can manually check anytime you like. The phone gives a chirp and quick vibration when you have new email.

Web browsing is speedy and works well on wifi, 3G and even edge. GPS seems serviceable although I haven’t had a chance to use it much. There are some turn by turn apps in the works and I’m sure I’ll pick up one of those once they’ve been reported on.

I haven’t synced any music to the iPhone yet, however I have used Pandora to listen to some streaming music and the quality was excellent.

All in all a very cool gadget and I’m looking forward to spending quality time with it.

More to come.

Cheers,

Shane

Well finally after 12 odd days of patiently and not so patiently waiting for the iPhone 3G I ordered to ship, I awoke this morning to be greeted with a notification email saying that it has shipped. After much rejoicing and laps around the apartment I checked the FedEx tracking.

The good news is that it will be in store and ready to be collected by 15:00 tomorrow. (Yes I use military time, it’s a long story involving 7 years and large grey ships) The bad news is that I’ll be home in Harrison for the weekend and won’t be able to pick it up til Sunday afternoon at the earliest.

While I do not wish to anger Mr Murphy or his lovely mother, I’ll patiently await getting my paws on said iPhone 3G and enjoy it for what it is once I do.

I hope those of you, who already have yours after such a long wait are thoroughly enjoying them and I look forward to hearing more stories about using the iPhone rather than sitting around waiting for it to turn up.

As the ad in Aus used to say.

Don’t forget the AeroGuard and ‘ave a good weekend.

Cheer,

Shane

For those of you disappointed by AT&T implementing the CAPTCHA method to prevent the queus running against their database herebethedragons has updated their script to defeat it.

An except from the site

AT&T assigned a Captcha system to their order status script to defeat the page, the only problem is that they pay the wrong people.  If AT&T is listening let me give you a little insight onto the two major flaws of their idea.

You can again check your position in the queues.

Cheers,

Shane

In AT&T’s ongoing effort to thwart the sites around, that enable the many frustrated customers trying to get a glimpse into the vast queues of those awaiting their iPhone 3G, they have finally implemented a system that will stop the queue sites dead. The oft used character entering field before the query runs.

As a former Systems Admin guy, I can fully understand AT&T wanting to somewhat secure their systems from being constantly hit by thousands of programs getting info. In a way I’m surprised it took them so long to implement this particular system. This one could well be impossible for the queue sites and script owners to script around.

It would be nice if there was a decent way that AT&T could tell customers a more accurate ETA, but in the scheme of things, this issue "should" disappear in about a month or so.  Stock will eventually outstrip demand and iPhone’s will be available on both AT&T and Apple shelves.

Cheers,

Shane