Congratulations on your phone. I don't have an iPhone at all, but my mother has a 5 and my sister a 4, and I plan to upgrade in a month or two. Anyway, I wanted to warn you about that raise to talk feature. When it first came out, people found that it was a pretty good battery drain, and the recommendation was to disable it. I don't know if they made things better in the iPhone5 and/or iOS6, but I just wanted to warn you to watch your battery if you enable tat option. On Sep 22, 2012, at 10:48 AM, Brandon Olivares <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just got the iPhone 5 yesterday for my birthday. I was upgrading from an > iPhone 4, so this is the first time I've gotten to use Siri. > > First of all, I love that Facebook is now more or less built in. I know this > is an IOS 6 thing, not necessarily the iPhone 5. But I like that you can > update your contacts from Facebook on your phone, so you can keep their > contact info up to date. I used to use an inaccessible app to do this > occasionally, but now it appears to be a lot easier. However, I'm not sure if > it downloads new contacts from Facebook that aren't yet on your phone, or > only updates the ones that match. I think it is the former. > > I like that there's an extra row of icons per page on the homescreen since > the screen is taller. Though sometimes I have to search around for things > where I got used to their location, but now they are higher up on the screen > for the same reason. > > I love the Do Not Disturb feature. I've been wanting something like this for > a while, kind of a compromise between Airplane mode and wanting some people > to be able to get through if necessary. > > The new "reply with message" option is also really useful. Basically if you > get a call you can't or don't want to answer right now, you can select "call > options" and then "reply with message," and select one of three predefined > replies, such as "I'll call you later." > > Finally, of course, I love Siri. Very useful in a lot of ways, and very funny > to at others. :) I didn't know this, but I realized that if the option is > enabled, you can simply raise the phone to your ear to talk. That includes > for dictating messages. Just raise the phone up to your ear and speak your > message. It's very convenient. > > Christine and I have only been using Siri to send messages, since it is so > much faster. > > I actually wish it would do more, though. For instance, I asked it to create > a list in reminders. It said to go to the reminder's app for that, so > obviously Siri knew what I was talking about. Why not just create the list? > Can't be very difficult. Same thing for completing reminders. > > Anyway, just wanted to share some of the things I like about this new phone. > :D > > Regards, > Brandon Olivares > Azavia Technologies > New: ZCaptcha — The Captcha Reader > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
