Hello, That's interesting. I used my iPhone a lot yesterday, and the battery was still pretty good when I went to bed. So perhaps they fixed it, I'm not sure.
Regards, Brandon Olivares Azavia Technologies New: ZCaptcha — The Captcha Reader On Sep 22, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
