On 16/4/09, Scott Loveless, discombobulated, unleashed: >Allow me to revise my question, since I know at least of few of you >use that iPhone thingy. What's it like when you leave the 3G network?
Scott, I am lucky enough to live and work in plenty of areas in southern England where 3G is readily available. For those times it is not, EDGE is slower but not grindingly so. But maybe it depends on what you want the access for? I use the Google map function continuously and so although the GPS tracks the satellites and updates my position, the cell connectivity actually provides and redraws the maps. Only occasionally do the maps slow to a crawl, and my little blue dot (my position) proceeds across a blank background (must be spatial distortions ;) but again this is not often. For web browsing, it can be a little irksome if the connection is not 3G. There's a comparison video on this page (last thing on the page before the comments) <http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/iphone-3g-review/> Don't forget that the device will readily pick up wifi signals, so providing you have an account or use a free wifi service, you can chug away with a coffee in Starbucks. Using the device in your own house with wifi is useful. And if you subscribe to Truphone or Skype, then using a suitable App makes VOIP calls a must. Godfrey has an iPod Touch (the iPhone without the phone part) and he likes that. I spend half my day making or receiving calls as a part of my job, so I need the phone part. I use just about everything else it does as well, and some I hadn't thought of: I have an app that means I can use the iPhone to tune my guitar and mando. Now that's cool :-) Be away that you need iTunes to activate an iPhone, either on a PC or Mac. This isn't a bad thing as it doesn't cost anything, and is the means to backing up the device so all info and data is safe in the event of loss or theft. HTH -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
