Just taken delivery of a iPhone

[Andy]

Fed up with Oranges seriously crap services and took the plunge and one of these new iPhone jobbies.

Anyone else got one? Anything decent I should look out for, or any useful tips for using it?

Its looking a bit greek at the moment but hopefully I'll get the hang of it.

[Jamieg285]

They're rubbish.

Seriously, you need to pack it back up and send it to me, and I will dispose of it for you

[Deadmeat]

no but orange will be selling them soon so might look next time :)

[Fieldy]

best phone you will own for years.....

You on o2? Before I was with o2 I was with 3, terrible. Now, I have o2 broadband and mobile. Best company for service and and after sales care.

Get yourself signed up to the i-Tunes store, so you can download applications from the app store, you will never get bored again!

The apps I use most are 0870, where you dial the 0870 number, and it redials on a non-0870 number automatically. If you are with o2, Get 'my o2' app, That keeps track of all your spending etc, you'll never overspend again.

Great phone, but insure it. I have smashed my screen, £170 to fix without insurance, with, £30 excess with my Lloyds account.

[Cunning Plan]

There will be only the iPhone and the Google Andriod phones to choose from soon - best phone OS's EVER. Get loads of apps as said but get the free ones first - theres alot of good ones there!

[Big Mouse]

Quoting: Andy

Its looking a bit greek at the moment but hopefully I'll get the hang of it.

Go into options and change the language from greek to english, it'll be easier to use.

[ianjpage]

Hmm cant say i was that fussed when i was given a choice of the iPhone as an upgrade - i personally am not a fan of touch screens...so i went for the Nokia N86 8MP instead - am very impressed with it, 8mp camera, 24gb Memory(!), Wireless, 3g, etc etc

[Roadkill]

I like my Motorola RZR

Alas.  I think the keypad is on its way out - not bad for a four-year-old phone which was my "site" phone for two of those years.

[F Body]

Quoting: Andy

Anything decent I should look out for, or any useful tips for using it?

Try making a phone call with it

[Andy]

Quoting: Jamieg285

Seriously, you need to pack it back up and send it to me, and I will dispose of it for you

Yeah like heck! This thing is sweet as a nut

Quoting: Fieldy

You on o2? Before I was with o2 I was with 3, terrible. Now, I have o2 broadband and mobile. Best company for service and and after sales care.

I've been a loyal, and i mean loyal Orange customer for the last 4~5 years, until about a year ago when my old SE started giving me grief. So I got a DMR (different model replacement) for the new at the time C902... it was absolutely shit! Been plagued by it ever since. In total on insurance i've had 5 handsets. Freezing locking up, just generally dying, and then when I had a decent one, I feel in the river with it.

So anyway, their customer service has been getting worse, obviously thinking I'm not very good with phones or something and I've just had enough of being lumped with their phones for 18 month contracts. At least this phone has had time to come on the market and get its fair share of bugs! Plus everyone says O2 are great with customers. And hell yes its insured, though it costs half the tariff per month...

Quoting: Big Mouse

Go into options and change the language from greek to english, it'll be easier to use.

Quoting: Roadkill

Alas. I think the keypad is on its way ou

Think you're right there. Without a keypad, there is a limitless option for input to the phone.

[Andy]

Quoting: F Body

Try making a phone call with it

Haha, You know I'm thinking the same... like say an emergency. 999 should be 4 button presses, now its almost like a small salsa for your fingers.

[Fieldy]

Quoting: Andy

Haha, You know I'm thinking the same... like say an emergency. 999 should be 4 button presses, now its almost like a small salsa for your fingers.

actually, no.

I would advise a security lock on your phone, but even with this enabled, you press any button, press emergency call, done....

[HardRockCamaro]

Best phone ever.  End of story.

Using any other phone afterwards will show you how badly designed they have always been.

I'm serious.

I wouldn't even consider anything else ever again.

[Andy]

I've had this thing for about 3 hours up and running. Its fecking ace!!

Have been to one of my Rotaract meetings, and for the first time I've had signal at Adams Park! Not only that, 3G so could read the agenda straight from the browser.

Got a few comments about it not going through the paint shop as I have the white version

Just scanned the Apps store. What are the decent free ones? There are so many!

[HardRockCamaro]

I find the Allowance one quite handy, it logs into your O2 online billing page and pulls off how many free minutes etc you have left.  Not free but like 59p or something.

I also use the Facebook app, the eBay app, Skype, a Twitter client (echofon in my case), Shazam, the Paypal app, Stanley Level and a whole host of other stuff.  There's even a VNC client for controlling your home PC from your phone which is kind of wild...

There's pretty much an app for anything.

There is some pointless but fun stuff too like simulated lighters, light sabers and so on.

[Andy]

Oh god, i can see my free time being eaten up by this thing

Have the O2 thingy already, very useful! Something which I think I'll be going back to a lot.

Will download some of those in the morning i reckon. Any suggestions on a cover?

[Titsy]

Guy at work had his iPhone die on him this morning because it seemingly couldn't handle his second alarm going off while the first was on snooze... It resulted in the phone locking up and refusing to restart until he yanked the battery out...

[EDGE]

Quoting: Titsy

Guy at work had his iPhone die on him this morning because it seemingly couldn't handle his second alarm going off while the first was on snooze... It resulted in the phone locking up and refusing to restart until he yanked the battery out...

dude... really.... i mean... really.....

the iphone doesnt have a battery you can yank out, its a sealed phone, only the sim card is removeable and that involved using a special (supplied) hook tool...

so.... really........ really.........


ipone>anything else....

[Titsy]

Hmm... Maybe I got the battery bit wrong, he did say something about running the battery down after he had explained about how it locked up, but i'd lost interest by then... He definatly said the it locked up because one alarm was still snoozing when the other went off... Try it yourself, set one alarm 5 mins after the other and hit the snooze when the first one goes off...

Seems odd that you can't remove the battery. I know you have to use hook tools to remove an iPod battery as we use a 4th gen iPod battery in the Video VBOX and we end up binning a set of 4 plastic hools for every one we use...

[Andy]

If you could remove the battery it would ruin the 'synergy' lines

I believe there is a couple of videos showing how to dismantle an iPhone/iPod.

[Incursus]

Yeah the latest iPhone is almost up to scratch and with the other networks getting it it will hopefully come down to a more reasonable price.  Probably be a choice between that and the HTC Hero when I upgrade in April

Played with the old iPhone a few times...Meh.  

Quoting: ianjpage

i personally am not a fan of touch screens...

interesting.... I'm completly the opposite I've had touch screen phone's for over 4 years now but my work mobile is a Nokia with keypad and find it so frustrating.

[Fieldy]

Quoting: EDGE

special (supplied) hook tool..

I never recived one

But none-the-less, that was the most problem I have had with the handset since, getting the sim card in, after that, easy peasy.

[EDGE]

Quoting: Fieldy

I never recived one

it should be in a MASSIVE black cardboard sleve...

hang on ill check...

[Andy]

The new packaging you can't miss it. Although on this it's not so much a hook as just a small blade. Must work much the same as an emergency cd eject button as it fires the little tray out on this.

One great benifit is web browsing. I don't think I'll be using my pc much apart from photo editing. The MKB site looks well pretty from here too

[Fieldy]

Quoting: EDGE

it should be in a MASSIVE black cardboard sleve...

Nope, Nothing....

But, o2 are good
i-Phone = great