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#26 2007-06-23 3:13 pm
- ConnertheCat
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Re: iPhone Guided Tour
maleko wrote:
Phydeaux wrote:
It's going to be an aesthetics thing. We'll see if it doesn't suck.
I mean, my Blackberry can have AIM/YIM running in the background and send me a dialog box letting me know if something needs my attention while I'm composing email or processing a form on the company's site. Or even while I'm on speakerphone.
Point is, these applications launch and stay going so long as I have signal on my Blackberry; I hate to think that I'm going to have to consciously go into a web browser, pull up a site, wait to ensure connection and go from there. And if I drop signal, and with GSM that's VERY LIKELY, for me to go about the process again? And again? No thanks.Yeah, chatting in a web browser on a phone is pretty lame. I would have thought Apple could have worked out a better way to put 3rd party apps on the iphone.
Agreed. I have a feeling hacking it will not be an issue.
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#27 2007-06-23 9:47 pm
- jeremiah256
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Re: iPhone Guided Tour
ConnertheCat wrote:
Nice to see that they have multiple tab/window support with the web browser - that wasn't something I was exepecting. AIM should work via AIM express or Meebo.com (which is lame, but coudl be worse). Word support is interesting, even if it's just the ability to view them.
The guy doing the demo wasn't that bad - not as charasmatic as Steve, but not terrible either.
Just saw this page. Toward the bottom is an AIM application that runs via Safari. Of course it currently doesn't send you a notice of incoming messages and seems to limit you to ten minutes but I'm sure eventually someone will hack out a better solution.
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#28 2007-06-23 9:55 pm
Re: iPhone Guided Tour
I just hope there's a folder on there where I can put my own ring tones. I didn't see an obvious way to add more beyond the Apple supplied ones.
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#29 2007-06-25 8:18 am
- pottymouth
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Re: iPhone Guided Tour
I watched it. Looks fabulous. One question: HOW MUCH IS THE smurfing PLAN!?!? Are they really not going to say anything about this until iFriday? Are we to assume that it will be treated as a smartphone? $20/mo for unlimited data?
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#30 2007-06-25 12:34 pm
- pottymouth
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Re: iPhone Guided Tour
Well now there's this info
http://www.electronista.com/articles/07 … plan.leak/
Looks like the $20 data plan is just data. None of the stuff included in the PDA plan. I guess there's no point in trying to guess what'll actually happen.
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#31 2007-06-26 4:28 pm
- bloomsday
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Re: iPhone Guided Tour
wat is this "iPhone" you speak of?
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#32 2007-06-26 5:11 pm
- ConnertheCat
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Re: iPhone Guided Tour
pottymouth wrote:
Well now there's this info
http://www.electronista.com/articles/07 … plan.leak/
Looks like the $20 data plan is just data. None of the stuff included in the PDA plan. I guess there's no point in trying to guess what'll actually happen.
The article you linked is from Monday, and woefully inaccurate.
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