iPhone 3G Ping!
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Posted on 07/15/2008 4:54:23 PM PDT by Swordmaker
If you've been waiting for a pocket-size device that's just as quick and powerful as your main computer, avoid the iPhone 3G.
Even with a faster chip and a faster network, you'll resent waiting for Web pages to load, and you'll spend that time cursing other problems with the device.
The 3-by-2-inch screen, for example, is too small. The 2-megapixel camera takes mediocre pictures. It only runs on AT&T's network. The GPS goes in and out. The fast Internet connection only works in cities. The battery dies after five hours of use. And the software is buggy.
Still, even considering all those shortcomings, Apple's iPhone 3G outclasses its competitors by a wide margin. It gives users easier access to more information and entertainment than anything else available.
Technically, people should not call the iPhone 3G a phone. The new device, like its predecessor, is really a tiny computer that lets you surf the Web, send e-mail, listen to music, watch videos and do countless other things. It also happens to make and receive calls.
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A few days ago, AT&T announced that they are moving their global headquarters from San Antonio to Dallas, so iPhone 3G should work great there.
Except that none of it will work unless you have a contract to make and receive those calls, right?
Depends on who you want to call. You can call 911 without a contract...
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he he he he
It’s like America. Horribly FUBARed except when compared to the rest of the world.
Love my new iPhone. First smart phone ever for me and its got me back into listening to classical music. I feel better about the world already.
Hey oldtimers. This iPod n00b needs help. Which are the truly good earbuds or headsets or whatever. I can’t keep these things in my ears. Especially when I’m working. Any and all suggestions welcomed. Tanks.
Don’t use the buds - they are very, very bad for your eardrums. Envision how the music from your buds directly assualts your inner ear, it’s not good. Switch over to headphones that hook onto the outside of your ear and comes with some sort of foam color. Shouldn’t cost you more than 10 bucks and your hearing will thank you.
Thanks (yanking uncomfortable buds from ears) . I’ve only used a portable (arm band) am/fm radio before and it comes with the little plastic yoke you can let droop beneath your chin or run it over the top of your head. Was trying to get better fidelity though. I’ve never used the type of buds that really slide down into your ear canal ... too painful ( assuming the feel like the ear protectors of the same configuration ) . I did pick up a pair that sorta just squish into the outer ear but they fall out all the time. The Apple ones sound ok but they fall out all the time too.
Please, can't someone invent a device that absorbs telecommunication waves and converts them into electricity to recharge batteries? I've seen documentaries that show people lighting light bulbs remotely, and that's been done over 100 years ago. I know one signal has very little milliwattage, but we're bombarded with thousands of signals. Surely that's enough to trickle charge a small battery?
Yeah, I'm a little slow on the up take
Recently blogger Mike Ash published some Objective-C microbenchmarks for the Mac Pro and run on the iPhone. He timed an Objective-C message-send at 4.9ns on the Mac Pro vs 192.9 on the iPhone. Integer division was 2.4ns to 139.5. Floating point division was 9.2ns to 134.4. And a 16-byte malloc/free cycle came in at 56.0ns vs 1988.4.
The iPhone CPU is believed to be a 667mhz Samsung S3C6400 running underclocked at 412mhz for power-consumption reasons.
The five hour number is B.S.
Mine exceeds Apple’s published numbers.
I had the same problem and really, REALLY like the V-Moda Vibe (or Vibe Duo for iPhone) headphones. Great sound from an in-ear headset, it comes with a carrying case, 2 sets (clear & black silicon) of plugs in small, medium & large. I have had mine for 9 months now - and never leave home without them...
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