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Originally Posted by c4sizzle
(...) But no more! For the 2nd Annual Smartphone Round Robin, I have to give up "the next big thing" in Android and give a try to every device in the SPE family. Meaning iPhone 3G, AT&T Fuze, Blackberry Bold, & Treo Pro here I come!
More info here: Smartphone Experts Round Robin |
I really have to say that I enjoyed the last SPRR very much, I was a Treo 680 user back then but converted to the iPhone 3G this year.
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Originally Posted by c4sizzle
Okay, well first of all..Hello TiPb faithful!
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To make it easy for you guys, here's what I'm asking for:
1. Favorite thing about the iPhone 3G
2. Least Favorite thing about the iPhone 3G
3. Most Used 3rd Party App
4. Most Played Game
5. Should I Jailbreak? And if so, for what 'killer apps'?
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Ok, lets go:
1. I also love the user interface, but being able to have all my iTunes stuff including music, videos and audio books with me without having to carry around a second device is simply fantastic. I can even use my old iPod car stereo adapter system from HarmanKardon with the iPhone.
2. Definitely the mail app. Man is that a crappy piece of mobile email client. I posted an in-depth rant about this
in my blog.
3. Byline. I initially used NetNewsWire as a news reader app, but Byline with its nice user interface really kicks ***. It is only a reader and does not allow to add newssources on the iPhone which initially confused me a lot but after I checked out how to add news sources (with Google Reader) I fell in love with it. Being able to define news folders which act like channels and combine news from different RSS feeds is fantastic. And the "Subscribe with Google Reader" feature allows me to easily add a RSS feed of the webpage I am looking at. This means you are collecting news sources while you are surfing on your PC. Dead easy!
4. I hardly play any games on my iPhone, but my kids love all those music toys like Bloom, miniPiano and this Guitar app.
5. Definitely yes. I was reluctant at first but I feel that my iPhone is complete since I did it. It simply adds a number of must-haves to this gadget:
- MMS (SwirlyMMS)
- Video (Cycorder)
- Landscape SMS (biteSMS)
Additionally, you get a number of fantastic and very useful modifications to your phone:
- BossPrefs: allows you to have a configurable list of config switches on one single screen (like Bluetooth on/off, GPS on/off, 3G on/off, Airplane Mode on/off). It is much faster to use than the original "Settings" app which requires you to navigate through a number of sub menus for most of the above switches. It is also great to be able to set up the "Home" button of your iPhone to bring up BossPrefs when you double-tap it.
- IntelliScreen: This fantastic Add On allows you to place a large chunk of information on the "lock screen", i.e. the screen that appears when your phone display has been switched off and you press one of the two keys (power or home). Among other things you can tell it to show you the next upcoming calendar appointments, the received SMS messages, weather information for your home town and a list of the last received mail messages
- Categories: After a while your home screen is cluttered with tens of applications that you have installed on your phone and organizing them in a useful way is quite a task. One bad thing is that there is no fast way to go back to the first screen when you are at screen number 9 after running a rarely used (and therefor placed on the last screen) app, you have to swoosh all your way back to page number one, which was pretty uncool. Categories allows you to put the app icons into subfolders, a great way of reducing the overall number of icons (and therefore pages) on your springboard.
- QuickGold: A killer app, really. It will pop up when you press the home button while already looking at the home screen and provides a search field which allows you to search for apps, contacts, SMS messages and other things. I mainly use it to launch rarely used apps that I put into one of the Categories subfolders. No need to use Categories for starting an app, just type in the first one or two letters of the app's name and then select it from the list of hits. Fast and easy, just how we all like it :-)
What Jailbreaking also offers is eye candy. You think the iPhone UI is already looking great? Man, try out one of the numerous Winterboard themes. My favourite one is "ATouchOfClass" but with a nicer background image. Cool stuff.
Did I already mention that I love my iPhone
... Enjoy!