Help Dieter with the iPhone 3G -- Round Robin

[marcol]

Originally Posted by Dieter Bohn

- What is your sync solution? Are you all Mobile Me? I use Google for my PIM data, what's the best way to get that stuff onto the iPhone?

Mobile Me for me. Works a treat (now).

Originally Posted by Dieter Bohn

- Favorite Apps?

Third party? Top five list has changed slightly this week:

NetNewsWire
WunderRadio
eReader
BBC iPlayer (UK only, sorry)
Facebook

Change is addition of Facebook (which I've only just joined). The iPhone app is very nice (even if it does seem to have me in the wrong time zone).

If not limited to third party then Phone, Safari, Mail, Calendar and iPod would be my top five.

Originally Posted by Dieter Bohn

- I think my theme for this year's round robin is I love WM's today screen. Any way at all I can get something like that?

Others obviously know more about this than me. I'm pretty happy with the app-centric approach but done right I could see a Today screen could be a plus.

Originally Posted by Dieter Bohn

- Battery saving tips and tricks

Use Auto-Brightness (Settings > Brightness) and don't set the slider too high.

Other: upgrade to 2.2 if you haven't already.

Prior to upgrade:

Safari = best mobile browser, but unstable.

After upgrade:

Safari = best mobile browser.

Plus, with 2.2 everything is just that bit quicker and the addition of OTA podcast downloads is pretty sweet. I listened to a couple of new podcasts over the w/end just because it's so easy to browse around on the device and find them when you have a free minute. It's a simple addition but one that changes the game. Of course it's not perfect - notifications of new episodes and lifting the 10 MB cellular limit would make it better still.

More other. C'mon Apple let's have some of the things users have been craving. Unified email inbox anyone? A turn-by-turn nav app is way over due too.

[Dimietriev]

Would a unified email inbox be do-able by a third party app, or does that involve getting to close to the core os and is off limits?

[marcol]

Originally Posted by Dimietriev

Would a unified email inbox be do-able by a third party app, or does that involve getting to close to the core os and is off limits?

I would have said the latter before I read this:

Apple approves third-party email client for the App Store, violates its own policies - Engadget

Not sure now.

[reyza]

Originally Posted by marcol

I would have said the latter before I read this:

Apple approves third-party email client for the App Store, violates its own policies - Engadget

Not sure now.

I think it's possible they are already working on a unified inbox. Look what happened with Podcaster. They said it duplicated something already there (not really) but low and behold, they now have Podcast streaming as of the latest update. It could already be in development.

[JackisBack]

Will the Iphone 3g allow me to add a memory card?

[jamesus]

Originally Posted by JackisBack

Will the Iphone 3g allow me to add a memory card?

There is no additional storage option for any iPhone.

[dannzeman]

Dieter, whats the possibility of you jail braking the iphone? Is that allowed? I would imagine it'd be easier to achieve your goals that way.

[pinguino1]

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Guys, I'm not an iPhone guy. however following this contest we can learn unbias thing about the iPhone.

I noticed a lot of post here talk about jailbreaking,
is it that the only way to acomplish things efficiently?

I believe jailbreaking goes ok with power users to get what they want.
but the basic iPhone user (99%) don't know, don't want, don't bother do they have to live with limitatons?

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[Dimietriev]

Originally Posted by marcol

I would have said the latter before I read this:

engadget. com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/]Apple approves third-party email client for the App Store, violates its own policies - Engadget

Not sure now.

Yes, this was an interesting developement.

[Touch Me]

Originally Posted by pinguino1

I believe jailbreaking goes ok with power users to get what they want.
but the basic iPhone user (99%) don't know, don't want, don't bother do they have to live with limitatons?

Jailbroken iPhones are almost mainstream if we are to believe the polls and anecdotal evidence. Perhaps 20% or more according to some guesses. Of course, the "basic" iPhone user is happy with how it works out-of-the-box and that is how the round robin should be run.