Round Robin: Casey Needs iPhone Help, Tips, Tricks, and Advice!

[Osnaz]

My first post!

1. Favorite thing about the iPhone 3G
-I like how it's not a Blackberry smartphone (for businesses only), but that it's geared for the general population.. So I guess it would be the App Store, so much stuff! It's what makes it so unique, you can choose what you want on your Iphone!

[Osnaz]

2. Least Favorite thing about the iPhone 3G
-Strangely, also the App Store. Apples total control has killed off many good apps, such as... I forgot the name, it was like PDAnet. As well, most of the stuff on the store is useless junk or overpriced good stuff, or overpriced useless junk!

3. Most Used 3rd Party App
- I'd have to say X-Plane, I'm a flying junkie, and X-Plane is just plain awesome! It's physics are unmatched, it's graphics are up there among the best, it's under 10MB, and free updates for life (I must say, updates come very fast!) However, it's $10, very expensive, but I would say well worth it, for flying junkie and nomal people alike!

[Osnaz]

4. Most Played Game
-As stated above, X-Plane! Need I repeat myself?

5. Should I Jailbreak? And if so, for what 'killer apps'?
-I haven't jailbreaked yet, I'm too afraid of messing up and geting thrashed by Apple! However, I do think you should do it if youre not afraid for your warranty, as there are many good apps, most importantly, PDAnet! Get back at ATT for milking you of your money, or if your up here in Canada like me, it's allowed by Rogers and Fido, so you can have internet for your PC or Mac, or whatever, anywhere in the country!!

[Osnaz]

Another good one is Winterboard! Customize you Iphone! However, I think there aren't many good skins out there, and the good ones, are... well... mediocre.

[Osnaz]

Sorry for muliple posts! HTTP 404 with a big post, so I had to break it up!

[Hayze]

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'?

1. Favorite has got to be the great user interface. It is absolutely amazing, and makes you just want to never turn the thing off.

2. The keyboard.... But isn't this always the biggest gripe about touchscreen phones? With some practice, it becomes easier to use, but it is always a problem to use.

3. I still haven't come to the point where I trust 3rd party apps, so I'll stay away from this one.

4. I've been playing iBowl a lot lately, even though it's free, it's still a pretty fun game, another great thing about it, the free games in the app store aren't bad.

5. This is an opinion thing, I would say no, not a big deal to me. It's a great phone with or without jailbreak.

[janricr]

Originally Posted by c4sizzle

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'?

1. The large screen and integration with iTunes and my media files

2. The keyboard, although I got used to it, its still a bit wonky especially the auto correction.

3. Here's my list :
BeeJiveIM - The BEST IM client in the iPhone
Mail - Not the best mail client, but it gets the work done
Remote - Using the iPhone to control my iMac or Apple TV is SWEET !
Twitterific - need I say more?
Currency - Check the daily currency conversion (handy for those who are going overseas all the time)

4. TanZen, Pac Man and TicTacTouch

5. For me, I didn't have the need to jailbrake my iphone as I'm already happy with what it can do for me. It depends on your needs, if you need the apps that are not available officially (eg. PDANet for the iphone), then you should jailbrake it.

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Ok this is my post here so here I Go!...

1. Favorite thing about the iPhone 3G
- It would have to be the UI

2. Least Favorite thing about the iPhone 3G
- The camera, we need a variable focus 5 MP camera!!!

3. Most Used 3rd Party App
- Net News Wire!
4. Most Played Game
- Adrenaline Pool Lite - it's free and you can play online. Love IT!

5. Should I Jailbreak? And if so, for what 'killer apps'?
- Personally? No need anymore. It causes more problems than it can fix
when Apple pushes out updates. One should be coming soon so watch out!

[hgerstung]

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.

Originally Posted by c4sizzle

Okay, well first of all..Hello TiPb faithful!

(...)
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'?

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!

[Frozen001]

Originally Posted by c4sizzle

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'?

OKAY here is goes...

1. Love the interface and the overall look of the phone

2. Navigating between different e-mail systems (i.e. unified inbox), Anemic Calendar App (no categories, reminder snooze, integrated to-do's)

3. Smarttime/Toodledo

4. No really a game player, but I do use Sudoku

5. I did jailbreak my phone, there are some pretty good apps out there, but I am choosing to leave it stock for now. It is easy enough to jailbreak and try it out, and if you don't like it you can just go back.