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  kupkadotca

  9 months ago

  digital roaming that won't cost me my firstborn!
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  todd

  9 months ago

  #1 on my list is the same as yours and you just about covers it except I think you meant MMS. That's the #1 thing that I run into that irritates me that I don't have. It's not the worst single problem, just a small annoyance like 10 times a day which pushes it right to the top of the list. As frivolous as it is for me to have, it's at least that frivolous for them to have added the functionality.
  
  #2 on my list: reminder beeps for phonecalls, emails, text messages and voicemails. They made an effort in the 2.1 software. It not an option one can turn on or off, it's just on, and you can't pick what the reminder beep is or how often it happens. Now, if you miss something you get a reminder beep 5 and 10 minutes after the initial event. Then it phone just gives up. Somehow this is even worse than just not having reminders whatsoever.
  
  Stop f%$#*@ing around with us, Apple! You have some of the best programmers on the planet and you're crushing their souls by not allowing them to give us the silly things we need! We paid you between $200-$600 for the damn phone, probably twice, why do you make us have to justify that crap on a daily basis?
  
  I swear if I see Steve Jobs on the street I'm going to throw a brick at him. You know this is his fault.
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  John Hawkins

  9 months ago

  @james that sounds more like your plan than the phone itself, but I hear ya!!
  
  @todd I have missed so many calls on my iphone. I either don't feel it vibrate, I don't hear it ring, etc. Then, some time later I look at the phone for some other reason and see the missed call. Man, that's annoying!
  
  As for the Steve Jobs hate, simmer down... he's just giving us the goods a little bit at a time so that we don't all geekgasm at the same time...
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  David

  9 months ago

  Ok, there's a service (for $99/yr) that Apple has introduced (I talked about this with the Apple store rep that I allowed to try and talk me out of my Windows OS phone) called MobileMe (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB824?mco=NzY...). He says that the service is able to sync all your computers: iPhones/smartphones, network drives, PCs, etc. It's really funny that Apple is charging for this [new/BETA?] service and Microsoft's BETA version of network syncing software, Mesh, is free right now, and works fine for me. However the advantage to the Apple version of this syncing software will be that it is over-the-air, so adding a contact/pic/whatever on your iPhone will be synced via internet server (remote sync?) immediately, as opposed to MS's current ability to hard-wire sync. Networks in Mesh can be accessed via the internet, but there is no app to sync using an over-the-air internet protocol (yet), but that may be arriving with the addition of the ability to sync with Windows OS smartphones. I know MS is working on a smartphone application, but haven't checked recently to see where they are in the release of the newest Mesh version.
  
  Free MS plug: If you have MS OS on your smartphone and want a similar (to MobileMe) app, sign up (while it's free!) and keep an eye out on Mesh.com (https://www.mesh.com/Welcome/LearnMore.aspx).
  
  Your Partially-Knowledgeable-Remaining-Impartial Friend,
  David
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  jason

  9 months ago

  I just about hopped on the iPhone bandwagon. But the love/hate thing already has it goin on between my blackberry and me.
  
  So many valid complaints. Maybe I'll just get an Android at the end of this month. I hear it will at least give you a reach-around.
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  John Hawkins

  9 months ago

  @David I'm going to sign up for th 60 day free trial of Mobile Me and see what it's about. If I can sync Goldmine and my iphone, I'm going to to suck it up and pay the $100/year.
  
  @Jason don't get me wrong, I LOVE my iPhone. The complaints I have are all things that would just be icing on an already yummy cake. Give in to the temptation... drink the iPhone Koolaid!
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