iPhone 5 Day Came and Went

Rebel t3i said:
no body would make such an advanced revolutionary phone and not test that it actually makes phone calls surely :lol:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/jun/25/iphone-reception-problems-solved
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When I went to the O2 shop to get my last upgrade the woman I spoke to looked at my calling habits in order to find the best contract....

She said..... Right, over the last year you have used....... 88 minutes of calls and 28 of them have been to 999 !! I don't think you need to increase your minutes.

I don't use my phone whilst driving unless it is to report a dead cow, a fridge, a large piece of wood or several drunks in the carriageway of the motorway on my way to work. When I am at work I have a phone and when I'm at home I have one so strangely the phone functions are a minor issue for me :D

I mainly use mine for SMS, email, photos, calendar, internet, maps etc......
 
cowasaki said:
When I went to the O2 shop to get my last upgrade the woman I spoke to looked at my calling habits in order to find the best contract....

She said..... Right, over the last year you have used....... 88 minutes of calls and 28 of them have been to 999 !! I don't think you need to increase your minutes.

I don't use my phone whilst driving unless it is to report a dead cow, a fridge, a large piece of wood or several drunks in the carriageway of the motorway on my way to work. When I am at work I have a phone and when I'm at home I have one so strangely the phone functions are a minor issue for me :D

I mainly use mine for SMS, email, photos, calendar, internet, maps etc......
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28 calls to 999?

are you a prankster or something? :lol:

How are you that unlucky that you've had to dial emergency services 28 times this year. I've only had to dial it once my whole life
 
well I have the strange habit of using my mobile to make and receive phone calls
how bizarre is that Darren lol
 
joescrivens said:
28 calls to 999?

are you a prankster or something? :lol:

How are you that unlucky that you've had to dial emergency services 28 times this year. I've only had to dial it once my whole life
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No... 28 minutes!

I even listed most of the calls!

Motorway driving and being observant :D
 
Rebel t3i said:
well I have the strange habit of using my mobile to make and receive phone calls
how bizarre is that Darren lol
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Totally off the wall if you ask me :shrug:

I receive a lot of calls but just don't need to use the mobile to make any. When I'm near a normal phone I would rather use that. I don't find modern phones particularly comfortable to actually make calls on to be honest.
 
cowasaki said:
Totally off the wall if you ask me :shrug:

I receive a lot of calls but just don't need to use the mobile to make any. When I'm near a normal phone I would rather use that. I don't find modern phones particularly comfortable to actually make calls on to be honest.
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you can't beet a good old wired phone for calls I must admit prob is with modern life I am seldom at my desk and have been forced to use this strange thing that looks and feels like a pack of cards not a conventional phone
I refuse to have this black growth hanging out of my ear known as a blue tooth head set though
 
neil_g said:
i used 18 out of my 2000 minutes last month :lol:
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See, it's not just me!

Smart phones are really digital personal filofaxes of the modern age.

I thought I was really clever when I took the handset from an old broken BT phone and re-wired it to a 4 pin jack plug that fit into the iPhone only to find that hundreds of people have already done it :D

My favourite phone was the Nokia 9500 Communicator, it they did one with the same sized screen as the new iPhone and running iOS I would have one in a shot. My thumb is nearly half as wide as the screen and my fingers are more than a third as wide. Typing on the screen is the iPhones biggest issue for me, a pull out keyboard would be my biggest plus but they have already said that that will never happen. The real reason it will not happen is that it makes then region specific. Who actually cares about how thick the phone is ????? WTF is that all about? The iPhone 3 was the best shape out of them.
 
I have had to upgrade to an unlimited contract which appears to be limited to 3000 minutes though go figure
How they get away with advertising it and selling it as unlimited is beyond me
 
Rebel t3i said:
I have had to upgrade to an unlimited contract which appears to be limited to 3000 minutes though go figure
How they get away with advertising it and selling it as unlimited is beyond me
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Well it's going to be limited to 44640 minutes a month anyway. 3000 minutes is nearly 2 hours a day
 
unfortunately I cannot predict my calls
i often have to call suppliers and customers back
this could be 3 calls today or 60 I have no idea
so I have had to opt for this unlimited sim only deal at £30 pm
I used to have a £20pm 1000 minutes but caught out a few times with bills from 50 - 150 on the odd occasion
and I shan't be rushing out to get the latest must have phone lol
 
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A question for those of you that already use iOS 6. Does the turn by turn stuff work well enough to relegate a stand alone Sat Nav to the bin?
 
Ricardodaforce said:
A question for those of you that already use iOS 6. Does the turn by turn stuff work well enough to relegate a stand alone Sat Nav to the bin?
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yes it does, but only if you can get continued signal. So if you are going into the middle of nowhere it no longer works obviously, unlike a gps sat nav
 
joescrivens said:
yes it does, but only if you can get continued signal. So if you are going into the middle of nowhere it no longer works obviously, unlike a gps sat nav
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The iphone doesn't use gps to pinpoint your location?
 
Ahh ok. Well if you can't already download maps for offline use, i'm sure you soon will.
 
wuyanxu said:
i think he meant offline maps or dedicated satnav apps like Tomtom.
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yes thats what i meant, It's useless if you can't get a signal to download the maps as its going. If you don't have a good signal and 3g for example to start with then it won't even initialize. Not to mention siri needs data in order to speak to you. So i still use my tomtom
 
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neil_g said:
hmm that might get annoying in rural areas.
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It is! I would happily download the entire map of the UK and tie up 2Gb if thats what was needed to keep it running at speed.
 
Android will let you download maps for offline use, but I think currently it is set at a 80mb file limit. Hopefully it will increase to allow a larger area. But I am sure you can bet, whether it is apple or android that has it first, the other wont be far behind!
 
It's not exactly a major thing to allow the maps to be stored locally rather than on a server elsewhere. They could both change it quickly.
 
cowasaki said:
It is! I would happily download the entire map of the UK and tie up 2Gb if thats what was needed to keep it running at speed.
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Why not just invest in the tomtom app for the iPhone? I bought it years ago and every upgrade of iPhone and tomtom has been free. I think I paid around £30 in one of their sales for it (it's £50 at present) and its probably gone on 6 phones and had 4 or 5 upgrades to the app.

It is still the best UI of all the satnavs (IMO) and works without any issues on the iPhone, no signal or data connection or caching of individual routes needed (the app download includes the full UK map at around 300MB).
 
Dave1 said:
Why not just invest in the tomtom app for the iPhone? I bought it years ago and every upgrade of iPhone and tomtom has been free. I think I paid around £30 in one of their sales for it (it's £50 at present) and its probably gone on 6 phones and had 4 or 5 upgrades to the app.

It is still the best UI of all the satnavs (IMO) and works without any issues on the iPhone, no signal or data connection or caching of individual routes needed (the app download includes the full UK map at around 300MB).
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I have the money for it sat there having got a £70 & £35 Apps store voucher after buying an iPad and rMBP but I'm waiting to see what the IOS6 one is like first :D
 
joescrivens said:
I'm surprised you thought it would work without Internet.
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I'm surprised that you are surprised!

If you have all the maps locally then you only need your GPS location data or location from cell sites to plot you position on that map. You don't NEED internet access other than for downloading the maps.
 
cowasaki said:
I'm surprised that you are surprised!

If you have all the maps locally then you only need your GPS location data or location from cell sites to plot you position on that map. You don't NEED internet access other than for downloading the maps.
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Internet is also needed for the Siri voice commands, not just the maps.

Downloading all the maps and the voice would be probably quite large I imagine, would be nice if it wasn't but as soon as they announced the turn by turn I immediately thought "what about when there is no Internet?" That's what I'm surprised about that you didn't wonder, it was no surprise to me when it didn't work when there was no data.

I'm not saying I like it, it's pelt. But it's exactly what I had expected. :shrug:
 
neil_g said:
navfree works without internet, thats a free community supported app.. apple should be able to figure that out.
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Oh I'm not saying they shouldn't but what I am surprised at was that you thought they already had :shrug:
 
joescrivens said:
Internet is also needed for the Siri voice commands, not just the maps.

Downloading all the maps and the voice would be probably quite large I imagine, would be nice if it wasn't but as soon as they announced the turn by turn I immediately thought "what about when there is no Internet?" That's what I'm surprised about that you didn't wonder, it was no surprise to me when it didn't work when there was no data.

I'm not saying I like it, it's pelt. But it's exactly what I had expected. :shrug:
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SIRI ! I have it turned off anyway, it's absolute CARP

As for the maps, I have 7Gb free on my iPhone so I'm sure there would be space.
 
neil_g said:
well true i guess i expected more from apple.. :p
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apple are guilty of assuming everyone has amazing internet connection everywhere they go. You see it with their features all the time. Its a really stupid assumption. You need internet for siri to respond to stuff that doesn't even need internet, just so it can understand your voice commands.
 
cowasaki said:
I always use sat nav muted too!
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im not saying you don't I'm just telling you why data is needed for the satnav functionality at this time. It's for maps and voice commands.

Don't shoot the messenger, I don't approve of it. Just telling you how it is.
 
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