iphone - what do you use yours for?

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Just wondered what people used their iphone (or equivalent) for....?

Did anyone go for one because they were "cool" and then think "why the **** did I spend/am I paying so much for this and I hardly ever use it?

Are there any good reasons for NOT buying an iphone (or similar)? Like - in a year's time there will be a much, much better phones becoming available?

I'm not trying to be rude or anything. It's just a dilemma I'm going through at the moment.

j
 
I use mine all of the time. Phonecalls, email, texting, internet browsing, maps, controlling my sonos system at home, as an ipod, games. Tons really. I am sure apple will release a new one this year, perhaps around July. There are always better phones on the horizon but if you wait for the next big thing then you will never buy anything!
 
I use it every single day for everything. It literally is the greatest gadget so far ever made. I bought it pay as you go and it cost me a princly £500+ but i can honestly say it was worth every penny, the only gadget I use more would be my iMac
 
+1 to the above. I'd be lost without it. Email, web, SMS, phone, music, video, games, facebook, twitter, ordering stuff from Amazon.. but it can't make me a cup of tea yet.
 
I bought mine for a number of reasons.

I liked the ease of sending/receiving emails.
It meant I no longer have to carry a phone and an ipod. one device does all.
It was the most intuitive phone on the market at the time, IMO, and i like its interface.
 
Besides the usual phone stuff I use mine for Sky+, controlling my PC, connecting to customers via RDP/VNC, games, surfing/online shopping + numerous apps for fun.
 
Another +1. Saves me carrying a phone AND an MP3 player. Does my email & SMS and it is actually useable for web browsing. The screens big enough so videos are watchable. My contacts and calendars are instantly available (and instantly updated on the web and my MacBook when I change stuff on the phone, and instantly updated on the phone when I change them elsewhere).
And there really is an app for just about everything apart from making tea, but OS 4 is due to be announced next week, so that might change :lol:
 
chrisgeary said:
but it can't make me a cup of tea yet.
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Maybe i should wait awhile for mine then.....;)

Are there any drawbacks to emailing and web browsing on the move?

And for someone like myself, with a limited ability (or desire) to use high-tech stuff to its utmost, how user friendly is it (are they).

And what's RDP/ VNC?
 
10% Phone calls
10% Email
5% Text messages
10% Photography
20% other apps (games, maps, weather etc)
45% Web browsing

And I listen to the ipod on it about 2 hours a day also, but I'm often doing other stuff on it at the same time.
 
jerry12953 said:
And for someone like myself, with a limited ability (or desire) to use high-tech stuff to its utmost, how user friendly is it (are they).
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My wife hated gadgets/techy stuff, never got on with her last couple of phones. She loves her iPhone though, took to it like a duck to water. Honestly, it's so easy to use even my mother in law is considering getting one, and she can barely work the TV!
 
jerry12953 said:
Maybe i should wait awhile for mine then.....;)

Are there any drawbacks to emailing and web browsing on the move?

And for someone like myself, with a limited ability (or desire) to use high-tech stuff to its utmost, how user friendly is it (are they).

And what's RDP/ VNC?
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user friendly is what the whole thing is based on, after all it is an apple product.

put it this way, my 2 year old niece can browse photos on it, thats how easy it is
 
Drawbacks: speed. especially if you drop out of 3G. But thats true with any internet-enabled mobile phone. No flash support either which renders some content unreadable. This is not something that gets in my way often.

On the plus side, you get a full web browser and the gesture based interface (double tap to zoom in, expand/contract two fingers to zoom in/out) is just awesome!
 
I'd be lost without mine too, it's the only mobile I've owned that lets me talk properly to my work email systems and other applications. It also gets used as a sunrise/sunset calculator, tide tables, dof calculator, train times, soduoko for the train, traffic problem alerts, airline flight tracking, and for instant messaging with our staff whilst out and about.

It rocks :D
 
Only drawbacks I've found are poor battery life and lack of devices that it can connect to via bluetooth.

Bluetooth on the iPhone is basically for headsets and that's it.

However there is an app called PhotoShare that lets you transfer photos from iPhone to iPhone via Bluetooth :thumbs:

Aside from the above it's the greatest gadget on earth imo. A true all in one communication device :)
 
Hairyduck said:
I'd be lost without mine too, it's the only mobile I've owned that lets me talk properly to my work email systems and other applications. It also gets used as a sunrise/sunset calculator, tide tables, dof calculator, train times, soduoko for the train, traffic problem alerts, airline flight tracking, and for instant messaging with our staff whilst out and about.

It rocks :D
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It has tide tables, does it? That would be brilliant - an app, I suppose?

How good are the tide tables?

Are most of the features you mention apps? I gather Apple has a much better range than other brands - correct?
 
jerry12953 said:
Any chance you could translate that into English.....;)

Does it mean you can control your computer via your phone? Presumably you'd have to leave it switched on?

cheers!

j
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yep in a nutshell thats what it means. Yes you need to computer and the iphone turned on to do this. You can wake your computer using ssh though
 
Yup, most of these are add on apps. The tide tables seem spot on around North norfolk where I've used it. It covers a limited amount of locations but there's usually one near enough where I am to give reliable data

jerry12953 said:
It has tide tables, does it? That would be brilliant - an app, I suppose?

How good are the tide tables?

Are most of the features you mention apps? I gather Apple has a much better range than other brands - correct?
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Bearing in mind this may not be a totally unbiased sample of phone owners (:D), the iphone seems like a good idea, then?

I see there's a 3g and a 3GS. How do they differ and do you have any recommendations?

Is £35 pm for 2 years (including home broadband) a fairly standard contract price?
 
jerry12953 said:
Bearing in mind this may not be a totally unbiased sample of phone owners (:D), the iphone seems like a good idea, then?

I see there's a 3g and a 3GS. How do they differ and do you have any recommendations?

Is £35 pm for 2 years (including home broadband) a fairly standard contract price?
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get the 3gs, speed, video and even better is the compass which just rules in google maps.

dunno about contracts, i bought mine outright, you end up paying full price for the phone through your contract anyway
 
jerry12953 said:
So you'd leave it on standby or hibernate, then?

You'd think that ssh would send it to sleep, though.......
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My iMac is rarely even turned off, I send it to sleep each night. I might go a month before restarting it and thats usually only to do software updates
 
Like most people above I use it for pretty much everything, I hardly ever use my laptop at home to go online these days.
 
I use my iPhone everyday the 3Gs just got better since jailbreaking :) customised + UI tweeks, support for multiple exchange accounts.
 
Phone, texts, email (synced to my imap server), maps, address book, diary.

Hardly installed any apps on it, keep meaning to put an ssh client on but never get around to it.
 
I use mine for web browsing, emails, reading books (using the Stanza app) & I've just put three database's on listing my books, DVD's and games. There's also so many other apps, (FlickR, Facebook, password/login keeper, shazam for identifying any music you hear)

The thing I use it for least are probably phone calls and texts!
 
I got mine as a present (My N95 was stolen in Czech Republic) but as I am with carphone warehouse I am not on the iPhone tarrif so I can't get online (only through WiFi) so I use mine as a phone really
 
All of the above really, the only two areas I think really let's it down is I think ts a rubbish phone and it's appalling camera- bettered I believe on the 3GS.

Other than that it's a smasher :)
 
wibbly said:
All of the above really, the only two areas I think really let's it down is I think ts a rubbish phone and it's appalling camera- bettered I believe on the 3GS.

Other than that it's a smasher :)
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Really? Phone works well , I've never not got a signal, big buttons on the screen to call numbers, text messages with number are highlighted for touch and call, the contact list etc works great and you can have a multitude of contact number per person.

What's not to like?

As fro the camera, well I've a camera to take photos
 
Ditto, certainly the UI on the phone part of it is as good as or better than anything else I've used, the SMS being shown in a conversation format is great.
 
menthel said:
I use mine all of the time. Phonecalls, email, texting, internet browsing, maps, controlling my sonos system at home, as an ipod, games. Tons really. I am sure apple will release a new one this year, perhaps around July. There are always better phones on the horizon but if you wait for the next big thing then you will never buy anything!
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Exactly this, except I have a Touch HD.

800x480 web browsing goodness too so no scrolling all over the pages like the iPhone and older android devices, you see the internet the way it was meant be seen.:lol:

As for phones to look out for you have the HTC - HD2, Nexus 1, Bravo, Sony Ericsson x10, the possible "4g" iPhone and also a phone called the HTC supersonic, which may or may not make it's way over here. Hopefully the next iPhone will sort the batter issue out too as Apple are lagging way behind in that respect, the rest of the phones on the list do or will probably last 2-3 days on a single charge not less than one like some iPhone users moan about.

Also if you do decide to go for an iPhone in the end have a look at buying one sim free/payg and getting a seperate contract, it could work out cheaper as the phone itself is around the same price as most of the other top end smartphones, just the contracts are rip offs.
 
Whats the best way to upload photos from your iPhone to this forum?
 
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