The iPhone Tips/Tricks/Apps thread

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Originally Posted by theron.roland View Post
muahahahaha! you're quick but not that quick!
i donnit first!
real credit goes to marcforrest for picking this up though, odd that google didn't publish this anywhere, it just started working apparently
I also follow him on Twitter so that was where I saw it as well and then started playing so I agree, we'll all credit him. Nice, thanks Google !!
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Thanks Chaps. :D Didn't realise I was so popular LOL
:p
 
The one major problem with gps apps in the app store, is the updates. With the appstore, you do not have incremental updates. If there is a new version of the app, the old one gets deleted and the new one installed. This works like a charm on apps that are a few kbs to a couple of megs, but gps apps, usually run into the hundreds of megs, and for instance with the US maps, it can run into gigs.

So everytime there is a map update, you will have to download the complete app, and boy that is a lot of download, if you are not on wifi, it becomes and expensive exercise.

But also, with saying that...I love the gps apps on my iphone, bought the navigon, and it works like a charm, and has a gorgeous interface, thinking of getting the tomtom too, but will wait till I have some odd $80 lying around to get it
 
Gothan said:
The one major problem with gps apps in the app store, is the updates. With the appstore, you do not have incremental updates. If there is a new version of the app, the old one gets deleted and the new one installed. This works like a charm on apps that are a few kbs to a couple of megs, but gps apps, usually run into the hundreds of megs, and for instance with the US maps, it can run into gigs
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yes, but you're in SA, it's only 141 mb

i also made the argument they should sell an empty app and do the maps via in app purchasing, but no... they apparently prefer having 12 different apps, one for each country
 
theron.roland said:
yes, but you're in SA, it's only 141 mb

i also made the argument they should sell an empty app and do the maps via in app purchasing, but no... they apparently prefer having 12 different apps, one for each country
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141mb on a 384 line......Do you know how much I have aged waiting for downloads to finish??
 
Sorry to go off topic here gents, but does anyone here know of someone willing to sell a BB Bold 9000?

BTW: turning off 3G and disabling MMS has tremendously improved my calls. No more call dropping for almost a week now. Thanks for the advice ;)
 
Back on topic ;-) So I have the iPhone 3GS (Finally), however ALL Calls come into the phone as Unknown, any idea ? I know the caller ID is on because if I phone the same number on my Nokia it shows the number ?
My Caller ID is enabled, but I dont see anything that enables incoming Caller ID ?
Thx
 
MarvMart said:
Back on topic ;-) So I have the iPhone 3GS (Finally), however ALL Calls come into the phone as Unknown, any idea ? I know the caller ID is on because if I phone the same number on my Nokia it shows the number ?
My Caller ID is enabled, but I dont see anything that enables incoming Caller ID ?
Thx
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Welcome to the 3GS clan :)

That would be CLIP (Caller Line Identification Presentation).

You need to speak to your service provider and have them activate it (at a cost)

http://www.mtn.co.za/SUPPORT/FAQ/NEWSUBSCRIBERS/Pages/MakingTakingcalls.aspx

See "Q Can I view the number of an incoming call?"
 
Ok so I been using the navigon for a couple of weeks now. Its good.
A couple of things annoy me tho.
Does anyone know how to re-route when you get stuck in traffic?
It also seems to lose signal often tho. Is that normal for the iPhone?
 
Madman88 said:
Ok so I been using the navigon for a couple of weeks now. Its good.
A couple of things annoy me tho.
Does anyone know how to re-route when you get stuck in traffic?
It also seems to lose signal often tho. Is that normal for the iPhone?
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Make sure it has a clear view of the sky. My tomtom app works well.
 
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Ok, have to say, one of the apps I really enjoy nowadays is lockinfo, the latest version with native rendering. The previous version with html themes had the best plugins (for todo, quotes, rss and so on), and read on macthemes2, that the author of lockinfo, is busy porting them to native rendering (which uses a lot less memory by the way).

Can't wait for this thing to be final (currently still in beta), but its already wiping the floor with intelliscreen (memory wise, plugin wise and stability wise)
 
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