iPhone

[GLC1968]

If you get stuck on how to do something, just google it. There are some great tips for iphone site and more out there.

This is so true. I've learned more about my iphone from just googling things than I would ever have guessed! Put in your exact question and there is a good chance that someone, somewhere has already asked it.

[trista]

I have an HTC Inspire and I really like it. I mainly chose android over iphone due to price, but I have yet to find anything that i could do on an iphone that I can't do on the android. I also like that I can carry a spare battery in my purse so that if I was ever in a pinch and drained my battery, I have a backup.

[Catrin]

I have an HTC Inspire and I really like it. I mainly chose android over iphone due to price, but I have yet to find anything that i could do on an iphone that I can't do on the android. I also like that I can carry a spare battery in my purse so that if I was ever in a pinch and drained my battery, I have a backup.

I made the same switch. There are some things that were easier on my iPhone, and some things that are easier on my Inspire. My Inspire, however, is a far better PHONE than my iPhone was...

[pumpkinpony]

I got my new iPhone! woo hoo! It's purty!

Have fun with it!

I had a Samsung Optimus (android) prior to the iPhone, and I have to say I liked it much better.

The iPhone speaker volume sucks when you are driving, basically have to wear a headset. Call quality isn't that great and I get a lot of 'call failed' or calls dropping, though that may be AT&T more than the iPhone. the phone itself is slow when trying to start apps or do something within the app, and Skype is practically useless as the camera is on the back of the phone. The only way for the other caller to see you is to turn the phone around, and then you can't see them! Oh and the quality of the pictures that the camera takes also sucks compared to the Samsung. And my last complaint, maybe someone else has figured it out? I can't find anyway to save a picture from an email via the browser onto the phone. The only pictures I can store on the phone are either taken with the phone or synced via iTunes.

[jessmarimba]

And my last complaint, maybe someone else has figured it out? I can't find anyway to save a picture from an email via the browser onto the phone. The only pictures I can store on the phone are either taken with the phone or synced via iTunes.

For browser or email photos, if I hold my finger on it for a second (like I would to copy/paste) a menu pops up from the bottom of the screen and one of the options is "save image." It saves to your camera roll. I don't know if it has changed in the newer iphones but that works on 3GS.

Also I know on the 4G you can take photos of yourself with the front of the phone somehow so I would figure Skype would work correctly on those? Who knows.

[BikeDutchess]

Yep, I've Skyped with the front camera on the iPhone 4. Worked fine. But I think the 3s only had a rear camera and that would be a problem

ETA: I must add that I have an older version of Skype (3.0.1) on my phone. I deliberately haven't updated because the reviews on the updated versions have been so awful.

[badger]

Ha, i'm posting this from my iPhone now. The keyboard is MUCH better than the samsung one, and the address book is better, too. Don't have to have multiple entries for landline, cell, etc

[Irulan]

Have fun with it!

I had a Samsung Optimus (android) prior to the iPhone, and I have to say I liked it much better.

The iPhone speaker volume sucks when you are driving, basically have to wear a headset. Call quality isn't that great and I get a lot of 'call failed' or calls dropping, though that may be AT&T more than the iPhone. the phone itself is slow when trying to start apps or do something within the app, and Skype is practically useless as the camera is on the back of the phone. The only way for the other caller to see you is to turn the phone around, and then you can't see them! Oh and the quality of the pictures that the camera takes also sucks compared to the Samsung. And my last complaint, maybe someone else has figured it out? I can't find anyway to save a picture from an email via the browser onto the phone. The only pictures I can store on the phone are either taken with the phone or synced via iTunes.

Um doesn't CA law allow only handsfree anyway?

My iphone takes great photos, mostly

[jessmarimba]

Um doesn't CA law allow only handsfree anyway?

I think she just meant that you can't just put the phone on speakerphone and set it in your lap. Which is technically handsfree, but doesn't work with the iphone unless you have a really really quiet car and really really good hearing.

I could be wrong, but that's how I deal with phone calls in handsfree states, and it's a poor solution.

[Irulan]

I think she just meant that you can't just put the phone on speakerphone and set it in your lap. Which is technically handsfree, but doesn't work with the iphone unless you have a really really quiet car and really really good hearing.

I could be wrong, but that's how I deal with phone calls in handsfree states, and it's a poor solution.

Most phones don't work well on speaker when you put them in your lap.
It's a poor excuse for hands free as you have to your fingers on the keypad etc unless there is a total voice command app I don't know about.

What is it with the flagrant violation of hands free cell phone laws? Just because they don't do a great job of enforcing them doesn't mean you should blow them off. You can pick up a cheap bluetooth hands free visor set for $45 at places. There is very little that cant' wait for a return call.

[OakLeaf]

... also please remember that hands free or not might be the law, but even hands free you're more impaired by talking on the phone than you are by being drunk ... seriously, is there a single person on this board who hasn't been run off the road while running or cycling, by someone driving while on the phone???

[jessmarimba]

I'm just not spending $45 for a bluetooth that I only need maybe 5 days a year. As far as I'm aware, CA is the only place I go for work that doesn't allow handheld phones. I don't have that money to spare. Unless its the client for a property I'm en route to, its just better not to answer.

But all iphones (besides possibly the original one) have voice commands to call people, so no, you wouldn't need to dial with the keypad.

[pumpkinpony]

For browser or email photos, if I hold my finger on it for a second (like I would to copy/paste) a menu pops up from the bottom of the screen and one of the options is "save image." It saves to your camera roll. I don't know if it has changed in the newer iphones but that works on 3GS.

I wonder if that is a newer ios? I just tried on mine, if I hold my finger on the image I get Open, Open in New Page, or Copy. If I try copy, I don't see any way to Paste in the camera roll. oh well...

edit: went to check something, if I select "open" it just scrolls to the next picture.

[pumpkinpony]

I think she just meant that you can't just put the phone on speakerphone and set it in your lap. Which is technically handsfree, but doesn't work with the iphone unless you have a really really quiet car and really really good hearing.

I could be wrong, but that's how I deal with phone calls in handsfree states, and it's a poor solution.

^ that. I used to have a blackberry for work, and I would drop it down in the hand slot in the door and it worked great on speaker. The iPhone, not so much. There are several states now with handsfree laws - here. I do have a bluetooth headset, I just don't always remember to turn it on so now I usually hit answer, speaker, and just tell someone to wait a minute while I get the bluetooth going.

[smilingcat]

When you drive a car, DRIVE!!

It's not about yakking on the phone.
It's not about putting your make up on.
It's not about reading your morning paper.
It's not about playing with the radio station...
It's not about eating your brekkie.

Each second you are distracted, you travel 88 feet at 60MPH. Enough to crash.

Several years ago, in Irvine California, on quiet Sunday morning, on a 4 lane road with very light traffic, a car (I think it was high end BMW) was involved in a crash. Wrapped around a tree. Driver was dead at the scene. No skid mark. No broken pieces of car on the road leading up to the crash scene. It was determined that the driver was going at very high speed and was talking on the phone. He was distracted and veered off the road and bulls-eyed into a big oak tree.

I take my driving very seriously. Maintain my situational awareness around me at all times. You should too. no ear phone/buds... I've seen distracted drivers run a stale red light. Yes on one occasion, it collided and totaled the SUV.

Oregon also has hands-free only law. Hands free should be banned too. I'm bit sensitive. My sister and my twin nephews were just a year old babies when their car was rear ended. It is amazing they survived at all. Nothing was left of their car. My sister was waiting at a red light when they got rear ended by someone going near 60MPH is what I understood.