Apparently, Sprint’s not doing so well. Apparently they’re having customer retention problems. That means that people would rather go to the hassle of changing phone service providers than continue giving their money to Sprint. While it wasn’t my number one reason for switching, I can say from personal experience that Sprint’s horrendous customer service was [...]
Yeah, my iPhone 3GS has been actin’ funny, and I don’t know why. I really don’t. And as a SysAdmin I find the lack of real troubleshooting tools very frustrating. About the best I can do here is to report my findings. So here are some of the things my iPhone 3GS has started doing. [...]
I’m with Mr. Gruber. While I think it’s cool that you can now see the iPhone’s remaining battery life as a percentage, doing so is only making me tense and nervous as my battery life trickles away before my eyes. I’m turning it off.
When I got my new iPhone 3GS I wondered what to do with the old one. After activating the new phone my 1st Gen was still loaded with all my content, and still functioned like it always did, just without phone functionality. In other words, an old iPhone is still a pretty cool thing to [...]
A while back I wrote about my initial impressions of my new iPhone 3GS. One of main reasons for upgrading was the touted improved call quality associated with the 3G models, but in my article I lamented that the improvement seemed nominal at best, from my cursory tests. I also noted that this would take [...]
I think the Voice Control screen on my new iPhone is damn pretty. I doubt I’ll use it much as it tends not to work as well in noisy areas, and I live in one of the noisiest areas on the planet. But there’s one nice touch that might make the feature that much more [...]
Here’s a fun one: Tap the microphone image in the Voice Memos application in iPhone OS 3.0 and the virtual VU meter will respond. The peak light will even flash red, just like a real recorder attached to a real mic. Blowing into the screen will do nothing, however.
Taking the iPhone 3GS on the subway will repeatedly get its compass all out of whack. It sits and spins in all directions. Eventually it produces this screen: I don’t know how the compass works in the phone. But I’d venture a guess that the big, giant electrified track might have something to do with [...]
Much of the press surrounding the iPhone 3GS deals with whether or not this is a compelling upgrade to the 3G iPhone. No one is really comparing it much to the 1st Generation iPhone, which is what I’m upgrading from. Some write-ups are describing the iPhone 3GS as “evolutionary, but not revolutionary.” Funny, ’cause that [...]
There’s a commercial that depicts a school system as run by the courier companies. I forget what the commercial is for. In it a narrator asks, “What if the schools were run by courier companies?” A child is late. The lead delivery guy calls his agents in the field. And within minutes, the child is [...]