SOCIAL: phone upgrade

[Manish Champsee]

Hi Erin,

A couple of points on your concerns:

you noted:

3. WiFi reception seems to be wonky. It says it has a strong signal at home,
but then won't connect to ITunes because there's no WiFi. Thus I haven't
been able to download my address book from my PC, which can only be done
thru ITunes somehow. So this important feature is completely unavailable to
me.

The iTunes connecting to wifi refers to the ability to purchase songs over
the air.  If you want to connect to iTunes on your PC, you need to attach
your PC to the phone with the cable and that will sync your songs as well as
possibly your mail settings.

5. I still haven't figured out how to set up smtp, so I can't send any mail.
The settings I use on my computers aren't working, and I haven't had time to
try to figure out why.
Mine came preset with an AT&T smtp server and the mail sync added the SMTP
server for my local connection.  You might want to try turning wifi off and
seeing if you can send mail via the AT&T smtp server and then add another
SMTP server for when you are on you own local wifi connection.

6. Not all web tools are available when browsing on this device. I tried to
listen to a radio station online and wasn't able to. Could be a safari
issue, not sure. Would be nice if another browser were an option since a lot
of websites don't support safari.
The iPhone currently doesn't support flash or any media player other than
Quicktime.  The radio station in question might be broadcasting in some
other format.


On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Erin Milnes <erin.milnes at comcast.net>wrote:

>  I recently received an iphone from work (one of my few perqs).
>
> I'm not a very techy wired type person—I dislike texting, twitter, etc. (I
> like to experience what I'm doing rather than document it or look for
> something better), for the most part I listen to vinyl and CDs, not mp3s,
> and I will probably always have a paper address book as well as an
> electronic one—however, it was VERY handy the other day to be able to Google
> for the number and location of a store while I was out and about, and then
> call said store with a single finger press of the Google map.
>
>
>
> Pros: 1. above-mentioned convenience of web to phone
>
> 2. camera (first one I've had) creates good looking pics.
>
> 3. pretty display
>
> 4. you can buy a very durable rubber cover (should make the phone fairly
> resilient in the face of frequent dropping)
>
> 5. lots of email and music features that will hopefully work at some point
> (see problems I list under cons)
>
>
>
> Cons: 1. The phone fidelity on speaker is lousy, particularly if you are
> not in a quiet place. I haven't tried it with the headphones yet because my
> boss can't find them (he gave me the phone he bought for himself and didn't
> want because of the audio quality—he's on the phone all day and this one
> just didn't cut it for him). We'll see whether the headphones improve the
> audio significantly and whether the mic works ok. It will be quite
> inconvenient, though, to always have to pull them out to make a call.
>
> 2. I haven't had great coverage. I couldn't bring up the web at SFO the
> other day, and the phone service is spotty at best at my home (as was
> Sprint/Nextel).
>
> 3. WiFi reception seems to be wonky. It says it has a strong signal at
> home, but then won't connect to ITunes because there's no WiFi. Thus I
> haven't been able to download my address book from my PC, which can only be
> done thru ITunes somehow. So this important feature is completely
> unavailable to me.
>
> 4. I'm still not competent with the touchpad. Sometimes I have to try 3 or
> 4 times before the touch is registered. I don't know whether that is an
> angle of pressure issue or what. It could just be me…
>
> 5. I still haven't figured out how to set up smtp, so I can't send any
> mail. The settings I use on my computers aren't working, and I haven't had
> time to try to figure out why.
>
> 6. Not all web tools are available when browsing on this device. I tried to
> listen to a radio station online and wasn't able to. Could be a safari
> issue, not sure. Would be nice if another browser were an option since a lot
> of websites don't support safari.
>
>
>
> I'm not sure whether to call ATT or Apple for support on the problems I
> mentioned… but will get to that at some point.
>
>
>
> Erin
>
>
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* social-bounces at lists.deeptrouble.com [mailto:
> social-bounces at lists.deeptrouble.com] *On Behalf Of *palak joshi
> *Sent:* Sunday, October 19, 2008 4:01 PM
> *To:* Social Social
> *Subject:* SOCIAL: phone upgrade
>
>
>
> dear social,
> i know its election time and i am keeping myself uptodate with everything!
> however i also need a new phone:because of various logical and illlogical
> reasons like:
>
> i am eligible for an upgrade,  i cant hear very clearly, my phone takes its
> own random breaks, it sometimes saves numbers and sometimes does not :(
>
> iphone is an attractive gadget ..but in these tough economic times and with
> the rate at which i drop my phones..i am not sure if it works for me! but i
> am still thinking..
> at&tis my carrier.so if you can take a moment and tell me which phones you
> have and whether or not you are happy or not will help me make a good
> decision!
> palak
>
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