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  • Heelfan71
    Hall Of Fame
    • Jul 2002
    • 19940

    #2116
    Re: iPhone Discussion Thread

    Went to the Apple Store to buy a cover for my phone and spent $1400 Bought a MacBook Pro too . There were around 30 people in line outside the store waiting for the 3gs. Crazy !

    Also picked up the iSkin Solo X. Going to write a litte review in a bit but I like it.
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    • Heelfan71
      Hall Of Fame
      • Jul 2002
      • 19940

      #2117
      Re: iPhone Discussion Thread

      Review of the iSkin Revo FX

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      • chestnutz6
        MVP
        • May 2007
        • 980

        #2118
        Re: iPhone Discussion Thread

        Originally posted by burnwood
        This link will show you: http://buyiphone.apple.com/
        I'm not sure of some of the information, so it won't let me see if I can get the 3gS cheaper.

        Would anyone be able to tell me how much it'd cost to upgrade, if I bought the 3G in late august?
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        • Flyboy
          Daydream Believer
          • Jun 2003
          • 11352

          #2119
          Re: iPhone Discussion Thread

          Still having the stupid iTunes password not correct issue.

          A HUGE pain in my ***.
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          • Brandwin
            Hall Of Fame
            • Jul 2002
            • 30621

            #2120
            Re: iPhone Discussion Thread

            I like those cases Heel, but I like the incase slider ones better.

            Those baseball games you posted look fun. I have yet to buy a iPhone app.

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            • fishepa
              I'm Ron F'n Swanson!
              • Feb 2003
              • 18989

              #2121
              Re: iPhone Discussion Thread

              I have the incase slider, love it.

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              • Brandwin
                Hall Of Fame
                • Jul 2002
                • 30621

                #2122
                Re: iPhone Discussion Thread

                What are some of the top pay apps out there?

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                • Brandwin
                  Hall Of Fame
                  • Jul 2002
                  • 30621

                  #2123
                  Re: iPhone Discussion Thread

                  Originally posted by fishepa
                  I have the incase slider, love it.
                  Yeah they are great. People told me it was going to scratch the phone, I have no scratches at all on my phone from them.

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                  • fishepa
                    I'm Ron F'n Swanson!
                    • Feb 2003
                    • 18989

                    #2124
                    Re: iPhone Discussion Thread

                    Originally posted by DookieMowf
                    Yeah they are great. People told me it was going to scratch the phone, I have no scratches at all on my phone from them.
                    Scrathces don't really bother me. It's a phone, not a priceless family heirloom.

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                    • Heelfan71
                      Hall Of Fame
                      • Jul 2002
                      • 19940

                      #2125
                      Re: iPhone Discussion Thread

                      Originally posted by fishepa
                      I have the incase slider, love it.
                      I like mine, only thing I don't like is it makes it a little bulky. But they do look nice.

                      Originally posted by DookieMowf
                      What are some of the top pay apps out there?
                      Those 2 baseball games are really good. Tiger Woods Golf is really good too. Let's Golf is good, sort of like Hot Shots Golf.
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                      • burnwood
                        MVP
                        • May 2003
                        • 2270

                        #2126
                        Re: iPhone Discussion Thread

                        Originally posted by DookieMowf
                        So who all upgraded to a 3G S? Is it much faster than 3g? I am sure it's going to a ton faster then what I am used to with the 2g.
                        I upgraded to the 3GS straight from my original iPhone. I'd say this phone is a heck of a lot faster.

                        For instance I play this game Let's Golf (3D game like Hot Shots Golf), and it moves too fast now! The devs might have to artificially slow the game down if people complain.

                        Also, I have Space Ace for the iPhone (remember that laserdisc arcade game from the 80s?). The 3GS runs this game flawlessly. I'll be getting Dragon's Lair next after I finish this one.

                        Overall, the 3GS is much faster for 3D games.

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                        • Heelfan71
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                          • Jul 2002
                          • 19940

                          #2127
                          Re: iPhone Discussion Thread

                          Originally posted by burnwood
                          I upgraded to the 3GS straight from my original iPhone. I'd say this phone is a heck of a lot faster.

                          For instance I play this game Let's Golf (3D game like Hot Shots Golf), and it moves too fast now! The devs might have to artificially slow the game down if people complain.

                          Also, I have Space Ace for the iPhone (remember that laserdisc arcade game from the 80s?). The 3GS runs this game flawlessly. I'll be getting Dragon's Lair next after I finish this one.

                          Overall, the 3GS is much faster for 3D games.
                          yeah, plus the games load soo much faster.
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                          • Scott
                            Your Go-to TV Expert
                            • Jul 2002
                            • 20032

                            #2128
                            Re: iPhone Discussion Thread

                            a reason to get mobileme.com

                            http://gizmodo.com/5300060/find-my-i...e-from-a-thief
                            Myself and two compadres, Ryan and Mark, are in Chicago (each of us for the first time) to attend Brickworld, the world's largest Lego convention. Yes we're a bunch of dorks. Yes you totally wish you were here too.

                            Last night, after seeing Second City improv, we ate at a pleasantly sketchy dive bar in uptown Chicago, where the food was mediocre and the characters were questionable. I definitely had my iPhone while at our table, and I definitely did NOT have it (whoops!) when we were 100 feet down the street.

                            I raced back into the bar, not even particularly concerned, but it was gone like baby. In less than five minutes, with very few people in the small place, my beloved JesusPhone had managed to vanish into a black hole. Our waitress was sympathetic, and I left a number, but I was immediately glum about my prospects of seeing it again.

                            So I felt like about zero cents, but then we giddily realized that I had *just* activated the brand-new Find My iPhone service. Even better, Mark had a Sprint (yes, Sprint) USB dongle giving him Internet access over 3G on his MacBook Pro. Excited to try it out, we hopped onto me.com and clicked the Find My iPhone link.

                            "Your iPhone is not connected to a data network or does not have Find My iPhone enabled."

                            Well, crap. I guess all bets are off if the thieving person has the bright idea to turn the iPhone off. Oddly the phone still rang when we called it, suggesting it wasn't off; but, one way or the other, it was unable to broadcast itself to Apple so I could track it down. We sent a message to the phone - "CALL 512-796-xxxx" - but no luck. The MobileMe website said it would send me an email when the message had been displayed, but no email arrived.

                            Dejected, we prowled the bar one more time, but it wasn't that big a place and there weren't any places for the phone to be hiding. Game over. We went back to the hotel and I was disconsolate. This morning we checked again with no additional luck, and when Mark tried dialing the phone around noon, it *did* go straight to voicemail. The odds of ever seeing the phone again were slim to say the least.

                            After lunch, while at the Lego convention, I checked my email...

                            Holy crap! I jumped back to me.com and clicked Find My iPhone again, and to my absolute shock and amazement, it displayed Google Maps and drew a circle around Medill St.

                            The block was about four or five miles west of the bar. It was too perfect to be a random glitch.

                            I sent a second message to the phone, slightly more to the point: "This phone is missing. Please call 512-796-xxxx to return it. $50 reward." Almost immediately I received a second confirmation email that it had been displayed on the phone. And yet, the minutes ticked by and no call was coming. I kept refreshing the location, and though the circle varied in size, it kept floating around that same block, five miles west of the bar.

                            The Lego convention was drawing to a close and it was time for the closing ceremony. But I wasn't about to spend an hour sitting through awards and Lego-themed thank-you speeches while my poor lost iPhone sat in some random Chicago neighborhood. So we packed my Lego creations, tossed them in the rental car, and drove from Wheeling back into town. Mark reestablished his trusty Sprint connection and as we drove, every five minutes, he refreshed the location. The phone wasn't moving. It appeared to be in a row of buildings on the north side of Medill St.

                            We parked along Medill and hopped out. It was a Puerto Rican neighborhood. On the south side of the street, an outdoor birthday fiesta was convening, and some of the participants eyed us three honkeys questioningly. Now at this point I had no fricking clue how we would find the phone; did I think I'd find it under a bush? I certainly didn't plan to go door-to-door, nor did I expect the cops to regard a blue circle around the entire block as sufficient cause for a search warrant. I sent a third message to the phone that I'd been formulating in my head: "We have tracked the phone to Medill St. and are locating it. Please call 512-796-xxxx to help us and claim a reward." Short version: WE KNOW WHERE YOU ARE.

                            In a burst of inspiration, I took Mark's computer with me as we walked down the block, figuring the recipient of the message might see us prowling the area with an open laptop and realize we meant business. I kept refreshing; the circle kept hovering; but it still stretched across the entire block, and worse, this included a big apartment building.

                            Suddenly Mark called my number - the umpteenth time he'd tried - and to our shock, somebody answered! He immediately passed the phone to me, but by the time I could say hello, the person on the other side had hung up. DAMMIT! I knew we were on the trail, but as we walked up and down that block of Medill for the third time, I had no idea how we'd get any closer. I pictured the possibility of driving away from the neighborhood knowing my iPhone was around. It was more frustrating than having had no idea where it was. I pulled up Google Translate, and sent a 4th message to the phone: "Por favor, devuelva el teléfono o nos pondremos en contacto con la policía." The email confirmations were arriving immediately in my Inbox, meaning our threats were showing on the phone's screen in real time.

                            Then an amazingly lucky thing happened. I refreshed the iPhone location and the circle moved, to the corner of the block, and shrunk in size to maybe 100 feet across. I waited a minute and refreshed again. The small circle had shifted southward down Washtenaw.

                            "THAT WAY!"

                            Us three skinny white guys walked at a rapid pace in the direction of the circle. We moved past the birthday party, curious if one of the participants might be culpable, but the circle again shifted farther south. I was ready to break for our car if the phone started moving away faster than we could catch it, but it hovered at the very end of the street, at the corner of Washtenaw and Milwaukee:

                            Ryan and Mark raced ahead, literally making a flanking maneuver to the left and right, as I approached the intersection.

                            I clicked Refresh. The circle moved again. It was directly over the bus stop on the south side of Milwaukee Avenue.

                            I yelled and pointed.

                            Now, put yourself in the shoes of the iPhone thiever who will momentarily be entering the story. You might have told yourself, "Hey, free iPhone!" the night before. You might have seen the gently-threatening messages and ignored them, maybe even scoffed. Then the phone told you it was on Medill St. It talked to you in Spanish. And you saw three skinny white guys prowling in the street with a laptop computer open.

                            So you take off down the road, and to your shock and horror, the honkeys follow you. You stand at your local bus stop, expecting to lose them. And they converge on your location from across the intersection, the bald one with the laptop yelling and pointing at you. You probably think the angels of death have found you.

                            He sheepishly waved me over.

                            "Have you got it?" I asked as I marched up to the guy, acting far more intimidating than I felt. Our iPhone-pilfering friend apparently works at the sketchy bar, and as he fished around in his bag, he gave a questionable alibi about having found the phone, intending to return it, but being intimidated by "all these scary-looking messages" that kept popping up on the display. "Um, yeah, those were from me," I replied curtly. He pulled my phone out, totally unharmed, and handed it over. I resisted the urge to giggle.

                            I shook his hand - Lord knows why I did that - and the three of us walked off. We laughed triumphantly, adrenaline racing, feeling like the Jack Bauer trio. (Disregard the fact that we'd just left a Lego convention.)

                            I'd been amazed that the phone had enough battery life to make it through the night and still beam its location; the moment its battery was dead, then it would be game over for our little scavenger hunt. I unlocked my phone and saw almost 20 missed calls. And then, at that very moment, the iPhone shut down and displayed the "Connect to power" icon. My phone's battery literally hung on until the second it was in my hand. I wuv you, iPhone.

                            All said and done, it was almost worth losing the phone just for the thrill of finding it like this. We want to pitch a reality show to the Discovery Channel: "Phone Hunters." It certainly felt like we were in one there for a second.

                            And that, my friends, is why the MobileMe service is worth the damn money. It's been around for just over seven years and it FINALLY got a killer feature.
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                            • Heelfan71
                              Hall Of Fame
                              • Jul 2002
                              • 19940

                              #2129
                              Re: iPhone Discussion Thread

                              Good Story.........I have Mobile Me, didn't know you needed that to locate your phone.
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                              • rspencer86
                                MIB Crew
                                • Sep 2004
                                • 8807

                                #2130
                                Re: iPhone Discussion Thread

                                Wow, that's quite a story. Unless you lose your phone like that, though, MobileMe is still way too pricey for what it does IMO.
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