Observations on switching to an iPhone 5

aliensporebomb said:
Yeah. We almost need to get a "cell carriers suck" thread. If you hear about the plans available in europe and Japan and what the phones there can do you would wonder why we put up with what we have here.
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I don't wonder at all, it's the phone companies and their realization that they can screw us. Apple created the device that we couldn't live without. Google created a nearly comparable OS, but left the manufacturers to the design of the hardware. So we all got the taste for it and most of us couldn't possibly live without it. Imagine trying to rally smartphone users to not upgrade or buy into new plans for a year...it'll never happen.

The part that's the strangest to me is how Verizon and AT&T, the two biggest players just keep copying each other instead of outdoing each other, be it price and/or service. Sprint and T-Mobile try to outdo them in both, but their networks and coverage are nowhere near as reliable when traveling. Instead ot being in competition Verizon and AT&T seem to be in collusion.
 
I've got a 6 year old samsung flip phone. All the talking & texting I want for $10 a month :thu:

Considering every other person out there seems to have their head buried up their phones ass these days, I think I'm doing alright.
 
sonik said:
Considering every other person out there seems to have their head buried up their phones ass these days, I think I'm doing alright.
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The other side of it, though, is that that "having your head in their phone's ass" time can spell a lot less time sitting at a computer. Since getting my current phone, I spend almost very little time on the computer at home, getting a lot of this stuff done in spare bits of time.


aliensporebomb said:
I bought my iPhone5 the same day my friend bought a Galaxy S3 on the same carrier.

Anyway, his phone was doing odd things within 10 days of purchase: hanging, spontaneously rebooting, shutting down all by itself. I keep telling him to get get it looked at, maybe they'll replace it but he won't do it.
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I think a lot of those kind of issues are due to problems with particular apps, or how the apps interact with the phone. Android stuff seems more "hands on" to me, and that cuts both ways.
 
Here's the thing with iTunes for the PC.

I've worked with somebody who has something of a hangup around usability. He has a sign that says, "If the user can't find it, the feature is not there." Other than the "buy stuff" option, it's too freaking hard to find how to do stuff.

I just want to transfer my pictures and videos to a local drive. It's my content. I own it. Why do I have to "figure out" how to do this? Why is this anything more involved than select->copy->paste like every cheap-ass USB accessory for the last ten years?

My other gripe is kind of geeky. The threading and networking behavior (at least on a PC) is gawdawful. The UI becomes unresponsive during network operations... and it does a lot of network operations.
 
itunes on my phone is fine. The new itunes on my computer seems to be several large steps backwards from where they were. It used to be much more intuitive than it is at this point.
 
Last year I spent a couple of months away from my hometown 4G LTE coverage. 3G was hell. Pre 4G LTE iPhones must be awesome in some way I don't understand.
 
USian Pie said:
Here's the thing with iTunes for the PC.

I've worked with somebody who has something of a hangup around usability. He has a sign that says, "If the user can't find it, the feature is not there." Other than the "buy stuff" option, it's too freaking hard to find how to do stuff.

I just want to transfer my pictures and videos to a local drive. It's my content. I own it. Why do I have to "figure out" how to do this? Why is this anything more involved than select->copy->paste like every cheap-ass USB accessory for the last ten years?

My other gripe is kind of geeky. The threading and networking behavior (at least on a PC) is gawdawful. The UI becomes unresponsive during network operations... and it does a lot of network operations.
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Highlight the stuff in the itunes window you want to copy to an external drive and drag it out of the window to the drive. Always worked for me.
 
aliensporebomb said:
Highlight the stuff in the itunes window you want to copy to an external drive and drag it out of the window to the drive. Always worked for me.
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THE STUFF ISN'T THERE. That's the problem. I can't see the individual pictures and videos on the phone.

I'm sure there's some clever Apple Genius way to do it. That's not the point. I'm having to "figure out" how to drag/drop something -- it's been a standard user interface thing since like 1991.
 
USian Pie said:
THE STUFF ISN'T THERE. That's the problem. I can't see the individual pictures and videos on the phone.

I'm sure there's some clever Apple Genius way to do it. That's not the point. I'm having to "figure out" how to drag/drop something -- it's been a standard user interface thing since like 1991.
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you may have to set up an iCloud account and use photostream. since i don't really use photostream, i share any photos i want to Photobucket using the PB app. then i can download and share to wherever i want.
 
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