| Author | Message | ||
     Ferrisbuellersdayoff |
WTF are "apps" and do I want them? Or will it bog my phones performance down like a computer? | ||
| Froggy |
I love how the iPhone can finally copy paste, welcome to 1982!  As for apps, if it is like any other computer, than having concurrent programs will slow it down, but just having it installed shouldn't cause any noticeable slowdown. | ||
| Etennuly |
Apps are the i's equivalent of adding a program to your pc. My wife loves hers and it is stuck in her hand all evening when she is off work. It really keeps her from being mad at me for being on BadWeB. I will have one when I figure out how I can carry it while working without destroying it. If I didn't have a folding phone like the razor, I wouldn't have a phone very long. | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
Apps on the iphone DO NOT bog it down. The iPhone is a different animal then any other smartphone. Except for a few built in app (ipod/mail/safari) you run only one at a time. For a newbie looking for apps I would suggest to start with Bloomberg (stocks) AP mobile (news/push notifications) Pandora (music) Flashlight (does what you think) Google (voice search) GPS motionx (cool gps app) | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
If you are reader get the Kindle app I love it because it syncs up with my real kindle. Very handy when I am in a waiting area bored and don't have my real Kindle with me | ||
| Etennuly |
OK.....what is a kindle? | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Read ing-Generation/dp/B00154JDAI/ref=amb_link_84770351 _1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r= 1V2FCWXNGRPPB8EBWHW2&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=483803591 &pf_rd_i=507846 LOVE MY KINDLE!!! | ||
| Danger_dave |
Oh yeah - you want apps. The phone part is just a handy extra. I just checked - I have 56 loaded. No effect unless they are running. Several motorcycle games, several shooters, several car racing games, a torch, numerous arcade, card and poker games, various utilities, file moving, and some eye candy. | ||
| Danger_dave |
Baseball 09 is my current fave. That and TubeTV on my desktop box - if you have a mac it saves youtube vids directly to ipod/phone via itunes. | ||
| Badlionsfan |
Apps are sweet. Go to iTunes and search the free apps first, can't lose. If it's no good, just delete it. I haven't checked out any new ones in a while, time to do some app shopin myself. | ||
| Etennuly |
Corp, thanks, that thing looks great. I'd be willing to bet college libraries will be pumping that up. Interesting tool. It will make the old fashion home library look like a dinosaur grave yard! | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
A warning about the kindle. I bought the first generation as soon as it was announced. I gave it to my mother as an xmas gift. Today I have roughly calculated she has spent north of $4k on books. Even though amazon offers the books for usually less than $9 it is just too easy to get new books. She reads like mad. While I personally think you can never read too much, it can become a cost issue... Much like iTunes... | ||
| Ferrisbuellersdayoff |
OK got the Pandora app., facebook.... is there a website with a list of these that can explain what the hellp half of them do without opneing and checking every single one? | ||
| Ferrisbuellersdayoff |
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Devices-th at-warn-drivers-of-speed_-red-light-cameras-draw-p olice-ire-7930619-50074717.html  | ||
| Badlionsfan |
iTunes app store. Descriptions and reviews. (Message edited by Badlionsfan on July 18, 2009) | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
http://www.appshopper.com/ My newest app is Cyclops. It reads barcodes (only on the 3gs, not 3g) and compares the products price to Amazon.com Very handy if you want to get the best deal. | ||
| Blake |
I've yet to load an app. Itunes won't let me. I always get some kind of lame error message. The browser is frustrating. When checking in on BadWeB, I open the new messages page, and then start opening pages I want to read. Then as I start reading and navigating from page to page, the darn thing automatically refreshes the main search page and I lose all the "messages since last search". Anyone know of a way to prevent the browser from automatically refreshing every page? That and with the newest OS, the browser crashes WAY too often. At this point, I'd not recommend the phone if concurrent internet browsing of multiple web pages is something you are interested in. | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
Blake the browser refresh has always been there. It is part of webkit... Currently there is no way to disable it. I just open the link in a new tab, that would solve your issue. As for error messages, or crashes I think you need to wipe your device. I own 6 iphones, I think in my entire history of using them (that would be a lot) I have only had safari crash 4 times total. I can trace those crashes back to poorly written java script. | ||
| Danger_dave |
It all works seamlessly for me. Multiple page opens, emailing and listening to music at the same time. | ||
| Americanmadexb |
I will stick with my 32g ITouch! All the apps without the overpriced bill!!! | ||
| Midknyte |
um, don't do 'round believing you actually own anything you've bought for yer kindle. It's a DRM laiden crapshoot at present... http://gizmodo.com/5317180/big-brother-amazon-remo tely-deletes-purchased-copies-of-1984-and-animal-f arm-from-thousands-of-kindles http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/amazon-remotely -deletes-orwell-e-books-from-kindles-unpersons-r/ http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090717/15594255 87.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090514/19274148 90.shtml http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2009/05/13/kindle-2 -vs-reading-disabled-students/ | ||
| Blake |
"The browser refresh has always been there." Wish I had known. It might well have killed the deal for me. It's a major inconvenience for me. The main reason I bought the thing was to keep up with BadWeB. It's a real chore to do so because of the incessant automated page refreshing. I'd pay good money to learn how to disable that idiotic feature. "I just open the link in a new tab, that would solve your issue." That's what I do, then when I close the tab, the search page refreshes. As to crashing, I've heard of way too many other folks having the same issue. It's a problem with the new OS and browser. At least when you reopen Safari it reloads the pages you had open, but still, not an acceptable situation. Try doing a new messages search on BadWeB, then open a couple pages in new tabs, then close them after a while. | ||
| Toona |
My installed Apps: Facebook, free The Weather Channel free AOL Radio-(for talk radio) free Pandora free White pages (does reverse searches) free FedEx Mobile-I ship FedEx everyday, easier to track stuff on iPhone than online. free Fandango-finding movie theaters when I travel and need to kill time at night free flashlight free and a few games, Bejeweled2 $3, iBowl free, backgrounds free, brick3D $3. I got a $30 iTunes cards for Christmas last year. I still have $23 left... Guess I better use it up before Apple starts charges a service fee on it, if they do that after a certain amount of time? I've looked at a few gps apps, but haven't decided on one yet. I'm waiting to see what TomTom comes out with. LogMeIn has a $30 app so that you can use your iPhone to access/control your home or work computer from your iPhone. I'm considering this one... I use the free version of LogMeIn on my laptop and home comps. I have the regular 3G, not the new 3G S, but I've never had it crash on me. | ||
| Blake |
The phone doesn't crash, just the browser. | ||
| Danger_dave |
Clear the cache. In settings. | ||
| Slowride |
My os and apps 3.0 Cydia Bossprefs SBsettings Winterboard Catagories Yelp AAA Pandora Free Drinks and about 6 photography apps, including SmugMug upload. | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
um, don't do 'round believing you actually own anything you've bought for yer kindle. It's a DRM laiden crapshoot at present... There is more to the story than what is being widely published. The company that submitted 1984 to Amazon didn't even have the rights to do it. Some how in the approval process Amazon let it slip by (things can happen when you have ~350k of books to deal with). The true rights holder stepped up and claimed ownership. Amazon reviewed it, and then pulled it from the store. Turns out there was a bit of code in the kindle store that ended up pulling the books from users archives (online storage for the kindle). Amazon has since fixed that piece of code, so even if a book gets pulled, they will not recall the book bought by users. What Amazon did with 1984 (by accident) was completely against their own TOS. Amazon has gone to great lengths to reassure the kindle user base that this will not happen again. Court, Just an FYI the Kindle DX (the big one) was developed for University students. So far a bunch of schools have jumped on board to pressure the textbook industry to support it. The theory is by wiping out the used book market, the publishers will sell more books. Those digital books will be sold for less than 1/2 what they cost new in paper form. Publisher wins, students win... Already on the kindle you can note pages, highlight text, add references, basically anything you can do with a real book. | ||
| Johnnylunchbox |
My Favorites: NYTimes - Practically read the entire NY Times for free. App is pretty well done. iCall - Make phone calls over the intraweb when you don't have a cell signal. Voice over IP. Just use it like a normal phone and even integrates your contact list. Public Radio - Live streaming public radio from all 50 states, and also has podcasts. Search by state or program. AP Mobile is not bad for news. Slacker Radio - Like Pandora but a little better in my opinion. | ||
| Froggy |
Stop it, you guys are making me want to consider buying one. I know I will regret it if I do, hence why I haven't yet. As I am typing this I am wearing my "iPood" shirt | ||
| Johnnylunchbox |
Froggy, you know you want one. |
