iPhone - so...what's the deal? - Page 7

Ronald Epstein · 06-30-2007, 05:39 AM

Playing around with the phone a little more this morning
and I already have a "bug" issue....

I get a lot of email. Perhaps 200+ plus per day. Mostly spam.

While going through a mass deletion of email (edit mode) the
phone locks up. In fact, it has done it on a regular basis whereas
I'm deleting one mail after another and then freezes. I usually
have to go back to the home screen then back to my email to
continue.

On my Blackberry, I was able to do a mass delete by highlighting
an entire group of email and then deleting. Here, you have to
manually delete mail one-by-one. Of course, I have not explored
this phone's full functionality so I may be missing something.

Waiting to see if anyone else has this problem.

So....iPhone not perfect.

Jean D · 06-30-2007, 06:12 AM

OK so far I have four things to say:

1.) I haven't owned a Mac computer in several years, I used to have a G4 (pre OS-X), so this may sound silly, but would it be impractical for the phone to update w/ a speech to text program via a firmware update? It seems like this may help people who use a lot of email/have keyboard issues.

2.) Couldn't the speaker phone quality be improved with a firmware update also? or use a Bluetooth speaker kit for cars? (speaking of cars, BMW has announced support for the iPhone)

3.) Ron, is it possible to set up email filters before you use your iPhone to receive them?

4.) Since I havent bought one....yet (still hounding the wife, but Id have to buy 2 of them) I have printed out a sheet w/ a 3d cutout. I shall be pretending to hold this thing all day.

Steven Simon · 06-30-2007, 07:55 AM

I'm sorry.... But anyone buying these , with the intent to put them on Ebay, is just a total jerk.... You won't get more than what you paid anyways. They are available at the stores....

ErichH · 06-30-2007, 10:12 AM

http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iPhone_User_Guide.pdf

DaveF · 06-30-2007, 10:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ronald Epstein

Playing around with the phone a little more this morning and I already have a "bug" issue....

I get a lot of email. Perhaps 200+ plus per day. Mostly spam.

I've commented on this before, when you were looking for spam filters, but I'll repeat it, because I really think you'd benefit: Move to Gmail as your spam filter.

Having my own domain name, I was getting 100+ spam a day. Mailwasher, which I used for a year or more, was inadequate. It wasted too much time first downloading all the junk, and then I spent too much time waiting for it to process, and also manual training.

I switched to Gmail. All my person email is automatically forwarded by my domain server to Gmail. My mail app (now, Apple's Mail) downloads from Gmail. Gmail has proven to be far more effective at spam filtering than Mailwasher was. It also means I have web access to my personal mail with the best online email system available.

Gmail isn't perfect. And you may privacy concerns. But pushing my email to Gmail to serve as my spam filter was the best thing I've done for email. If you can do the same, it will reduce the spam you see from 200 / day to maybe 2 per day. And your iPhone email problem may be solved.

I suggest trying it for a month, if possible. If you don't like it, go back to your present process.

ErichH · 06-30-2007, 10:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steven Simon

I'm sorry.... But anyone buying these , with the intent to put them on Ebay, is just a total jerk.... You won't get more than what you paid anyways. They are available at the stores....

I see 1385 for 1, 800+ for another and one guy is up 4k for a pair. ebay is nuts, I agree.

Steve Tannehill · 06-30-2007, 10:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steven Simon

I'm sorry.... But anyone buying these , with the intent to put them on Ebay, is just a total jerk.... You won't get more than what you paid anyways. They are available at the stores....

Steven, I was holding back on saying something, but... I agree, that's a pretty crappy thing to do considering how many people are legitimately trying to get one of these things. This is even more so for those of us who are commenting here on how much fun we had last night acquiring one and using it.

Now putting a used Product Red iPod nano on eBay is another thing altogether.

- Steve

Diallo B · 06-30-2007, 11:00 AM

for those commenting on push email and calendar applications.......

the iphone at least in this first iteration was NOT DESIGNED FOR ENTERPRISE USE. period.

i am not attempting to defend the device, but i am getting fatigued with all of the folks complaining that it does not support exchange or push technololgy. duh. that has been stated for months at this point.

however...... changes are already afoot.

Diallo B · 06-30-2007, 11:04 AM

8 gb iphones are going for btwn 800 and 1000 on average on ebay.

keep in mind not everyone is near a source of phones sooooooooo they are willing to pay. i could have easily gotten one last night at the apple store but besides the phone looking cool it does not serve any purpose for me at this point. i need push email capabilty and 3G so i will wait. but i should have jumped on the band wagon last night and got to 8 gigs and ran home to ebay.

i could have made at least 400 bux easy. but the time to do that has passed. i might make half that now. not worth it.

funny enough, i saw one go for 10,000 bux last night. it was a buy it now with immediate payment required so some fool paid 10,000 bux for a 8 gig. i was stunned.