Posted by scouser_75
@SloopJohnB - Yup. I forgot to mention that an option from Apple to allow users to mod certain aspects of usability would have been good - ie let us choose about default settings etc
@ Ryan - good news. But something tells me it won't be long before Apple manage to override this.
@ All - has anyone had any experience with the Switcheasy Capsule Neo
http://www.ilounge.com/index.[....]easy-capsuleneo-for-iphone-3g/
It looks the mutts nutts, but just wanted to know if it makes the phone a lot bulkier or damages the original casing in anyway.
I was going to order the incase slider untill I saw this case.
Posted by NoKia
scouser
Was looking at the neo, but I thought the number of pieces involved would put a bit too much bulk, that's just a guess tho, I haven't actually seen one in person.
So I just went for the slider
Posted by RyaN
That Neo looks like a nice complete piece of kit for the money, including two screen protectors is a nice touch. Definitely getting more for your money there than the likes of the Contour flick i have atm... just a piece of plastic for £20!
The black one looks quite nice, but not so sure on the rubbery/silicone piece. I would still be tempted to go for the Incase over this as it just looks nicer
Posted by scouser_75
Nokia, could you do me a favour if poss...
Any chance you could put up some pics of your incase slider?
Does it make the phone feel a lot bulkier? I've read a few comments. Some say "yes" and some say "no". Obviously down to personal taste, but would be cool to see your phone in the case and here your view
Posted by RyaN
Yeah i 2nd that, i wanna see some nice high res shots of the slider!
Posted by NoKia
i will post pics as soon as i get home to a camera
it doesnt add much bulk at all and the case looks very sleek and simply elegant
its a lot less bulkly than the silicon skin i had on it before
Posted by RyaN
Cool NoKia... look forward to seeing some pics
Any decent themes you're using atm?
Posted by Scoobyd
Can anyone help with an email issue on the iPhone please. My mum just got one this week and I synced it to iTunes for her to get all her contacts etc across. It synced up with her bt email account through iTunes too.
It's only half working though. It receives mail fine but won't send mail. Everytime you try to send mail it comes up with the message 'Cannot Send Mail, The sender address was invalid'
Anyone come across this or know the answer to it? I've compared the settings to that on my Touch where I have my own bt account set up and they're identical so really confused as to why it's not working!
Thanks!
Posted by smilerthe cheshirecat
Hiya Scoobyd...
Just couple of questions... are you failing to send with wifi? or 3g?
Pay and go... or contract? Or Jailbroken?
Posted by Scoobyd
Hiya
On contract with O2. Not jailbroken just the bog standard phone as it comes from the shop. Not sending through wifi or through the network. Receiving fine but just won't send.
Posted by Scoobyd
Aha... all sorted now. Went into the outgoing SMTP settings and added in the username and password under optional info and all is working well! Strange though, my Touch doesn't need that info and works fine yet her iPhone does, would have expected them to be the same. Ah well, as long as it's working who cares!
Posted by Merlyn101
Hi Everyone.
I have an iPhone 3G and now my wife wants one. We only use a single pc. Are there any problems with syncing two iPhones with one pc?
Thanks in advance!
Posted by smilerthe cheshirecat
None at all Merlyn101...
I have 4 iphones synced with mine and two ipods
Posted by Merlyn101
Ahh- Good news! Thank you!
I was sure Apple was going to have another no-sharing law getting in the way!
Posted by Superluminova
Do o2 / apple still activate these in store?
Posted by scouser_75
Guys,
I'm not too clued up with techy stuff - so need your help and advice on the following please.
I was thinking about getting one of these for my Audi (2000 model)
http://shop.carphonewarehouse[....]trip-auto-universal-plus-grey/
My question is, will this product work as a straight forward "plug and go"? If so, how on earth will my cars speakers be able to pick up the phones music just from the cigarette lighter socket!
Or, will I need to start removing the stereo and stuff? In which case I'l steer well clear!
Posted by Boinng
On 2008-11-16 17:23:04, Superluminova wrote:
Do o2 / apple still activate these in store?
Not O2 - I activated mine at home, a day after buying it at an O2 store.
Posted by RyaN
@Superluminova
I activate mine at home after ordering over the telephone
@scouser_75
It tunes in to the FM frequency, thats how all these FM transmitters work. hehe. So yeah, no extra cabling or modding to your car stereo required!
Posted by scouser_75
Cool. Thanks for info dude. Might be making a purchase very soon
PS Is there anyway of checking details of pics taken on the phone? EG Date, time etc? I want to do this on the phone itself not on my Mac.
I've got my Location Service ON.
Posted by RyaN
I sort of can do on my jb device. Using MobileFinder from Cydia (i also believe there's an app store version, but not sure how restricted it is) Anyway, navigate to /var/mobile/Media/DCIM/100APPLE and then you can browse the pictures taken by your cam, tap modify and it'll show when it was last modified (ie taken)
Posted by scouser_75
Wow! That's looooong!
So, whats the purpose of "geo tagging" pics if the phone can't access the info easily!!
Posted by RyaN
Thats more for PC viewing though i would've thought, so when you check the EXIF info of the pic you can find out where it was taken
Posted by NoKia
hey guys here are the pictures of the incase slider, went for gunmetal colour
Ryan, i still using the old themes as before, with a bit more tweaking of the icons
Posted by scouser_75
Woah! That looks pretty darned nice
Thanks for the pics (at last ;-P )
Where did you get it from Nokia? Are these available in aluminium?
Does it make the phone feel a lot bulkier and heavier?
[ This Message was edited by: scouser_75 on 2008-11-17 14:51 ]
Posted by NoKia
i got this one off a seller on ebay, he said he got from Apple in the US, the UK apple store only carry the white and black versions
i think the incase website have one in aluminium(or aluminium coloured plastic
) but they will not deliver international, so if you really want one you might have to keep checking ebay till one pops up, or pay for a US ebay seller to send it, which knocks up the price considerably!
Posted by NoKia
well any case will make the phone a bit bulkier than normal
so i can only compare to other cases, and it is the least bulky of all the cases i have seen(i tried a few at the apple store) and very form fitting, but it doesnt weigh anything so it doesnt really feel any heavier
Posted by scouser_75
Thanks Nokia. Will keep my eyes peeled on ebay.
Posted by Superluminova
So if o2 don't activate in store, when do i sign up for the contract?
Posted by masseur
as far as I know, you still commit to the contract in store but you can do the actual activation at home
Posted by nicv27
On 2008-11-17 21:18:11, masseur wrote:
as far as I know, you still commit to the contract in store but you can do the actual activation at home
yep that is correct i got my iphone recently and did just that.
Posted by Superluminova
awe that sucks
Posted by nicv27
On 2008-11-17 21:34:49, Superluminova wrote:
awe that sucks
Why?
it`s easy
Posted by masseur
no, he means it sucks that you can't do what you did with the 2g version and buy the iphone at the cheap price, go home and don't activate but instead jailbreak and unlock it and put any sim card you like in with no further committment to O2
now, if you want to do that, you have to pay the payg price which is quite a bit more
Posted by Superluminova
Don't want it on an iPhone contract and £400 is far to much for it on payg
Posted by nicv27
oh ok -sorry
Posted by scouser_75
Is the rear connection for the iPhone 3G the same as the original iPhone?
I need to buy a car and AC charger but don;t know if the original iPhone chargers will connect to the 3G's.
Posted by smilerthe cheshirecat
My old iphone mains charger works on the iphone 3g...
However... I purchased a speaker system that also charged my original iphone model as well as played through the speakers...
My iphone 3G does not charge or play through the same speaker system...
I remember reading somewhere at the time that Apple had tweaked the power port somewhere...
Bit more detail here...
http://forum.theiphoneblog.co[....]akers-wont-work-3g-iphone.html
So I would recommend only picking the accessories as advertised working with iphone 3g...
Posted by scouser_75
Thanks Smiler
Posted by RyaN
ahh i'm pretty excited about this, so thought i'd post here. UNO now available on App Store and you can play link-up multiplayer via wi-fi as well as online multiplayer! How rude is that
Lost my deck of Uno recently too 
Link to the review on IpodToucFans.com
Posted by j0be
Can you forward SMS messages on the new 3g Iphone because that is a bug bear for me with the orginal 2g one. Please advise
Posted by nicv27
No not straight out of the box
Posted by scouser_75
Erm, I succumbed to temptation earlier today!
Was out shopping with me wife and walked into an O2 shop (well, not literally into it but walked inside it!!)
Anywhooo, whilst inside... well, just have a look at the pics below
The case adds hardly any more bulk or weight to the phone. But then that's most probably because it only really prevents the case from getting marked up. If in the event of a fall though I doubt very much it would offer much in the way of protection! But I am pretty darn careful when it comes to handling my goods.
Oh, and there aint no screen protection neither. But I might just buy myself a separate screen protector!
The case does look a slight bit bright in certain lights, but I think it adds a bit of colour and character to the phone
May I please have your honest opinions on what you think of the looks, style etc.
Oh, and just in case anyone is interested in this case, it's called a Skeech case. Available in O2 shops.
Posted by RyaN
Looks and style are similar to the slider, so yeah.. it looks nice. The quality of the cutting around the jack doesnt look so great but thats a minor thing.
Two questions, how much and do they do it in black?
btw man you've got greasy fingers!
Posted by scouser_75
True about the cutting round jack. Alas, I only noticed this when I looked at the pics
But TBH you can't really notice it unless you look real hard (but now that I know it's there.....) Also, not too keen on the square holding section on the back neither.
Cost - 20 squid. A tad high, and I knew that when I was buying it. But like I said, I got a bit excited by the colour. I like my blue products
Colour options - Only blue available in the shop. But they must surely do a black one too.
And p1$$ off about me havin' greasy fingers
Twas my wife who man handled my phone to use Google - straight after she had some greasy curry!!! But again, I noticed the screen on the pics. But rest assured it's had a good scrub since
Posted by RyaN
Dont worry, i did the same with my contour flick that i bought in the O2 shop - knew it was slightly expensive for was it was, and in that price range could've just got something better on the net, but the temptation of having the case there and then was greater.. and needed to protect it asap.
Yeah the clip at the back isn't gonna win any design awards, but it could be worse. At least it does it's job and allows you to dock without removing the whole case. You definitely need to get a screen protector on that - if only just to stop your wifes greasy fingers pawing all over it!
Think i'm just gonna hold out for a new case now, Mrs will prob get me the slider for xmas.. also need a decent screen protector as the one i'm using at the mo is a £4.99 carphonewarehouse jobby that has a slight 'oily' effect under artificial light... probably just due to the naff quality. Wanna get a crystal protector off the apple store really
Posted by NoKia
its not bad, very similar to the slider
does the front cover overlap over the edges of the chrome trimming?
Posted by RyaN
@NoKia
have you installed that iWBRss app yet? I'm loving it, i prefer how the weather updates work over what the wbapp weather widget does.
I'm finding that SBSettings crashes my iPhone a lot.. it's still well buggy but thats expected i guess as its still only in beta.
Posted by NoKia
hey what is that? i havent even heard of it?
i was waiting on all the bugs being ironed out of ssbsettings before i installed, its a great idea
Posted by RyaN
It's basically a weather and rss feed for your springboard. Completely configurable by editing the configureme.js. You can also set the length of the intervals between cycles. The weather gives you now, today and tomorrow forecasts...
Posted by NoKia
that looks really cool!, i love the weather icons
how do you scroll between today and tomorrows weather?