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Bonovox
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Posted: 2010-01-14 16:17
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Anyone got one yet on Vodafone? Their 3G is impressively fast though i had none in my area has not changed since 3G came about.
Phone?? What phone??
Superluminova
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Posted: 2010-01-14 19:20
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@Bonovox

Get yourself one of these mate www.Vodafone.co.uk/SureSignal

I got one last autumn when i moved house and its perfect, went from poor reception to full reception in seconds. Now its only its only 50 its a total bargain, I paid 160!

Super.
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Posted: 2010-01-14 19:54
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I would love one of those vodafone gateway things as I keep losing even 2G signal on my iphone in my house (even though other phones have full signal!) but it says you need at least 1MBPS broadband. While we are meant to get 2MBPS here doing speed tests shows that we only ever get about 250KBPS (broadband? dont make me laugh). One of the downsides of living in a rural place, but what is annoying is about 500 yards down the road I would have full 3G and much quicker broadband speeds
Bonovox
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Posted: 2010-01-14 20:21
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Yes indeed a good option
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snoFlake
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Posted: 2010-01-14 20:55
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How big is the iPhone? Well Jacqui Oatley BBC5 Football commentator has been twittering about how excited she is it's coming to Voda in the UK and getting one and she has just updated that she has been queueing for an hour to get it!

This is not some geek kid and it's the fourth network launch in the UK and shows how much pent up demand there still is for it after three previous networks and it's after Christmas and the new edition is less than six months away.

Remarkable. Apple's sales figures for the last quarter could be absolutely astronomical I think (would include Orange and Tesco launch in UK and other network introductions round the world). Eventually the banwagon will slow but it's sales numbers for the week following Goggle's Nexus One seem to be 20k Nexus One, 1.6million iPhones, phew.

Surely at some point they will stumble but boy oh boy have the incumbent manufaturers done their best to roll over and die for them and it's a great product.
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Posted: 2010-01-14 23:50
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Vodafone sold 50,000 iPhone today.
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Bonovox
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Posted: 2010-01-14 23:56
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Thats also including preorders not 50,000 in stores
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Superluminova
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Posted: 2010-01-15 01:03
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11,000 pre-orders which were either dispatched for home collection or store collection today and 39,000 new sales. not bad for day one.

My little store normally does 2 connections a day, today we did 21!
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Miss UK
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Posted: 2010-01-15 06:21
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The new iPhone sonds alot better to it's previous counter parts having a
removable battery will be better for it too...

is the battery rubbish terrible on the older iPhones?
I know if i leave my iPod touch on forgetting it's on the battery runs out quick but it lasts ages if
using it

Vodafone are charging heaps for the iPhone atm,
is there any rumour about them reducing it at later stage?

it's no good to me atm as im stuck on Tocco land till January next year :/
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Bonovox
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Posted: 2010-01-15 09:39
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Not looked at the tariffs in detail but its not an option for me right now no 3G where i live on Vodafone and thats not changed since 2002 when i had a w900i on contract.
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masseur
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Posted: 2010-01-15 23:09
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for anyone who uses the tweakersoft aroundme app, they released an update a day or two back that includes augmented reality

its actually a little flakey as the app exits frequently when using the new feature, but when it works it does work well

here's some pubs near me

Tsepz_GP
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Posted: 2010-01-15 23:46
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On 2010-01-15 09:39:00, Bonovox wrote:
Not looked at the tariffs in detail but its not an option for me right now no 3G where i live on Vodafone and thats not changed since 2002 when i had a w900i on contract.


Lol,You had a W900 in 2002? thats an '05-'06 phone lol.
Crazy how the iPhone is just selling even in the beginning of January when people are broke they are still queuing to get it. My mum is loving her new White 16GB iPhone3GS, works well as her iPod/weekend phone, its definetly faster than my dad's iPhone3G 8gb which also works as a weekend phone/ipod, both of them prefer their BlackBerrys for everyday use. Weirdly enough i see generaly in the coporate world the whole BB and iPhone combo is growing fast,when job shadowing at a Auditing firm i noticed a lot of people with either a E71 and iPhone/iPod Touch or BB and iPhone/iPod Touch lol,guess not all accountants are boring.
MissUK
Toccos are bad for you cant you trade it for a 3G 8gb iPhone? Although i must say both 3G and 3GS have awful batt life compared to BBs and NOKIA 5800xm/N97.
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Miss UK
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Posted: 2010-01-16 00:50
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haha Tocco Ultra II's also have lousey batterys Gucci im on
my 2nd battery and ive not had it one year yet, it's not worth alot if I sell it
100 in theory, I was shocked to findout that 3 months after I had it

it's a nice phone but theres a few things im not remotley happy about tbh,
screen rotation cannot be turned of on the web so if your in bed it's well
akward to check weather or something quick..

I think i'll wait for the next iPhone anyway,
all these silly idiots who are now trapped for 24mths with the 3GS will be kicking
themselves when the next one comes along

ive got the iPod touch in the meantime
it's more or less the same thing minus the phone
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Supa_Fly
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Posted: 2010-01-16 06:21
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MissUK, You got some solid points. When you start to enter text within a page (like on forums) you cannot rotate, really annoying. Posting within ares like on a thread was really guess work with the low screen-real-estate; that drove me insane.

plus I didn't enjoy how much I wanted peace & quite around my kids for me to use the great music apps (something for composing that makes the iPhone/iPod Touch stand out), and never got around to it. I hated spending $40/wk on ... GAMING! Can you believe it ... Eliminate Pro is ADDICTING! Beware guys of that game ... beware!

Even with the 3GS everybody complained how quite I was on the phone using wired headphones - broke my heart really. Battery life wasn't too bad but I did have to charge every nite if I knew I was going to use it during the day. Apple's battery life ratings are skewed for music/video playback with the phone radio OFF. I faired well vs many others though.

The core PIM is what really killed it for me ... personal and especially going back to work. Displaying was ok ... but data entry was slow, not too great (very limited), and using Note programs, Calendar apps, Task Apps, etc became VERY annoying and convoluted. What the hell was Apple thinking ... I don't even think the ancient Newton was this limited in the core PIM. This forced me to move on ... and I'm glad I did ... for my uses. I think I may own a 3rd G iPod Touch in a few months but I'm not craving it as much as I initially thought 1mth ago.




Oh yeah Masseur, changing start of week date is in the Settings> General (or somewhere there I think).
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masseur
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Posted: 2010-01-16 06:49
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On 2010-01-16 06:21:44, Prom1 wrote:
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Oh yeah Masseur, changing start of week date is in the Settings> General (or somewhere there I think).


Although this wasn't for me I eventually googled it and there is no direct way to choose the day the week starts

instead you have to go to Settings > General > International > Regional format and pick a country.
United Kingdom sets the start of week to Monday while United States sets it to Sunday

of course, changing this setting affects other things too

bit weird if you ask me
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