Why I despise the iPhone.

[bydandie]

Originally Posted by tonybro

Des,

You have access to all subfolders under Inbox on WM!

Select Menu/Tools/Manage Folders and select all the ones to sync - simple....

Not on Exchange 2003 you don't

[bydandie]

Originally Posted by bydandie

Not on Exchange 2003 you don't

now why did that work just now!

[waveydavey]

Oh dear, Taxi......

[bydandie]

Originally Posted by waveydavey

Oh dear, Taxi......

Yep, one's coming soon....

In serious though, I was looking at getting a new device. For £440 I got a new device with 12 months free inet and wifi (I ended getting the 16Gb version which just came back in stock into the Apple store today after speaking to the staff member who's been using the iPhone since it came out). That I call good value.

It'll certainly tide me over until contract renewal next April.

[waveydavey]

Well, us mods have been having some fun with Google Latitude over the past couple of days and I spotted this article on the Windows Mobile Connection Forums:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/16899...one_Fault.html

Crippled Google Latitude Web App Spotlights iPhone Fault



Google's new Latitude Web app for iPhone is so hamstrung that Apple customers may be wishing they had a BlackBerry or Android handset instead. Why? Because lacking multitasking, Latitude really isn't Latitude.
Here's what the free Google Latitude service does: It allows you to make your location available to other users in near real-time. On the color BlackBerry models, Android, Symbian/Nokia, and Windows Mobile--lets call these "real" mobile platforms--this is done constantly and in the background.
This is how God--and Google--intended Latitude to work: Without user attention or intervention. And this is the functionality that iPhone users have been waiting on for months, only to receive a third-rate version of a first-rate application.
But, there's more: On the iPhone and iPod touch, Latitude isn't even given application status, but is delivered as a Web application in the Safari browser.
I have a number of potential uses for Latitude in my business and volunteer lives. This is an app I'd been anxiously waiting for, smug in my knowledge that my iPhone was always the better platform.
I'd even imagined that Apple would open up multitasking on the iPhone, just for their Google buddies, if no one else.
Obviously, I was wrong--and I'm also disappointed. Which is bad news if other platforms that turn multitasking into a key feature they have (and iPhone lacks).
On its Google Mobile blog, the company bravely tried to turn this lemon into lemonade. First the bad news:
"Unfortunately, since there is no mechanism for applications to run in the background on iPhone (which applies to browser-based web apps as well), we're not able to provide continuous background location updates in the same way that we can for Latitude users on Android, Blackberry, Symbian and Window Mobile."
Followed by the lame attempt at a save:
"Nevertheless, your location is updated every time you fire up the app and then continuously updated while the app is running in the foreground. And, of course, you can check in on where your friends are, so we think there's plenty of fun to be had with Latitude."
In other words, Google expects the iPhone to be a mostly one-way Latitude device, used to find your friends all the time, but able to send your location only when Safari is the foreground application.
That's not plenty enough fun for me. I want a tool, not a toy.
OK, I won't junk my iPhone over this, but my love is diminished. And maybe my anger shouldn't be directed at Apple. Perhaps, Latitude generates enough network traffic that AT&T but the kibosh on it.
Either way, my smug iPhone superiority has been pierced and now I have to make excuses to my friends who use Latitude on platforms that support it properly.
This seems like a small thing, but it has me thinking that someday my next device won't be an iPhone.
Good work, AT&T and Apple!

[Griph]

Originally Posted by waveydavey

Well, us mods have been having some fun with Google Latitude over the past couple of days and I spotted this article on the Windows Mobile Connection Forums:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/16899...one_Fault.html

Oh wow! How terribly frightful - I am going out right now to sell my iPhone what an absolute deal breaker ....... yawn NOT!
Really - hardly a show stopper eh? See where my friends are right now? Gosh what a truly useful* application.

Wake me up when there is something really useful that is a problem!

* = Pile of C&*p

[waveydavey]

I think the point is it highlights the iPhone's weakness at running background tasks. Something taken for granted by users of the other OS's.

[johnston411]

the iphone can run background tasks. im+ being one of them.

i'm not too sure how well it would stack up running say four or five background apps because mine seems to become slower the more i have on it e.g. if i don't delete sms messages the sms app takes ages to load, if i have 5 or more tabs open in safari it takes ages to open, if i am listening to music via bluetooth it skips when loading the email app etc. It doesn't seem to manage its' memory very well.

TBH i loved my iphone when i first got it and still use it daily but the way it's performance has degraded is a cause for concern.

It could just be specific to mine and i may have a hardware fault but nonetheless it's very frustrating and even worse coupled with the appauling battery life.

Mines under a year old and a full charge lasts from 7am till around 2pm now. When i got it it lasted nearly two days of similar use.

If the hero turns out to be a suitable replacement i'll be flogging it and getting something else to play with instead.

Of course i'll be sending it in for a once over first

[windows]

Yep mine had degraded speed wise two over the past 10 months, it did improve with OS3 but I'm now no longer using it as a daily machine.

[fowljr]

I don't understand Apple's reluctance to let the device multi-task in a real way? What is it that their afraid of?