Ipod Touch / Iphone

[bhd812]

I got my iphone last week and finally figured I could actually join this thread...whoa is it huge I need to try and print stuff out to read over vacation If someone wants to take pity on me and spoon feed me the basic gists of what I should know/have on my iphone 3g like all the cool kids that would be great.

if you want to save battery turn 3G off and location services off when your not using them.
you can use your home button for a few different features, like double clicking it to bring up the ipod instant.
your four most used app's should be moved to the bottom of the screen so you can access them no matter what page your on..mine are phone, ipod, safari, and texts.
back it up often and make sure you able genius to work on itunes.
if the phone locks up hold the top button and home button for a few seconds to do a hard shutdown.
get into the habit of checking for app updates often, you can do this on the phone or in itunes.
remember there are moisture sensors in the headphone plug and dock plug, they seem to get set off by sweat or light moisture..just a warning..
download the lolcats app for crazy style laughs..seriously

[Dusty Chalk]

what would the app do?

It could translate everyone's posts into Billy-speak.

And then we could fix it.

[bhd812]

what would the app do?

it should be like an easy way to read and post on the boards, like a facebook app.

[tkam]

there already is a vBulletin iphone app, it's called tapatalk. i've had a few users testing it out and the big complaint so far seems to be that it's slow. it's also not free.

[Hopstretch]

As opposed to just doing so in mobile Safari?

I think it should just be a random insult generator.

[n_maher]

I think it should just be an animation that activates when you move the ipod/phone and shows a shovel swinging at the back of someone's head and makes the appropriate clank on impact.

[The Monkey]

I think it should just be an animation that activates when you move the ipod/phone and shows a shovel swinging at the back of someone's head and makes the appropriate clank on impact.

Now that would actually sell.

[JBLoudG20]

Now that would actually sell.

The person's head can be supplied via image upload, or live camera.

[The Monkey]

Or their avatar.

[emelius]

with the high frequency noise & the white 3GS turning brown from overheating, i'd expect a firmware update to adjust the power management (& conveniently kill ultrasn0w unlocking) shortly...

but first Apple has to acknowledge the problem...i'd be very wary of the 30 day return/cancellation policy if i had bought the 3GS the day it came out...

maybe i'm being alarmist...

[Hopstretch]

That's no maybe.

[grawk]

tapastalk is somewhat annoying, so far. Slow, lacks PM interface, UI isn't keyed to the way I think. I'm going to wait for the next update at this point.

[emelius]

they just released iPhone OS 3.1 to developers...shouldn't be long for the rest of us...

[recstar24]

if you want to save battery turn 3G off and location services off when your not using them.
you can use your home button for a few different features, like double clicking it to bring up the ipod instant.
your four most used app's should be moved to the bottom of the screen so you can access them no matter what page your on..mine are phone, ipod, safari, and texts.
back it up often and make sure you able genius to work on itunes.
if the phone locks up hold the top button and home button for a few seconds to do a hard shutdown.
get into the habit of checking for app updates often, you can do this on the phone or in itunes.
remember there are moisture sensors in the headphone plug and dock plug, they seem to get set off by sweat or light moisture..just a warning..
download the lolcats app for crazy style laughs..seriously

Excellent Billy, you rock.

[Grahame]

Jeremy (Clarkson) seems curious about Stephen Fry's new App from about 5:00
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcajJWm5RNk"]YouTube - Top Gear S13 Episode 2 - Stephen Fry[/ame]

[Hopstretch]

I think I liked him better as a jolly fat man, though I'm sure he's improved his hit rate on Grinder now.

[Hopstretch]

This is really cool if you use Growl for notifications on your desktop and want to extend that to your iPhone.

Plus, one of the default sound effect choices is "Zoidberg".

[recstar24]

Does anyone have a link or can help with tethering for 3G with 3.0 OS for ATT? The link jacob posted was pre 3.0 and I guess it is different for OS 3.0 as tethering is already embedded in the software.

EDIT: If anyone has recs for screen protectors and/or cases that would be great. I prefer the slimmer, polycarbonate/rubbery types vs. the hard metal bulky types.

[EdipisReks]

The link jacob posted was pre 3.0 and I guess it is different for OS 3.0 as tethering is already embedded in the software.

no, it was for 3.0.

[strid3r]

EDIT: If anyone has recs for screen protectors and/or cases that would be great. I prefer the slimmer, polycarbonate/rubbery types vs. the hard metal bulky types.

I was just looking for the same thing a couple weeks ago and the SwitchEasy Rebel seems to be one of the higher rated ones:
Welcome to SwitchEasy

The Incase Slider also seems to be pretty nice:
Incase Slider Case for iPhone 3G

I ended up getting a BestSkinsEver to cover the back for now. I will probably end up getting a Rebel at some point.