Nate, do you have the 3G or the 3GS? I've got the 3GS and I've heard that call volume and so forth are improved with the new model. Of course lots of people have trouble with AT&T reception. We're lucky, here in NC AT&T is fairly robust. I've never had a dropped call or poor reception. I'm not much of a phone person though... my wife and I text and email more than anything else.

Just the plain 3G here and I've also read reports that the GS is much better in terms of call volume. But I have no desire to be beholden to AT&T for two years since I'm not under contract right now so a new iPhone is not something I'm considering.

P.s. I also hate the fact that Apple pulled a switcheroo and now you can only manage your music on one computer even if the iTunes account is the same on multiple machines. That makes it just about impossible for me to do what I want to do with the iPhone as a music player which kills about 50% of its functionality.

Not for me, call volumes are too low to be heard just about everywhere except near silent conditions. Honestly, it's a struggle to use it in the car and the speakerphone section is even worse. And yes, I've tried it without the case on it to see if that is hurting the volume and that doesn't help.

Coverage around me blowing chunks is certainly a contributing factor as well.

my original, non-3G iPhone had these issues. I could never hear my calls well, except to my mom who talks loud. I constantly had to ask people to repeat themselves. furthermore, my ringer was never loud enough. if I wasn't in the same room with it, I couldn't hear it.

all these problems are fixed with my new 3GS. I have to turn the volume down on calls now, and the ringer is very loud.

but my original iPhone was the worst phone I ever owned. if it wasn't such an amazing portable web browser I wouldve ditched it a long time ago.

+1 on the sound level issues - my non-3G iphone has low ringer/speaker levels, while the 3GS is very loud and clear.

Sorry Nate - my normal 3g 8gb is perfect functional wise and phone wise, great volume and clarity, no dropped calls, etc. I believe you had mentioned service for ATT in your area was pretty poor, I live in western Chicago suburbs and our ATT service and 3G is awesome, that might be a big part of it,

I use WunderRadio, but... 6 iPhone Internet Radio Apps For Every Type Of Listener

Neat app for scrobbling songs to Last.FM: ShareTunes

It's pretty spartan, you enter your Last.FM account details and then select songs from the iPod app as you would an On-the-go-playlist. It doesn't save the playlist between launchings, which is a bit annoying.... it won't scrobble songs unless you're in the app. So there are some caveats. But it was the cheapest scrobble app I could find. Simplify Music 2 will also scrobble songs.

Nice 'hack'... DIY Smart Phone Speaker | Apartment Therapy Unplggd

Everyone should get Words with Friends. Let's get some Scrabble going.

Not sure whether anyone else uses Photobucket but if you do, get the app. This may be old news to some but it works great. I can take a pic with my iphone, upload it, copy the link and paste in a post.

AT&T Announces New Unlimited Plans - Yahoo! Finance

iphone unlimited plan at $99.99 come monday! awesome $30 saving for me

Where's tethering, you fucking assclowns?

Tethering is the only reason I still have my phone jailbroken. It's not that I use it that much but when I need it, it's great to have it available.

word of experience...

if you used the tethering hack that was available over the summer and then updated your iphone to 3.0 or later then remove the profile you downloaded from your phone!

i removed it last week and found out visual voicemail and lots of texts didnt go to the phone since September!! i received 42 voicemails dating back from sept after i removed the profile that made tethering possible before 3.0 .

and this is why i dont fukc with hacks..

you can complain about the service or our legit options all you want but finding out i will be paying $30 less a month is bad ass! thats almost 25% off my bill.

word of experience...

if you used the tethering hack that was available over the summer and then updated your iphone to 3.0 or later then remove the profile you downloaded from your phone!

i removed it last week and found out visual voicemail and lots of texts didnt go to the phone since September!! i received 42 voicemails dating back from sept after i removed the profile that made tethering possible before 3.0 .

and this is why i dont fukc with hacks..

you can complain about the service or our legit options all you want but finding out i will be paying $30 less a month is bad ass! thats almost 25% off my bill.

I have a non-jailbroken 3GS with 3.01 on it, with all the hacks working for tethering and MMS working, and my visual voicemail and texts and SMS all work fine, as does tethering.

ok?

AT&T new plans are up! no contract exn with the switch!!! woot woot

Apple Tapping Lala Media Team for Cloud-Based iTunes? - Mac Rumors

Interesting rumor regarding Apple's acquisition of Lala and the possible plans for iTunes.

Apple Tapping Lala Media Team for Cloud-Based iTunes? - Mac Rumors

Interesting rumor regarding Apple's acquisition of Lala and the possible plans for iTunes.

They're gonna enjoy trying to push Baguette's library "up to the cloud".

I was playing with Lala and it can take quite some time to get your library up there. I don't remember how long it took ultimately, but it was a multi-day process. It's still not done yet, about 2,000+ songs left, but I haven't had a chance to finish it.

Could be good news...

Boy Genius: Multitasking, new interface in iPhone 4.0

Backgrounder is the other reason, besides tethering, that keeps my phone jailbroken. It's great to be able to listen to the sirius app, get a call and be able to go right back to listening without signing in again. If multitasking and tethering is announced, I can go legit again.

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For the past year I've been using DOTTUNES to run a music server right off my iMac/1GB HD at home with my whole iTunes library and playlists, so I can listen to my playlists on my iPhone's web browser or another computer with web access. You guys could check this out.

Do you know guys if there's a good internet radio app similar to a SqueezeBox for listening to internet radios around the world? I know about the last.fm app, but it's not exactly what I'm looking for.

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