OK. let me slap myself against my head. It is an iPhone 4, 8 GB. Not a 4S.
Who plans to drop stuff? It just happens. I’ve dropped nearly everything I own that can be picked up by hand, including my Iphone, and it certainly didn’t take any planning.
Twas a joke, but with a bit of seriousness. Some people seem to drop their cellphones every chance they get, others drop them extremely rarely, if at all.
It only takes once.
Edit: Also, Words With Friends is a fun app if you like Scrabble.
I understand that there was an element of jocularity in your comment. However, you made it reaction to advice that Iphones should be used with protective covers. Underlying your joke, isn’t there at least a hint of an implication that people who decide to use protective covers, or people who drop things, must be defective in some way and maybe don’t deserve to have a $600 portable device?
If you took it that way, then you were misreading - sorry I didn’t make it clearer. I do think that some people don’t treat their expensive cellphones as well as they should, because they don’t realize that it’s actually a $600 piece of equipment rather than $200. Maybe they grew accustomed to a shittier $50 replaceable dumbphone in the past, and their way of handling a cellphone didn’t change with the upgrade. Maybe they’re just really clumsy. There’s nothing inherently wrong with either of those.
The one thing that I will say is that I think screen protectors are a scam. Go ahead and put your phone in a case to protect its perimeter - the metal band looks slightly prone to scratches, and I’m not entirely sold that the exposed glass edges are a great idea. But screen covers don’t do anything - the glass Apple uses is extremely scratch-resistant, above and beyond regular glass (which is already very resistant to scratching).
Try teaching in a middle school. Last year, a girl lost her Iphone(4, I think). After about 1 week, here Dad bought her a new one.
Oh, when we did a locker clean out a month later, she found her old one. Dad let her have both.
Some people aren’t taught to value things and that money does, indeed, grow on trees.
I think a hand-held device meant to be carried around and used anywhere – regardless of relative cost – is going to be subject to the same kinds of risks of damage. There aren’t too many different ways to “handle” a cellphone. You are either using it or you are keeping it in your pocket or purse.
The use of a protective cover pretty much is the main way of showing an understanding that this is something that is valuable enough to make efforts to protect it from damage.
1.) Apple’s Texas Hold 'Em is pretty good. I also enjoy “Aw Craps!”.
2.) iCloud in and of itself does not store your music in the cloud. That is an additional option (with a cost) to have your music stored as a part of iTunes Match. Doesn’t matter the source of the music, if it is on your computer then iTunes can sync it to your iPhone.
3.) No, they are not. I’ve had an iPhone since the first generation and I travel nationwide for work. My point is my iPhone gets abused. A simple case and a screen protector have served me well.
4.) There is an app for WQXR. A quick search in the iTunes store for “classical music app” returned almost 200 apps.
5.) I have not had issues with battery life but experiences vary here. Battery life on the newer phones is substantially better than earlier versions. The iPhone does not just “shut down” unless you completely deplete the battery. I’ve also never been required to reboot my phone for reasons other than applying a new update to iOS and that occurs when I choose to apply the update not on it’s own.
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As a recent iPhone user that switched from Android, my first instinct would be to tell you to send it back and get an Andriod. But it really isn’t a bad phone, although the screen on mine is very disappointing compared to my wife’s new Samsung Galaxy II. But as far as apps the ones that I use most often are: Angry Birds (really a fun game) and the Netflix app. I watched a movie last night in bed using earplugs, it was quite comfortable. The other must have app is Opera mini web browser. It is so far ahead of the included Safari browser. It loads faster, and it is much easier to use multiple windows with it. Good luck on your new iPhone. Compared to the Blackberry you just upgraded from a Pinto to a Porsche.
As someone that carries both an iPhone and an Android (one work, one personal), I say “be glad you bought an iPhone and not those crap Android things”.
Aren’t opinions ace?!
What app is this?
I’d like to recommend Perfect Browser. It is a full-screen browser that utilizes every square inch of the iPhone screen.
-You can open as many tabs as you want. The iPhone’s Safari browser only lets you open a maximum of eight tabs.
-Perfect browser can also emulate the following desktop browsers: Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Opera or Chrome.
-You can put a scroll bar on the right side for scrolling as you would on your desktop PC.
-It has an in page search comparable to a Ctrl-F. It will show you all results for your searched word or phrase in a page.
-You can lock the orientation to either landscape or portrait mode, so the screen won’t flip if you’re lying on your back in bed. This is a feature I appreciate a lot.
It’s updated frequently. It supports iOS 3, 4, and 5. It’s in the app store for only 99¢.
Missed the edit window: There is a free app called TuneIn Radio that picks up over 50,000 stations worldwide. It will pick up most of your hometown stations that are not Clear Channel stations. You can definitely pick up WQXR and WFMT on this app and it will suggest other stations in the same genre you might like. The advantage of this over individual station apps is that a single app will take up less space in memory than multiple apps for each station. The app will also continuously record the music onto your iPhone, much like a DVR for your TV. You can pause a station or skip back to replay a favorite composition.
It’s an app that presents Cracked.com content in a nice, easy-to-browse fashion. It’s pretty good, actually.
You can do this for the whole iPhone, too. Just double-tap the Home button and then down where you have a row showing your running apps, slide all the way over to the left and there’s a Portrait Lock key. I have this enabled all the time because it irks the shit out of me when I’m reading in bed and the screen keeps flipping sideways.
Except it doesn’t lock Safari into landscape mode, which is how I like to browse. If I have Safari in landscape and touch that icon, it flips it into portrait, which drives me nuts.
You can limit the search in Safari to the page you’re on.
Huh. I was not aware Safari had a search function. It looks like it was implemented in iOS 4.2, but I was completely unaware of that until now and I’m on 4.3. Ignorance fought.
There are many great uses for an iPhone! Including, but not limited to:
- keeping a stack of papers in place
- keeping picnic supplies from blowing away on a windy day
- playing fetch with your dog
- air hockey puck
- fashion accessory (how most people use it)
- smashing the skulls of your enemies
- grinding up solid substances into fine powders (mortar accessory required)
- knocking pairs of shoes off power lines
- practicing smuggling items into prison by inserting into rectum
- juggling, if you buy at least three of them
- trading for food or anything good