iPhone apps S/D

hard life eh

so are tesco going to be meaningfully making this thing cheaper so proles like me can get one, or do i have to get an hero?

http://dustbowl.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/htc-hero-2.jpg

first phone i've ever seen that actually manages to look camp.

homescreen kinda looks like it's goin "why do you not feed me, master"

TBH thomp the "accidentally hit the silent switch" has gotten me into hot water at work!! (they were similarly pitiless when i told them what must have happened)

But you feel it buzz if you accidentally switch it to silent, and so switch it straight back, surely?

i was gonna say — is this not a 'on vibrate' silent like the entire civilised world uses? or is this an actually silent with no warning at all setting? because that would be kind of annoying.

There is a little buzz when you put it on silent - which you of course notice straight away if you MEAN to switch it to silent. But the times when you have accidentally knocked it to silent also happen to be the times when there is confusing physical business happening in your pocket/bag/etc - i.e. shoving it quickly into an overcoat pocket where it knocks against something else as you answer the HOME phone which is ringing and holding a baby in the other hand.

If it worked like the Hold button on the iPod classic it would be fine.

well one solution is to never hold your baby

or answer your HOME phone

In many ways my life would be much more relaxing. And then, I fear, it would quickly become much more stressful.

but at least your iphone wouldnt be on silent

I should add this to Yahoo Answers

no SMS drafts? what kind of text message do you need to write a draft for?

afaik if you write something in a contacts SMS screen it stays there

the volume button thing makes no sense TH? if IPHONE is on it's side (volume rocker side down), then right = softer is just the rocker continuing to function precisely the way it did before you turned the phone

ftr if you get a case, the volume thing never happens; I didn't start having this problem until my old case fell apart and I decided I hated my new one

er I meant the ringer thing

yeah I have also never once had that happen BUT I also turn the ringer off like 90 percent of the time anyway

how much is a htc hero

free. on tmobile anyway.

+ ukp35/mo

: / tht's expensive

cutty when writing a txt sometimes you have to stop in the middle if something else comes up. yes, if the txt is for one of your previous txting companions you can go find the last txt they sent you, and enter it there, and then it's saved for later, but i often txt to multiple ppl so that doesn't work.

gbx haha i know.. but it's pretty lame given that sideways is THE way to watch video or play a game (unless you're watching one of your own vertical videos!!) .. the only way around it would be to make the screen rotate the OTHER way for video. not sure why it doesn't, TBH.

the thing about the case makes sense - the silent switch ends up being basically flush with the case? maybe i'll finally get one.

if your texts are so long that its a pain for you to rewrite them you should reconsider how you use texting imo

(xxp)

Er, it does. It rotates whichever way you turn it, you can have the volume rocker on the top or the bottom, it's up to you.

that would make more sense yeah

I think I would be way more confused/frustrated if the buttons suddenly REVERSED functions when I rotated the phone tho!

JimD not for Youtube videos. And not for games.

Well, the youtube app is broke in many ways. Games vary, I've found most will let you rotate either way.

if your texts are so long that its a pain for you to rewrite them you should reconsider how you use texting imo

exactly. this is like complaining that twitter doesn't let you write enough crap. write an email, dude!

maybe if i had started txting ON IPHONE i'd be trained in its spartan rigors but i have been using the SMS drafts folder since like 2003

yeah YouTube app works MAYBE ten percent of the time, I usually never bother, I gave up on it as a feature wihin the first week

btw email is a bourgeois affectation

you've been using SMS wrong since like 2003

i've sent more text messages than you've had hot dinners, friend

maybe you should write a novel in SMS

or maybe your life story

tracer are you like CORRESPONDING with people via text message or like TRANSCRIBING THE BIBLE on your phone or what

oh shit I would totally do a Twitter Bible

dan if u do it someone will blog u and you'll get a book deal guaranteed

but I think John d should help

@corinthians

moses RT @jhwh 10 commandments #lawsofgod 3000 years ago from tablet

:D

i love it when a so-called design defect turns out to be a human defect ;)

I don't think it's a defect at all. Safari pulls up the last web page you were using; all the Twitter apps I've used will save a Twitter message in progress if you were typing something when you exit the program. Notes app does too. The Voice Recorder even lets you exit the program and continue recording. Almost all other apps save where you're at whether the task itself is short or not; I don't know why Apple wouldn't incorporate a stress-free solution for txt msgs too, especially since every phone since the big brick Nokias with interchangeable faceplates has had that feature.

You can save drafts in SMS, you just quit the app or hit back to save. You can have multiple drafts going at once, in different conversations.

but if your SMS is not part of a previous conversation it doesn't work. or if you just start typing a new SMS willy nilly without first designating who it's going to.

i.e. hit "cancel" and it's gone. in mail app if you hit cancel it gives you the option to save.

Just quit the app and it does still save it, at least. Are you saving drafts to strangers? Note app might be a better place.