New Apple Lust Objects

it automatically orients any map to the direction you are facing.

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yeah that is dope

£900 mbp is great

oh ha no it's not

oh jesus i have just learned that iCal won't push calendar subscriptions to either the iPhone or MobileMe

what's the point

I refer the honourable gentleman once again to the blackberry as this seems to work just fine via google.

xpost there's a workaround using busysync. a few mins to set up but works like a charm after that. obv apple should fix this tho.

http://blog.busymac.com/blog/2008/09/how-to-sync-cal.html

it's not a deal breaker, but i just witched my school calendars over to subscriptions instead of "hard copies" cuz things are getting changed all the time.

xp yeah this seems like a real no-brainer feature

thanks for that, it syncs todos which caldev doesn't, which is a missing aspect.

busysync looks nice, tho it's a little infuriating that it's not standard.

i've already got all my cals over on gcal, so

I wish I could just get the Addressbook to Google Contacts sync to work.

xpost if you've already got everything on google, then this might be all you need: http://www.google.com/mobile/apple/sync.html

oh that would be nice

at least Address Book ---> Mobile Me works

Spanning sync can fuck off with their $25 a year.

oh i'll look into that.

i've got everything on google, mostly as a backup (also gmail receives all the mail from my other accts)

OK so you can fix the Addressbook sync by adding

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GoogleContactSync.framework/Versions/A/Resources/gconsync --sync com.google.ContactSync

to your crontab

well this is cool, I'll be getting an iphone as soon as my verizon contract is up in August but was hoping they'd come out with one with more storage by then, and it looks like they will. Unfortunatley this will just make my wife covet my iphone more (and she just got hers). It's too bad they don't have an upgrade or trade-in program.

what features is the rest of the world getting before AT&T? tethering and mms it?

Reasonably priced upgrades.

Does the new phone do multi-tasking apps yet? I'm guessing not.

Am not very excited by the 3GS. Nicer hardware touches, but essentially same shape an same OS with some clunky cut and paste chucked in. Pre OS is much more exciting and better-looking; this doesn't feel competitive.

man, i'm already on sprint, what to do

iPhone and verizon supposedly not to far away.

Fantastic the 13" has firewire 800, that makes up my mind, all I need now is to get paid and I can get 1x13" with 500GB storage and a free iPod Nano.

iPhone and verizon supposedly not to far away.

and sadly way more expensive.

Pre-ordered two of the 32 gig iPhone 3Gs's today. It was a no brainer for me, since I was still on the 1st generation iPhone. I'd probably think twice if I already had the 3G version.

im still on 1st gen and seriously considering this too

trust me this is wrong. it was almost right but then wasnt.

oh i meant for "iPhone and verizon supposedly not to far away."

guess i'm going to wait and see what they're like in the flesh. $200 + an extra $10/month over my 1st gen is basically $20/month after taxes, and i'm not sure there's anything in there that's an immediate jump; i don't feel like i lack storage, don't miss the 3G or GPS, i've got a flip... so it's going to be a question of whether the speed and the accumulation of details is enough.

email/calendar/contacts syncs up perfectly with google on the iphone, for what it's worth, as remarked above.

I love the GPS and I'll be glad to not be tied to my Blackberry that has it now. Well, I still be tied to it, but for entirely different reasons.

I'm getting worried that I screwed myself - I'm on AT&T already, my contract ran out in December, and I got a new cheap-ass phone because my old one's battery died. Sales person at AT&T store assured me that it would be fine with upgrading to an iphone this summer, no problem, it's cool, etc. BUT the AT&T site says I'm not "upgrade eligible" until August 2010 and therefore a new iphone is gonna cost me $200 more.

I wonder what my chances are of getting them to waive this.

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That's what I'm guessing / fearing.

13" MBP looks k-awesome, especially when I realized that my current laptop is 12". It'll be huge!

OK I think I might have changed my mind completely after realising that 3G qualifies for educational discount on monthly charges, so our phone bill would be pretty much the same, I think. Suddenly it's turning into a no-brainer for me too.

Can't see any reason to switch from 3G to 3GS. Is the tom-tom app only gonna work on the new phone or is it linked to the new OS?

still toying with the pre, just because i'm on sprint and the monthly plan is waaaaaaay cheaper. like, save several hundreds of dollars over the course of two years cheaper.

but feature-wise it seems pretty impoverished, compared to 3gs

$80/month is like the cheapest ATT plan, right? Or the cheapest usable one?

O2 aren't letting people break contracts to go from 3G to 3GS, so if you bought a 3G on day one last year like I did, no upgrade until January next year. By which point it'll almost be time for the next batch of new ones anyway.

Twitterverse seemse pretty livid about it (search #o2fail), pretty unimpressed myself. Their advice to pissed off 3G owners? "Just install 3.0, it'll give you most of the new functionality!"

Doesn't seem that unreasonable, you knew about the yearly upgrade cycle when you signed the 18 month contract so tough titties to you.

Sure, except last year they were like "hey V1 owners, s'cool, we'll just stop your contract right there, hook you up with a 3g, and start you over again". Suspect less people would've gone for that if they'd bothered to say "oh, but don't expect the same next year".

just got the 3g last week w/ a new plan, does this mean I get to upgrade to the 3gs gratis y/n? someone told me this but I haven't had the chance to go over the fine print

no 3G S for you jim
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AT&T are doing exactly the same, Jim.

It's not cool, but it's not particularly surprising. O2 are one of the less bad companies with iPhone exclusive deals.

are they really not allowing any way to break contracts? that's pretty shocking - i thought 2 months of line rental was fairly standard, maybe 4 at the outside? AT&T allows it for $125 iirc.

For current iPhone customers, however, the options are a little tricky. "Upgrade eligibility varies with each customer, but in general you will become upgrade-eligible the further you are into your service agreement," AT&T spokesperson Seth Bloom told Ars. Typically AT&T will allow for full subsidized pricing after about 18 months. AT&T's website wasn't updated at the publish time, but you can check your "eligibility" online via Apple's online ordering page. (For those of us on staff who bought an iPhone 3G on launch day last year, it looks like we won't qualify for subsidized pricing until this December.) We have already heard expressions of severe dismay from many other iPhone 3G users being told they cannot upgrade before 2010.

If you're not eligible for standard subsidized pricing, you can get an "early upgrade" to the iPhone 3G S for $399 for a 16GB model or $499 for a 32GB model. If you just want an iPhone 3G, you can get an early upgrade for $299. None of those options are much of a deal, but if you want an iPhone 3G S as soon as possible, that's what it will cost you. Either way, upgrading will include a new two-year contract and an $18 upgrade fee.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/06/att-on-tethering-iphone-3g-s-pre-orders-early-upgrades.ars