New Apple Lust Objects

grr after a trip to the Apple store and a restore of the backup I made yesterday, I finally have a useful iPhone, although no music until I synch it at home

i don't even know what mms is

Shitey picture messaging. All I know is it's never going to work on my V1 phone (Nath: is that your problem too?) and that suits me fine.

gm i think my problem is the settings. and me being a moran who knows jackshit about changing em
dont even know why i bother cause i will never use it

SS get the new one if only cause it will be easy to send videos to your family. that way i will be VERY jealous. hah wish i cld buy one. the iphone is so great cause it is easy to send pics to my parents in japan

Apple's website says mms won't be available in the US until "late summer"

thats what happens when u sign an exclusive deal with the yokels at att

good luck usa: http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/124025728/wwdc-2009

It’s disingenuous for AT&T to argue that their network is so overloaded they’re struggling to support MMS & tethering. (n.b. these are features long in the tooth and they’re available, like, everywhere else, including my birth country of Croatia - you know, the place that went through a war not long ago?

Got the 3G S. Good: comically tiny new UK charger, camera massively better, much faster esp. on Safari.

Bad: Screen is glossy as fuck. Hoping it'll scuff up, but wtf is it w/Apple and displays that are mirrors? Also seems a bit mre recessed than v1. Hate the warmer gamma and plastick back too, but they've been around since 3g, so oh well.

Ok in fact Safari is ludicrously fast. Pages appearing at desktop speed

Voice control is way better than I thought: it can understand what I'm saying, which is more than some people can.

So the voice control works for the iPod functions, right? That sounds like the most amazing thing ever.

yeh "play music", "pause music", "play more songs like this", "play album Boxer" all work. "Play music by Aphex Twin" makes it call my mate big Tom, so dunno about that.

woah!! (not that I would ever use this)

Couple of my friends use matte screen protectors; they seem to work well and protect your screen, although every time I use one of them I fear my finger will glom to the screen because they look like the sticky side of clear medical tape.

I hate the shiny, shiny screen and use a matte screen protector and it is really great. I highly recommended it. No finger glomming.

i would definitely call stet's mate big Tom if this is indeed a built-in option

"Play music by Aphex Twin" makes it call my mate big Tom

See, I mentioned this to a couple of folk at work and -- like me -- they said, yeh, I can see that. I dunno, it does make an odd kind of sense, doesn't it?

I got it to work finally. "Play music artist Aphex Twin" works. It's really cool when it works -- you can hold the button on the headphones, say what you want, and it happens.

Play music Barry Manilow

play music uppers ON IPHONE

It's nice so far.

the onion is first with the news again:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/police_iphone_left_in_hot_car_for

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jul/02/iphone-3gs-overheat-apple-warns

when did the white polycarbon macbook become the only macbook available? wasn't there an aluminium version for about a year there?

so, if you want a 15" laptop apple are giving you the option of spending £750 for the white or £1300 for the bottom of the line pro?

does this make any sense at all in the current climate?

the white one is 13in, tho - the macbooks always have been that size. only thing that's changed is the 13in aluminium macbooks have been rebranded as macbook pros as well. they start at £899, but the 15in pros have always been over a grand iirc.

yeah, the 13" unibody macbook that used to not be "pro" got better and cheaper and got the "pro" name, nothing worth complaining about, should be celebrating!

in fact im throwing a party to celebrate it!!! tonight!!! youre all invited!!!

i'm checking flights

oh... didnt really youd read this... youre actually not invited

i already booked my flight :(

you said "you're all invited" and i have posted on this thread before so i assumed you meant me too... this is really awkward

oh wow

no i just meant joe, jed_, and dan selzer... shit

foe paw

i guess i have to disinvite dan selzer

sorry dan

even though it was your idea

way to go max, a hard sb gonna fall

the invited guests should ask themselves dubiously why a host wouldn't want a noted bon vivant at his shindig and then they probably shouldn't go.

i know a certain antipodean who is definitely not invited due to her snotty tone

poor nicole kidman.

no nicole kidman doesn't sound like much of a party to me

if she brought naomi watts, though...

dot dot dot the happiest girl in the whole antipodes of the usa

I've been partying nonstop since the announcement. I haven't been sober in weeks.

it's better than the liberation

dan died from partying too much :(

what a disaster for partying

re: the overheat thing - GF and I both got 3GS at the same time (yah squeee i know SHUT UP) and hers gets the temp warning regularly - mine does not. So apples "oh gee thats just normal" is prob bullshit and some of these are just straight up defective.

maybe your GF is just straight up defective FACED

actually she is v.v. pretty