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Old 25-02-2008, 19:28
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Just to wander up a side alley here.

When you made your conference call, was it like having two callers with one on hold and then swapping between them, or could all three parties join in the conversation simultaneously?
Once you have added the third party then another button appears on the main screen entitled "merge calls", but you can obviously shuttle between the calls if you so desire. Also, (and this may be true of other mobile conference calls) the clarity was superb, not like when you pick up a second extension on a landline to listen in, really completely unaware until another party spoke that it was a 3 way call.
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Old 25-02-2008, 19:54
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Could this not have gone in one of the multitude of other iPhone threads?
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Old 25-02-2008, 20:33
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From my experience with other phones (and tariffs) I used to think twice before using the mobile for the internet. With the iPhone i just go ahead without thinking about it. It's not just the tariff - the nice big screen and excellent browser makes the internet a far more usable proposition.
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Old 25-02-2008, 20:52
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the nice big screen and excellent browser makes the internet a far more usable proposition.
And let's not forget the multitouch "pinch" feature - this effectively makes the screen feel twice as big again.
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Old 25-02-2008, 21:52
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From my experience with other phones (and tariffs) I used to think twice before using the mobile for the internet. With the iPhone i just go ahead without thinking about it. It's not just the tariff - the nice big screen and excellent browser makes the internet a far more usable proposition.
Agree on the big screen, but the browser itself is no better than the n-series browser which of course is based on the same webkit engine as the iphones safari browser, it has the same 'true web' rendering and mini-map provides full page zoom out.
Also in my use of the iphone browser I found the tap zooming feature to be a little unreliable.

Internet explorer on win mob devices is dire in comparison i will admit but opera 9.5 promise to improve that.

As i've already said after browsing at hsdpa speeds I could never go back to gprs or edge, and thats the part where the browser stumbles on the iphone as excellent as it is whats the point when it takes an age to load a page, funny how all the 02 stores and cpw have the iphones on show connected to wi-fi, so they can make the browser look fast, ive had the misfortune of trying it on edge :yawn:

Cut the cost, make it multi network and 3g and apple would have a cutting-edge web device as it stands its no better than anything else on the market.
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Old 25-02-2008, 22:04
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me again the annoying iphone basher

Just out of interest how do the iphone users on here find the touch screen keyboard?
I found using it was rather difficult but then I am large fingered!!
Also feel I should say I'm no way a hater of the iphone, i've just found it hugely dissapointing after all the hype and the fact that are several phones on the market that can do everything the iphone does if not more, yet apple tel everyone its the only phone that can.
Even the hardest iphone fan has to laugh at steve job's statement that its 3-4 years ahead of current mobile tech
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Old 25-02-2008, 22:51
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Just out of interest how do the iphone users on here find the touch screen keyboard?
I found using it was rather difficult but then I am large fingered!!
Must confess it's a bit of an acquired skill, and most people just playing with it for a few minutes will not acquire that skill. There are also certain things about it that one needs to understand, for example, the fact that a character is accepted on release of the key, not pressing it. This can be used to advantage if say you are typing something that you want to be absolutely sure you get right e.g. a password. Basically, you press the key and if it's the wrong one (as evidenced by the large popup character that appears) you simply slide your finger without releasing it to the correct key. also, one needs to trust the autocorrection.
Having used it for 6 months I much prefer to enter text via the iPhone than the more common predictive text on a numeric keypad, also more so than one of those mini full alpha slide out keyboards.
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Old 25-02-2008, 23:11
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Just out of interest how do the iphone users on here find the touch screen keyboard?
yeah, its ok. i do make a few mistakes but the auto correct is pretty good.
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