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by Maarten Goldstein, Nov 24, 2008 6:13am PST

And a good morning to each and every one of you. Had a good weekend?

Mine was filled with hours of Fable 2. Unless the storyline goes horrendously bad during the last part, this will be my Game of the Year.By far more fun than anything I've played this year, and I don't look forward to completing it at all. I'm just doing side-quests now to avoid having to advance the main story for the time being. Though a bit buggy (I've played half the game with a furniture upgrade message at the top of my screen), its just so incredibly charming and funny - though I can see it doing nothing for other people because some elements are probably a bit of an acquired taste. Unless its just horse armor, I will buy every bit of DLC they release for this game.

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iPhone Menz:

I think I'm going to pull the trigger on this.

What do you hate about the iPhone? As in, for those of you that have one, what do you hate about it? Is there anything you hated so much that you ditched it?

Nov 24, 2008 4:20pm PST

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  I don't really hate anything about it. I'm pretty pleased with it. : carnivore
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    I should have finished my post :)
    
    Basically both the wife and I are looking to upgrade and while I'm OK with shortcomings (I've never had a smartphone before) she's currently using her WinMobile Treo for serious business work (she's a wedding planner) and so I'm trying to make sure it doesn't have any show stoppers before we get one for her as well.
    
    The no copy/paste thing sounds annoying as hell but not quite a show stopper
    
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    I should have finished my post :) Basically both the wife and I are looking to upgrade and while I'm O... : Schnapple
    - The no copy/paste thing is blown out of proportion. There is very very rare moments where you would need ... : ovrlrd
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  buy it. you will not regret it, ever. for serious. unless you use linux. : Yanks
  - Even if you use linux you can jailbreak the phone and then SSH into it and run vim. : DOOManiac
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  No MMS or copy and paste, but I do not really care about either that much : TreMetal
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    I just wish that any MMS you get, you didn't have to memorize some crazy ass login/password combo, it sho... : vov1n
    - Yeah, that is particularly painful. : TreMetal
- The worst thing about the iPhone is AT&T's coverage. : adpalumbo
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  I had something - my podcasts would occasions get marked as unplayed after I played them- but they fixed ... : cdbeckman
  - This is pretty much how I feel. I'd get close to RAGEing when I get a page to load in Safari only to have... : BlackCat9
- I have nothing to hate about it. The only thing I wish it had was Push support for 3rd party applications... : ovrlrd
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  Coverage six in NYC. I could have typed this ten times faster on a tactile keyboard. Txting while walking... : holinka
  - I don't have a problem with the touch screen keyboard, it took me about a week to start typing on it just... : ovrlrd
  - One of her wedding/event planning buddies told her that his solution to the keyboard thing was to buy an ... : Schnapple
  - I am genuinely faster than I was on my old palm treo. That's the highest compliment than I could give. Ho... : cdbeckman
- the only time i ever got really, really pissed at it was one time when i was driving and google maps didn... : erotic sock
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  FOLLOW UP: Anyone know how well it works syncing with Outlook and a POP3 account? Here's how her email... : Schnapple
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    People still use POP3 and do crazy awkward things with it? Okay... (I don't know yeah, that should pro... : adpalumbo
    - Yeah I guess we should look into seeing if her ISP uses IMAP now. It wasn't an option a few years ago whe... : Schnapple
  - That's pretty much how it would work with any POP3 email that's set up to delete the emails from the serv... : BlackCat9
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    she should get IMAP good lord that is awkward : mikecyb
    - She likes it this way. *shrugs* : Schnapple
  - Just tried adding a POP account to my iPod touch. There's a setting in Advanced to "Never delete messages... : dodob
- lack of MMS is annoying and I wish more standard apps (like texts and email) supported landscape mode. y... : mikecyb
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  I hate not being able to text message while I'm driving. : laurgasms
  - What? You can. Hell, I was talking to you on AIM the other night while driving. down my private drive, go : kikilupo
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    I'm actually hoping my wife will stop doing shit on the keyboard while driving, so this is a good thing : Schnapple
    - I was being sarcastic about the hating it part, but you really can't do anything with it while driving. : laurgasms
  - and I am glad you can't : mikecyb
- You will love it. : Iwannaacura
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  The fact that in Canada, the data plan is 500 FUCKING MEGABYTES A MONTH >:( : Dave-A
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    what? Really? I have 6 gigs. : Cyntax
    - same. although i've never used more than 300 MB per month : Mmmmmoo
    - ^^ in Canada (BC) : Cyntax
    - yeah they stopped that a month ago, my GF got that deal too. : Dave-A
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    Dave if you got the iphone v2 when it first came out you could have got 6gb for $30/month. It's what I di... : n0v4
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      Are you telling me I need to find you and kill you; assume your identity and use your phone to get the 6G : Dave-A
      
      try it mister, i bet i'm bigger than you : n0v4
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      Also I've had the phone since august and Ive only used a little over a gig so far and I use it for web/em... : n0v4
      
      yeah after experiencing the shitty HTC phones I was sitting at Perks at MicMac trying to use my gf's iPho... : Dave-A
  - i don't think i've used 500mb since i got my phone when it came out. : erotic sock
  - It's not that bad. I have 6GB and use about 250 MB per month. : Geoffrois
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    just get a damn diamond so we can get winmo latestchatty :( : gokart.
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      this was my intent, but jesus man... the UI lag... it killed my gadget-boner entirely :( : Dave-A
      
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      you need to see one with a cooked rom running. mine's fucking butter, gets like 25% better battery life t... : gokart.
      
      I wonder why the stock ones are so shitty? : Dave-A
      
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      also where do you live? i want to see this buttery battery phone of yours in action! : Dave-A
      
      stock roms suck because HTC themselves are constantly updating sys versions and drivers, but they need to... : gokart.
  - I was pricing an iphone the other day and I noticed this. That's ridiculous. : Ellissd
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    while it seems low it's really hard to use. I tend to be on wifi a lot (at work and at home) but I seem ... : mikecyb
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      So why do they do it? If no one uses more than 200mb/mth, why don't they just say "UNLIMITED!!!" and all ... : Dave-A
      
      fuck if I know. here in america we don't put up with that 'limited data' bullshit* * except people on : mikecyb
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  If you live in your email, don't get this device. You can only see the most recent 200 messages. : goatjc
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    That isn't a big deal at all, if you get over 200 messages then you either will not mind hitting the butt... : ovrlrd
    - It will only update your main inbox via activesync. . .which is why I like to keep the majority of my ema... : goatjc
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  The good : Incredibly useful device, with the right apps it's the most handy thing on the planet. R... : jingletard
  - The data plan actually winds up being cheaper for us since we'll be upgrading them both together. One of ... : Schnapple
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  I have a 3g. I hate AT&T. I can't determine if it's AT&T or some flaws in the phone, but it's the worst... : midgetherder
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    I never have any dropped calls and a couple people have told me I sound more clear on it than when I was ... : mikecyb
    - It's probably regional to Los Angeles, as most of my friends here have the same problem. Schnapple shoul... : midgetherder
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    Your service is entirely dependent on your area, and yes AT&T is at fault for that, but everyone's experi... : ovrlrd
    - I'm not one to bitch when the phone kicks into EDGE mode. It's when I'm on the cusp of 3g/Edge/Whatever ... : midgetherder
  - I haven't had a single dropped call and the reception quality is usually really good. : SatansFist
  - Yeah, at&t service in the Seattle area is atrocious : derelict515
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  2 issues that I have, but they are.......relatively minor depending on your comfort level. 1) Call iss : Squirrely
  - Other than that, its amazingly fun to play with. : Squirrely
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    Ugh #2 pisses me off. The technology is there, release the damn turn-by-turn software Apple!! : SatansFist
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      Actually since I got her a TomTom for her birthday in April, I don't mind this : Schnapple
      
      (meaning it doesn't render my other present useless) : Schnapple
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  I love mine. No dropped calls ever (on Edge), AT&T's coverage has been great everywhere I go, lack of MMS... : glio1337
  - Battery issues I don't ever have a problem with because I have a car charger and I usually plug it in at ... : glio1337
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  A few things I didn't like about it: 1) blind texting is difficult (for me) since there's no tactile fee... : factor27
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    Try "Say Who" for voice dialing. It's free on the app store and I hear it works well, but haven't tried i... : BlackCat9
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      Defeats the purpose of voice dialing. I have to launch into an app for that feature? The time it takes ... : dilutedq
      
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      Well I would imagine it would take a few fewer clicks and less distraction when driving. Especially when ... : Schnapple
      
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      If you leave the app open, then you only have to unlock the phone. Easy enough to do without looking at i... : BlackCat9
      
      I multitask too much for that to be usefull. And to remember to do that every time. What a pain. If th... : dilutedq
- I hate how dependent on it I've become. I think that I love my iPhone more than most family members at th... : Head Rush
- how much are standard plans for the iphone now? i cant find any information on it on the att website...a... : arizona bay
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  Haven't read all the replies but you can't attach photos to email : DMac20
  - True, but you can e-mail one photo at a time. I get annoyed when people send me a bunch of photos in an e... : BlackCat9
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    True as you stated it, but not how you meant it. You can attach PHOTO to email. As in 1 photo -> 1 em... : batkiwi
    - So no 2photos1email. Gotcha. : Schnapple
- Is there an non-jailbreak app to lock photo albums? : prime8

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