Engels
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I for one will not be plugging in my 1.4 first gen iPhone till this is fixed.
Considering that Apple is touted as 'user friendly', I went through hell on wheels when I first got the iPhone to get it activated, so I know how they can seriously mess up a firmware upgrade like this.
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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schild
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Hahahaahahaha. Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. That's awesome.
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Oban
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Oddly enough, I went to a non-carrier dealer about two hours after they opened and walked out with a new 3G iPhone in under thirty minutes.
New activation, new contract and not a problem.
From what I can see, people who went to Fido or Rogers Canada stores before eight this morning (in the rain!) are still waiting for their iPhones. One "flagship" store had activated a grand total of four phones in four hours. Fucking epic lawl.
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Palin 2012 : Let's go out with a bang!
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MrHat
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I never even considered a non-carrier store.
Can you get them at those shitty kiosks?
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Viin
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I thought new iPhones were only available at Apple stores this time around?
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MrHat
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Me too. Or Carrier stores (aka ATT in US).
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Ookii
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Two and a half hour from waiting in line an hour after they opened to receiving my shiny 16gb Black iPhone.
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MrHat
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Good luck ookii!
I'm going to check availability after close tonight and maybe try again tomorrow morning. Although, the store at the mall said they "anticipate having enough to fill out demand until people stop asking tonight" so I have no idea what that means.
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Oban
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I never even considered a non-carrier store.
Can you get them at those shitty kiosks?
Yes, in Canada one can get an iPhone at shitty kiosks and shoddy multi-carrier resellers. A shitty kiosk had four more 16GB units than the "flagship" at the mall. I have to say, I did go to a mall that was away from the subway/rail lines, off a toll road and no where near a bus route or housing development. |
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Viin
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I have to say, I did go to a mall that was away from the subway/rail lines, off a toll road and no where near a bus route or housing development.
Who the hell decided to put a mall far away from any convenient means to get there?! |
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Prospero
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Canadians.
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Trippy
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Canada is unusual cause Apple is "protesting" Rogers' high rates for the new phone. Apple dramatically reduced the number of phones Rogers got and supposedly they decided not to sell them in their own Apple Stores.
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Trippy
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Hahahaahahaha. Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. That's awesome.
It's even more hilarious cause the 2.0 firmware was cracked/unlocked even before the phone was released today. So all this does is massively inconvenience the people who don't even care about unlocking their phones. Sort of how like copy protection works these days... |
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MrHat
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Ok.
I'm 6th in line at the Apple Store this morning.
FINGERS CROSSED.
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Oban
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Ok.
I'm 6th in line at the Apple Store this morning.
FINGERS CROSSED.
I called, they have five in stock. |
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Trippy
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Man arrested for assault on customers waiting in line for the latest iPhone
REUTERS
Sat Jul 12, 9:10 AM ET
TOWNSON, MD - Police arrested a man this morning for assaulting a group of customers waiting in line outside the Apple Store in the Townson Town Center. Witnesses say the man was in line waiting for the Apple Store to open to purchase Apple's new 3G iPhone and was reading something on his cell phone when he screamed at "No!" and started flailing wildly at the customers who were waiting in the same line in front of him. The other customers in line managed to subdue the man until police arrived.
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MrHat
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woo!!!!
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Lantyssa
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Thank you, Apple. The Schadenfreude is delicious.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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sigil
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Remote is love, and now has me in the market for an apple tv.
Box office is love,
For you myspace users, the app works great
From my point of view as a touch user with access to wifi at all my haunts, this is all about the apps. I am now doubly happy with my touch purchase.
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naum
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2.0 activated on my non 3G iPhone when I got home from work yesterday.
DLed some apps and I have to say most of them suck heartily. A glorified web front end is not what I had in mind for an "app" -- Good Gates we already have an excellent Browser (Safari) on the device, why do we need a less featured, shinier UI to do the same?
And I'm not paying $ for an app that I haven't tried out first. Companies are going to have to put out "lite" versions and/or post video demo walktrhus on their site before I fork over cash for a phone app…
However, Pandora on iPhone was worth the 2.0 upgrade temporary-brickage in itself.
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"Should the batman kill Joker because it would save more lives?" is a fundamentally different question from "should the batman have a bunch of machineguns that go BATBATBATBATBAT because its totally cool?". ~Goumindong
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Tebonas
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Love the Remote, like Shazam for the sheer entertainment value of showing off my mad music skills in bars (as if). Wating for input by others which paid apps are actually worth buying.
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naum
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Instapaper developed by Tumblr lead developer Marco Arment is a good one - it does the "offline" storage but you have to tag articles from a normal web browser (with JS bookmarklet). Once DLed (via update button) in the app, you can read offline. And his app will do "web" or "text" format, and unlike all the other apps I've seen thus far, you can rotate into landscape view...
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"Should the batman kill Joker because it would save more lives?" is a fundamentally different question from "should the batman have a bunch of machineguns that go BATBATBATBATBAT because its totally cool?". ~Goumindong
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Ookii
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Urbanspoon is amazingly awesome, if you're in to that sort of thing.
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Engels
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2.0 activated on my non 3G iPhone when I got home from work yesterday.
However, Pandora on iPhone was worth the 2.0 upgrade temporary-brickage in itself.
Are you using regular Edge network to stream Pandora? Also, any hitches upgrading to 2.0? I'm still scared :/ |
I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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naum
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2.0 activated on my non 3G iPhone when I got home from work yesterday.
However, Pandora on iPhone was worth the 2.0 upgrade temporary-brickage in itself.
Are you using regular Edge network to stream Pandora? Also, any hitches upgrading to 2.0? I'm still scared :/ As I spend most of my day enveloped in a WiFi cloud (work, home all wifi-ed), didn't even think about, out today didn't even try it while shopping… …but just disabled WiFi on iPhone and am listening to a Bob Dylan song right now… …working for the most part, takes a minute to load and occasionally stutters… |
"Should the batman kill Joker because it would save more lives?" is a fundamentally different question from "should the batman have a bunch of machineguns that go BATBATBATBATBAT because its totally cool?". ~Goumindong
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Prospero
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The only app I've bought so far was Super Monkey Ball, and it is pretty fun. The controls were really terrifying at first, but after 15 minutes of playing I've pretty much got them down. I'm not sure it is a must by, but it is pretty cool to see what the phone can pull off.
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MrHat
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That poker dice game is worth $5.
Edit: What I like so far (Apps):
Urbanspoon is fucking amazing.
Game: MotionX Poker is damn fun ($5 totally worth it).
BoxOffice is convenient but not entirely neccessary.
Game: Aurora Feint is free and fun! Think Puzzle Quest.
Pandora makes me wish I had a corner office for 3G or there was a wifi router half way up the building, other than that though, mad love, shame you can't run it in the background.
Still trying to get Jott to work, had some network/account issues earlier.
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photek
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One provider have an exclusive deal with Apple here in Norway and they were sold out on release, so I'm getting one this week. Would like to hear more about which Apps etcetra are useful / useless. Ow, how is the sound on it ?
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"I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away"
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MrHat
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Sound seems fine. Haven't had any problems really. Although, my first experience w/ two-earphone cell talking made me aware at how bad cellphone sound in general is.
Also, that I looked like a douchebag talking to no one.
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photek
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Sound seems fine. Haven't had any problems really. Although, my first experience w/ two-earphone cell talking made me aware at how bad cellphone sound in general is.
Also, that I looked like a douchebag talking to no one.
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"I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away"
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Pandora =  City transit if you live in NYC is three bucks and teh awesome. From subway advisories to using the GPS to tell you where the nearest subway stations are in relation to you. Remote works with all my Macs, save my Mac Pro and my Apple TV AIM is cool and finally works well on my phone, my only want there is that it work with gchat. |
Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Prospero
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Pandora is the clear winner so far, but Apple needs to get the stick of their butt and allow Pandora to run in the background. It also needs to be able to put the album art/song title up as wallpaper just like the music player. Also, it needs to support double tap to skip songs/change volume. More or less, they need an API that lets an app say I'm the music player now. Oh and links to buy the songs off the iTunes store.
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Surlyboi
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There are links to buy the song off the iTunes store.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Ookii
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I signed up for the 60 day trial for Mobile Me, so far I'm really not impressed. What's really great is that if you go to the official Apple Discussion forums everyone is bitching about it, apparently the 'push' is really just a timed sync.
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