{"id":1208,"date":"2008-07-11T17:08:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T16:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2008\/07\/11\/3g-iphone-first-day..\/"},"modified":"2008-07-11T17:08:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T16:08:02","slug":"3g-iphone-first-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1208","title":{"rendered":"3G iPhone first day.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the 3G Iphone release day. I upgraded my old iphone contract for \u00a399 plus \u00a335 a month for 18months for which I get 600 any time minutes and 500 texts per month plus unlimited data.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px; float: left; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3139\/2657811179_aefe42d326_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>My main reason for upgrading was to get the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Global Positioning System\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Global_Positioning_System\">GPS<\/a> function.<\/p>\n<p>Although now I have it, it isn&#8217;t clear to me that it  isn&#8217;t some interpolation method from cell towers \ud83d\ude41  I&#8217;m where the blue dot on the screenshot is (thats a neat trick press the Home and on\/off buttons together for a screenshot) its about 10 yards out \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>What I was really hoping for is that my pictures would be geotagged, the camera does indeed ask for permission to use the location information but it isn&#8217;t clear what it does with it!<\/p>\n<p>A bit annoying to discover  that they don&#8217;t even use the cell information, let alone GPS satellites, to update the actual real time clock!  i was on Cupertino time for most of the day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried a couple of applications;-WeightTrack only works in pounds and is not a patch on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourmilab.ch\/hackdiet\/palm\/\">Eatwatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also tried the Facebook application which allows you to add camera images and update your feed it however caused oneof the biggest crashes of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Here is todays 3G iPhone crash report to Apple:-<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/iphone-307d9764.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"101\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which is a good deal longer  than any in the last 6 months with the 2.5G version! Oh and its needing a major recharge to get me through the evening!<\/p>\n<p>The contact search is excellent but still can&#8217;t see how to cut and paste or even how to add a contact to bluetooth or add to a text message, so its still way behind the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Palm Treo\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palm_Treo\">Treo<\/a> in nice business features. ( I guess it shows the insular nature of Apple).<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the 3G Iphone release day. I upgraded my old iphone contract for \u00a399 plus \u00a335 a month for 18months for which I get 600 any time minutes and 500 texts per month plus unlimited data. My main reason for upgrading was to get the GPS function. Although now I have it, it isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}