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List of iPhone Questions for New iPhone Owners

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Questions for iPhone

1. If you are using normal stereo music headphones when the iPhone rings, is it smart enough to use the headphones for listening, but the mic built into the iPhone for talking?

2. Okay, who's already dropped their iPhone? What happened?

3. Does the Apple Bluetooth headset have noise cancellation? Does it fit well in your ear? Feel secure? Sound good?

4. Is the only way to recharge the Apple Bluetooth Headset to plug it into the docking station supplied with the iPhone?

5. Are there a bunch more widgets besides the magic 12? If so, what?

Jim
 
1. Are pre-installed "apps" uninstallable? (say I don't wan the youtube app?)
2. Does it show which version of Mac OS it is running?
3. Any docs or anything in the phone hint to an upgrade when Leopard is released?
4. Anyone with advanced Linux skills want to see if there are multiple partitions, etc. Would be nice to know.
5. Is the "firmware" part of the storage space, or separate?
 
iPhone Questions...

1. Does it have voice recognition phone dialing. For example, will it recognize the names in your address book if you were to speak them, for hassle free, hands free dialing?

2. Can you or will you be able to play the existing iPod games that you've already purchased for your 5G iPod?

3. Will you be able to use your own custom-made MP3 ringtones?

4. Above all, is it a good "phone". What I'm getting at is, out of all the cellphones that are around today, a very small number of them work well as a phone. If you can't reliably make clean phone calls, but you can listen to your music and surf the web, then it really shouldn't be called a "phone". All in all, is it a good phone.

5. Is it worth the purchase price? Is there any sign of buyer's remorse at all? Does it live up the all the hype?
 
Internet radio stations...

I'm a big fan of a few internet radio stations.

1. Say I purchase an unlimited data plan, would I be able to stream internet radio anywhere I have data coverage? Would it be good enough to use the function in the car (with good reception)?

2. At the very least, would iTunes for the iPhone support streaming audio from internet radio using a WiFi connection?

3. What kind of battery life the iPhone have while running an operation like streaming audio over WiFi?
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Eagerly awating the iPhone, but still rocking the 20GB, 3rd Gen, iPod...
You know...the one with the original Gameboy screen. :D
 
SIM locked

cyrilcyh said:
Does it support foreign language SMS, email and webpage?

iPhone is probably sim-locked, any chance that it can be unlocked?

Can the iPhone data connection settings be modified so that it can be connected to other mobile service provider?
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It can't use the visual voicemail on any other network because the network has been designed around that just for the iPhone, so you probably can't unlock it and use it on other networks ne way
 
iPhone / Diskmode

When syncing music between the mac and iPod, the iPod becomes somewhat unusable because the iPod mounts up in diskmode. I guess that the iPhone needs to do the same thing in order to exchange all the music, photos and videos.

At this time, does the iPhone disconnect from the GSM network? So that every time I sync music, no one can call me?
 
zoom-in vs. link-click

while browsing the internet, are you frustrated constantly (or often) by accidentally double tapping a link and being directed to a new page, while you were meaning to simply enlarge/zoom-in to the page (or vice-versa)?
 
Landscape mode

Is landscaping viewing in either direction, clockwise or counter-clockwise? All the demos seem to occur in a counter-clockwise motion.

Tapping on a phone number seems convenient. Does it have to be in a specific format? All demo #s have area codes and they are in parentheses. Will another format be recognized as a tap-able phone number?
 
I just watched the 20 minute demo on Apple.com and wanted to ask these:

Can you use iTunes music as a ringtone?

Does the phone support games and/or other downloadable content (like ringtones) from AT&T?
 
Questions

-Has it crashed or locked up on you in some way requiring a reset? Every Treo or Blackberry or other PDA phone I've ever demo'd in a store has locked up on me at some point within 15 minutes of messing around with it.

-Does the iPhone clearly indicate if messages (voice or SMS) are waiting for you? My plain vanilla Samsung/Sprint phone has a red/yellow/green glowing light on it that indicates if there are voicemails or texts waiting for me. That light is the absolute determining factor for me in the morning as to whether or not I get up, or hit the snooze button for another ten minutes. VERY important. :)

-How much is the calling plan? Is it a separate voice and data plan, or an integrated "iPhone" plan, or...? Describe or link to information.

-Does it have GPS service integrated with Google maps?

-If no GPS presently, does it just need a service/software upgrade to make it happen, or is the iPhone hardware physically incapable of providing the service? (My Samsung 900 on Sprint right now provides very usable GPS/map/traffic/weather service for $10 extra a month).

-In the Apple demo movie, when you click on a phone number in an email, iPhone calls the number. But what if I just want to add the number to my contacts and not call it? Is there other context sensitive options for handling phone numbers and URLs?

-Can I print from the iPhone?

-Can I "beam" an address/contact/message to Palm & Blackberry devices? Not send an email or IM - just do the instant-beam my contact info thing like Palm people do.

-What file types am I allowed and not allowed to download with the iPhone? What happens if I click a download link in the iPhone browser to download an application, .SIT, .ZIP, .AVI file, etc? Where is it stored if at all? How do I transfer it to my Mac/PC?

-If I buy two or more iPhones, does AT&T provide some sort of family/group calling plan that shares the cost of the minutes & data plan among family members?

-Does the iPhone have two speakers, or only one? How does music sound on it? How does voice sound on it?

-For the hackers to contemplate for a while after iPhone comes out: is there any way to get Skype or X-Ten some other VoIP application running on the iPhone so I can use Skype or Vonage or other VoIP call service when I'm on a Wi-Fi network?

-Have you tried taking the iPhone apart to see the battery/SIM card? Easy? Difficult?

-Do attachments automatically download in emails with POP based email? Do you have the option to ignore attachments/images on a per message basis so you don't eat up memory?

-Again with POP email, can you setup the mail client so it will not delete/remove downloaded messages from the server, so they can be downloaded again at home?

-Does the mail client in iPhone sync any data with Apple Mail? Messages? Rules? Folders?

-How, if at all, does iPhone's mail client deal with spam?

Holy crap! Do we have high expectations of this thing or what? :D
 
Will macrumors should turn this incredible list of questions from everyone into a Wiki page or some other interactive format so they can all be easily answered? :cool:
 
questions for new iphone users

Would appreciate it if new users could answer the following questions:

1. I now have a Sony Clie running the Palm os. I have hundreds of memos I would like to transfer from the "memo" section of the Palm os to the "notes" section of the iphone. Is there any way to do this?

2. Is there a search feature for the "notes" section of the iphone?

Thanks in advance. Richard.
 
I am getting an iPhone on day 1, and I have quite a few iPod accessories and bluetooth devices I will be testing with it. I will report back with the answers to the following questions:

iPod accessories:

Does it work with the Apple Radio Remote? How well?

Can it record voice memos or stereo audio through an ExtremeMac MicroMemo?

Can you use the Apple AV cable to get video out of the headphone jack?

Can you get video out of the Apple Dock? Does the remote work?

How does it work in a Belkin Tunebase FM car cradle?

For all the iPod accessories above: what happens when it's not in iPod mode or a call comes in?

Bluetooth devices:

How well does it work with Jabra bluetooth headsets? What advanced features are supported?

Does it support standard phone protocols on a Palm Tungsten T3? (ie dialing, data connection) (just curious, I won't be using my Palm much anymore! :) )

Does it pair with/know what to do with a TomTom bluetooth GPS receiver? (I hope Google Maps can use it, maybe in a future update....pleeeease!:eek: )

Does bluetooth file transfer work with a MacBook Pro?


I can't wait until next Friday! I, and many others I'm sure, will keep you posted!
 
Can you archive web pages like on the computer so that web apps can just be saved on the phone and you can use them even without EDGE or WI-FI available?
 
some questions :D

Here is a list that was not covered on the iphone usage video (maybe i wasnt paying close nuff attention)

Bluetooth profiles
- is OBEX supported?
- is PAN supported?
- is Bluetooth Audio Gateway supported? (basically your iphone acts as the host, your computer sees the iphone as an A2DP

headset)
- is Sim access (SAP) & Phone book access (PAB) profile supported? so BMw's Lexus' Acura car stereo's access your sim so the

car itself turns into your phone as well as be able to display your contacts on the car's touch screen
- Bluetooth Serial support? (you need this for GPS's)
- can google maps interface with the GPS if the iphone has SPP supported?
- FTP protocol supported? so client computer can browse the host via folder listing
- can you set a diffrent bluetooth name for the device? (seperate from computer name for wifi)
- if you purcahsed a bluetooth headset (other than apple's BT headset, IE logitech, jabra), can you voice dial or even redial last number using the MFB or redial button?
- logitech has a button for both voice dial and redialon their BT headset, can the iphone redial or voice dial?

Wireless
- range of wireless compared to maybe your laptop, i expect any phone to be lower but how bad or good is the iphone in

comparison? if you have a linksys WRT router, you can flash it with DDWRT so show signal strength of wireless clients
- can you browse to your MAC or PC HDD via network share? (samba share)
- if you can browse via network share, can you stream audio and video from the network share?
- extent of wireless protocols? WPA, WPA2, WPA-AES, Radius Auth etc (i need to know if it can do WPA AES with radius)
- VPN support?
- can you change the name of the iphone? (IE computer name)

Phone calls
- wind noise? lots of it or does the mic/software have noise cancelation
- can you record calls?
- when you are in a call and bring up notes, will the notes have the header info auto typed in like in WM5/6? (header info is

date, time, call, name, etc)
- can you call a number, put them on hold, then dial another number for conferencing?
- can you have profiles like, for home i have my ringer set to MED with a specific ring tone, vibrate is not on, led flashing

is. for "silent" i have vibrate and LEDs turned on, no ringer, for "Stealth" i have no LEDs, no vibrate, no ringer


Photos
- can you crop photos?
- can you resize photos to a specific resolution? if your picture is 1600x1200, i want to resize to 800x600 or 640x480, can you

type in a number to resize too basically? or use a %
- can you enhance the photo? brightness, contrast, redeye reduction, etc
- in photos is there a beam image via bluetooth?
- can you rotate, flip, rotate by degree, etc (rotate by degree maybe not as most phones cant)
- can you record notes onto the picture? (embeded text)
- can you record VOICE notes to the picture? (embeded voice audio)
- can you view and change Exif Data?
- when you take a picture using the camera, what EXIF data is written?
- is there a slide show mode?
- if there is a slide show mode is there transitions and time elements you can set?
- what is the color depth for the camera? most smartphones are 24bit
- can you protect photo's (regular digital cameras can do this, even my 4 year old kodak can, this is so you dont accidentally delete them when you delete pix from storage)


Weather
- where is the weather updated from? google weather? yahoo weather?
- is the icon for weather on the home screen updated and live time for your city? or is the icon a generic one that doesnt

change

Calendar
- can you show half hour time slots? (i use this alot as most of my appointments are by the half hour)
- show weeknumbers? 1-52 etc
- change first day of the week
- can you request meetings and email them to someone else with an iphone? (email a lunch appointment reminder to your coworker

or friend, like you can with outlook)
- what are the diffrent views with your calendar? can you view by day, week, month, year?

Time
- can you change between 24/12 hr? i use 24 since there is never any confusion
- change time format h:m:s or HH:MM:SS etc

Google Maps,
- can google maps talk to you like tomtom or iguidance telling you where to go?
- change between metric and imperial? (rest of the world is in metric so.. it would be best if the european version had metric)

Home screen
- change you change your color preference?
- in the video the guy picked the little kid as his background image, but when he flipped back to the home screen it was still

black, if the background image for something else? like the phone or lock screen? or is it a universal screen where its the

same in every application?
- are their themes to change the look of the iphone (maybe a couple default themes
- can you turn off the anoying transitions? (this will also save CPU and ram resources)
- can i lock the iphone? the slide lock is a KB lock so you dont press things in your pocket, but i want a 4-8 digit pin code or password protected screen so if someone is messing with the phone, they cant access it, they only see the lock screen with a pin pad. also i would like the computer to ask the user for a password as well just incase the phone is locked but the theif plugs the phone into a computer and steals all your data. (like blackberrys and windows pocket pc phones)


Safari Browser
- can you identify your browser as IE, FF, Opera, ETC? some websites behave strange when you are anything but a certian browser

like IE. some sites wont even load unless your FF or IE
- can safari block popups?
- can you set your cache size?
- can you set your cache to be emptied at exit?
- change your font size?
- set a specific zoom ratio? (set permanent to 80%, etc)
- Java script supported fully?
- flash? even flash 7 will be ok, dont expect flash 8 or 9
- does it flip at an ok speed when you have a 1000 comment digg window open?

Ring Tones
- can you load your OWN ring tones on?
- does it support Mp3 AAC ring tones?
- if someone emails you a ring tone (in anyformat, or if the iphone only does AAC, then an AAC ringtone is emailed to you), are

you able to save the attachment to your phone and use it as a ring tone?
- can you send your ring tones via bluetooth or through wifi to a shared drive? (OBEX or FTP)

File browser
- i didnt see in the video if you could browse the contents of the phone, if there a file browser on the iphone?
- can you delete files from the browser if there is?
- if you have an email attachment like maybe a song or a picture, can you save it to your phone in a specific director?
- file compression? zip? or RAR? (i need zip or rar for compressing files to send via email)
- can you encrypt a part of the storage? (obvious use is sensitive documents or emails, credit card and password info)
- drag and drop capable?
- Search? (search by time, file name, containing word, etc)

Keyboard
- can you change to dvorak? (i know its nerdy and i doubt you can)
- can you change the THEME of the keyboard? (look, colors, button sizes, etc)
SPBKB1.jpg

SPBKB2.jpg

i know the blueone is ugly but thats not what im pointing out here, just want to know if its SKINABLE
- does the keyboard suggest words? if you are typing a long name like "extrordinary" after typing in extro, the keyboard will

popup with a suggestion word(s) and you just hit the word you want without typing in the rest, (like what windows mobile does)
- is there a symbol pad so you can select special characters like
£ British Pounds (not really a special character but a currency character)
¥ Yen
€ Euros
¢ Cents
¿ start of spanish quesion
º degrees (temperature, etc)
while these arent really special characters, ive noticed some phones are not capable of displaying them at all let alone typing

them, i type alot of email and post using these symbols i need my pda/phone to be able to display and type them
- can you enlarge the KB? like sPB full screen keyboard,
SPBKB3.jpg



Misc
- any HINT of home automation software on the iphone to do home control? it would be so cool to walk within range of your wifi network to turn on lights, crank the heat, turn on fireplace from your phone. windows mobile phones can do this with 3rd party software
- can it read power point files? in the video excel and word is supported
- can xls and doc be edited? not just read? if xls can, can you input formulas? format cells, insert columns, etc like desktop excel with basic functions

im not writing these questions to belittle the product, i need to know if im going to drop thousands of dollars on a product, and yes it will be thousands because $600 + 2yrs of fees + misc hidden fees (i did this with my HTC phone and the HTC got Yes to almost every one)
 
Is there video-out through the dock?

nagromme said:
Is there video-out through the dock?
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I'm sure there is video-out through the dock, because that's what Steve Jobs was using during his keynote to put the iPhone display up on the big screen.
 
Not sure if this has been asked yet:

Does it work when your hands are damp?

The trackpad on my laptop becomes completely unusable if my hands have any moisture on them. This isn't a big deal for it but it sure would be for the phone.
 
SIGNAL STRENGTH.

How does the iPhone compare to other mobile devices in staying on network? It's important that the iPhone function as well or better than comsumers' existing phones.

You don't want somebody's early ownership experience to be "well, it's a cool iPod, and it surfs the web... but it doesn't get a cell signal in my apartment and it always drops calls on the freeway."
 
Avic D-3

I wanna know if it will function with my Pioneer Avic D-3 just as my iPod nano does with onscreen displays and controls of playlist, etc.
 
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