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Recently switched from Android to iPhone4

applebook said:
Doesn't matter because the terrible pentile matrix display will kill your enjoyment of it. The home screen does look terrific on the Galaxy S, and I suspect that most consumers are wowed by it. Then they take it home and actually try to read on it :D

In all fairness, the Galaxy S' pentile matrix display is still far superior to the Nexus One and the HTC Desire (the pre-SLCD version), but even fairly large text has noticeably jagged edges and "colorful" artifacts around them. On purely white pages, if I look closely enough, I can actually discern the rainbow effect. :eek:
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True! Now lets get those options over to our beautiful displays eh?!
 
I know that this is neither here nor there as you have allready taken the plunge and bought an iPhone, but your questions are so basic that I have to ask about your initial research.

Seems even a cursory interaction at at store with a model available, or a friends iPhone, would have shown all these what you seem to call misgivings about the iPhone. Did you have hands on before you purchased this?

I know that my finances are not everyone elses but gosh I usually get a good feel for a product before I decide to lay down more than 100$ for it, and this is much more than that considering the contract that goes with it.
 
I agree basically every iPhone review has hit those points about the ios. But yes please apple get your ish together. I've had the first gen iPhone, and now the 3GS... Gonna get the 4 but I do wanna try android and it's faults for a week or two.
 
Nevpaurion said:
That being said wasn't it nice to have had the option?
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It was nice to have options, but I still chose the iPhone 4. Now I have more options on my iPhone 4 by jailbreaking it.
 
Nevpaurion said:
As for the task killing I know how to do that manually but I wonder if there is a way to just not allow certain apps that I exit to run in the back ground? Like I need facebook to be running in the background when I exit it but not so much calculator, app store, contacts, safari etc.
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Applications listed in the quick-launch bar (when you double-tap the home button) are there simply because they are recently-used.

Every App is in one of the following states:
  1. Not in RAM
  2. Frozen / cached in RAM (this speeds up launch time)
  3. Running in the foreground
  4. Running in the background

There are strict guidelines on what can run in the background, and when. http://igadgetlife.com/gadgets/why-the-ios-approach-to-mobile-multitasking...-just-works/does a reasonable job of explaining this.

The design goal is that the user should not need to care about background tasks. Hope this clarifies things :)
 
curmudgen said:
I know that this is neither here nor there as you have allready taken the plunge and bought an iPhone, but your questions are so basic that I have to ask about your initial research.

Seems even a cursory interaction at at store with a model available, or a friends iPhone, would have shown all these what you seem to call misgivings about the iPhone. Did you have hands on before you purchased this?

I know that my finances are not everyone elses but gosh I usually get a good feel for a product before I decide to lay down more than 100$ for it, and this is much more than that considering the contract that goes with it.
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It was a gift. But next time my birthday is near I'll send everyone a memo reminding them to make sure that they do their research!
I guess I should have said that in the first place eh?
 
ianray said:
Applications listed in the quick-launch bar (when you double-tap the home button) are there simply because they are recently-used.

Every App is in one of the following states:
  1. Not in RAM
  2. Frozen / cached in RAM (this speeds up launch time)
  3. Running in the background

There are strict guidelines on what can run in the background, and when. http://igadgetlife.com/gadgets/why-the-ios-approach-to-mobile-multitasking...-just-works/does a reasonable job of explaining this.

The design goal is that the user should not need to care about background tasks. Hope this clarifies things :)
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Interesting. Thanks for clearing things up :)
 
Nevpaurion said:
I can't turn the camera sound off.
I can't disable the orientation rotation feature when I don't want it on.
I can't stop the sms popups.
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So you've already got solutions for the first two. For the third go to settings>Messages>Show preview> OFF

This will stop sms pop ups and will just show as a badge on the messaging icon. (edit: Except it doesn't - Sorry it jsut stops the message being previewed - you still get a pop up saying there's a message)

You're also misunderstanding about how multitasking works on the iPhone for the most part. If you use the calculator and then use another app, the calculator isn't running in the background using up CPU cycles and battery power, it's simply 'frozen' so you can go back to where you were. (edit: as you just learned above!)
 
Regarding ringtones and such:

Shady file renaming isn't really that shady. They are the same format. You just need the file named properly. Copy and edit any music file you own to get the desired portion as a ringtone, then rename the file, and it can be used as a ringtone just fine. I do this every time I want a new one.

So why doesn't Apple allow changing the tones of email, SMS, Calendar and such alerts? The answer is brand and device recognition. Every time you hear that sound you know it is an iPhone. The sounds get associated with an iPhone because every iPhone sounds like that.
 
Keleko said:
Regarding ringtones and such:

Shady file renaming isn't really that shady. They are the same format. You just need the file named properly. Copy and edit any music file you own to get the desired portion as a ringtone, then rename the file, and it can be used as a ringtone just fine. I do this every time I want a new one.

So why doesn't Apple allow changing the tones of email, SMS, Calendar and such alerts? The answer is brand and device recognition. Every time you hear that sound you know it is an iPhone. The sounds get associated with an iPhone because every iPhone sounds like that.
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Yeah it isn't really THAT shady it's just an annoyance. As for the tone helping apple keep its brand identity, I guess you do have a point. It's just so lame to be in a room with friends and here the only decent text sound (tri-tone in my opinion) go off and have the whole freakin room reach for their phones.
 
doboy said:
It was nice to have options, but I still chose the iPhone 4. Now I have more options on my iPhone 4 by jailbreaking it.
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Yeah for some reason I'm just very wary of jailbreaking my phone. I bought apple care for it and I'm fairly certain that if I do jailbreak it and something goes wrong with it (not with the jailbreak but with the phone it self) that I'd be up a creek. I REALLY wanna avoid that situation, but I REALLY wanna be able to do those things with my phone that jailbreaking allows.
 
Nevpaurion said:
Yeah for some reason I'm just very wary of jailbreaking my phone. I bought apple care for it and I'm fairly certain that if I do jailbreak it and something goes wrong with it (not with the jailbreak but with the phone it self) that I'd be up a creek. I REALLY wanna avoid that situation, but I REALLY wanna be able to do those things with my phone that jailbreaking allows.
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Don't worry about warranty. You can just DFU restore before taking it to Apple and they will never know. I exchanged jailbroken iPhone 3GS twice after restoring it. Also as long as you are careful with installing only stable jailbreak apps, stability is also not an issue. Just don't install them willy nilly.
 
I think the sms/email sounds are a marketing thing for apple. Whenever that sound goes off, you know its an iphone in public, they use it on commericals on tv and the radio.
 
doboy said:
Don't worry about warranty. You can just DFU restore before taking it to Apple and they will never know. I exchanged jailbroken iPhone 3GS twice after restoring it. Also as long as you are careful with installing only stable jailbreak apps, stability is also not an issue. Just don't install them willy nilly.
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Hmm in that case I'm definitely leaning towards jailbreaking it. Is that possible for those with iOS 4.1 yet?
 
Task killing isn't important. the way Apple handles multi-tasking negates it from needing that. When you double click the home button to bring up the task switcher, none of those apps are running. (except if its a few things like pandora playing in the background or GPS)

Even if you're playing a game and suddenly get a text and want to answer, when you answer it and switch back to the game you were playing, that game actually closes. It jsut saves where you last left off. So its not really running in the background. Its not "real" multi tasking" but it performs exactly how you would want it to. In the end its just to save battery life. Which is the best of both worlds IMO.
 
ianray said:
Applications listed in the quick-launch bar (when you double-tap the home button) are there simply because they are recently-used.
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The recently used list is partly Apple's attempt to make up for not having a Back key, which automatically goes back to each app you were previously using. I.e. backtracking your path.

Double-clicking Home is not as intuitive, but it does allow the user to easily skip one or more app steps back if they wish. (Which is why Android has a Home key recently-used list as well.)

The design goal is that the user should not need to care about background tasks.
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Should not need to, but can if they have to, because the other reason for the quick-launch bar is so the user can kill a runaway app, or one they no longer want in the background.

Before "multitasking", the Home key served as an app-kill button. Very clever to make the user hit it all the time. Since 4.x however, that's no longer possible, so there has to be another way to kill an app if need be. Thus the (X) when you hold down the app icon in the list.

To paraphrase Jobs, if the user knows it's a task manager, you've failed ;)
 
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