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- Thread starter dagomike
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Great suggestion. I already sent it here
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
Can't hurt, could help.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
Can't hurt, could help.
Do you really want your phone updating the weather icon each and everytime you go to the Home Screen??
Seems like that would be a drain on the battery to update the weather widget to get the temp just to update the icon.
The system date for the Calendar icon is another story
Seems like that would be a drain on the battery to update the weather widget to get the temp just to update the icon.
The system date for the Calendar icon is another story
It updates the mail count without opening mail. No reason it can't do the same for weather once an hour.
I hope it doesn't update the mail count without me doing it manually as I have it set. Or that would mean I'm downloading over the EDGE network here in the Netherlands at $.02/KB every time I click the home button when I'm not connected to WiFi.
To the mail/netherlands guy: It's an option you can set, for mail polling.
To all of the rest of the people:
This is an excellent feature. Well. Would be. For those that don't want any of these dynamic features for whatever reason, why not just include an option to shut them off?
For all novelty, it should ALWAYS display sunny for people in Philedelphia
To all of the rest of the people:
This is an excellent feature. Well. Would be. For those that don't want any of these dynamic features for whatever reason, why not just include an option to shut them off?
For all novelty, it should ALWAYS display sunny for people in Philedelphia
It certainly does. I have it set to check my mail every 15 minutes. It will even chirp at me for new mail if I want it to. Note that the iPhone plans have unlimited bandwidth and there is a setting to turn it off.
All that has to do is notify that there is mail in your mailbox through push which uses VERY little battery.
Calender is all done local.
Temp would have to log in pull your data and update. That would drain battery. It would be a nice option but think the cost of the battery would be too much.
Or. You could just use the last forecast you received. Say you updated your forecast 3 days ago. If you didn't update it again today, it would show what it knew today was going to be like, 3 days ago.
Basically, it would go off of whatever data it had, until you manually updated.
That would be fine but then again would be pointless after a few hours unless you go back into the app to update.
Seems to me the best plan would be to have the icon autoupdate once early every morning with the day's forecast. That way you could wake up and know roughly what the forecast is. Then if you checked the weather widget later that day, it would update. If not, it would stay with the daily update.
Maybe numbers with Highs and Lows for the day. Weather icon with the days forecast.
Realtime given through the app.
There's no push. It's going out and downloading the mail. I'm always reading email in my inbox when I don't have Edge or Wifi access.
Odd. Maybe I need to pay more attention but was pretty sure I have been prompted to download more of the message. Have to do some testing.
Well, I'm using IMAP and have since verified it. In the bathroom at work, I get no service at all. I hadn't touched the phone at all, and brought it up in there. I had a few new email and could open every one, even though I had no network access for anything else. POP might be different. Just my point is that I think there is considerable periodical traffic going out already, so why not weather too...
Without any doubt, YES
Would even love a radar
and it doesn't need to check every time you hot the home button .
could just go timed like mail. I sat every hour would be cool.
I've been drinkin...
Should the safari icon show the last webpage...and the photos icon show your favorite pinkynail...oh...oh and the calculator could say boobs if you hold the iphone upside down