The iPhone Collective

[Renysmom]

I haven't used it personally but Mike from the Be Our Guest podcast used it through out his recent trip to WDW and the audio quality was great.

Chris - That's actually where I heard about it

 

[luke]

Restored my iPhone when going onto 3.0 to clear all the junk that was slowing me down so lost most of my apps. Anyone got any recommendations of what to get to fill it back up again?

 

[cslittle999]

Chris - That's actually where I heard about it

It was very cool following Mike around the parks. It sure made me wish my trip wasn't three weeks away. I'm tempted to get TweetMic but data roaming fees are too expensive for me to use it any kind of real time way in the US.

 

[firsttimemom]

We had a tragedy in our household the other night. After coming back from the pool my wife runs into the bedroom, holding out my iPhone, almost in tears yelling "i'm so sorry, i didn't know it was in there, i'm sorry". It turns out she didn't know my iPhone, along with other stuff, was in the outside pocket of our cooler bag, which after emptying out she dumped the water off the back deck into the kiddy pool below. Along with the water went my iPhone. I quickly pulled the SIM, and put it in front of a blow dryer to get it dry ASAP. After about 10 minutes i hit the power button, the screen barely came on, and i did hard shut down to turn off everything. I dumped the phone into a bag of rice (a trick i read about online) and placed it in a warm place (my A/V rack in my entertainment center) for the night. Everything is OK except for the Wifi, which has been severely crippled. I barely get any at home now, and get about 1/2 of what I used to get at work.

My iphone went for a brief swim in December (it was submerged for a good 2 min). I did exactly what you are not supposed to do- turn it off and on. The power came on, flickered and died. I didn't know the rice trick until the next day so I tried that to no avail- the darned thing wouldn't turn on. Fortunately, my AMEX purchase protection covered the original $199 so I only had to pay another $199 for a new one (argh!).

Fastforward 5 months- I saw the old phone in my office and just for grins turned it on- works perfectly now.

 

[mla1977]

Chris,

What are the dates for your trip? I'll be there with my niece Aug 15-20.

 

[cslittle999]

Chris,

What are the dates for your trip? I'll be there with my niece Aug 15-20.

August 16 to 28. A split stay between BWV and AKV.

 

[MrandMissVacation]

Finally updated to 3.0

Just got the Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition. Once you get used to the slightly odd controls it's great, the voice acting is superb as ever

THEY have THIS??? OMG. I went through major technical mumbo-jumbo to get it to work on our updated OS system just so the kids could see what DH and I played back in the day.

:::running::: to Itunes

 

[luke]

It's great, enhanced graphics with voice acting too, but a flick of the screen reverts it to classic graphics and controls!
I had Monkey Island 1 and 2 on my iPhone via te ScummVM emulator, but this is so much better, Dominic Amato's voice is just brilliant as always
I'll post some screen shots (showing dffernece between classic and enhanced modes) later if I can

 

[Mouse Skywalker]

Hey can any of you recommend a good FM transmitter for the iPhone? I want to get one for our drive down to Virginia next week. Thanks.

 

[OKW Lover]

FM transmitters are a bit of a problem. The results are highly dependent on your vehicle (where the antenna is located vis a vie the iPhone), and the area you are driving through (how close to strong FM signals you are).

I've got one by Griffen that works OK. Its major advantage is that it lets you chose any frequency in the FM band. Its not limited to 2-3, like many are.

The way to use these is to first scan the FM band and find a frequency with the minimum sound/noise then tune your FM transmitter to that frequency. You will most likely find that you'll have to change frequencies a few times on your trip as you go through larger metropolitan areas.

Good luck.

 

[*KeepMovingForward*]

I have a Belkin dock/transmitter that I picked up from Walmart about 3 years ago now and it works like a charm. Never any problems and it lets me set whatever frequency I want.

 

[Mouse Skywalker]

Thanks everyone. That's helpful.

 

[bidnow5]

I have the Belkin it works fine in non populated areas but not many places in Rhode Island. I ended up using it as a dock and use a cassette adapter with it and that works perfect

 

[CynthiaCindy]

I want to thank everyone who has posted for the information on this thread. I made the "big change" (blackberry to iPhone) a week ago Saturday and spent the past week reading all the posts in this thread for helpful tips and aps to get.

I have to say, I love, love, love my iPhone! (Although I do miss Verizon, which has, by far, the best coverage around D.C., and I miss having my phone work while I'm on the Metro. However, I still have no regrets.)

 

[jcb]

After having good Verizon coverage on the Metro, I was also disappointed in having no iPhone (AT&T) coverage. I thought I had read AT&T was going to change that. I'll be interested to see if that happens.

 

[OKW Lover]

Just a further bit of info on the FM transmitter stuff for Dave; be sure which ever one you get that its advertised as "works with iPhone". Some older ones only work with iPods.

 

[luke]

THEY have THIS??? OMG. I went through major technical mumbo-jumbo to get it to work on our updated OS system just so the kids could see what DH and I played back in the day.

:::running::: to Itunes

Love how you can switch between classic and enhanced:

Classic:

Enhanced:

This will keep me going on the flight to New York

 

[cap'njack.]

I've bought Monkey Island but haven't put it on my iPhone...was supposed to yesterday but spent most of the evening playing Day of the Tentacle on my PC and trying to figure out how to get it onto my iPhone

 

[luke]

Did you not just get monkey island straight to your phone?
Day of the Tentacle should be fairly easy to put on too with the ScummVM emulator

 

[jcb]

A co-worker recently purchased a new iPhone - I assume it is the 3GS. Yesterday, my IT guy brought it to me as he was having problems setting it up to pull email from our system.

As I was playing with the setting, I noticed the signal strength bars would fluctuate wildly, from full strength and 3G to barely any signal at all (and not even EVDO). I put the new iPhone next to mine on my desk. My "bars" pegged at full/3G while the new ones kept "dancing."

Turns out this was the problem with her settings. The signal would time out before it could sync with our server.

Has anyone encountered this before? Does it mean the phone should be returned?