Posts by penchanted

Quote: Actually it may come down to something like this. That is people may be forced to sign a contract at the time of purchase acknowledging the exsitance of a contract between the two parties. Obviously this blows a big whole in the...

Quote: Originally Posted by cactus_man Not to single you out, but I'm sick of hearing this argument. The fact of the matter is that not everybody can choose. For instance, if you have to run Final Cut Pro (which is gradually...

Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I wish the 3G On/Off switch was located with the Airport Mode On/Off switch. I have switched between EDGE and HSDPA many times and having to enter Settings » General » Network is two too many steps...

I am also surprised by the estimate for Mexico. I am even more surprised by the estimate for Italy where, despite their love of cell phones, people complained quite loudly (including to the government) about the price of the iPhone....

Quote: Originally Posted by Wookie99 I'm sure that there are distinctly different server farms, as well as gateways into them, for iTunes Store, the App Store, iPhone activation, the Apple Store, and MobileMe. To put them all in one IS...

I am finding some further strangeness in the sync. For instance, it seems that if you add or delete a To-Do item on MobileMe, it will almost immediately update your Mac. But it seems to take a while when you modify an item on MobileMe...

Although I would like to see improvements, I can live with the up-to-15 minute delay in syncing items from a computer to MobileMe. More troubling to me is that To-Do items created on a Mac (either in iCal or Mail) are not syncing to...

Quote: Originally Posted by merdhead I think the Infeon chips they use are "upgradable" to HSUPA, but as a practical matter it's not going to be possible to implement HSUPA on the phone as an upgrade. More likely similar chips...

I have no problem with the increased price of the data plan since it offers higher speed and is consistent with the data plans for other smartphones. But I do think that some number of SMS should be included with the iPhone because,...

Quote: Originally Posted by 8CoreWhore If I were having really bad connection issues, and everything I tried failed to fix it - I'd be tempted to test the hypothesis that it is Leopard by booting to an external drive with Tiger and see...