Comments on: iPhone Tips: Some hopefully temporary work arounds

By: Michal

Michal — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:02:40 +0000

Thanks for these great tips

By: Zoe

Zoe — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:10:29 +0000

Hi Scott, I use eBuddy on my iPhone
If you go to ’settings’ and then go to ‘contacts display’ there you can select ‘all contacts’ and then you’ll have your whole buddy list :)

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:48:32 +0000

Learned couple things this morning.

First, if you are reading a web page on your iPhone and you get to the bottom and want to go back to the top without scrolling you just tap the bar at the top of the screen and it zips back up to the top of the page.

Second, although it is not obvious you can add a contact while on a call.
While on the call, click on the Add Call button in the bottom left. Then click on the Keypad Button at the very bottom right corner. Type in the number and click the Add Contact button. Fill out the info and save.
This was a big annoyance for me but not anymore. =)

Now if we can just get a way to copy and paste. =P

Sorry if these have been posted already but I didn’t see them anywhere.

Peace

By: Marty

Marty — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:11:37 +0000

Great tips… now we could only fast forward and get the iPhone on the Verizon network!

By: Alex Curtis

Alex Curtis — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:16:17 +0000

It turns out that many of the Google apps work quite well. For instant messaging, you might try out the iGoogle.com widgets–there are ones for AIM and gTalk that work sufficiently (of course, not as well as the built in SMS application on the iPhone).

I’ve used SMS with someone on AIM in the method explained above and it works well. However, that’s going to get expensive, but I guess that’s AT&T’s hope. For now, I’m keeping that chat method to a minimum.

Has anyone else tried any website services with the iPhone that work well? I tried leaving a comment to this post earlier via the iPhone but the browser prevented me from filling in this field with text :-(

By: Luis

Luis — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:34:26 +0000

Hopefully the next iPod will have similar iPhone like features and the headphone play/pause thingy too. Thanks Peter.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:29:37 +0000

Great tips! Thanks!

To Luis: The headphones work in a regular iPod, but the start/stop control doesn’t work.

By: Luis

Luis — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:34:02 +0000

Hey, one questions,

Would the headphones from the iPhone work with a regular iPod. The main idea is being able to pause the iPod from the cable, that is great, plus they cost the same the iPod headphones cost. So why not? Anyone has a though?

By: Dylan Stewart

Dylan Stewart — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:44:00 +0000

I have my iPhone… but I am already annoyed. I am a full-time Mac-guru, so I know my way around things, but I run my business off my treo, and I use Now Contact & Now-Up-To-Date to sync my phone. iCal and AddressBook are OK programs, but neither of them is robust enough to handle my address and calendar needs. I wish you could sync the iphone to other calendaring programs… I can make do with AddressBook for now, but iCal needs a major, major update before it can hold it’s own to real calendar solutions.

Also, I find the first data sync to be unbearably slow, and I am desperately longing for the good old days of firewire connections… oh well…. hopefully I will be more impressed once I actually get the phone up and running with my contacts, calendar and other data.