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12th October 2010, 20:16
donKey jote

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Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior

Except for the apps, I have all the data that I've loaded on the iPod saved in other places. But I want to better understand what happened to you, since I will perform an iOS update when 4.2 comes out in a month or so.

If you have time to explain it further, it would be appreciated.

I had everything saved too, or so I thought :s
I even bought an App backerupper, to be on the safe side...
Did the OS update, resynched, and hey presto ! Everything was there.
... Except a years worth of app data (settings, game status, etc). :dozey:

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Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior

BTW, so far, I've been absolutely amazed at how much I'm doing on the iPod Touch that I used to do on my laptop. I'm doing most everything that doesn't require any heavy typing. It's just so much more convenient, easier and faster to access. I can even track my satellite usage levels with a free app I found! So many apps, so little time. Now I'm beginning to understand how people get addicted to smartphones and similar devices. Luckily, I refuse to get involved with gaming, FaceBook or Twitter - otherwise I'd be a tap-tap addict like so many others I see everyday.

Yep I like it a lot, just really pissed off at Apple for making such a fundamental thing as backups so obscure and inflexible.
12th October 2010, 20:34
Daika

The windows phone would annoy the living daylights out of me. Why does the interface show half of the words? Not games but ames, video becomes eo.
12th October 2010, 22:44
Daniel

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Originally Posted by Daika

The windows phone would annoy the living daylights out of me. Why does the interface show half of the words? Not games but ames, video becomes eo.

Are you serious?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRT_wQsBWOA&feature=fvst
12th October 2010, 23:47
Daika

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Are you serious?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRT_wQsBWOA&feature=fvst

Yes.
13th October 2010, 08:45
GridGirl

My iphone 3G died a death when I was working away in Chelmsford last week. Its not good when you only have TomTom on your phone and your 150 miles away from where you love. Getting to the clients in the morning was an interesting experience but luckily by internal compass was my saviour! After 36 hours of charging my iphone came back to life but now four days and 2 days charging since then I think it is officially dead again.

I think I'm gonna have to get an iphone 4. Recent posts have made me change my mind yet. :)
13th October 2010, 08:48
Mark

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Originally Posted by GridGirl

I think I'm gonna have to get an iphone 4. Recent posts have made me change my mind yet. :)

Makes sense. Despite rivals coming out with some excellent products. Right at this moment the iPhone 4 is still the best overall package out there IMO. I'm not sure how much advantage you'll see over the 3GS apart from the display quality and improved GPS reception, but at least you'll be able to keep all your apps!
13th October 2010, 14:34
Dave B

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Originally Posted by Mark

tbh I wouldn't go with any Nokia products at the moment. They are poorly supported and in a total state of flux at the moment.

I had a Nokia E71 running the old version of Symbian. There were a handful of decent apps and games, but the Ovi store was a farce and the OS always seemed to be at the back of the queue for any developers to bother writing for.

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My suggestion would be either an Android based phone, or an iPhone. Personally coming from a Nokia phone I think the iPhone is fanstatic, just because of the amount of software available for it. But it does lack in terms of phone features, such as customisable profiles etc.

I don't know much about Android, I know it hasn't got as much software as for iPhone but it's still got way more than Nokia!

My HTC Desire is pretty much as customisable as you want it to be, and you can save profiles so that you could easily switch between - say - a work and a home profile. The Android marketplace is a doddle to use, it could do with some better search features but I've never once had a problem installing anything.

Not that I've got 2.2 on the phone I can move many of my apps to the SD card, that was the one real weakness of earlier versions: the phone's internal memory soon filled up.

Apple is way ahead with the amount of apps, that's true, but so many of them duplicate each others' functions. There are only so many stopwatches or fart buttons that one person needs. Plus I abhor the way Apple controls its envionment: you're utterly dependent on the hideous bloatware that is iTunes to copy anything onto your handset.

iPhones are excellent bits of kit in a Fisher Price kind of way, don't get me wrong, but they're a walled garden in an increasingly open world.
13th October 2010, 15:03
Daniel

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Originally Posted by Dave B

I had a Nokia E71 running the old version of Symbian. There were a handful of decent apps and games, but the Ovi store was a farce and the OS always seemed to be at the back of the queue for any developers to bother writing for.

My HTC Desire is pretty much as customisable as you want it to be, and you can save profiles so that you could easily switch between - say - a work and a home profile. The Android marketplace is a doddle to use, it could do with some better search features but I've never once had a problem installing anything.

Not that I've got 2.2 on the phone I can move many of my apps to the SD card, that was the one real weakness of earlier versions: the phone's internal memory soon filled up.

Apple is way ahead with the amount of apps, that's true, but so many of them duplicate each others' functions. There are only so many stopwatches or fart buttons that one person needs. Plus I abhor the way Apple controls its envionment: you're utterly depeent on the hideous bloatware that is iTunes to copy anything onto your handset.

iPhones are excellent bits of kit in a Fisher Price kind of way, don't get me wrong, but they're a walled garden in an increasingly open world.

:up:

Daika's post above illustrates just how fickle people can be when it comes to technology. There's a perfectly logical explanation why WinPho7 does what it does but some people don't want to think or look why and assume it's some major bug. That's why the Fisher Price iPhone setup works so well.

Think I'm going for a HTC Mondrian (or is it the Mozart) as it has a solid aluminium chassis because I like the build quality of my e71.
13th October 2010, 15:04
Mark

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Originally Posted by Dave B

Apple is way ahead with the amount of apps, that's true, but so many of them duplicate each others' functions. There are only so many stopwatches or fart buttons that one person needs. Plus I abhor the way Apple controls its envionment: you're utterly dependent on the hideous bloatware that is iTunes to copy anything onto your handset.
.

Depends what you want to copy I suppose? I rarely need to use iTunes but I agree it's a right royal PITA when I do. To start with it doesn't work with Linux which is what I use 99% of the time. If I boot into Vista and install iTunes it messes with my Python installation so that my video conferencing software - which I need for work, stops working!

So I have it in a virtual machine, which rarely works properly!
13th October 2010, 15:31
Dave B

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Originally Posted by Mark

Depends what you want to copy I suppose?

I wanted to copy come wedding photos to show people, on my Nokia and my Desire I just.... copied them. Want to Bluetooth one to someone else? Takes 10 seconds. Can't do that with iPhones.

BTW, one of my friends has this as their Facebook status this morning:

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Latest iPhone update deleted all my numbers, please inbox or text me your number if you had it previously! x

One of the comments:

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You're the third person I know that this has happened to! Not good =(

Oh. Even when I updated the entire OS on my HTC, all my data survived intact.

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