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  James Whatley

  11 months ago

  I clicked through to this story expecting another 'We're going to get James to do this, we haven't told him yet though' story...
  
  ...can you change the battery on this version of the iPhone? Are there no portable/USB chargers for it etc?
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  Ewan

  11 months ago

  No changing of batteries.
  
  You can use a portable charger if you're crazy.
  
  And that's an interesting feature idea, eh?
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  Patrickatsms

  11 months ago

  By the way James, when is your parachute jump while simultaneously wrestling with sharks?
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  rafeblandford

  11 months ago

  You do know you're supposed to buy and carry a second iPhone around with you if you are out of the normal phone usage range? It's your fault for not being compatible with the iPhone!
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  Mac Morrison

  11 months ago

  snap - mine is going back today.
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmmorrison/2730690...
  
  its just not feeling the love. at least 2.0 has a secure wipe feature.
  
  see my signal comparision...
  
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmmorrison/2724015...
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  Ewan

  11 months ago

  Ah dear. That signal picture really shows the reality :(
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  Mac Morrison

  11 months ago

  indeed - its sitting on my desk now with an edge only connect
  IN CENTRAL LONDON - a few hundred yards from apple store.
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  Ewan

  11 months ago

  Hugely depressing.
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  Mac Morrison

  11 months ago

  indeed sitting next to it is my n95 with full signal on 3g on t-mobile
  which is the network with historically the worst connectivity.
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  Ewan

  11 months ago

  I wonder if this can be fixed with a firmware update
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  AJ

  11 months ago

  Yes - 2g iPhones that have been upgraded are also experiencing the same problem when there hadnt previously been an issue.
  
  This also happened last year with one of the firmware updates - 1.1.3 or 1.1.4 fixed it.
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  Mike42

  11 months ago

  I do believe it will be sorted with firmware.
  
  Fundamentally, you should get the same performance out of an i3g as an N95 doing the same things at the same time on the same networks. Chipset power consumption is not radically different.
  
  Early i2G weren't that flash either, but over the 1.0.1-1.1.4 development things improved a lot. Now they are playing with not only a new radio platform but a bunch of new services and a changed OS, I'm not surprised the experience is sub-optimal.
  
  Life at the (b)leading edge eh?
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  DanLane

  11 months ago

  My experience is exactly the same, put the O2 SIM in any other phone sitting on my desk and get a strong 3G signal, put it in the iPhone 3G and get a very low signal or "No Service".
  
  :(
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  Mac Morrison

  11 months ago

  more importantly is the incredibly bad battery
  it was dead this morning despite being over half full last night.
  
  my n95 - i took about 10 photos - uploaded 3 to flickr at full 5mp, watched some video, listened to mp3s
  checked email/twitter via web. sent some sms's made one short call.
  
  and its still on full charge.
  
  and the n95 isnt exactly the best battery in the world
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  Mac Morrison

  11 months ago

  currently in apple store trying to return iPhone
  you need a genius bar appointment to return it!!!
  
  so i have a probably 30 min wait on standby to return the bloody thing
  will take longer to return than it did to buy.
  
  they got me away from the queue waiting to buy - very quickly though :)
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  Ewan

  11 months ago

  deary me... deeeeeary me.
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  Mac Morrison

  11 months ago

  was about 15 mins wait, then about 10 mins to process me.
  
  someone sitting next to me was getting a white iPhone replaced because of 'cracks'
  though the apple staff member did seem to think it was damage
  he replaced it no questions.
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  Ewan

  11 months ago

  You're iPhone-free now then?
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  Mac Morrison

  11 months ago

  yep - thankfully i didnt do the pac thing on signing up or it would be painful.
  
  back to n95 classic.
  
  i think if new iPod touches come out - ill get one of those for my slick fix.
  i cant have a phone that dies on me midday.
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  Ewan

  11 months ago

  I haven't used mine today and it's got full battery! Still! At half past
  3!
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  bradjcouk

  11 months ago

  Is it worth posting iPhone success stories? Yea, there's a couple of quibbles, mainly battery life, but compared to my 950i (who's manufacturing name I dare not mention), it's brilliant. I use it all the time, and it's a replacement for needing a bag, at all.. No pen, no notepad, no book, no laptop, no ipod, no psp... All of which I used to carry to work.
  
  I live in Wimbledon, and 3g coverage is scarce on the phone, but I have WiFi. Outside my office window, there's a Cloud aerial stuck to a lampost. I don't need 3G for calling, and the only browsing I do on the iphone is usually reading blogs/articles to and from work, which don't take long to load on Edge anyway... The wordpress app is great for blogging on the go, and all the sites i look at work really well, even smstextnews has a great iphone theme... So much so, I added it to my blog.
  
  I have a dock on my desk, and the charger at home. Heavy usage, I charge it every night, and for an hour or so at my desk. It's just a different way of doing things, and with all the stuff I use it for, and all the things it replaces, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a battery more powerful, and of similar size, that can last as long.
  
  Anyway, just my thoughts...
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  Ewan

  11 months ago

  Is your battery ok then, Brad?
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  bradjcouk

  11 months ago

  I pretty much seem to get what Apple said I could get.
  
  It's not bad. I can't really knock it's performance, seeing as it's running 10 recievers. (One thing I didn't know, but just found out looking up that number is did u know the iPhone's built-in receivers use metal surrounds on the headphone jack and camera lens as antennas? how cool...)
  
  I do use my iPhone heavily. I listen to music for just under an hour each way commuting to work, check weather on the met website before going out, browse the net reading my usual blogs through iGoogle (google.com/ig/i - works really nice), have push/exchange email set up with work, check stocks, write notes, twitter on the way home, play games on the waterloo and city line, and more.
  
  Admitedly, longer battery life would be a wonderful luxury, but for all it replaces and does, the shorter-than-usual-for-a-phone battery life to me is justafiable because it replaces everything else I used to carry to work. At weekends, when I don't have the ability to dump it in my dock infront of me, I turn off the push features (because no-one wants work email on a weekend), turn off 3G unless I'm browsing, and generally use it less, so it tends to last through till Sunday..
  
  I never had the first iPhone. It was missing 3G, the feature I use the least. hmm... but so far so good. I woke up at 2am to pick my 16GB in black, even bought a chair just for the occasion, and I don't regret it just yet...
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  Mac Morrison

  11 months ago

  i loved my first gen iPhone - this time round it seems less. and i dont want to spend £160 + £30 a month to beta test for apple.
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  marc

  11 months ago

  Ewan
  
  I feel your pain!!
  Can I recommend you splash out on a proporta battery? It's not ideal (Apple should have made things ideal) but it does mean that you can carry around an extra few hours of juice with you. It's saved my fat arse plenty of times already. Just wish it could charge up the Segway too :-)
  
  Have fun
  
  marc
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  Ewan

  11 months ago

  Approve
  
  On 4 Aug 2008, at 18:36, "Disqus" <notifications-
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