iPhone 2.0 observations
Published Monday, July 21, 2008 by geo | E-mail this post
I grabbed
pwnage on Sunday and did a fresh install of 2.0 on my 2G iPhone. I highly recommend it. Not quite as simple as ziphone, but close enough if you know what you're doing. Unfortunately for me Insomnia doesn't work on 2.0, so I had to manually edit a plist file (com.apple.persistentconnection) to keep my phone awake. I set it to poll for email every 28 seconds (since my phone dies every time sleep is activated, which happens after 30 seconds). So the battery will die just as quick as before, but at least I get my gmail within an average of 14 seconds.
It's amazing how solid and well devloped most of the applications I've tried out in the app store are. Apple's remote app (there are far too many programs with that name) is brilliant. You can control iTunes from your iPhone. There were programs that you could do that before with, but this one looks and feels exactly like when you're browsing local music.
Truphone looks promising. I tried a call on it and it seemed to work very well. I may use that to come up with a better solution for making and receiving calls. I could probably use a bare bones phone plan with unlimited incoming, and considering I have wifi almost everywhere I use the phone, my cost will basically be 6ยข a minute. Brilliant!
I also paid for Tuner. It tunes into radio stations. It doesn't work too well over EDGE, but once my 3G phone comes in I can't wait to use it. This is probably the greatest thing ever. Free radio from anywhere, available anywhere. It might take a while for people to realize how awesome thing is. Satelite radio without the satelite.
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