iPhone 5 + iOS 6 Catch-All

I had no idea that emailing a file allowed it to use the syncing, I thought it was just with Amazon books. This is a revelation. Too bad I didn't know this before I left my Kindle at a friend's house in North Carolina, I could be reading that book right now on my ipad.

Chaz wrote:

I had no idea that emailing a file allowed it to use the syncing, I thought it was just with Amazon books. This is a revelation. Too bad I didn't know this before I left my Kindle at a friend's house in North Carolina, I could be reading that book right now on my ipad.

Yeah... it's the single greatest thing about this technology. I rarely to never buy/read Kindle books... mostly things I find in epub, convert with Calibre, and email to myself. The Kindle apps update your progress as you go, so as long as you have a 3G or wifi connection as you read, it should sync perfectly across multiple devices.

Amazon actually has a "Send to Kindle" app for Mac that sits in your dock. You drag and drop a file onto it, and it will push the file onto any of your devices that you desire. Otherwise, it will just sit in the cloud and you can download it at your liesure.

Nice, didn't know about emailing books to your account.

Google's Play books also allows syncing using your gmail account. I read the same book between my iPad, Nexus 7 and iPhone over the last few days. It's not quite as slick as Kindle (which also allows me to do the same thing).

Great googly-moogly! That's my iPhone 4 on 3G first, and my wife's iPhone 5 on LTE after. Taken at the same time, just driving down the street in the city. That blows our home connection out of the water.

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Tons of speed, really low data cap. Having just been forced to move from an unlimited plan to a 2gb cap when I got my new phone, I hate it. And of course, all the commercials for 4g talk about how you can stream videos in HD all day. For the low, low cost of ALL YOUR MONEY.

Yep... most if not everyone is getting forced off their old 3G unlimited data plans by upgrading to the iPhone 5. I know a few people who jumped on the unlimited LTE data plan when Verizon first launched some LTE Android phones are smiling right now.. lucky bastards!!! But I'm curious to just how long Verizon will let those people stay..

I'm on the fence about upgrading my 4 because of the unlimited 3G plan... and I don't ever come close to hitting even 2gb per month.

I heard someone mention somewhere that losing an unlimited plan is akin to killing a unicorn.

Hrm... I have an app Just Landed that uses Location Based Services. I finished using it but in the upper right it still shows LBS as active. Going into Settings>Privacy>Location Services it says the app is currently using Geofence. I've closed the app, deleted it out of the recently used, even deleted the map application out of recently used and its still showing as using Geofence. Looking at all of the apps in LBS settings, Just Landed is the only app that is actively using it. The only way to get the thing to stop using geofence is to disable LBS for the app entirely. Not a big deal I guess because I would just enable it the next time I need to use it, but still an annoyance.

According to the developers site, geofence doesn't use any significant amount of battery, but I guess I'm skeptical. Can anyone smarter than me (99% of you) confirm this? Battery life notwithstanding, seeing the little LBS arrow in the upper right of my screen also annoys me. A small nit I know, but irritating nonetheless.

Well we never had unlimited plans in Canada, so phooey to you guys.

However, with the 3G's arrival (the first iPhone Canada got), public outcry got us a 6 GB plan during its first six months, and yes, giving that up to me would be like killing a unicorn. Sure, I only average 200 MB/month, but it's the principle! If Rogers can afford to charge me $5/gig now, why would I volunteer to pay $30/gig—or $60/gig, like my wife's old 500 MB plan. Ridiculous. I will take this data plan to my grave (barring improvements).

Carlbear95 wrote:

Hrm... I have an app Just Landed that uses Location Based Services. I finished using it but in the upper right it still shows LBS as active. Going into Settings>Privacy>Location Services it says the app is currently using Geofence. I've closed the app, deleted it out of the recently used, even deleted the map application out of recently used and its still showing as using Geofence. Looking at all of the apps in LBS settings, Just Landed is the only app that is actively using it. The only way to get the thing to stop using geofence is to disable LBS for the app entirely. Not a big deal I guess because I would just enable it the next time I need to use it, but still an annoyance.

According to the developers site, geofence doesn't use any significant amount of battery, but I guess I'm skeptical. Can anyone smarter than me (99% of you) confirm this? Battery life notwithstanding, seeing the little LBS arrow in the upper right of my screen also annoys me. A small nit I know, but irritating nonetheless.

It may be a bug. There was a version of the Weather Channel app that behaved this way until it was fixed in a later updated.

Tim Cook... sorry

http://www.apple.com/letter-from-tim...

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I fixed my itunes match issue on iOS 6 if anyone else is having problems.. Delete completely the local music cache.. disabled itunes match.. reboot.. enable it again.. and all your tracks will appear again.. of course you will have to re-download them all again but at least you have access to all your tracks again.

and boo to losing the ability to download individual songs from an album from itunes match.. now its the whole album or nothing.. unless you add the individual song to a playlist and download that.

TheGameguru wrote:

Yep... most if not everyone is getting forced off their old 3G unlimited data plans by upgrading to the iPhone 5.

Only on Verizon. On AT&T, my plan is unchanged. On Sprint, they're still Unlimited.

Kurrelgyre wrote:
TheGameguru wrote:

Yep... most if not everyone is getting forced off their old 3G unlimited data plans by upgrading to the iPhone 5.

Only on Verizon. On AT&T, my plan is unchanged. On Sprint, they're still Unlimited.

Well given how far behind they are still on LTE markets I'm not surprised.. but as soon as they catch up they will start forcing them off

For now, you can keep your existing unlimited plan on Verizon as long as you buy the phone at full price (or bring your own, presumably).

General Crespin wrote:

For now, you can keep your existing unlimited plan on Verizon as long as you buy the phone at full price (or bring your own, presumably).

That is not true...if you have an existing unlimited LTE plan yes...but iPhone 4S users on unlimited 3G plans are being forced into tiered LTE plans not unlimited

iPhone 5 camera problem. Response: You're holding it wrong (Gizmodo)

After initially denying it, Apple has acknowledged the iPhone 5's purple flare camera problem in an email to a Gizmodo reader. Their solution: "Angle the camera away from the bright light source when taking pictures."
Katy wrote:

iPhone 5 camera problem. Response: You're holding it wrong (Gizmodo)

After initially denying it, Apple has acknowledged the iPhone 5's purple flare camera problem in an email to a Gizmodo reader. Their solution: "Angle the camera away from the bright light source when taking pictures."

That's pretty bad, I wonder if they can eliminate that with software in a future update. After reading about that and some over aggressive noise filtering I'm pretty happy with sticking with my 4S for another year.

The battle for the best smartphone camera is now Nokia's to lose with the 920. Don't screw it up guys.

Katy wrote:

iPhone 5 camera problem. Response: You're holding it wrong (Gizmodo)

After initially denying it, Apple has acknowledged the iPhone 5's purple flare camera problem in an email to a Gizmodo reader. Their solution: "Angle the camera away from the bright light source when taking pictures."

Eh, I sympathize with Apple here. Acknowledge the problem and provide no solution and their camera is broken and they suck. Provide a work-around and it's "you're doing it wrong." They could word their explanations better but they'll always get hit with that response.

SixteenBlue wrote:
Katy wrote:

iPhone 5 camera problem. Response: You're holding it wrong (Gizmodo)

After initially denying it, Apple has acknowledged the iPhone 5's purple flare camera problem in an email to a Gizmodo reader. Their solution: "Angle the camera away from the bright light source when taking pictures."

Eh, I sympathize with Apple here. Acknowledge the problem and provide no solution and their camera is broken and they suck. Provide a work-around and it's "you're doing it wrong." They could word their explanations better but they'll always get hit with that response.

Wouldn't the other option be to not have released a product with such a glaring (ha!) flaw? I can't believe nobody knew it was there prior to release.

Chaz wrote:
SixteenBlue wrote:
Katy wrote:

iPhone 5 camera problem. Response: You're holding it wrong (Gizmodo)

After initially denying it, Apple has acknowledged the iPhone 5's purple flare camera problem in an email to a Gizmodo reader. Their solution: "Angle the camera away from the bright light source when taking pictures."

Eh, I sympathize with Apple here. Acknowledge the problem and provide no solution and their camera is broken and they suck. Provide a work-around and it's "you're doing it wrong." They could word their explanations better but they'll always get hit with that response.

Wouldn't the other option be to not have released a product with such a glaring (ha!) flaw? I can't believe nobody knew it was there prior to release.

Yes but bugs/mistakes will inevitably happen.

I'll admit that I'm ignorant about such things, but since upgrading my 4s to iOS 6, I seem to be getting much better 3G reception. Especially at work, where I rarely ever saw the 3G indicator. I can browse the web on my phone at will, now. Is that related to iOS 6, or is it likely that Sprint did something coincidentally that made things better?

That would more likely be something on the part of Sprint than anything else. Not to say that iOS6 couldn't have improved your reception, though.

Gravey wrote:

Great googly-moogly! That's my iPhone 4 on 3G first, and my wife's iPhone 5 on LTE after. Taken at the same time, just driving down the street in the city. That blows our home connection out of the water.

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I just ran the same test. My cable internet at home tops out at 12 Mbps, and for that I pay $70/month. Not that I want to pay that much, but it's either that or 3 Mbps DSL for $40/month.

And... my iPhone 5 on Verizon LTE clocks in at 38 Mbps, 3x as fast as my cable. That's just crazy, and sad. I mean, I don't live in a huge town, the population is only 128,000, but you'd think someone would offer faster home internet for a reasonable price...

Google Street View now available on mobile Web-based Google Maps

In other bad-Apple-app news, I switched to Downcast (what a poor choice of name for such a good app) and deleted the Podcasts app. How hard is it to make what is, essentially I assume, a combination RSS reader/audio player? New episodes won't reliably download, automatically or even manually, unread counts jump all over the place but are at least guaranteed to never be accurate. Bizarre. But gone.

Apple hardware continues to impress, but their software: bleh.

trueheart78 wrote:

Apple hardware continues to impress, but their software: bleh.

Maps and Podcasts are two big missteps, but it's their software that's kept me an Apple devotee for over eight years now. I prefer OS X to anything else, iOS has only gotten better, and we're fully invested in the whole "just works" Apple ecosystem at home. The sleek lines and small form factors of their desktops, laptops, phones, and tablets are one thing, but I wouldn't be buying Apple hardware if their software wasn't worth using on a daily basis.

Gravey wrote:

In other bad-Apple-app news, I switched to Downcast

Big +1 to that.

Never even thought to try the Apple app because Downcast is so good. Anyone on this board looking for a great podcast app should give this a go.

I tried Downcast and still actually prefer Pocket Casts, but just slightly. One thing that got me with Downcast is that some podcasts had no episodes listed, like the WotC podcast. I just didn't want to figure it out since I already had an app I liked.