The Apple iPhone Thread (2 Viewers)

[Guster]

New MacBook Wheel

That's fantastic

 

[ConstruxBoy]

Slingbox for iPhone

Sling Media revealed that HD streaming will be coming to Mac users via Sling.com, and they plan to submit the Sling iPhone app for approval in Q1 of this year.

Woohoo! Hope it works on EDGE. I know it will be slower, but I hope you don't have to have 3G.

 

[AcerFC]

Slingbox for iPhone

Sling Media revealed that HD streaming will be coming to Mac users via Sling.com, and they plan to submit the Sling iPhone app for approval in Q1 of this year.

Woohoo! Hope it works on EDGE. I know it will be slower, but I hope you don't have to have 3G.

Me too because I dont want to pay 10 bucks more a month just to get sling

 

[Kiddnets]

no new iphones announced at macworld?

 

[HellToupee]

Slingbox for iPhone

Sling Media revealed that HD streaming will be coming to Mac users via Sling.com, and they plan to submit the Sling iPhone app for approval in Q1 of this year.

Woohoo! Hope it works on EDGE. I know it will be slower, but I hope you don't have to have 3G.

Doesn't look like it will work on EDGE from the story. I'll bite the bullet and buy a 3G for sling

SlingPlayer Mobile gives consumers their entire home TV experience, including local channels, local sports teams, video on demand, pay per view, etc. Any program that you can watch on your sofa back home, you can now watch via your iPhone using a standard network connection (3G Cellular, WiFi). In addition, SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone users can also control their home digital video recorder (DVR) to watch recorded shows, pause, rewind, and fast forward live TV, or even queue new recordings while on the road.

 

[HellToupee]

I don't understand why there is no cut and paste still. This phone is unbelievably cool, but C/P should be a no brainer.

I'd like C&P but what I really want is Flash

 

[ConstruxBoy]

Slingbox for iPhone

Sling Media revealed that HD streaming will be coming to Mac users via Sling.com, and they plan to submit the Sling iPhone app for approval in Q1 of this year.

Woohoo! Hope it works on EDGE. I know it will be slower, but I hope you don't have to have 3G.

Doesn't look like it will work on EDGE from the story. I'll bite the bullet and buy a 3G for sling

SlingPlayer Mobile gives consumers their entire home TV experience, including local channels, local sports teams, video on demand, pay per view, etc. Any program that you can watch on your sofa back home, you can now watch via your iPhone using a standard network connection (3G Cellular, WiFi). In addition, SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone users can also control their home digital video recorder (DVR) to watch recorded shows, pause, rewind, and fast forward live TV, or even queue new recordings while on the road.

Ehh..OrbLive is working prety well now on EDGE. I got to work early yesterday and watched The Today Show over EDGE and it was pretty good.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

no new iphones announced at macworld?

 

[flapgreen]

Decided to go with the iphone over the bb. what did you guys pay for one with a contract?

 

[Penguin]

Decided to go with the iphone over the bb. what did you guys pay for one with a contract?

It should be $199 with a 2 year contract for the 8 Gig & $299 for the 16 Gig (with 2 year contract.)

 

[Osaurus]

Slingbox for iPhone

Sling Media revealed that HD streaming will be coming to Mac users via Sling.com, and they plan to submit the Sling iPhone app for approval in Q1 of this year.

Woohoo! Hope it works on EDGE. I know it will be slower, but I hope you don't have to have 3G.

Doesn't look like it will work on EDGE from the story. I'll bite the bullet and buy a 3G for sling

SlingPlayer Mobile gives consumers their entire home TV experience, including local channels, local sports teams, video on demand, pay per view, etc. Any program that you can watch on your sofa back home, you can now watch via your iPhone using a standard network connection (3G Cellular, WiFi). In addition, SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone users can also control their home digital video recorder (DVR) to watch recorded shows, pause, rewind, and fast forward live TV, or even queue new recordings while on the road.

Ehh..OrbLive is working prety well now on EDGE. I got to work early yesterday and watched The Today Show over EDGE and it was pretty good.

The slider bar in Orb Live lets you customize the quality to the type of signal you're getting. I have a 3G and usually set it somewhere between wifi and 3g. Works pretty well. I wasn't sure f anyone has recently updated or installed Orb Live, but it looks like you can now choose a live channel and record a show. I tried it yesterday and it worked great. A very nice feature IMO. Also looks like you can record web cam footage too (haven't fully checked into this yet, but it looks like the case).If I had a Slingbox, I would buy the sling software, but since I have a PC hooked up with TV tuner, I don't really have a need for it unless I decide to hook it up to another cable box, but I am then limited to television basically unlike Orb Live.

 

[flapgreen]

How is the GPS on the iphone? I will be using it a lot

 

[Memphis Foundry]

How is the GPS on the iphone? I will be using it a lot

I've used Google Maps to find my way home when lost in a neighboring county. It doesn't have turn-by-turn directions but by overlaying the directions on the Google map and showing a real-time indicator of where you are that moves along with you, it's good enough for me.Motion-X also has a GPS app that I own that does more of the traditional GPS things, like waypoints and trail (rather than street) navigation. They have a free version of it available here.

 

[Memphis Foundry]

I've been playing with Slacker Radio lately and it's been really impressive. Similar to Pandora but it also has a selection of pre-built genre-specific stations. Almost like a mix of the better elemets of Satellite Radio and Pandora.

The more I play with audio streaming on the iPhone the more I feel like Satellite Radio is doomed. The quality of the station streams are getting better and better, higher speed internet infrastructure is becoming more ubiquitous, and the cost to transmit over the internet is steadily declining as infrastructure grows. In the meantime, Sirius/XM is still paying off the massive fixed costs associated with launching satellites that it's been using for years. If their subscriber numbers go into decline, I don't see any other way for them to monetize their product. Seems like a classic death spiral waiting to happen.

 

[mex]

I've been playing with Slacker Radio lately and it's been really impressive. Similar to Pandora but it also has a selection of pre-built genre-specific stations. Almost like a mix of the better elemets of Satellite Radio and Pandora.

The more I play with audio streaming on the iPhone the more I feel like Satellite Radio is doomed. The quality of the station streams are getting better and better, higher speed internet infrastructure is becoming more ubiquitous, and the cost to transmit over the internet is steadily declining as infrastructure grows. In the meantime, Sirius/XM is still paying off the massive fixed costs associated with launching satellites that it's been using for years. If their subscriber numbers go into decline, I don't see any other way for them to monetize their product. Seems like a classic death spiral waiting to happen.

I'll have to check slacker radio out. I barely play pandora because I'm usually listening to AOL radio.

 

[phowler13]

Love concertvault and pandora. Anyone know of a music app that allows you to put an individual song in and it plays it at anytime kind of like songza??

 

[Sonny Lubick Blowup Doll]

Hey, is there some way to have it ring (alarm) when there is a message on there I missed. As it stands, I have to check. I'd prefer some type of intermittent reminder that somebody called (or texted).

 

[joey]

Love concertvault and pandora. Anyone know of a music app that allows you to put an individual song in and it plays it at anytime kind of like songza??

not an app but point your browser to www.seeqpod.com.coolest site since sliced bread. so cool, you know it can't last.

 

[culdeus]

What is the PDA/Calendar app that anyone is using? Pay/Free doesn't matter. From the looks of it nobody has really put one together that's worth anything.

 

[GroveDiesel]

Came upon something that irritated me last night. I'm not sure if it was a problem with the iPhone/Touch or if it was me. I was surfing FBG yesterday and tried to reply to a thread. But it was a long thread with multiple replies and it wouldn't let me scroll down to the bottom to reply. There didn't seem to be any way to scroll the reply box. Was this just me, or is it not possible?

 

[Harry Manback]

Hey, is there some way to have it ring (alarm) when there is a message on there I missed. As it stands, I have to check. I'd prefer some type of intermittent reminder that somebody called (or texted).

My phone has this...

 

[Buckna]

i don't understand. a year ago, when we talked about the Edge network, all I heard was that it was plenty fast and speed wasn't an issue. now the big upgrade is the move to 3G, and it's supposed to be huge news?Love the GPS feature though. The games, meh. Overall, not very exciting, IMO.

Hi tgnz,Edge was brutally slow. You had to have a lot of patience. I don't. Apple folks are somewhat like Harley people in my opinion (and I probably own more apple product than most here). When you pay more than the going rate for the alternative product, and the hype is over the top, you rarely criticize what you just paid more for. That was my take on EDGE. It sucked. But it's hard to admit it when you just ponied up the extra money to cancel your plan and move over to AT&T.So this news really is significant. But your observation is spot on.J

Besides the fact I'm not an early adopter due to price reasons, one of the main reasons I didn't get an iphone yet was because of EDGE, data downloads were fax modem days type slow. They highly tauted(sp?) the wonderful web capability of the iphone when it came out, but the data transfer was awful. Now, I'm not sure how many people were aware of this going in though, I'm sure many were just dazzled by the Apple hype.I'll wait until I see a demo, but if 3G provides the kind of speed that makes many of the features on the phone worthwhile, it will be worth $10 increase in incremental monthly cost in my eyes. Also helps that both my RAZR phone and 4 year old ipod mini are on their last legs.

Whoo-hoo! I finally took the plunge and after a week of use, I am absolutely in love with this thing. Wish I had gotten one nearly 6 months ago now. I will eventually wade thru all of this thread, but can anyone quickly recommend a clear screen cover and a carrying case that won't cost me an arm and a leg at Apple Store type prices?What apps are highly recommended? Urbanspoon combined with the GPS has been by far my favorite feature. Really cool to find a new restaurant for lunch at work and then get quick directions there. The free Beer Pong game app has been quite a bit of fun too. I added Pandora but anyone know of an app that links in radio stations from all over the nation? I found one on the app store that was $9.99 but some of the reviews were hard on it and said there were free ones that were better.Very, very happy with my purchase so far.

 

[Memphis Foundry]

Came upon something that irritated me last night. I'm not sure if it was a problem with the iPhone/Touch or if it was me. I was surfing FBG yesterday and tried to reply to a thread. But it was a long thread with multiple replies and it wouldn't let me scroll down to the bottom to reply. There didn't seem to be any way to scroll the reply box. Was this just me, or is it not possible?

I've seen this if the page doesn't load completely.

 

[Harry Manback]

i don't understand. a year ago, when we talked about the Edge network, all I heard was that it was plenty fast and speed wasn't an issue. now the big upgrade is the move to 3G, and it's supposed to be huge news?Love the GPS feature though. The games, meh. Overall, not very exciting, IMO.

Hi tgnz,Edge was brutally slow. You had to have a lot of patience. I don't. Apple folks are somewhat like Harley people in my opinion (and I probably own more apple product than most here). When you pay more than the going rate for the alternative product, and the hype is over the top, you rarely criticize what you just paid more for. That was my take on EDGE. It sucked. But it's hard to admit it when you just ponied up the extra money to cancel your plan and move over to AT&T.So this news really is significant. But your observation is spot on.J

Besides the fact I'm not an early adopter due to price reasons, one of the main reasons I didn't get an iphone yet was because of EDGE, data downloads were fax modem days type slow. They highly tauted(sp?) the wonderful web capability of the iphone when it came out, but the data transfer was awful. Now, I'm not sure how many people were aware of this going in though, I'm sure many were just dazzled by the Apple hype.I'll wait until I see a demo, but if 3G provides the kind of speed that makes many of the features on the phone worthwhile, it will be worth $10 increase in incremental monthly cost in my eyes. Also helps that both my RAZR phone and 4 year old ipod mini are on their last legs.

Whoo-hoo! I finally took the plunge and after a week of use, I am absolutely in love with this thing. Wish I had gotten one nearly 6 months ago now. I will eventually wade thru all of this thread, but can anyone quickly recommend a clear screen cover and a carrying case that won't cost me an arm and a leg at Apple Store type prices?What apps are highly recommended? Urbanspoon combined with the GPS has been by far my favorite feature. Really cool to find a new restaurant for lunch at work and then get quick directions there. The free Beer Pong game app has been quite a bit of fun too. I added Pandora but anyone know of an app that links in radio stations from all over the nation? I found one on the app store that was $9.99 but some of the reviews were hard on it and said there were free ones that were better.Very, very happy with my purchase so far.

Must download Shazaam, AOL Radio, Showtimes, Sportacular

 

[GroveDiesel]

i don't understand. a year ago, when we talked about the Edge network, all I heard was that it was plenty fast and speed wasn't an issue. now the big upgrade is the move to 3G, and it's supposed to be huge news?Love the GPS feature though. The games, meh. Overall, not very exciting, IMO.

Hi tgnz,Edge was brutally slow. You had to have a lot of patience. I don't. Apple folks are somewhat like Harley people in my opinion (and I probably own more apple product than most here). When you pay more than the going rate for the alternative product, and the hype is over the top, you rarely criticize what you just paid more for. That was my take on EDGE. It sucked. But it's hard to admit it when you just ponied up the extra money to cancel your plan and move over to AT&T.So this news really is significant. But your observation is spot on.J

Besides the fact I'm not an early adopter due to price reasons, one of the main reasons I didn't get an iphone yet was because of EDGE, data downloads were fax modem days type slow. They highly tauted(sp?) the wonderful web capability of the iphone when it came out, but the data transfer was awful. Now, I'm not sure how many people were aware of this going in though, I'm sure many were just dazzled by the Apple hype.I'll wait until I see a demo, but if 3G provides the kind of speed that makes many of the features on the phone worthwhile, it will be worth $10 increase in incremental monthly cost in my eyes. Also helps that both my RAZR phone and 4 year old ipod mini are on their last legs.

Whoo-hoo! I finally took the plunge and after a week of use, I am absolutely in love with this thing. Wish I had gotten one nearly 6 months ago now. I will eventually wade thru all of this thread, but can anyone quickly recommend a clear screen cover and a carrying case that won't cost me an arm and a leg at Apple Store type prices?What apps are highly recommended? Urbanspoon combined with the GPS has been by far my favorite feature. Really cool to find a new restaurant for lunch at work and then get quick directions there. The free Beer Pong game app has been quite a bit of fun too. I added Pandora but anyone know of an app that links in radio stations from all over the nation? I found one on the app store that was $9.99 but some of the reviews were hard on it and said there were free ones that were better.Very, very happy with my purchase so far.

Must download Shazaam, AOL Radio, Showtimes, Sportacular

iheartradio is free and gives you a bunch of national radio stations. I think they're all ClearChannel stations.

 

[One]

LOLCats is my #1

 

[flapgreen]

How is the GPS on the iphone? I will be using it a lot

I've used Google Maps to find my way home when lost in a neighboring county. It doesn't have turn-by-turn directions but by overlaying the directions on the Google map and showing a real-time indicator of where you are that moves along with you, it's good enough for me.Motion-X also has a GPS app that I own that does more of the traditional GPS things, like waypoints and trail (rather than street) navigation. They have a free version of it available here.

So the GPS isn't nearly as good as a regular GPS device?

 

[Memphis Foundry]

How is the GPS on the iphone? I will be using it a lot

I've used Google Maps to find my way home when lost in a neighboring county. It doesn't have turn-by-turn directions but by overlaying the directions on the Google map and showing a real-time indicator of where you are that moves along with you, it's good enough for me.Motion-X also has a GPS app that I own that does more of the traditional GPS things, like waypoints and trail (rather than street) navigation. They have a free version of it available here.

So the GPS isn't nearly as good as a regular GPS device?

Nah, it's not as functional as a dash-mounted GPS. There is no iPhone app that I know of that gives turn-by-turn directions. But with the Motion-X software, it does as good a job as the old trail GPS I have.

 

[flapgreen]

How is the GPS on the iphone? I will be using it a lot

I've used Google Maps to find my way home when lost in a neighboring county. It doesn't have turn-by-turn directions but by overlaying the directions on the Google map and showing a real-time indicator of where you are that moves along with you, it's good enough for me.Motion-X also has a GPS app that I own that does more of the traditional GPS things, like waypoints and trail (rather than street) navigation. They have a free version of it available here.

So the GPS isn't nearly as good as a regular GPS device?

Nah, it's not as functional as a dash-mounted GPS. There is no iPhone app that I know of that gives turn-by-turn directions. But with the Motion-X software, it does as good a job as the old trail GPS I have.

Interesting. I was leaning toward using a phone for GPS. Are there phones that have voice to text, turn by turn GPS or should I just buy one seperately?

 

[AcerFC]

Came upon something that irritated me last night. I'm not sure if it was a problem with the iPhone/Touch or if it was me. I was surfing FBG yesterday and tried to reply to a thread. But it was a long thread with multiple replies and it wouldn't let me scroll down to the bottom to reply. There didn't seem to be any way to scroll the reply box. Was this just me, or is it not possible?

What you need to do is hit the return button a bunch of times and then the backspace button a bunch of times until you get to the bottom.

 

[phowler13]

Love concertvault and pandora. Anyone know of a music app that allows you to put an individual song in and it plays it at anytime kind of like songza??

not an app but point your browser to www.seeqpod.com.coolest site since sliced bread. so cool, you know it can't last.

WOW great site and work great on my touch. Even better than an app as you can play it as you are doing as you wish with your apps.Thnx

 

[HellToupee]

need to get a new set of headphones for my 1G iphone Anyone using anything different besides apple ?

 

[badger]

Just found out the other day that my company is going to BLOCK my work email from being downloaded to my phone. They are only allowing those with blackberries to receive emails. We're on a Microsoft Exchange Server and my contact says I'll be 100% blocked from receiving on my phone.

 

[Osaurus]

Just found out the other day that my company is going to BLOCK my work email from being downloaded to my phone. They are only allowing those with blackberries to receive emails. We're on a Microsoft Exchange Server and my contact says I'll be 100% blocked from receiving on my phone.

Just forward all of it to another e-mail like google.

 

[Senor Schmutzig]

Just found out the other day that my company is going to BLOCK my work email from being downloaded to my phone. They are only allowing those with blackberries to receive emails. We're on a Microsoft Exchange Server and my contact says I'll be 100% blocked from receiving on my phone.

Just forward all of it to another e-mail like google.

How can you respond to those e-mails from a work address rather than the GMail address they were forwarded to?

 

[Osaurus]

Just found out the other day that my company is going to BLOCK my work email from being downloaded to my phone. They are only allowing those with blackberries to receive emails. We're on a Microsoft Exchange Server and my contact says I'll be 100% blocked from receiving on my phone.

Just forward all of it to another e-mail like google.

How can you respond to those e-mails from a work address rather than the GMail address they were forwarded to?

Can't do that unfortunately. How can they block all but blackberries? There is an Exchange setup for iPhone (Exchange ActiveSync?). Maybe IT won't support it?

 

[Abraham]

Not hijacking, but the Palm Pre (2H09) is going to be a great phone and lead APple to improve some of the nagging problems with the iPhone.

 

[HellToupee]

Not hijacking, but the Palm Pre (2H09) is going to be a great phone and lead APple to improve some of the nagging problems with the iPhone.

Its getting some great buzz but the Blackberry Storm did as well. It would be nice if its as good as advertised , that would be good for everyone.BTW Jonathan Rubinstein is a former Apple guy who is running things a Palm/

 

[Abraham]

Not hijacking, but the Palm Pre (2H09) is going to be a great phone and lead APple to improve some of the nagging problems with the iPhone.

Its getting some great buzz but the Blackberry Storm did as well. It would be nice if its as good as advertised , that would be good for everyone.BTW Jonathan Rubinstein is a former Apple guy who is running things a Palm/

They leaked the other day that the geolocater will come integrated to find your location and compare it to appointments on your calendar and in the event you are not where you are supposed to be (i.e. running late to a meeting) it will notify you and send an email to the person you are meeting letting them know when to expect you. Uses like that could really help transition phones from devices we proactively use when we choose to business tools that greatly assist a person in their workday on their own.

 

[badger]

Just found out the other day that my company is going to BLOCK my work email from being downloaded to my phone. They are only allowing those with blackberries to receive emails. We're on a Microsoft Exchange Server and my contact says I'll be 100% blocked from receiving on my phone.

Just forward all of it to another e-mail like google.

How can you respond to those e-mails from a work address rather than the GMail address they were forwarded to?

Already have a gmail set up to do that, and was going to set to FW when I turn on my Out of Office reply from Outlook.....however, responding seemed like an issue for me. However, I mainly use it for FW'd things on to my staff, so it won't be a big deal to them.Not sure how they can block it, but I confirmed that it will be blocked...rather than my just being told to stop using it. I got an email telling me I have an unsupported phone and it will be turned off Feb 5.

 

[Keerock]

Just found out the other day that my company is going to BLOCK my work email from being downloaded to my phone. They are only allowing those with blackberries to receive emails. We're on a Microsoft Exchange Server and my contact says I'll be 100% blocked from receiving on my phone.

Just forward all of it to another e-mail like google.

How can you respond to those e-mails from a work address rather than the GMail address they were forwarded to?

Already have a gmail set up to do that, and was going to set to FW when I turn on my Out of Office reply from Outlook.....however, responding seemed like an issue for me. However, I mainly use it for FW'd things on to my staff, so it won't be a big deal to them.Not sure how they can block it, but I confirmed that it will be blocked...rather than my just being told to stop using it. I got an email telling me I have an unsupported phone and it will be turned off Feb 5.

WTF? Unsupported phone? What am I missing? Do they want you to get work done remotely or not? iPhone supports IMAP and POP... Have you tried either of those, or did the bastards disable them too?

 

[Osaurus]

Just found out the other day that my company is going to BLOCK my work email from being downloaded to my phone. They are only allowing those with blackberries to receive emails. We're on a Microsoft Exchange Server and my contact says I'll be 100% blocked from receiving on my phone.

Just forward all of it to another e-mail like google.

How can you respond to those e-mails from a work address rather than the GMail address they were forwarded to?

Already have a gmail set up to do that, and was going to set to FW when I turn on my Out of Office reply from Outlook.....however, responding seemed like an issue for me. However, I mainly use it for FW'd things on to my staff, so it won't be a big deal to them.Not sure how they can block it, but I confirmed that it will be blocked...rather than my just being told to stop using it. I got an email telling me I have an unsupported phone and it will be turned off Feb 5.

WTF? Unsupported phone? What am I missing? Do they want you to get work done remotely or not? iPhone supports IMAP and POP... Have you tried either of those, or did the bastards disable them too?

I run my earthlink mail through my iphone and it is POP. Never had a problem. It might be the actual settings for your incoming and outgoing mail. Check what it looks like in Outlook and then try to match it on your phone. HTH.

 

[badger]

Just found out the other day that my company is going to BLOCK my work email from being downloaded to my phone. They are only allowing those with blackberries to receive emails. We're on a Microsoft Exchange Server and my contact says I'll be 100% blocked from receiving on my phone.

Just forward all of it to another e-mail like google.

How can you respond to those e-mails from a work address rather than the GMail address they were forwarded to?

Already have a gmail set up to do that, and was going to set to FW when I turn on my Out of Office reply from Outlook.....however, responding seemed like an issue for me. However, I mainly use it for FW'd things on to my staff, so it won't be a big deal to them.Not sure how they can block it, but I confirmed that it will be blocked...rather than my just being told to stop using it. I got an email telling me I have an unsupported phone and it will be turned off Feb 5.

WTF? Unsupported phone? What am I missing? Do they want you to get work done remotely or not? iPhone supports IMAP and POP... Have you tried either of those, or did the bastards disable them too?

I'm not sure what I'll be able to do after Feb 5, but its hard to predict what access I will have. Aparently, they are more concerned with a security breach (and choosing not to spend the money to fix) rather than employee productivity. Its a Fortune 400 company.

 

[Keerock]

Just found out the other day that my company is going to BLOCK my work email from being downloaded to my phone. They are only allowing those with blackberries to receive emails. We're on a Microsoft Exchange Server and my contact says I'll be 100% blocked from receiving on my phone.

Just forward all of it to another e-mail like google.

How can you respond to those e-mails from a work address rather than the GMail address they were forwarded to?

Already have a gmail set up to do that, and was going to set to FW when I turn on my Out of Office reply from Outlook.....however, responding seemed like an issue for me. However, I mainly use it for FW'd things on to my staff, so it won't be a big deal to them.Not sure how they can block it, but I confirmed that it will be blocked...rather than my just being told to stop using it. I got an email telling me I have an unsupported phone and it will be turned off Feb 5.

WTF? Unsupported phone? What am I missing? Do they want you to get work done remotely or not? iPhone supports IMAP and POP... Have you tried either of those, or did the bastards disable them too?

I'm not sure what I'll be able to do after Feb 5, but its hard to predict what access I will have. Aparently, they are more concerned with a security breach (and choosing not to spend the money to fix) rather than employee productivity. Its a Fortune 400 company.

This is unfathomable to me...

 

[badger]

Just found out the other day that my company is going to BLOCK my work email from being downloaded to my phone. They are only allowing those with blackberries to receive emails. We're on a Microsoft Exchange Server and my contact says I'll be 100% blocked from receiving on my phone.

Just forward all of it to another e-mail like google.

How can you respond to those e-mails from a work address rather than the GMail address they were forwarded to?

Already have a gmail set up to do that, and was going to set to FW when I turn on my Out of Office reply from Outlook.....however, responding seemed like an issue for me. However, I mainly use it for FW'd things on to my staff, so it won't be a big deal to them.Not sure how they can block it, but I confirmed that it will be blocked...rather than my just being told to stop using it. I got an email telling me I have an unsupported phone and it will be turned off Feb 5.

WTF? Unsupported phone? What am I missing? Do they want you to get work done remotely or not? iPhone supports IMAP and POP... Have you tried either of those, or did the bastards disable them too?

I'm not sure what I'll be able to do after Feb 5, but its hard to predict what access I will have. Aparently, they are more concerned with a security breach (and choosing not to spend the money to fix) rather than employee productivity. Its a Fortune 400 company.

This is unfathomable to me...

We strive to be #1 ranked in customer service in our industry and we don't make it easier for our people to communicate. Now, when I travel, things will be left untouched for at least a week, then I will have to spend extra time when I return digging through tons of emails. Very productive.

 

[badger]

Does anyone use google calendars? I wonder if there is some way for me to sync a google calendar with my work calendar, then bring in the google one. The calendar piece is going to KILL ME!

 

[Oh Yes!]

just got this thing, how do i send pictures in texts?

 

[Adebisi]

just got this thing, how do i send pictures in texts?

You can't. You have to email them to people's phones.

 

[Oh Yes!]

just got this thing, how do i send pictures in texts?

You can't. You have to email them to people's phones.

not to sound stupid, but how do i do this?

 

[AcerFC]

just got this thing, how do i send pictures in texts?

You can't. You have to email them to people's phones.

not to sound stupid, but how do i do this?

Easiest way is have them email you and then you have their address. Just add as a contact and email