Best part about VZW getting the iPhone

The best part about VZW getting the iPhone is now when it is time for me to get a new phone I will not have to worry about any backorder for the Android phone of my choice since half the people on smart phones will want an iPhone for some unknown reason.
The bad part will be that I can never step foot in a VZW store again because it will be filled with people that have either never owned an iPhone and will eventually realize they are not any better than other phones now a days but will demand to know where the magic is or people who have owned one before and find out it wasn’t just AT&T’s network that was the problem it truly was the phone as well.
Of course not stepping foot in a store again is really not that bad.

KingAoki wrote:
I find the best part is everyone's pretentious attitudes c:
Esp the attitude of android users.
Reminder, every android phone has banded together (including my droid eris, x, incredible and fascinate) to outsell the iphone by 1% ( apple has a 25% share of the cell phone market, android has 26%) They can kiss that goodbye as soon as feb 11th rolls around
Its like leading by a field goal late early in the 4th, only to get beat at the end by 3 touchdowns

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Thinking about getting the iPhone, any reviews?

I am hoping to get the iPhone for either my birthday or Christmas. I know quite a few people who have the iPhone 3G and greatly enjoy it, but I have been reading over some discussion boards and I am not very sure any more!
Could anyone give me their opinion on the iPhone 3G?
Thanks,
Hailey

it depends on what you really want it for but these are my opinions ive not had many major problems like people have on this forum just usual things i dont like
good points
if its for music/video/internet/email on the go then i cant fault the device never really had any major issues with the iphone i use it everyday for this stuff i get my mail delivered i can check the net whereever i am etc
as a phone i hate it!
u can only customize the ring tone
sms/email tones you cant change and sometime just about hear
you get a lag sometimes when you txt a reboot solves this
you cant txt sideways
no sms count on how many letters you have used
you cant forward sms messages
no mms (carrying a second phone resolves this) and no using email is not really a good alternative)
i hate the way sms messages are all within a single window like a streaming conversation i would like to have a new window for every txt message and be able to save txt messages i want to folders
i get a lag when i view txt messages i only have 3 in my box and takes about 3/4 seconds from time i click sms button on the phone to when i get a listing of messages.
would i get one ever again no chance no unless it acts more like a phone.

Should I Get the Iphone 3g

I have been looking at getting the Iphone 3g over the past couple of weeks. What I really want is an unbiased opinion. I know it may have some trouble with 3G. And I know it may have a few minor software gliches(which I am pretty sure Apple will fix).
Also which should I get the 16gb or the 8gb version.
Thanks

A lot of "depends" type questions...
personally, I say yes. Ultimately depends on how you wish to use the phone?
3G: Call AT&T Customer Svc and have them verify the level of 3G network support in your local area, or your frequented business or otherwise travel locations are. Just because they show you being in "blue" 3G zone, doesn't mean your signal strength will be as strong as another "blue" area 4-miles away. My 3G signal vacillates from No Svc to two bars from minute to minute standing in the same spot. The more users on 3G network will slow your download speed.
BATTERY: No complaints here based on my regulated use of 3G, PUSH; Locate Me; Wi-Fi usage; send and receive emails/SMS messages, GPS and internet access. First 24-hours I owned the field I spent a lot of time familiarizing myself with all the features and I ended up with 19-hours battery time. Since then I avg 24- 48 hours before recharging.
My Personal usage: I use my 3G as a "tool", only using features as required. I work a lot from my home office; therefore, don't require PUSH for email/SMS since I have my laptop and local ISP for internet and email access. Being at home and when traveling in the local area I "know where I am for the most part" so GPS is not required. Having my business phone there, most of my calls are on it and not my iPhone unless I receive a call from a colleague or family member on my iPhone. I do leave my BlueTooth turned on at least 8-hours a day even in my home office. I turn PUSH on when I am expecting important emails from clients or colleagues when away from my home office which is at least 1-hr per day... when I am not expecting anything of importance and away from my office, I leave it on FETCH at 15-30 min intervals since there is nothing that important that can't wait and if it is, they can call me to get my attention. I use my camera on occasion (twice in two weeks I think... and have rare needs for video capabilities). Sending pix via SMS or txt can be convenient at times, but depends on the priority and urgency you put into sending this to someone who may not even have their wireless device turned on or close by? I also have not experienced the same concerns as others on this Discussion site.. but their user scenarios may significantly differ from mine. I don't use Micro Soft Exchange server, nor Mobile Me... since my syncs etc can wait until I get to my MacBook Pro and flip on iTunes. I purchased the 16Gig and glad I did. I do have around 200-tunes on it and maybe keep 2-3 movies on it. I listen to my iTunes a couple hours a day on average and talk time is 2.5 to 3.5 hr's a day. I was at the airport two days ago and jumped on their Wi-Fi to jump on the internet to track a colleagues flight coming in and checking news and had my 3G on PUSH for emails for a couple of hours and barely noticed a drain on my battery. Again, I use it as a tool for those features I need at the time and glad I had my 3G. A guy next to me had his BlackBerry open to the web and he glanced over to see the rich HTML download I had on Flight Aware and commented on how he wished he had the robustness of the 3G. On the flip side, the iPhone isn't perfect when it comes to Business usage on a regular basis. It meets my needs and if I want, I can use my company's MS Exchange server, etc... or even Mobile.Me... I just choose not to at this time. I did come over from Verizon Wireless... and I am not convinced AT&T's network (EDGE or 3G) is as reliable. I have had 4-dropped calls in area's I have never had issues with in 7-yr's with Verizon... but AT&T so far have been very good about credits. If this continues on a regular basis before my 30-days ends, I may have to consider returning to Verizon? 3G is still being rolled-out, so I am hoping its coverage and network tools improve to handle the additional user volume's. I don't care which phone you use on 3G, it will still have the same issues and burn battery life quickly if you choose to live on 3G... surf the net or use GPS to go to local grocery store, etc. It isn't a toy, its a tool to be used when you need it.

How do I get the iPhone 6 if I am an international student and does not have a social security number?

How do I get the iPhone 6 with a 2 year contract if I am an international student and does not have a social security number? I talked to many sales person. One person said I could not get it with contract at all. The other one said I need to pay a $400 security deposit. The last one said I should just enter 1 through 9 in the space provided for social security number.

Thanks for reaching out to us about service with our awesome family monkrisann. Our sales team can provide you with the best options for starting service without a social security number. I recommend prepaid for the best option.
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What's this I hear about Gmail and the iPhone?

I have a gmail account with my iphone. I opened up a thread a few days ago saying something about gmail and the iphone (I didn't get to read the thread though) making it sound like the emails would get to my phone faster or something.
Anyone know what I'm talking about?

what you are talking about is called "pull", the phone pulls new messages every 15 minutes.
in "push" mode if someone sends you an email it is pushed to your phone instantly, you don't have to wait up to 15 minutes for it to show up.
you can find information about "push" vs. "pull" email on the internet (google works well for searching for information), wikipedia is especially handy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_e-mail
and here is info about gmail push:
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-sync-now-with-push-gmail-support .html

Is this a more financial-able way to get the iPhone?

I have a terrible env touch and I'm not due for an upgrade until the end of november 2011. I realize that if I want the iPhone now, I'd have to buy it at the retail price for $650. However, I know that I can cancel my line and then open a new line for $10 and they'll give me the iPhone for $200, right?
I think the verizon helper my dad was talking to told him that to cancel my current line, it'd be a $125 cancellation fee ... but I was reading on the internet that it's $175? Can someone clarify which one it is? I know for a smartphone it's $350 but obviously the env touch isn't a smartphone.
So i'm figuring, $125 cancellation fee, $10 for a new line, $214 (tax) for the iphone will all add up to $349... this is surely a better way to go than to pay $700 for the iPhone -- then again this plan seems too good to be true, can anyone elaborate?

Byuguy wrote:
vereyezuhn wrote:
If you cancel your current line you have to wait 60 days to open another one with Verizon.
No you don't. I cancelled and opened another line less than 5 mins later.
i tend to believ the 60 day rule and think that you got lucky with a rep that didn't know what he or she was doing. the reason i think this is because i COULD SWEAR that last night 2-3 people posted that they did this as well. now those posts are gone? and the ones pointing to the 60 day rule are here. just my theory. there are also other threads on this topic and they all seemed to state that there is a 60 period that, if you try to open a new account, verizon just reinstates the old contract.
edit---nevermind. aparently the poster has started 2 of the exact same threads???
http://community.vzw.com/t5/iPhone-4/Is-this-a-more-financial-able-way-to-get-the-iphone/td-p/444460

I just realized I can get the iPhone 4S...

I am with Verizon and my contract is up. I am also due for what they have or used to have caled New Every Two, which on my line is a $50 credit. I do not think I can get applecare through verizon. I saw today that I can get the iPhone 4S 64GB at the Apple Store and get Applecare. I probably will not get the $50 discount, but dealing with Verizon is not worth it. Has anybody who is with Verizon specifically (although you can do this with ATT, Springt, & Verizon) done this? Was it a good expereince? On the website Apple makes it sound like they will do anything for your business, but I am really sick of Verizon's crap.
should I or should I not get my iPhone4S this way?

so with the applecare for the iPhone they still charge $49 service fee? That seems odd since applecare is so expensive. They should not charge a service fee and just leave it at up to 2 incidents. I gues I am confused what that is saying. If you buy applecare, and you bring the phone in for repair it will ...I am confused what they are saying there. I am curious if I purchase the applecare and the day before it is due to expire and I drop the phone, would they replace the phone if they felt they could not fix it?would that be one of the cases where they would charge me the service fee?
A friend of mine went in to Best Buy and got the iPhone 4S and a really good price on the plan. I forgot to ask how much they charged her for the phone, but I think Sprint has the best plan with the unlimited and after reading the fine print it looks like Sprint gives the most "unlimited"data,texts, etc. Verizon gives the least this would be a case wwhere since it is not a 4G LTE service, Sprint by be the best plan to get for the iPhone. with anything 4G I think Verizon has done a great job with their network but they charge so much for anything 4GLTE.
I was going to get one of those 4G mobile hotspots like the Verizon MIFI and I think they have a Samsong device too. I had their MiFI2200 3g and that was really cool when you would travel on a road trip, hook your MacBook up to this device and surf the web. I heard their 4G LTE using one of those devices in most place is blazing fast.
Can you use the iPhone 4S as a Mobile Hotspot like for the MacBookPro? If you can it would be 3G right?
I just marked my post as the Correct Answer by mistake. I still have 0 points so I will not try to remove it.

When will sprint get the iPhone?

There have been a bunch of people on the sprint server who are waiting for sprint to come out with the iphone (I am one of those people), there have been rumors about the iphone 5 (4S) coming to sprint and t-mobile this September. I am wondering if these rumors are true, if they aren't will sprint get the iPhone and when?

When Apple announces it, then we will all know.
Until then... it's just speculation. Speculation is not allowed on these forums.

Cannot get a working certificate on the iPhone to get the iPhone working

Hi, We've tried just about everything to get the iPhone working with our Exchange server to push email via active sync. We are using our own self signed certificates, not ones from Verisign for example, and we are using the IP Config Utility 2.0 on Windows XP PC to import the certificates. We have EAS setup on Exchange 2007. We generated the config for the user and emailed the config to a personal user account which we are able to access via the iPhone. We opened the email and double clicked the config file which then installs the profile to the iPhone but we get error 403 when we try and sync email. The iPhone doesn't appear to be presenting the personal certificate to the excchange server correctly which is causing the 403 error.
Has anyone else experienced this and if so do you have a workaround or public fix for it. We are trying to avoid having to go to a certificate authority.
Appreciate any feedback.

Objective: Get a **** personal certificate working on the stupid iPhone
Update: Settings
1). Exchange Management Console - Under client access role - Exchange Active Sync - Authentication - basic authentication is checked, ignore client certificates is checked
2). Under IIS Manager - Default Web Site - Microsoft Server Active Sync - Directory Security - Secure Comms - Require Secure cannel is checked, ignore client certificates is checked
3. Server certificate is installed onto the exchange server - issued by our own certificate authority/server
4). iPhone installed with root certifcate from the certificate server and the exchange certificate which was issued by the certificate server.
Under the above configuration we can get email working fine on the iPhone. Its synced correctly with exchange and able to receive and send email. Both the root and server certificates were installed to the iPhone using the iPCU.
Ok then, second test
Settings:
2 setting changes only applied:
1). Under IIS Manager - set it to require client certificates
2). On the iPhone removed the old profile - updated the profile to include a client certificate issued from the same certificate server that the exhcnage server certificate was issued from. So now there are 3 certificates on the iPhone (the root cert, the exchange server cert and the client cert). NOTE: When viewing the profile certificates on the iPhone the issued by field on the personal certificate is blank, opening it up shows no details. The certificate is a .pfx certificate so this explains why the details cant be viewed.
On re-attempting to sync email we get the 403.7.5 error (client requires a certificate) even though we put one on the phone. It looks like the client certificate either is not being passed through. I've read many forums indicating this issue in that Safari on the iPhone doesn't support client certificates. I've also read that a reverse proxy might be a work around - has anyone tried this?
It doesn't matter whether we use our own client certificate or a client certificate signed by Verisign, both end up with the same result.
Does anyone have an answer yet - has Apple got their act together yet and provided a resolution to this problem?
Can anyone explain to me exactly how the certificate authentication process works. For example we couldn't get it working with "ignore Client Certificates" at first when we just put the exchange server certificate on the iPhone. We had to put the Root CA certificate on the iPhone also???
If anyone can help that'd be great, any help at all at this stage would be good.
Cheers.

Should I wait for the iPhone 5 or get the iPhone 4S now?, Should I wait for the iPhone 5 or get the iPhone 4S now?

I dont know what to do! I really want an iPhone 4S now, but I don't know if i will regret it later once the iPhone 5 is released. What should I do? Is it worth the wait? If I do get the iPhone 4S right now will I be happy? I know it sounds stupid, but you all probably know more about this than me.. I'm new to Apple products.

Jooney86 wrote:
I know it sounds stupid, but you all probably know more about this than me..
Not really, we're all users just like you & no one here would have any idea about any future Apple products. Further, the terms of use here prohibit the discussion about Apple's plans.

If I have the iPhone 4, should I get the iPhone 5?

I got my iPhone 4 about a year or two ago and I wanna know if I should get the iPhone 5 or wait for the next legendary apple product to arrive because i've gotten mixed reviews. Some people say i should get it now and some people say i should wait. I understand that I can get alot of the new software when I download the new iOS 6, but when i think about it, most of the updates are for the 4S, not the four. So is it worth the upgrade or should I wait? Please help me and please dont be mean thank you

As was said already, ultimately your decision, but here are some things to consider.
First, I think the antenna issue is exaggerated, but I would recommend a case. This will minimized the issue and, frankly, I think it is risky not to use a case. The glass on both sides make them slicker than others. Also can help in case you do drop it, but it is still going to come down to how it hits and how hard.
Second, the proximity sensor has been a big problem for a bunch of people - screen comes on even when against your ear and then your cheek activates buttons!
4.1 seemed to help most, though some said it got worse. 4.2.1 has solved at least one problem with it, based on my testing and others have said it solved the issue. Still, I've seen about 5 posts from people who say the problem remains - but compared to the past, that is really low.
Finally, some people have said phones manufactured starting with week 46 are better. Don't know if that is true (we heard similar things at least twice before only to have it turn out not to be so). However, I did get to actually check a week 46 phone today, running a standard test I do. It was the first phone I've tested that passed the test! Could be a fluke, but I'm hoping to find more to check.
To see what the week of manufacture is, check the serial number. First two numbers are the factory number. Third number is the last digit of the year (zero for now). The 4th and 5th number are the week of manufacture.
While I can't guarantee week 46 has solved the problem, I'd probably still, if I was buying now, insist upon having something at least that new.

I'm on the fence...get the iPhone 4?

Hey all,
I've been reading all of the 'dropped calls' posts and am now thinking I shouldn't get the iPhone. What is your opinion? Should I get it? Why or why not?
Thanks.

I live / work in South Orange County and I have a separate Sprint phone for important calls I do not want to drop while on the move. My work iPhone is pretty spotty. My friends around here also complain a lot about dropped calls, except one who swears they never got dropped. As you mentioned there are givens for some spots; the Toll Roads, Anaheim Hills, and lots of problems in and around Mission Viejo. I have wanted an iPhone since they came out but I had AT&T around here before and I'm glad I didn't go with the iPhone purchase myself. My company gave me this one and for everything beside regular phone usage I love it. You may find it different and if you get one I hope you do receive good service. I have simply been holding out on one till they switch off AT&T to a better network; but I couldn't turn down a company purchased one to play with.

HT1386 i have an iphone 4s. Im getting the iphone 5s for christmas, but i do not have my phone backed up, and my phone is not working and my screen is covered with blue lines. I need help.

My iphone is not working, i was planning on getting the iphone 5s for christmas, but i do not have my phone backed up on itunes. On my screen are these blue lines across on my screen, and i cant see anthing and i do not know what to do. I want to back up my phone but i cant see my screen to back it up. I need help badly. Thanks apple hope you can help me in this matter.

You wouldn't need to see the screen to backup unless you have a passcode on the device. Is that the case? You should be able to plug the device into the computer with iTunes and just select backup now.

My wife and I have a family account at Verizon and are thinking of getting the IPhone 4S. My question is can we both use the functions of Icloud on the same account at Verizon or do we have to have separate accounts to be able to use all the features

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If Mail in Mavericks is the same as earlier versions you can select accounts in the sidebar, so that you can either display the inboxes for individual accounts, or the contents of all the account inboxes. (If the accounts don't show click the disclosure triangle next to 'INBOX'). The layout may have changed since the version I have - Snow Leopard - but you should be able to do the same thing.

I have two libraries on separate computers. If i turned itunes match on in both computers would the two libraries merge? So if my iphone normally syncs with my laptop would i still only get the iphones library or would i get both as one?

I have two libraries on separate computers. If i turned itunes match on in both computers would the two libraries merge? So if my iphone normally syncs with my laptop would i still only get the iphones library or would i get both as one?

Yes, the two libraries should merge. However, you need to turn on match on one computer and let it finish before adding the second library.
Once you turn march on n your phone then you don't sync it with iTunes, but the merged library will show up on the phone. If you don't turn on match on your phone and continue to sync then all of the music from both libraries should be available to sync to it.
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