Is the iPhone 3G S a better phone?

Has anyone heard if the new iPhone 3G S has a different/better cellular radio? Can we expect it to get better phone reception than its predecessors?

I mostly really depends on your carrier not the phone itself. If you have ATT like I do, then no your service will not get any better unfortunately.

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Hi All, I just purchased the iphone 4S, was upgrading my phone with my itunes acct, its stuck with itunes, cable icon...Help.

Hi All, I just purchased the iphone 4S, was upgrading my phone with my itunes acct, its stuck with itunes, cable icon...Help.

Let's try a standalone Apple Mobile Device Support install. It still might not install, but fingers crossed any error messages will give us a better idea of the underlying cause of why it's not installing under normal conditions.
Download and save a copy of the iTunesSetup.exe (or iTunes64setup.exe) installer file to your hard drive:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Download and install the free trial version of WinRAR:
http://www.rarlab.com/
Right-click the iTunesSetup.exe (or iTunes64setup.exe), and select "Extract to iTunesSetup" (or "Extract to iTunes64Setup"). WinRAR will expand the contents of the file into a folder called "iTunesSetup" (or "iTunes64Setup").
Go into the folder and doubleclick the AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi (or AppleMobileDeviceSupport64.msi) to do a standalone AMDS install.
(If it offers you the choice to remove or repair, choose "Remove", and if the uninstall goes through successfully, see if you can reinstall by doubleclicking the AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi again.)
Does it install (or uninstall and then reinstall) properly for you? If so, can you get a normal iTunes install to go through properly now?
If instead you get an error message during the install (or uninstall), let us know what it says. (Precise text, please.)

Hi chaps. FaceTime question. I can FaceTime by phoning my iPhone 4 from my iPad 2 but cannot phone my iPad from the iPhone. When facetimeing from phone to iPad the phone says it's busy. The iPad rings once and then stops. Any ideas. Regards Jon

Hi chaps. FaceTime question. I can FaceTime by phoning my iPhone 4 from my iPad 2 but cannot phone my iPad from the iPhone. When facetimeing from phone to iPad the phone says it's busy. The iPad rings once and then stops. Any ideas. Regards Jon

Perhaps this discussion will help with your issue,
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16502324#16502324

I have just purchased the iPhone 5s and my previous phone was backed up on iCloud. However when I restored this on my new phone my photos are still being restored after 4 days. Shows the amount there but no pictures?

I have just purchased the iPhone 5s and my previous phone was backed up on iCloud. However when I restored this on my new phone my photos are still being restored after 4 days. Shows the amount there but no pictures? Is there anything I can do to get them back as my other phone has now been cleared. On my iCloud storage it still shows that my previous phone had all the info still?? I'm confused!

Many users have lost photos while preforming a restore from backup or upgrading the iOS. Recall, only photos in the camera roll are backed up to iCloud. There is a way to turn backups for camera roll on/off, perhaps these users had camera roll turned off.
See:
Settings>icloud>Storage & Backups>Manage Storage, tap the device's name and on the next screen, be sure Camera Roll is turned on.
IMPORTANT...
Photos should be regularly synced to a computer (like you store photos from a digital camera) using either USB via iTunes (on a mac use iPhoto or Aperture to move them to an album) or using photo stream. If using Photo stream, but sure to move the received photos to a permanent album. If you have been doing that, then you can sync those photos back to your device.
Or, you can find other apps in the app store that send camera roll photos to a service like Dropbox.
If you haven't been saving photos except relying on iCloud to store them in a backup, then that is risky, as many users have discovered. I'm afraid I have no advice in this case - there is no "cure".

Can you download the iPhone SDK 3.0 Beta on Leopard 10.5.5?

Do you have to have 10.5.6 installed to use the iPhone SDK 3.0 beta and iPhone OS 3.0 beta?
Thanks

If the software requirements for the SDK say 10.5.6, then that's what you must have.

HT4859 How when uve set up the iPhone 5 as a new phone how do u get ur stuff from ur iCloud's

How when uve set up the iPhone 5 as a new phone how do u get ur stuff from ur iCloud's account I've logged in to it but its not given me an option besides back up now which I've done but still nothing?

If you want to restore to an iCloud backup, go to Settings>General>Reset, tap Erase All Content and Settings, go through the setup screens on the phone and when given the option, choose Restore from iCloud Backup.

I have just changed my sim from vodaphone to tmobile and my new sim wont work it is coming up emergency calls only, the iphone is not a vodaphone phone and as i am awhere it is a unlocked handet, can anyone give me advice pls

i have just changed my sim from vodaphone to tmobile and my new sim wont work it is coming up emergency calls only, the iphone is not a vodaphone phone and as i am awhere it is a unlocked handet, can anyone give me advice pls

You will have to ask Vodafone to do it for you.
Here is a link to their online form http://campaigns.vodafone.co.uk/UnlockCodeRequestForm/

Is the iPhone 4s a Quad Band phone?

Is the iPhone 4S a quad band phone? Is the iPhone 4 a quad band phone?

Hello nileswimmer,
If I understand correctly you want to know if the iPhone 4s can use 4 cellular bands with a GSM network. According to the following artcle, yes it does:
Apple - iPhone - iPhone 4s Technical Specifications
World phone
UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz); CDMA EV-DO Rev. A (800, 1900 MHz)3
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Sterling

How can I remove the iPhone finder off of my phone, how can I remove the iPhone finder off of my phone

how do I remove the iphone finder from off my home screen?

Hold an icon until they all wiggle, the tap the "x" in the corner
The app has nothing to do with tracking the iphone on which it is installed. It only allows you to find your other devices from your iphone.

The iPhone- Not a corporate friendly phone???

I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you work in an evironment where the Treo's and the Crackberry rules, will this phone have issues adapting to the system?
My friend and I had this conversation over the weekend and he brought up the fact that with the e-mail, PIM (personal information management), and some security issues that the phone will have problem intergrating in a business environment.
FYI, he is a banker who travels a third of a year and I'm in the medical field where beepers are still in fashion....go figure
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It depends upon the software your company uses. Mail is easy, as long as you don't demand push. IMAP is supported by just about all mail servers. Some companies apparently don't turn it on, but that's not iPhone's fault. If your mail system supports server-side rules, you can get something like push by generating SMS messages for key email. I wouldn't do it for all email, as the cost of SMS would be unreasonable, but if there is certain mail you want to be alerted by, you can set up a rule to forward that mail to your phone by SMS. This assumes a mail system with a competent rule processor, but that shouldn't be unusual.
Calendar is harder. If your software works with iSync, you're in luck. There's third party (Snerdware) software to sync to Exchange. You can also sync via Entourage. But multiple layers of syncing create lots of opportunities for problems. I'm at a university. We use Sun's JES calendar. One-way sync (from JES to iCal) is quite reliable. So I have my events on my iPhone. To add an event I use a web application that is designed for a small screen, and optimized for iPhone

Why was the head phone jack moved to the bottom of the iPhone 5

Why was the head phone jack moved to the bottom of the iPhone 5

Because it worked better with the new design, most likely. To get the real answer you'd have to ask the people that designed it.

With iOs 7 and the iPhone can someone use the phone while also using a communication app such as Speak It or Assistive Chat? These are text to speech systems for people who cannot speak well. Thanks you!

With ios 7 and the iPhone can someone use their phone while also using a text to speech app, such as Speak It or Assistive Chat? These apps are used by people who have difficulty with speech production.
Thank you.

My iPhone 5 wouldn't start after I turned it off a few minutes after writing this. It went into recovery mode and I had no choice but to connect to iTunes on PC and restore.
I restored to factory setting first, just to validate my phone was okay. For a second consecutive iOS update, the iPhone 5 did not update smoothly while connected to PC and iTunes - I had to retry two times before the progress bar for the update showed. (The exact same problem with the restart occured when I updated to 7.0.4.)
The good news is that I was ultimately able to restore the iPhone 5 to factory settings while running iOS 7.0.6. I did have a backup from about a month ago lying around and was able to successfully restore with that as well, so the damage done is almost negligible since I had my contacts, notes, mail, etc. backed up to iCloud.
Once I completed both restores, the sync with iTunes worked fine.

Is all the iphone 4S world phone?

any one known this?

Again the iphone 4S is a world phone but if you buy it subsidised at Verizon then it is locked to the Verizon network. It will work overseas but you will pay a lot more as you cannot just put a local sim into the phone for it to work. Verizon would have to unlock the phone for you. You would actually have to ask the customer service at Verizon for that.

My dad has an upgrade with his phone number, can I preorder the iPhone 5s with his number and use it with my phone number?

I want to preorder the iPhone 5s. My personal phone number is not eligible for an upgrade yet, but my day's phone number is. He says that I can use his upgrade. On September 20, 2013 when the online preorder begins, am I able to preorder a phone for myself with my dads number and use it with my own number? How does it all work?

Most carriers will allow you to swap phones between numbers without a problem. Swapping will not change the contract on the number that the phone was ordered for. Nor will it affect eligibility for future upgrades. Of course the "swap" will normally need to be done with phones on the same carrier and is probably easier to do when on the same account.
I do this every year, or rather every other year. I am the techie, my wife not so much. So when the new iPhone comes out, I get it for which ever number is eligible for upgrade and have it activated to my number and then activitate my old phone to her number. I usually go to the phone company store (AT&T in my case) as they have new sims on hand and usually need to use at least one.

Is the iPhone reliable enough to depend on?

My #1 overwhelming requirement for a cell phone is that I can count on it to make & receive calls anywhere there is cell coverage. I don't care if the phone can browse the Internet, is the best iPod on the planet, & can even shine my shoes -- if it can't perform the basic phone function reliably, it is not suitable for my needs, period.
This isn't a question of AT&T vs. the other carriers -- in my area I have determined that AT&T & Sprint (my current provider) each have about the same overall coverage. I am aware of the differences in 3G coverage but that doesn't matter.
My concern is that the iPhone:
a) May not be among the best in weak signal areas, possibly because of the internal antenna, the inclusion of so much other circuitry, or whatever.
b) May lock up or otherwise misbehave because of corruption of the software, the general complexity of the device, etc. -- especially anything that requires a computer to fix, runs down the battery, or makes it impossible to use the touch screen to place calls.
c) Has an non-user-relaceable battery so I can't use a spare as a backup or replacement should the provided one run down or lose recharge capacity from (for example) accidentally leaving the phone in a freezing or overheated car.
My current phone is ancient (almost 4 years old!) & has essentially no cool features -- not even a camera -- but it has never locked up & has survived all the abuse I have given it, including a tumble down a flight of metal stairs.
With all this in mind, how would you rate the iPhone? Another way to put the question: if your life or that of your loved ones depended on reliable phone communications, would you pick the iPhone or some other cell phone?

You well know that asking these questions in a forum where the predominant membership is composed of users who have experienced problems with the device, that you are going to get predominantly negative comments which may well be far from an accurate reflection of the user experience of the iPhone as a whole. If you're looking for a self-fulfilling prophecy, this is a good way to go about it!
I've had a significant number of cellphones over the years and they have all been pretty much junk. The last one I had was a Moto RAZR V3m, and I can safely say that if it were the only cellphone on the market, I wouldn't have ever bothered to have one. It routinely missed calls, dropped calls, produced poor, echoing audio, suffered sudden battery failures and was tediously fiddly and obstructive to use. By comparison the iPhone has been a breath of fresh air, not least because it's proven to be entirely trustworthy - and that despite having swapped from US Cellular, which had excellent coverage, to AT&T which does not.
All in all though, however clever, smart or versatile a cellphone, the one thing it must do right is make and take phone calls, and if you are in any doubt about the iPhone's capabilities in this regard, it is simply not a wise choice to make to get one. Certainly it may prove itself excellent in service, but as an unknown quantity in the context of your personal needs and patterns of use, it's a risk you make clear you can't actually take. Better to forgo the niceties of design and instead opt for something you already know to be functional in your own personal context.
For the sake of completeness:
a) May not be among the best in weak signal areas, possibly because of the internal antenna, the inclusion of so much other circuitry, or whatever.
In comparison to my old AT&T Blackberry, the iPhone signal is almost identical. It occasionally dips lower in the interior of buildings than the Blackberry, and varies a little more, but typically I've not found the AT&T signal to be all that good amongst buildings anyway. There is no doubt that where a less than optimal signal is concerned, a device with external antenna is generally going to outperform one with an internal one - the human body is a rather effective 'signal damper' at these frequencies.
b) May lock up or otherwise misbehave because of corruption of the software, the general complexity of the device, etc. -- especially anything that requires a computer to fix, runs down the battery, or makes it impossible to use the touch screen to place calls.
While there are always examples of units which do suffer such problems, simply because manufacturing is never 100%, my experience of the iPhone has been that it is very stable as a platform. It has behaved predictably in the almost 3 months I have had one, and not caused any concerns in terms of whether or not it was functioning correctly. I would expect that despite the complexity, the majority of users as a whole would likely say the same thing. When you consider the furore here at the price cut or the 1.1.1 update, and set that against the general complaints and failure reports here, you'll get the distinct impression that while there are unhappy owners, there aren't an avalanche of them complaining about the same things.
c) Has an non-user-relaceable battery so I can't use a spare as a backup or replacement should the provided one run down or lose recharge capacity from (for example) accidentally leaving the phone in a freezing or overheated car.
The internal battery has always been used as a stick to beat Apple, not just with the iPhone but iPods previously. Oddly though, that hasn't prevented these devices selling well and being very widely used. It certainly limits the option of carrying a spare, though it is also of note that carrying a spare in terms of this battery technology is not always such a good idea, given the self-discharge rates. Basically while the capability to swap-out batteries would give some users a benefit, it also then creates a more complex pattern of use. The iPhone (rightly or wrongly) is designed to simplify, not complicate.
In terms of trustworthiness - I don't know of any carrier or device in the US that I would trust as much more than a toy. The cellular market here is too heavily dominated by stagnant players with vested interests in not doing anything new. By comparison to Europe, where cellphone services have been far more robust and carriers far more reactive, service quality and standards are a joke and the market is really quite immature. Emphasis is placed on gimmicks and flourishing feature sets, not on quality products that do what they actually need to do. As a result, I'd say if your existing 4-year old device does what you have needed it to do, the lack of the bells and whistles on it is really part of the reason, and is largely the reason you should keep that and continue to use it.
For me, I have thoroughly disliked the cellphones I have had in recent years. Cheap, nasty little things, designed to appeal by gimmickry alone. That's actually one of the reasons I like the iPhone, because as much as it is a toy, it doesn't pack all those gimmicks or pretend to substitute for them. It is, instead, a simple, fairly unexciting, communications tool, with an interface that makes it usable.As such, in my pattern of usage and needs, it fits much better than anything else so far, and gives me no reason to trust it less than anything I've had previously. Even then, however, I think there is a long road ahead in the development of it before those who need to take it seriously will be able to really do so.

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