I-Phone, should I?
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Go to any major hotel and connect to the wifi, scan and you'll likely find one or more Jailbroken iPhones wide open. SSH is the infection vector used right now, but more will follow or possibly have already.
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Screen protectors have no effect on the screen performance - well the Griffin ones don't, that is what I use.
Get a Griffin case & protector & you should be sorted, it's saved my bacon more than once.
Jailbreaking is when you bypass the Apple lockdown on the phone, giving you access to functionality & apps that Apple say no too.
Get a Griffin case & protector & you should be sorted, it's saved my bacon more than once.
Jailbreaking is when you bypass the Apple lockdown on the phone, giving you access to functionality & apps that Apple say no too.
A trip to town is in order over the weekend to get what I need as hopefully the new phone will land in 1 week from now
Jailbreak means to modify the iPhone so you have more control over what applications and other things can and are installed. Apple tightly restricts applications in the AppStore, for example, you will not find an app there that allows you to make voice calls using the cellular network as the phone companies would not get any money from this as you're not using your voice plan.
Jailbreaking also allows you to unlock the phone, thus allowing you to use it on any network. This was a bigger deal when there were only single carriers of the iPhone, but as there are multiple networks offering it there is more choice, however, having it fully unlocked is nice if you happen to travel to another country as you could pop in a PAYG sim for that country and thus avoid horrendous roaming charges.
Jailbreaking also allows you to unlock the phone, thus allowing you to use it on any network. This was a bigger deal when there were only single carriers of the iPhone, but as there are multiple networks offering it there is more choice, however, having it fully unlocked is nice if you happen to travel to another country as you could pop in a PAYG sim for that country and thus avoid horrendous roaming charges.
Having a PAYG sim to pop in when your away or on hoilday is a great idea, well worth considering.
Anyway get your own, you need to spend some cash, that mattress must be full by now
If your still unsure buy an ipod touch, they do everything the iphone does bar the phone side of things and you can get the idea of what they do plus when you sell the touch they still command top prices 2nd hand so I doubt you would even loose much if you decided to sell it. My daughter has stopped using her DS in favour of the touch.
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I have the iphone for 3 weeks now and I have to say, it's the best purchase I have done for a long time. I actually felt as if I was living in the woods for the last 3 years. Get the 32 GB version and a Griffin 'Reveal' case and you are all set. 
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The problem with the malicious software is that all iphones share a user named "mobile" with a password of "alpine". Thus if you jailbreak your iPhone and install ssh, and someone knows it's IP address then they can ssh into it using the default name and password. I believe the mobile user is also an admin account so you can use privilege escalation to run as the root user.
If you do install ssh then the first thing you should do is change the password for the mobile user (if you use cydia then it does mention in it's setting up ssh section how to do this), and what I also do is set/change the password for the root user as well.
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I've taken the plunge and placed the order, no more pondering about whats best/ which one
Looking forward to my I phone landing on my mat next Thurs on the first day of launch on Vodafone.
Thanks for all your help guys, I expect I'll be back asking how it works but for now I'm feeling all warm inside.
Ta muchly
Looking forward to my I phone landing on my mat next Thurs on the first day of launch on Vodafone.
Thanks for all your help guys, I expect I'll be back asking how it works
but for now I'm feeling all warm inside.Ta muchly
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I was like a kid at Christmas when I ordered mine. It was the orignal 3G launch day and they didn't deliver it until 6pm. Worked from home and got nothing done all day
You've made a great choice. Set it up then get on the App Store!
You've made a great choice. Set it up then get on the App Store!
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Very much looking forward to it now
Just trying to get Mr scooby sport to sign up as well so we can both make full use of the free unlimited Vodafone to Vodafone talk time
Come on Si get it done, its a great piece of kit to have in your pocket
Just trying to get Mr scooby sport to sign up as well so we can both make full use of the free unlimited Vodafone to Vodafone talk time
Come on Si get it done, its a great piece of kit to have in your pocket
Bought the wife a 3gs for her birthday, she loves it and I have to agree it's a cracking phone.
Got the phone from Orange - same cost for the phone but the tarrif's were much better.Seems to be a better reception where we live too.
Got the phone from Orange - same cost for the phone but the tarrif's were much better.Seems to be a better reception where we live too.
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The phone isn't crap, not sure why people ever say that as it works better than any mobile I've owned in the past. 
stevebt - what makes you say the phone is crap? You can ring people, answer calls, use via bluetooth, hold calls and take other calls and you have visual voicemail, not to mention calls being nice and clear - what more do you need from a phone?
Dont bother with a case KJD, one of the best points of the iPhone is how slim it is. Just get a screen cover, such as the Zagg InvisibleShield and away you go. Mine's been fine like that even with being dropped once.
stevebt - what makes you say the phone is crap? You can ring people, answer calls, use via bluetooth, hold calls and take other calls and you have visual voicemail, not to mention calls being nice and clear - what more do you need from a phone?
Dont bother with a case KJD, one of the best points of the iPhone is how slim it is. Just get a screen cover, such as the Zagg InvisibleShield and away you go. Mine's been fine like that even with being dropped once.
The only thing I can knock my iphone for is the bluetooth. I cannot transfer my phonebook contacts over to the bluetooth thing in my car, which I used to be able to do with my old Nokia. Apart from that I'ts the very besy gadget I've ever owned!!
Call quality and reception isn't the best for a high end phone also the speakerphone is a joke.
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I am getting the Parrott 9200 installed today and thats fully Iphone compatable even links music to the stereo
Mines a Kenwood BT 100. Theres a later one out that works with the contacts in the phone, but I'm to tight to buy it. Everything else works and you can see who's calling from the phone anyway so it's not that bigger deal I suppose.
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Phone is due to land tomorrow so looking forward to it
Only thing, we have had another dollop of snow over the past 24hrs so another 4"" on top of the existing 4" is not good.
I also live down a Private road so no chance of a gritter
Lets hope white van man likes a challenge
Only thing, we have had another dollop of snow over the past 24hrs so another 4"" on top of the existing 4" is not good.
I also live down a Private road so no chance of a gritter
Lets hope white van man likes a challenge
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