HealthFit app
I love the trail that the HealthFit App produces on the iPhone from my Workout app on the iWatch.
This trail is from a 2km stroll along the sea front at Cesarea on our little car tour of Puglia
Tag: iphone
iPhone on T-mobile in the UK
If your iPhone contract has run out (or about to) then you can ask O2 to ‘unlock’ your iPhone. Once unlocked you can get a PAC code and transfer your existing number to T-Mobile.
Advantages
- The £10 a month unlimited internet and texts for life is a great deal for anyone, like me, who doesn’t make many voice calls.
- Since its pay as you go when you travel abroad you are no longer faced with a horrendous bill on your return. You can get one of their £5 roaming bundles easily by text whilst you are away.
- Topping up is a delight, they send a message when you are running low you can send a free text back with the last 4 digits of your previously registered credit card the amount and three security digits, and away you go.
- The itemised billing is excellent, totally itemised bills to the last K of data transferred and instantly available on the web.
- 3G Coverage so far is awesome!
Disadvantages
- If your phone breaks and Apple replace it then according to the local Apple store it will be locked. Will O2 unlock a phone if you have no contract? When I asked at Apple they just said speak to O2 and yes O2 say speak to Apple. Maybe this issue will clear up as more iPhones get legally unlocked and Orange etc come to the market.
- At the moment if I put the iPhone in Airplane mode the iPhone asks to be unlocked again by iTunes (to do this you have to remove the SIM, take it out of flight mode, reinsert SIM and then iTunes will unlock it).
- You get the silly Content Lock screen (in picture) if you access blogs 🙁
- The iPhone seems to eat the battery in 3G mode. I guess with O2 it never found a 3G mast!
Conclusion
Its great to have an always on internet, even in the depths of cafes and lecture theatres, so I’m sticking with T-Mobile until either I buy a Nexus or the latest toy from Apple.
iPhone unlock problems
I recently had O2 unlock my iPhone prior to me transferring my number to T-mobile. I wanted to test T-Mobiles unlimited internet and texts for a tenner a month.
All went well until….
I’ve now discovered that putting the iPhone into flight mode locks me out of the iPhone totally, insisting that it has to be connected to iTunes to be unlocked as the SIM card has been changed 🙁
To make it worse plugging it into iTunes says the iPhone is ‘damaged’ and needs to be taken to an Apple store 🙁 🙁
I’ve now discovered a work around. To get access to the iPhone menu’s, Remove the SIM card. You can then access the General menu and take it out of Flight mode. Replace the SIM and unlock with iTunes if you have remembered to bring a laptop with iTunes on it.
Oh, and iTunes is total bloatware – installing it on my little Eee with its 4GB drive consumed 500MB of space. Windows XP pro by comparison fits in 3GB.
Another annoyance is, away from home, I cannot do a full iPhone sync. As on any other computer I use it will lose all the music, contacts and applications if I sync.
Now if only I could order that Nexus…..
Live audio interviewing on the web….
A newish UK based service is Ipadio which enables you to record messages from your phone (it has a free iPhone app as well) direct to an embeddable file or a downloadable mp3 . It works well although I cocked up the membership by registering on the iPhone and on the iMac 🙂
I received a welcome email from Giles Bryan a director at Nemisys who obviously run Ipadio. Interestingly each item created is called a Phlog which is the name of a cool blogging photo blogging service created by Alan Bradburne that I used to use.
Here is a tiny interview with Sally of sallyinnorfolk fame,
Be interesting to see how it gets on. I wonder if Fred was an early stage investor….
Many thanks to athinkingman for his twitter:-
athinkingman – The ipadio iPhone app rocks! http://www.ipadio.com about 5 hours ago from web
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