nasa1974
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KD, I haven't forgotten abpout the phone. The wife just got back from Florida, I have been working a lot at Best Buy and I am trying to come up with a fair price.
I will touch base after Thanksgiving.
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KD, I haven't forgotten abpout the phone. The wife just got back from Florida, I have been working a lot at Best Buy and I am trying to come up with a fair price.
I will touch base after Thanksgiving.
nasa1974
Moderator
YEP!! I am charging mine about every other day. I have read that Apple has a fix coming, but no date yet. I have read some web sites that tell how to improve battery life.
Warrenlm
Well-known member
Re battery life on the 4S. New owners noticing a problem?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...tery-life-Apple-admits-problem-weeks-fix.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...tery-life-Apple-admits-problem-weeks-fix.html
nasa1974
Moderator
KD, I will talk with my wife and let you know.
KevinD
Well-known member
Do you still have the Captivate? If so what do you want for it? Mine is having trouble with the USB port.
nasa1974
Moderator
Yep! But the contracts are a year apart. I had my phone first and then added the wife and daughters a year later on the family plan. Since then the daughters have moved over to Verizon and gotten married. My darling wife and I have stayed with ATT but our upgrades are a year apart. So sometime around August I will upgrade my wifes phone. :cheesy: Simple! I think?
burrocrat
Well-known member
you've got to be kidding me, what kind of deal is that, did you have to sign a contract?
nasa1974
Moderator
I can't upgrade my wife until August next year so I gave her my 3G. Will deficiently get her the 4S or better next year. She had a Samsung Captivate and didn't like it. Made a big mistake with iTunes. Uploaded all my stuff to the 4S and then proceeded to erase all the numbers in my old phone that the wife wouldn't need or use. Work numbers, girl friends, etc. 
Any way I plugged the 3G into iTunes but forgot to change the settings. So the next time I plugged in my 4S it uploaded all the information from the 3G. It took me 2 days to re-enter all the lost information. 
Just an FYI for everyone. Viva La Migra I think you guys will really like the 4S. Good luck.
Any way I plugged the 3G into iTunes but forgot to change the settings. So the next time I plugged in my 4S it uploaded all the information from the 3G. It took me 2 days to re-enter all the lost information. Just an FYI for everyone. Viva La Migra I think you guys will really like the 4S. Good luck.
Viva_La_Migra
Well-known member
Cool. I've ordered one for my wife for her birthday. I'll have to wait and save a bit before ordering mine.:embarrest:
Handballer
Active member
I got one. Cost more than my 32" TV. I'm still learning to use the darn thing. I'm retired so I don't have that much spare time.
KevinD
Well-known member
Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket Announced For AT&T's 4G LTE Network
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/31/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-skyrocket-att-4g-lte_n_1067496.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/31/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-skyrocket-att-4g-lte_n_1067496.html
burrocrat
Well-known member
I'm going to keep talkiing about android apps that I think are cool here, Google Sky Maps:
This is a simple and free one again, that's the kind I dig, and if you're on android then google already owns you anyways, they can even back up all you stuff for free to your insurance paid replacement if you lose your phone or smash it with rock or something, overnight.
So if you open this app it is literally a window on the sky, it will find you, show you what the night sky looks like from where you are at, even gradiates light/dark from horizon to horizon, all you have to do is point it up. So much for my audobon field guide, practically useless now, still good information but I have to hunt for it and compare and think and the notes in the margins can be replicated through notepad or diary or any other of a jillion apps, I won't be carrying that anymore, it's like a museum piece in my library now.
It's like looking through a magnifying glass, everything you see on the phone is projected out into space, or maybe it's the other way around, still working on that, but if you have a smart phone you might want to get it and spend some quality time out in the open tonight, amazing. You can turn on/off layers, see the constellations drawn out, fuzzy band where the milky way is, even each planet, matter of fact I saw uranus last night.
Seriously though, it's cool.
This is a simple and free one again, that's the kind I dig, and if you're on android then google already owns you anyways, they can even back up all you stuff for free to your insurance paid replacement if you lose your phone or smash it with rock or something, overnight.
So if you open this app it is literally a window on the sky, it will find you, show you what the night sky looks like from where you are at, even gradiates light/dark from horizon to horizon, all you have to do is point it up. So much for my audobon field guide, practically useless now, still good information but I have to hunt for it and compare and think and the notes in the margins can be replicated through notepad or diary or any other of a jillion apps, I won't be carrying that anymore, it's like a museum piece in my library now.
It's like looking through a magnifying glass, everything you see on the phone is projected out into space, or maybe it's the other way around, still working on that, but if you have a smart phone you might want to get it and spend some quality time out in the open tonight, amazing. You can turn on/off layers, see the constellations drawn out, fuzzy band where the milky way is, even each planet, matter of fact I saw uranus last night.
Seriously though, it's cool.
burrocrat
Well-known member
OK, I found a gps solution:
GPS Essentials, free. It does everything you would expect with a simple interface and displays familiar to any regular gps user.
You can view maps, topo, sat imagery layered with your routes, multiple targets, waypoints. Takes tracks at specifiable intervals, photos with location embedded, imports route information from google maps if so desired to follow later.
The best part is the customizable widgets. You can choose and configure arrangement/display of any imaginable combination: location, speeds, distance to/from, even moon phases if you are into that sort of thing.
Tested to accuracy of 16' with poor constellation, it's not like you'll use it to call in a bunker buster, if you can't find your head from a hole in the ground at that scale then you got bigger problems than location.
Turns my phone/mobile computer into a $200 handheld unit, did I mention for free?
GPS Essentials, free. It does everything you would expect with a simple interface and displays familiar to any regular gps user.
You can view maps, topo, sat imagery layered with your routes, multiple targets, waypoints. Takes tracks at specifiable intervals, photos with location embedded, imports route information from google maps if so desired to follow later.
The best part is the customizable widgets. You can choose and configure arrangement/display of any imaginable combination: location, speeds, distance to/from, even moon phases if you are into that sort of thing.
Tested to accuracy of 16' with poor constellation, it's not like you'll use it to call in a bunker buster, if you can't find your head from a hole in the ground at that scale then you got bigger problems than location.
Turns my phone/mobile computer into a $200 handheld unit, did I mention for free?
wwwtractor
Member
Use the Task Manager to kill programs and turn off the GPS and WiFi when not using it.
