Derrick’s Musings

My thoughts on a variety of topics

Entries Tagged ‘iPhone’

iPhone 2.1 update in the wild

It appears that all the predictions of a Friday release for the iPhone 2.1 update were correct. According to the Apple Software Update page, the update fixes or adds the following:

Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
Significantly better battery life for most users
Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and [...]

Annoying iPhone keyboard bug

Don’t get me wrong, I love my iPhone. But like any device, it does have its shortcomings (read: bugs). One of my chief complaints would have to be this annoying bug where the keyboard will type extremely slow. The “solution” to this problem is to hold the home button and force quit the application, but this [...]

New iPhone/iPod touch plugin

To those of you viewing this blog on an iPhone or iPod touch, I have installed a new plugin that better renders the page for Mobile Safari. It is fairly fully featured and looks great on my iPhone.

Where’s my data?

This morning I was distressed (maybe a bit strong of a word) to find that I could not access the internet on my phone. Naturally I jumped on Google to try to find out if anyone else had this problem and if there was anything I could do on my part to fix it. I [...]

New school, new phone

 
So I certainly haven’t posted here in a long time, contrary to what I said and now I feel like starting up again. I’m going to a new school, SUNY Potsdam, which I love so far. The bigger news however is my new phone. I finally went out and got myself an iPhone. It’s wonderful and everything [...]