Duly noted.

It all comes down to knowing the customer and their preferences. As odd as it seems to me as a 44yo, many Gen-Y and Millennials prefer it.

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'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

Too late:
Apple to unveil iPhone 6 'on September 9' - Telegraph

joy of IPhone, yours' is a fossil the day you unwrap it.

Darn, I probably missed being the first in line . . .

My IT tech client tells me that the soon to be released ios8 will allow the use of aftermarket keyboards for all functions. I downloaded the Arrow Note keyboard app but it only functions on its own little page. Pretty much the stock keyboard with the addition of a line of cursor arrow keys at tope and a comma+space key in the middle of that.

My client showed me how if you hold your finger on the text you get a round bubble of magnified text with an easily placeable cursor. Does help a lot though I'd still like the cursor arrow keys. Voice to text is remarkable but editing usually needed. Double tapping the space key for period+space is another useful trick. Old hat for longtime users but I didn't know about it til he told me. Also double tapping the shift key gives caps lock.

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My client's wife is ESL, raised in Indonesia. She says Siri doesn't understand her. Says the iPhone is racist (jokingly). I predict that soon various ESL versions will be downloadable. I mean please, native Hindi speakers, for example, do seem to have much similarity in their patterns of speaking English.

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On a semi-related note, where are the physical sliders? If we're moving to all text why in the world don't we have keyboards?

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WGAS -- as long as it does what you want it to, having the newest and greatest is irrelevant.

keyboards . . . so 20th C.


Scotty at FlexiCorp. using an Apple Computer - YouTube

They could change that be reducing the rate of innovation.

This is how I'm communicating more and more, subs, buyers, renters I start a text thread. Having a smartphone makes my job so much simpler.


I have a 5S, plan on getting the 6S next fall since mine is just turning a year old and still in good working condition, I have 5 lines on my business plan so I can update with trade in for pretty cheap whenever I want really.

BTW elchivito keep those phones on wifi or your going to burn threw your data fast, you really need 1-2 gigs per phone, I'm averaging about 8 gigs a month for my 5 lines and that's with one being a flip phone.

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The kid is on his own. I'm home when using the phone nearly all the time and in range of my wifi so it's not much of an issue. This particular plan shuts the wifi off at 500 Mb so there are no overages. I suspect their plan is that many won't like that and upgrade in short order. If I want to use data rich stuff I'm probably on a laptop anyhow.

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1997 Suzuki Sidekick 4x4
1993 Toyota 4wd Pickup 226K and counting

5c is my work phone. It frustrates me that there is no manual; you have to discover stuff for yourself , or have friends who know.
Every one of my field techs has a smart phone. It wasn't that long ago that we trained techs and expected them to know what they are doing.
Sigh....

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Be frustrated no more . . .

http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1565/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf

A couple teenage kids I know blew through 30 gigs/month easy on our 15 gig plan. Until I put limits on their phones. In their semi-defense, they weren't using their phones any more than they usually do (which is too much but I pick my battles), it just happened to be while we were up in ME and they didn't have their WiFi umbilical attached.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)