I don't want an iPhone. Am I normal?

Malaga0034_2

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/aug/09/apple-pips-exxon-as-worlds-biggest-company
all your were 25th july 2011,all mine were from august 2011 ???http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/aug/09/apple-pips-exxon-as-worlds-biggest-company

Chomeur

grumbler wrote: »

I am mad. 100% mad.

I'm 110% mad.

Chomeur

Anyway, I'm pretty much up and running with the San Francisco now. I particularly like the Google Sky Map app which I've downloaded and will probably go out and try that one clear evening.

I can't get the email to work. I have set up an email account on the phone but it just says it can't connect to the server. The phone didn't ask me for much detail when I did this - just my email address, password and whether it was POP or SMT3 so I wasn't surprised when it didn't work. I suppose I could try talking to Tesco and to Virgin about it, but I expect it will be a lot of hassle.

Can anyone recommend a good screen protector for the phone? They are available online but it's pretty hard to get much of an idea of what you're buying from the pictures. Maybe I should call in to an Orange store and see what they have.

owen1978

Chomeur wrote: »

I can't get the email to work. I have set up an email account on the phone but it just says it can't connect to the server. The phone didn't ask me for much detail when I did this - just my email address, password and whether it was POP or SMT3 so I wasn't surprised when it didn't work. I suppose I could try talking to Tesco and to Virgin about it, but I expect it will be a lot of hassle.

Try using this guide

http://www.nissan.com/mail_support/mobile/android_imap.htm

Before you start make a note of your email settings from your email provider, which normally consists of

imap server & port no.
smtp server & port no.

You can find these by logging into your email provider and use there help section and search for imap settings or if you can post your email provider in this thread, maybe someone can give you correct settings.

Chomeur

owen1978 wrote: »

Try using this guide

http://www.nissan.com/mail_support/mobile/android_imap.htm

Before you start make a note of your email settings from your email provider, which normally consists of

imap server & port no.
smtp server & port no.

You can find these by logging into your email provider and use there help section and search for imap settings or if you can post your email provider in this thread, maybe someone can give you correct settings.

My email provider is Virgin media. It doesn't look too encouraging from their help section:

"
Supported IMAP client list

Once you've enabled IMAP in your Virgin Media Mail account, just configure your mail client or wireless device to download Virgin Media Mail messages. To learn about configuration settings, click the name of your mail client or wireless device below.
If your mail client isn't listed here, we're not yet able to provide assistance with its configuration, but it may still work.
Mail Clients

• Outlook Express (Windows)
• Windows Mail
• Thunderbird 2.0"

http://help.virginmedia.com/system/selfservice.controller

Perhaps it can't be done.

lumpaywk

I have not read the following 5 pages from the OP so i may be well off topic but NO YOU ARE NOT MAD iPones are hurrendously overpriced and the only way around that is to get an older one but then its very very slow I have actually thrown mine at a wall in frustration. My advice is look at Windows Phone 7 most techies will warn you away but trust me i own one i also own a desire android phone and an iphone and neither come close to it esp for your use. The Mango update comes out this week i have already flashed it to my HD7 and its amazing. all android and ios have is bigger market places and thats only because they are older and its full of fart machines and sounboards.

Pros over iPhone and Android

Better battery life
Better Value
Sleeker interface
easier to use
more practical at getting info you need when you need it - use of hubs makes everything you need in one place ie facebook and twitter with your contact (i know android can do this but its clunky and less thought out just demo it in a shop and see)
so so much faster web browsing (it really put iphone to shame here)
less common so not just one in a croud
fastest sleep photo camera on the market (launch from locked screen again something other phones can do but not as fast)

reasons for android or ios
more cheap crappy apps that you will never ever use (all the top ones are already on wp7)

Any

Rev wrote: »

I have an iPhone 4. I blooming love it. Wouldn't want another phone, chose not to upgrade because there wasn't another phone I fancied. But my friend has a HTC desire and it does the same as the iPhone. My cousins all have a blackberry, it does the same as the iPhone. So will pretty much every smartphone on the market.

If all you want is to get on the net etc, but don't want to spend hundreds, you'd be insane to get an iPhone. There's plenty out there that do what you want for less than half the price.

But I never fail to be amused by the apple fanboi's v the apple haters argument that always ensues at the mere mention of any apple.

apple hater - 'Apple are overpriced crap.....people are sheep to buy them...'

apple fanboi - 'just because you can't afford it......'

It's a phone for christ sake, if it suits your needs and you want to spend the cash, great, of it doesn't and you don't, get a different phone. Why the need for the obsessive, repetitive argument?

Sooooo very true!!!!!
I don't get that argument either.

I have Iphone 3GS, due upgrading and am correlating between 4 or Blackberry Torch...
I like the way Iphone is built, it does last (my sister's is over 2.5 yrs old, she is still using her 3G (no S)) and she has 2 small children who regularly poke it with their sticky fingers and play games, and I love the easinest of the things... you press "update all" and all apps update, you plug it to PC and it loads new software..
But it does cost. It's like deciding between Kia and Ford. Didn't hear anyone saying "ford poncy boy", "what a waste of money" etc from Kia drivers...

vikingaero

The worst thing about all smartphones and the iPhone is poor battery life. I ditched both my iPhone and HTC for a Crackberry and can eek out 5 days from one charge.

Dreamnine

I wouldn't want an iPhone even if they were the same price I paid for my Orange SF a year ago...

I would have absolutely no use for an iPhone.

Cash-Strapped.T32

Any wrote: »

Sooooo very true!!!!!

I'm not particularly a fan of any OS, and I have my arguments with all of them so please don't think I'm being argumentative in any way mate, it's just the way I see things.

and I love the easinest of the things... you press "update all" and all apps update, you plug it to PC and it loads new software.

That's a very good example of the ease-of-use iPhone owners and many other people really appreciate which is cool, but it would drive me potty.

I would hate to have some device unilaterally decide to update all software on my machine, phone, or anything;
What if I have several different instances of the same program, each one of a different version - or if I deliberately keep an older version of a program? (like how I'm deliberately using an older version of Firefox to read this page right now).

Operating systems like vista, iOs, etc.., many "early learning centre" apps like the AOL isp software, and many PC/Laptop manufactures all try to take all the control away from the user and have been doing so for years, slowly turning what used to be pretty basic functions & standard knowledge into hidden, geeky "advanced settings" that now people ignore with a blase attitude as if only geeks ought to be interested in how their machine actually works.


So I suppose that in your (very good) example with Kias & Fords..;

But it does cost. It's like deciding between Kia and Ford. Didn't hear anyone saying "ford poncy boy", "what a waste of money" etc from Kia drivers...

..I would hazard that if Kia owners as a group tended to be the sort of pepole that took a greater interest in how their cars worked, and not only did they have cars which could be tweaked to be more efficient than fords, but also very quickly gained the knowledge to work on them..

..whereby if the Ford owners were all stuck with main dealers who ripped them off, hardly any of them knew how the engine worked, & even if they did, had no ability to upgrade or modify their car after it left the showroom, then you would probably find "Kia elitism" springing up in the motor forums too..


As I say, I'm not trying to cause a ruck at all, but that in my personal opinion is the root cause of much of the disagreement you describe above, that, and the fact that many people are irritated by Apple's marketing & sudden rise to ubiquitous, "Everyone who is anyone must have one1!" status, as described by the ancient Chinese saying;
"no-one likes a smart-ar**. "