Comments on: iPhone 1.1.3 Update First Impressions

By: Google Maps for Mobile Announces New Features, Unless you Have an iPhone | The Apple Blog

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:53:43 +0000

[...] just like last time, these aren’t immediately available for the iPhone. You may remember the iPhone 1.1.3 update in January 2008. Google Maps got a few new features, including the cell tower triangulation [...]

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:39:41 +0000

Just got the iPhone 1.1.3. and itunes 7.6 Works like a charm. One thing though. How do I add different sounds to the incoming mail function? I was able to add ringtones using my Win XP with no problem. But I cannot find the right way to add an mp3 or m4a/m4r file for the email messeges. And I find that the map find me function is so close that it shows my house in San Jose, Ca to within about 1/2 a block. I am impressed enough that I just might go out and buy a Mac computer.

By: Bob Rudis

Bob Rudis — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:03:33 +0000

@Galley & @Matt: tested the locator north of Seattle and it – scarily – centered right over my house. I was engrossed in a novel on the way in today, but I want to test it along the ride home to see if it picks up the trip points accurately.

I am *really* hoping they expose this functionality via the forthcoming API. Tons of potentially cool apps for this.

By: Bob Rudis

Bob Rudis — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:00:04 +0000

@Jake & @David: for starters, it needs a delete all; then there’s the issue of – prior to the new, somewhat-decent IMAP integration there – numerous glitches in dealing with Google IMAP and other POP-issues if you wanted complete integration with Google; there also no decent way to flag spam (I know that’s not as easy to solve as it sounds given the host of different services, but there could have been integration points via some API)

I also find the Mobile Mail app very slow, but that is most likely purely subjective.

A “plain text” view of option of mail messages would be nice, too.

If I hadn’t switched my own domain over Google for mail hosting I might not have been bugged as much by the lack of complete integration with Google. It may not be Mobile Mail’s fault (completely), either. If you’ve ever use the GMail Blackberry app, you get an idea of what I might have liked to see from Apple’s mail client implementation.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:29:39 +0000

Why is the default mail so horrible? I get my gmail through it and have it set up to use imap. It works flawlessly. Whats the deal?

By: Galley

Galley — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:08:14 +0000

My friend tested the location feature and found that being in area with many Wi-Fi hotspots is much more accurate than cellular only.

By: Matt Radel

Matt Radel — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:58:55 +0000

The only new feature that gives me any grief is the location on Google Maps. I live in Cincinnati, and even though there are a TON of access points around me (I'd guess cell towers as well), my location is really inaccurate. I'm still thrilled to have some sense of location, but it's a far cry from GPS.

By: David Appleyard

David Appleyard — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:26:48 +0000

Can I just ask why exactly you would quite flippantly brand the email client as ‘horrible’?