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iphone voice mail issues
Oct 14th
All the sudden I stopped getting voicemail. I thought perhaps nobody wanted to leave me any messages. I was fine with that. Then I tried it myself. Lo and behold! It just stopped working! This is yet another example of the lameness of AT&T and the iPhone. I can tell you that people like me will leave AT&T as soon as this exclusivity trash stops. I think Verizon is evil too, but I rarely had a service issue with them like I do with AT&T. Now perhaps this would have happened on Verizon’s network as well. After all, Apple recently seems to have stability issues with the last few months of firmware upgrades… Quite frustrating. I wish I could just go back to June 2009. Things were perfect then. Lately, the network seems slow, the phone is sloggier. I’ve reinstalled from scratch a few times without any improvements. More competition will be good…
The State of My iPhone
Sep 1st
The State of my iPhone is good. I’m super happy with it, and its by far the best phone I’ve ever had. I can’t say I’ve ever had a blackberry, but from what I’ve seen from the competition I have not been impressed. So I remain an Apple fan, and I don’t think the Android phone is ever going to beat it. The iPhone is to smart phones as Disneyland is to amusement parks. There are some that have compelling offerings, like open source, an open market, or a faster/bigger roller coaster. But having the business model where the entire experience is completely controlled is what makes Apple work, and probably the reason they are cringing at AT&T every day.
Since I’ve gone to the iPhone 3.0.1 I’ve stopped jail breaking my phone. The only reason I had jailbroken the phone in the past was because I wanted tethering, video, and Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out.
The video now comes with the iPhone 3GS, but on my iPhone 3G, I don’t have such luxury. But it turns out I didn’t use it all that much. So no big loss. Also the footage I came out with wasn’t all that great. I guess I don’t have that exciting of a life. So no big deal losing that.
Tethering
Tethering is the act of using your iPhone as a modem for your PC to get you on line. I used to use PDA net from the jail break stuff. But my friend recently showed me the link below:
http://help.BenM.at
From here it was easy to get tethering. I opened the above URL from my iPhone, followed the prompts, and now my iPhone can get my computer on line and I can do work.
As far as Mike Tyson’s Punch out, I think I’ll be content after having made it to Bald Bull 2. So I no longer have an NES emulator on my iPhone.
Application Updates
My top apps:
- Pandora
- TweedtDeck
- Classics
- The Weather Channel
- iSSH
- Shakespeare
- Constitution
- AP Mobile
- Bump
- vlingo
- GPSLite
The last 3 are ones that my friend just introduced me to.