does anyone have a Jawbone Jambox or any other semi-portable sound system/docking station?

the Jambox is wireless, so no docking/charging option, but i like the idea of keeping my phone near me while playing music . the $199 price tag is a little too extreme though.

3/5/2012 8:52:42 AM

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"They took a wrong turn and got stuck in the middle of nowhere"

Siri wouldn't let you take a wrong turn.

3/5/2012 10:49:35 AM

^i don't think siri provides turn by turn spoken directions.

3/5/2012 11:44:44 AM

she doesnt

and neither does google maps.

3/5/2012 5:43:13 PM

Ummm okay, no google maps doesn't. (there are several other apps that do though)

3/5/2012 6:09:47 PM

best one I have found

WAZE

it is awesome, and free.

3/5/2012 7:12:46 PM

Interesting.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/7/2852560/ios-5-1-iphone-4s-att-4g-indicator

3/7/2012 4:07:31 PM

ugh the 5.1 update ruined my jailbreak

3/13/2012 9:00:05 PM

^isnt that usually what happens if you update?

3/13/2012 11:35:43 PM

No. It's what ALWAYS happens when you update.

3/14/2012 8:01:21 AM

lol

3/14/2012 11:55:55 AM

Hahah yeah.

3/14/2012 12:05:28 PM

yeah I n00bed all over myself with that one

hopefully it won't take them 6 months to figure out how to get around the 5.1

3/14/2012 12:09:12 PM

Is there any possibility of iphones ever getting SWYPE (or their equivalent)?? Its pretty much the only thing holding me back from getting one. That, and I do love the Samsung's large screen and quality...but I would probably give it up for the iphone if not for the swype.

3/14/2012 12:11:05 PM

I tried it once and didn't like it. I guess there's a learning curve.

There's a version in iPhone if it's jailbroken. Haven't tried it yet though.

3/14/2012 1:06:26 PM

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"I tried it once and didn't like it. I guess there's a learning curve. "

Definitely a decent learning curve. But I can write faster than with a regular computer keyboard now. I really dislike the regular touchscreen keyboard and SWYPE more than makes up for it. I'm guessing its under patent for Android??

3/14/2012 1:21:27 PM

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"Definitely a decent learning curve. But I can write faster than with a regular computer keyboard now."

I highly doubt that unless you type really slow on a keyboard.

3/14/2012 1:34:45 PM

Swype freaks me out.

3/14/2012 2:11:36 PM

^^ It's pretty friggin close. You'd be surprised. Only thing will slow it down is if I get sloppy. Taking a little longer to go back and make corrections.

But it is crazy fast. Much faster than typing on a blackberry and ridiculously faster than typing on a regular touchscreen keyboard. I text and email with work all day long...the iphone would slow me down, but mostly it would annoy because I'd be going from something much faster to something much slower. Don't know if I can make that leap.

Quote :

"Swype freaks me out."

Why?

[Edited on March 14, 2012 at 2:37 PM. Reason : .]

3/14/2012 2:37:38 PM

As stated above, there is a version of swype for iPhone, but it SUCKS. I'll go ahead and give the real version the benefit of the doubt as I've never actually used it, but the version they ported to iPhone is unusable.

[Edited on March 14, 2012 at 3:51 PM. Reason : Autocorrected to skype]

3/14/2012 3:48:48 PM

ITT we learn that jbrick83 texts with the voracity of a 13 year old girl.

3/14/2012 4:05:45 PM

email son...email

3/14/2012 6:03:43 PM

Picking one up tomorrow. Pretty psyched. Still on a blackberry after all these years, you fucking believe that shit?

3/14/2012 6:13:17 PM

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"^^ It's pretty friggin close."

So you must be REALLY slow at typing on a keyboard.

After some short googling:

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2010/03/23/swype-sets-touchscreen-typing-record-already-set-to-be-beaten/

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"Page blazed through 160 characters 35.54 seconds, crushing the previous record of 40.91 seconds. That’s roughly 270 characters per minute or 54 words per minute. I would be extremely impressed, except I had already seen someone else shred that with 81 wpm on his iPhone."

Official Guinness book of world records Swype record: 54 wpm.

Unofficial iPhone record (video): 81-83 wpm.

Sure that article is old. But still. You get the idea.

54 is really slow. 81 is even slow for a typist. I type anywhere from 90-120 wpm on a keyboard.

3/14/2012 6:16:09 PM

good thing you can plug in a keyboard then

[Edited on March 14, 2012 at 6:24 PM. Reason : ]

3/14/2012 6:24:31 PM

Wait, so Swype only allows world record holders to type ~50 wpm?

Shit, I type slow as balls and still get out ~30 wpm on my iPhone with the stock keyboard. Maybe the iPhone version of swype isn't so different than the Android version afterall.

3/14/2012 6:32:58 PM

Bottom line: Swype > blackberry keyboard > iphone touchscreen keyboard

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"Still on a blackberry after all these years, you fucking believe that shit?"

That's just ridiculous.

3/14/2012 6:33:06 PM

If all you care about is speed and precision, I absolutely refuse to believe that sliding one finger on a screen can even come anywhere close to being as good as using two fingers and hovering over the keyboard. There's just no way. I always thought the appeal of swype was just convenience.

3/14/2012 6:37:17 PM

I mean you could always get some of these:

3/14/2012 6:45:39 PM

^^ Do you mean a touchscreen keyboard?? Sure, a regular keyboard is faster, but there is no way a touchscreen keyboard is faster than swype.

^ And those are awesome.

3/14/2012 7:10:01 PM

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"but there is no way a touchscreen keyboard is faster than swype."

I disagree.

3/14/2012 7:11:53 PM

Until someone comes in here who has used both Swype on an Android phone and an iPhone keyboard extensively I don't think anyone has an argument.

3/14/2012 7:15:50 PM

tried the update today and it wont restore my phone now.

on the phone with support currently

3/14/2012 7:47:20 PM

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"Until someone comes in here who has used both Swype on an Android phone and an iPhone keyboard extensively I don't think anyone has an argument."

6 months or so of swype on my old DX. Right around a year on my iphone now. No comparison. I was quick with swype but the iphone's "intelligence" makes all the difference. I can text on my iphone just looking at the screen every 3-4 words or so and everything is correct 95% of the time. Before I learned to just type & trust the iphone dictionary, I was a bit slower. Now it's much faster for me. Maybe I wasn't the best swype user or something but...

3/14/2012 8:48:18 PM

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"Until someone comes in here who has used both Swype on an Android phone and an iPhone keyboard extensively I don't think anyone has an argument."

Swype on Android is worlds better than the default android keyboard, but it's got nothing on the iPhone. Maybe if I mucked with the accuracy vs speed settings, but it has a hard enough time being accurate now, I can't imagine upping the speed would improve anything.

3/14/2012 9:11:57 PM

has anyone else noticed that their iTunes Match "cloud" is pushing edited versions of the songs they own out instead of explicit?

mine has just recently started doing this. one point in amazon cloud's column if they don't rectify this soon.

3/15/2012 12:07:28 PM

I read something about how they were doing that a while back but that they had a fix planned. I would have thought it would have been fixed by now, maybe it's a reoccurrence in the bug.

3/15/2012 1:07:00 PM

word.

all i saw when i googled it was a bunch of people complaining about it from back in Nov/Dec '11.

for me it only just started doing it about a week ago.

and it's not even every track on an album, or every expletive in a song. so bizarre.

3/15/2012 3:34:51 PM

So I tried to update my work iphone to 5.X, and I ended up with an error message, and the phone was stuck in recovery mode after that. Now the damn thing won't charge! I've tried a couple hard resets but the damn thing doesn't have any power so I'm not even sure the hard reset is working.

Any ideas?

3/22/2012 9:09:51 AM

my mom ran the update w/o her phone plugged in & it bricked. all it would show is the plug it into itunes screen. we tried everything. she ended up taking it to an apple store. they couldn't fix it & gave her another one.

good luck

3/22/2012 9:34:48 AM

^ would it at least charge?

3/22/2012 9:49:58 AM

it wouldn't do anything at all

3/22/2012 11:22:48 AM

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"does anyone have a Jawbone Jambox or any other semi-portable sound system/docking station?"

you said you care about price so this probably doesn't apply to you, but I have two of the Bose Soundlinks and they're flawless. $299. Not that bad to me.

3/22/2012 12:16:00 PM

My phone screwed up on the iOS5 update. Had to do a restore which luckily only cost me whatever emails I had stored and not all of my app data.

3/22/2012 2:33:38 PM

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"my mom ran the update w/o her phone plugged in & it bricked. all it would show is the plug it into itunes screen. we tried everything. she ended up taking it to an apple store. they couldn't fix it & gave her another one. "

its a simple fix.

you need to go in and delete the update from your PC so itunes has to download a new one. its just a corrupt download.

reinstall and re-update and it works fine.

same thing happened to mine. its a simple fix really.

3/22/2012 4:44:17 PM

^in what folder does iTunes store phone software downloads?

and are these large downloads something you can safely delete?

3/22/2012 4:46:58 PM

yeah, its in the Appdata and the roaming part...it will say Itunes update, go into those files and delete it.

its ok, i tunes will access it, realize its gone and replace it.

3/22/2012 7:49:53 PM

i can't buy/download any music via itunes on my phone anymore. i click the song, type in my password, & the little red 1 pops up on downloads. i open the list of things downloading & the song shows up, but it just says "Waiting..." under the name. it will do this for some indeterminate amount of time then a message pops up saying "Unable to Purchase. somethingsomething try again later."

i've followed the instructions found here
http://www.blog.gleff.com/2012/03/app-store-unable-to-purchase-fix/
about forcing it to rebuild the database file. even though that is for the app store, i thought it would help since it's the same type of problem. it didn't fix it though. i've been googling for forever & can't find a solution. any ideas?

*purchasing/downloading worked fine before 5.1. i have no idea if the update is the cause of this, but this is the first time i've bought something since updating.

Quote :

"its a simple fix. you need to go in and delete the update from your PC so itunes has to download a new one. its just a corrupt download."

not a simple fix for her. the computer she uses with itunes crashed a couple of days before her phone bricked.

[Edited on March 27, 2012 at 7:49 PM. Reason : ]

3/27/2012 7:43:46 PM

that shouldnt be a problem, she should be able to do it on any computer. She'll just have to authorize it.

3/29/2012 9:49:27 PM

if you plug the phone into any other computer (which she did try doing with my dad's laptop), it asks to overwrite all of what's on the phone. i wasn't with her when she did all this, but that's what she said happened. anyway, like i said earlier, she took the phone to the apple store a couple of weeks ago, they couldn't do anything with it, & they gave her another one.

[Edited on March 29, 2012 at 10:13 PM. Reason : commas]

3/29/2012 10:12:59 PM