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Wife pulled the plug

Discussion in 'Pull up a chair and sit for a spell' started by cowboy, Nov 26, 2010.

  1. cowboy

    cowboy Moderator Staff Member

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    She took me out today & bought me the Iphons 3GS , I got to play with it just a bit during her & our Daughters pop into stores & out sometimes thats all the did so tomorrow & my play time & try to get it all set up for me :cool::D:D
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    I almost pulled the trigger on one last month for my wife but as long as they are only with AT&T it doesn't make any sense. Coverage where I live is horrible so I'll wait until Verizon starts carrying the iphone next year.
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    Gave my wife my 3GS model when I got the new Iphone 4.
    The iphone 4 is faster and has facetime.
    Facetime is really great too.
    Its about the easiest smart phone to use. And the more you do the more you find out it will do.
    Use the heck out of the notepad.
    Have you linked it to microsoft outlook and let it sync your names and phone numbers to your Iphone yet.
    And have you pluged it in to the computer and done a download with it.
    That is super important. It updates the software and firmware.
    And if you go to Apps and go to free and then do a search there are all kinds of apps.
    I been wanting to git on of the apps for 99cents that makes yer iphone a DB meter.
    Got the lever so I can use my iphone for a level.
    Downloaded The weather Chanel and its great.

    Took a day showing my wife how it operates. She can't leave home without hers now. She has really fell in love with her Iphone, with all it does for her to make her life a little easier.
    On the Iphone 4 you can use the camera or video recorder to look forward, or switch around to you. YOu can record a video of yerself with you talkin and send it.
    Sent my wife a Video of me while she was gone to Albq, last week. and she called and said she really liked it.
    She showed it to her mom. I said What !
    You showe my mush to yer mom. Man please.......:(
    Hope you enjoy your iphone,
    See how much you have learned later on. It will do more than you think it will.

    Check out what all is on Youtube for the iphone..

    YouTube - iPhone Basic Functions : How to Transfer Contacts From Computer (Outlook or Any Other) to iPhone
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    I travel up and down the lake 45 miles up one side and down another side.
    I hear everybody complain in places about AT&T and others complainin about Verizon in other places. Some folks has both of them. AT&T and Verizon


    But if yer waitins, got some bad news.
    Verizon iPhone 4: the ill-timed Grinch who stole Christmas 2010 : Beatweek Magazine
  5. cowboy

    cowboy Moderator Staff Member

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    still learning things on it the kids called this morning so the wife & I spent the day with them running around ,& have a busy day set up for tomorrow oh monday wife goes back to work & I can rest some & play with the phone :D
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    Since the phone is new, you should se
    e if there ain't a apple store down next to you. They can save you a lot of time showing you how to use it.
    If you have a notebook computer you use , it might help to take it so they can show you more.

    I see a store at Baybrook, Mall

    Apple Retail Store Locator

    Learn to use yer thumbs to type on the Iphone, it will make it easier look at this and practise.

    YouTube - Apple iPhone mini-review!
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    cowboy Moderator Staff Member

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    The store in baybrook is so busy you have leave your name & they call you & you have about 10 min to get back to them , three of my kids have the i phone thats how i got intersted in them
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    Gee why didn't you say something earlier.
    If you got kids using the iphone, the other kids that has them are going to show each other how to do different things.
    You got it licked if you can keep up with what they are showing you.
    Its really a pretty simple Smart phone to use. Its super user friendly too.
    You got some goood teachers now........
    Now you can sit down and bond with the kids ...........:D
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    cowboy Moderator Staff Member

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    heck I stay bonded with my kids even the one I don't care for , I as for the phone I just need some time to play with it wife's had me real busy this weekend darn near two days at home depot for stuff for her house she wants it done by christmas , told her good luck But I do what I can just make life a bit easyer to agree:D
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    Ahhhhhhhhhhh

    My Wife would just probaly blow a fuse.......:rant:

    I ain't into Honey Dews.
    If you do the 1st she will have another........:gah:

    She asked me to do something 12 yrs ago, forgot what it was....... Hmmmmmmmmm.:D
  11. cowboy

    cowboy Moderator Staff Member

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    LMAO i do the honey doews cause I pay for her house & my shop & have to live here as well , so don't mind fixing it up when it needs it & some of this mess is left over from IKE :gah:
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    Got the eye fone...

    Buddy has the Droid (real Droid not all the other copies using Android)

    Droid has some apps that blow eye fone away...

    Glad it's getting moved to other carriers so it might force ATT to
    be competitive on rates.
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    Not sure I can git a better rate, Got 2 iphones, with INternet on both phones and like 1100 anytime minutes to share for fifty something a month with my wifes discount.

    Got friends with the Motorola Droid, They are pretty hard for older folks to operate.
    Chucktx has a smart phone thowing him curves tooo.
    Iphone is super user friendly and easy as heck to use.
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    I thought maybe you went into a turkey coma and she thought "What the He!! the life insurance is payed up".;)
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    hotroadking Super Moderator Staff Member

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    yeah I"ve run both, they are about the same.

    There are a lot of apps being done for Droid,
    Apple controls 100% of the apps for iphone.

    Try and open a forwarded PDF or WMV file.
    Apple won't let you....

    It's that old mentality of control, I don't care for...

    But it works fine....

    On the Droid you can hook up to radio, start Pandora
    and then toggle to GPS while you ride, with map, route etc (Better
    than Iphone base map) it will speak directions through the radio, interrupt
    music, then go back to pandora...
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    YOu are probaly takin about the Droid X, its on Verizon network
    My OL gits a 2% discount with Verizon, and a 12% discount with Cingular.
    I've seen a lot of the droids I didn't care how they operated.
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    hotroadking Super Moderator Staff Member

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    if you are ATT and Hog Member you get a 12% discount on top,
    Go to Hog website and sign up need HOG member and ATT Account

    I can tell you that Sprint for Unlimited Internet, Text, email, and a lot more
    minutes it is close to half the cost of an Iphone,

    When Verizon puts the eye out it will help drop costs.
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    To git Sprints deal, YOu have to be on the Sprint network for that to work.
    Up here in the Country, Spint is a Iffy phone.
    Sprint has no stores here either. Unless Wally World has em.
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    hotroadking Super Moderator Staff Member

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    Yeah we're in a city and sprint sucks in our area
    it's why I dropped them couldn't call from home

    However 6 years ago I dumped att for the same reason

    now att has coverage, go figure...
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    Gave this to the OL, let her see what she can do with it.
    Both our memberships for HOG has expired. Kinda hard to belong to them for what you pay and use.:rolleyes:
    I got a GPS and their maps just ain't detailed, and the mag's they send me just don't cut it. And I don't do Hog rides either. They ride too slow for me.

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