Got the new iPhone 3gs

Droolinggimp · 15 Jul 2009 at 09:24

Upgraded my N95 black 8bg to the iPhone. I am very pleased with it so far.

Anyone else got one? What apps do you rec for it. I am trying not to buy any so free ones are a must..also using songs purchased from itunes only to be used as ringtones.... i hate that.

z0mbi3 · 15 Jul 2009 at 09:25

Probably better looking in the apple sub forum mate.

Droolinggimp · 15 Jul 2009 at 09:26

oh yeah.. totaly forgot about that.. not one to frequent out of photos, general and gameing.. sorry

Can a mod move please..

me227 · 15 Jul 2009 at 15:56

Off topic, but what kind of deal did you get with O2? I'm due an upgrade in about 2 weeks time.

Rhys · 15 Jul 2009 at 15:59

i think iphone talk should stay in the mobile phone forum. Makes sense to me.

morkfromork · 15 Jul 2009 at 16:02

I agree with rhys. After all it is a mobile phone.

oap · 15 Jul 2009 at 16:31

Rhys said:
i think iphone talk should stay in the mobile phone forum. Makes sense to me.

Agreed, but the apple snobs always disagree

alexthecheese · 15 Jul 2009 at 16:34

RE: The ringtones can only be purchased songs from itunes - all you need to do (according to my girlfriend) is change the filename extension and then you can use any mp3.

Hen_Dawg · 15 Jul 2009 at 19:03

me227 said:
Off topic, but what kind of deal did you get with O2? I'm due an upgrade in about 2 weeks time.

Same deal everyone else gets I'm sure as they don't budge

Cobertizo · 15 Jul 2009 at 20:16

Droolinggimp said:
Upgraded my N95 black 8bg to the iPhone. I am very pleased with it so far.

Anyone else got one? What apps do you rec for it. I am trying not to buy any so free ones are a must..also using songs purchased from itunes only to be used as ringtones.... i hate that.

I've made the same switch - very happy so far. Personally the main apps I've found useful are Free RSS, Showtimes (for local cinema listings), and TVGuide. I've set up a bookmark thing for the National Rail PDA website to help with train times. Worth looking at the Apple sub forums (inc. the hardware one, which I think is where the main apps discussion is for some reason) for more thoughts.

paradigm · 15 Jul 2009 at 20:48

alexthecheese said:
RE: The ringtones can only be purchased songs from itunes - all you need to do (according to my girlfriend) is change the filename extension and then you can use any mp3.

Not quite.

You need to open iTunes, go to any song you want to make into a ringtone, right-click it and "get info". Go to the "options" tab, and make sure that the "stop time" is no longer than 40 seconds.

Now go back to the library screen, and right-click the song again. Click on "Create AAC version". Now find the newly made AAC version in your iTunes Music folder (usually c:\documents and settings\[username]\my documents\my music\iTunes...). Rename the file from <songname>.m4a to <songname>.m4r. Now double click it so that iTunes opens the file, it will add it to the ringtones folder.

Now remove the duplicate you created before from your main library, job done.

alexthecheese · 15 Jul 2009 at 21:01

paradigm said:
Not quite.

You need to open iTunes, go to any song you want to make into a ringtone, right-click it and "get info". Go to the "options" tab, and make sure that the "stop time" is no longer than 40 seconds.

Now go back to the library screen, and right-click the song again. Click on "Create AAC version". Now find the newly made AAC version in your iTunes Music folder (usually c:\documents and settings\[username]\my documents\my music\iTunes...). Rename the file from <songname>.m4a to <songname>.m4r. Now double click it so that iTunes opens the file, it will add it to the ringtones folder.

Now remove the duplicate you created before from your main library, job done.

Ha, I got an extremely cut down version of that! Surprised she got it working!

GreenMint · 15 Jul 2009 at 21:01

Made the same upgrade myself on launch day and loving it more and more each day

Now just need to find a good, slimline case that doesn't hide the white back!

fowler002 · 15 Jul 2009 at 21:20

TimBrad said:
Made the same upgrade myself on launch day and loving it more and more each day

Now just need to find a good, slimline case that doesn't hide the white back!

if the discolourment due to the overheating of the iphone is anything to go by, you'd want to hide the 'white' back

GreenMint · 15 Jul 2009 at 21:26

Only been 1 or 2 cases of that, and mine is not one of them (so far {touch wood})

Wicksta · 15 Jul 2009 at 22:54

oap said:
Agreed, but the apple snobs always disagree

I was about to correct that to snob, but remembered there are two of them now.

me227 · 15 Jul 2009 at 23:22

Hen_Dawg said:
Same deal everyone else gets I'm sure as they don't budge

Yeah just wanted to confirm really. I was going to get it then I saw how crap the contracts are and heard they wouldn't budge.

The_Abyss · 16 Jul 2009 at 00:55

paradigm said:
Not quite.

You need to open iTunes, go to any song you want to make into a ringtone, right-click it and "get info". Go to the "options" tab, and make sure that the "stop time" is no longer than 40 seconds.

Now go back to the library screen, and right-click the song again. Click on "Create AAC version". Now find the newly made AAC version in your iTunes Music folder (usually c:\documents and settings\[username]\my documents\my music\iTunes...). Rename the file from <songname>.m4a to <songname>.m4r. Now double click it so that iTunes opens the file, it will add it to the ringtones folder.

Now remove the duplicate you created before from your main library, job done.

Got to love this. For an iPhone, it is a feature. For anything else, it is a lazy UI or a terrible OS.

Strife212 · 16 Jul 2009 at 03:26

The_Abyss said:
Got to love this. For an iPhone, it is a feature. For anything else, it is a lazy UI or a terrible OS.

No ones said it's a feature :confused:

The_Abyss · 16 Jul 2009 at 08:40

Someone will be along in a few hours to say how cool it is.