After upgrading to iOS 4.2 on my iPhone 4 I noticed a strange behavior. When going to your Contacts App and selecting the “All Contacts” group, only 26 contacts show up, one each under one heading of the alphabet, i.e., one for ‘A’, one for ‘B’ and so forth. The names that showed up were not even the correct ones for those letters.
The weird thing is that all contacts were there. Searching for them revealed them without a problem. Continue reading
I was very excited that google street view was announced the same time I bought my iPhone, alas I could not figure out how to use it.
Apple’s or Google’s websites offered no help, so it took some google searches to reveal how to do this (comment 3 here).
Basically, you have to drop a pin and tap it. If street view is available at that location, there will be a small red circle with a white person on the left hand side of the pin’s label. This also works with pins from search results.
Tap that icon and the screen will rotate into street view. A small circle indicates the street location and cone of view. It doubles as the exit from street view, which is cute, but not very intuitive.
Unfortunately, there appears to be no way of knowing where street view is available as there is in google maps on a computer. All you can do is drop a pin, tap it, and see if street view is offered. This can be misleading if you are at the border of a street view covered area, where just a small distance over it may or may not work.
I have had my iPhone for nearly a month now and absolutely love almost everything about it – the great exception being the iPod.
Having been a 1st Gen iPod Nano user for three years, I surely was expecting the iPhone to support folders for my playlists. I still remember my excitement when iTunes started supporting folders, yet to this day no iPod supports them.
What is the point of creating an intricate folder structure for my classical music if that means that I end up with 20 playlists on my iPod/iPhone all called “Symphony No. 1”?
To make matters worse, there is no easy way to scroll to a particular playlist via a quick-jump alphabet on the right hand side. No, you have to flick through dozens and dozens of screens to get to the bottom playlists. The same applies to genres.
Why can’t we get a consistent UI with alphabet quick access for all lists? Why can’t we get folders, at least as an option for those people who care. I always thought of the iPhone more of being a computer than an iPod. In that case, folders should be standard.
Because I don’t have time to rename hundreds of playlists (nor do i feel like adding redundant information) I will probably continue listening to Pandora most of the time. This is a shame because I bought the 16 gig model with the iPod in mind, and in hindsight I may not be needing all this memory.