iPhone

I am often out lying.

So I've started getting spam texts from numbers like 1(410)000-001, 1(410)000-002. AT&T, iPhone 3G. Any tips on how to cut that shit out?

ddt

Those are typically gateways, AIM or Yahoo crossovers, perhaps? Do you have any accounts set up for "mobile" delivery?

Good point. I'll have to check -- I haven't touched an AIM or Yahoo IM account in, hm, literally years.

ddt

Why is there no simple app for number-blocking on the iPhone? I mean, it doesn't even have to be handled on a host, the phone itself can choose to ignore calls and SMS's, or auto-route them to voice mail. Would it conflict with a carrier revenue stream? I'm sure Apple would have to create the app, since it would involve API's that I'm sure that third parties shouldn't have access to.

I bought Ambien off the internet a decade ago. Now, twice a month, I get calls in broken English that open with, "You remembah you buy Viagra or Cialis from us?" Aside from the intrusiveness of the marketing, it's kind of insulting to have a call from a stranger start with the assumption that I suffer from erectile dysfunction.



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Yeah, that's an option I like on Android. One of the options for contacts in addition to a custom ringtone is to just send them directly to voicemail. I have set up a contact named "Spam" which I have populated with a bunch of telemarketer numbers.

Nice. I wonder why Apple won't/can't do that?

That still wouldn't solve my real problem. I can ignore texts when they come in. I want to avoid the jumping-for-the-phone-noise in the first place.

ddt

Can you set custom alert tones for contacts? If so, just set a silent alert tone for those numbers.

Those particular kinds of messages you have to stop at the source because they're serialized. Custom ringtones don't work when the number changes every time...

Oops.

desktop, multitouch. Someone has it out for Apple.

I find it odd that "multitouch," which was pretty much unique when Apple rolled out the first iPhone, has now become general use because of the iPhone's ubiquity and now cannot be trademarked because it is in general use. Even though the application for trademark was filed when the phone was released. If the Trademark Office didn't have a multi-year delay as part of their process, Apple should have gotten the trademark.

Not necessarily. It still would have faced the descriptiveness test.

If "Shake and Bake" can be trademarked, I don't see why "multitouch" can't be.

That's what I thought, too. Apple was diligent about filing for it. But they didn't treat it like a trademark http://www.apple.com/iphone/]back then[/url]. No capitalization, no TM. Dunno if that really matters. Perhaps the weight of the ruling is on that it's a descriptive term as well.

Good questions, which I'll derail by asking of iPhone 4 owners/users:

What would the next iPhone (4S or 5) need to get you to upgrade right off? Larger screen? Higher res? Faster chips? Some unique software support not available in the plain 4?

ddt

The speech stuff rumored for iOS 5 intrigues me. If it was tied to iPhone 5 hardware, it would tempt me. But not enough to make me buy it, I don't think. I'm planning on sticking with my iPhone 4. In the past, I could be driven to upgrade by increased storage space but now that the iPad is handling more of my idle-moments time, and with iCloud coming, I don't need to store as much on my phone.

For myself I wouldn't upgrade, but since my wife is using my old iPhone 3G and it's becoming too slow even for her, maybe I would buy a new one next year and give my iPhone 4 to her. That being said, it's quite costly to buy 600 euro phones every year...



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