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- megamod, on 10/06/2008, -4/+26PUSH. NOTIFICATIONS.
- elie195, on 10/07/2008, -0/+14How cool will it be if the Street View will pan around like the G1 when you move it ...Or, you could just move your head and look around.
- ross., on 10/07/2008, -0/+9I don't think Google really cares which OS you run their software on, as long as you run THEIR software.
- LoneWolf01, on 10/07/2008, -0/+7Wow, really? It's already on the majority of streets in Australia...
- newstart, on 10/07/2008, -3/+9I was expecting that Google might keep the street view feature to only Android phones so that their phones have an edge over iPhone. This is surprising, maybe Apple arm twisted Google into providing this on iPhone or they had a contract with Google
- inactive, on 10/07/2008, -0/+4It's unbelievable that anyone had to point out how ***** stupid the iPhone autocorrection is. If it had worked like normal autocorrection, where THE USER OPTS IN on a case-by-case basis instead of having the correction FORCED on him, people wouldn't have been bitching.
- inactive, on 10/07/2008, -7/+10STOP ADDING FEATURES AND FIX THE ***** BUGS IN THE OLD FEATURES.
And if you must add features, give me the ***** copy and paste and MMS that my old ass Nokia brick could do. This is getting ridiculous.
sorry. it's been a while since i've had a phone that did what it was supposed to. even with the 2.1 upgrade safari still lags and crashes. - Avian00, on 10/07/2008, -1/+4Why?
- dheaddy, on 10/07/2008, -1/+4Unfortunately so few places have Street View data yet. I realistically won't ever get a chance to try this feature out in the UK.
- inactive, on 10/07/2008, -0/+3It's annoying for anyone in any language, because corrections are forced on you instead of being offered.
- danbowden, on 10/07/2008, -0/+3Yeah let's be honest it isn't rocket science! You use Google local search on the iPhone and type "pizza" and you get a list of pizza places in your local area. How long before some of those types of results are sponsored?
- ross., on 10/07/2008, -0/+2About as much as they get from people using Android OS (ie nothing).
It's Google's problem to worry about how they're going to monetize maps, but I'm sure they'll figure out something in the long run..they just need to get us addicted first. - aussieNickuss, on 10/07/2008, -0/+2It's not 100% covered...more like 95%. My home CITY is barely covered, yet the hundreds of kilometres of dirt roads and logging tracks that surround the outskirts of the city have all been recorded......
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=& ... - sirbeta, on 10/07/2008, -0/+2"correction. australia is 100% covered now i believe and so is the USA and canada. not sure bout the others"
They might be covered in the sense the google van has been there to some degree but it's far from complete. Down here in San Diego California, more than half our streets don't have street view support. My neighborhood just barely made the cut, them stopping just at the end of my street and literally only leaving one street unrecorded (they have footage of both ends of the street, but not the street itself. oddness). - RMoore08, on 10/07/2008, -1/+2Awesome. Now we just need Google Earth.
- j4200, on 10/12/2008, -0/+1Why MMS? Email works fine for sending media. Even better imo. It's free!
- j4200, on 10/12/2008, -0/+1I agree. Opt out is insane choice. Dumb dumb dumb on you Apple.
- j4200, on 10/12/2008, -0/+1Almost every auto correction is opt in. You select the corrected or suggested version rather than selecting it to NOT use it. This approach confuses me. Selecting it should imply you want it.
- ojk007, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1or it could have been the google exec on the apple board..
- talisto, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1@007isbond1: actually, there's no coverage in Canada yet.
- j4200, on 10/12/2008, -0/+1Google will never sponsor results they've said. They will however offer up ad's aside from real content.
- d0nkeym0nkey, on 10/07/2008, -4/+5F*cking push notifications ALREDY, DAMN!
- inactive, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1Don't forget stereo Bluetooth and continuous reminders for missed calls, voicemail, and text messages.
Oh, and notes and to-do lists WITH CATEGORIES would also be a good step toward doing what Palm PDAs could do 10 years ago. - bluemist, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1At last, an option to toggle auto-correct. It's the most annoying thing for international users trying to type stuff in their native language.
- j4200, on 10/12/2008, -0/+1My reception is fine. Methinks you dropped it and your antenna busted.
- Zippo, on 10/07/2008, -1/+2I'm confused as to why auto-correction pissed people off. You can dismiss a suggestion by clicking on it...
Personally, I think auto correction is one of the system's best features. Works really well. - mrsteveman1, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1Yea, but when they don't hint that they want to do something and just say nothing, we get equally pissed :D
- j4200, on 10/12/2008, -0/+1Google uses open apis. They couldn't restrict iphone usage.
- ianbirtwistle, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1Yes you will.
El Reg has been covering this for quite some time.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&hl ... - danbowden, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1Believe it or not Google has had the go ahead to map the whole of UK up. I have spotted one of the map cars in my home city of Norwich.
http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/07/05/google-starts- ... - j4200, on 10/12/2008, -0/+1Filters are on the email servers. Fail.
- hiro, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1This better not be it! Sort the priorities first - Copy & Paste, MMS, BT file transfer and Office doc editing, then get on with the trivia. I really don't get why some people are interested in push notifications, we've already got it for email which would be the main use for it. As for street view, FFS are thet trying to sell it as a smart phone or a toy for teenagers?
- Torv, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1Its true, but the filters should'nt sit in the phone
- se7en11, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1Horizontal keyboard for email please
- chazuk, on 10/07/2008, -1/+1Isn't it odd. Some bureaucratic ***** will probably complain about Google taking pictures of our streets under some privacy/human rights guise, despite us having some of the highest levels of CCTV in our cities compared to the rest of the world.....
- chazuk, on 10/07/2008, -1/+1But what do they get profit wise from people using google maps/street view?
- ollerery, on 10/07/2008, -0/+0Where is my ad2p?
- elitistmusician, on 10/07/2008, -1/+1Most engrossing headline ever.
- j4200, on 10/12/2008, -1/+1You honestly need to ask why? GEarth is awesome is why. Get the net!
- MikeCerm, on 10/07/2008, -3/+3Don't count on those coming any time soon. The 2.0 firmware barely added any features and introduced tons of bugs. It will be quite some time before Apple figures out how to do push notifications properly. Why they announced a feature so long ago that they clearly can't deliver is something that just doesn't make any sense.
In the meantime, I'd like it if they fixed the reception. My iPhone doesn't work in or around my house, and it's not the network. The reception on the Nokia, Samsung, and Motorola phones in the family is significantly better than the iPhone, especially with the 2.x firmware. - inactive, on 10/07/2008, -3/+2yeah we heard YESTERDAY you spamming bastard
- 007isbond1, on 10/07/2008, -5/+2correction. australia is 100% covered now i believe and so is the USA and canada. not sure bout the others
- inactive, on 10/07/2008, -5/+1Who gives a ***** about any E-mail features until we have FILTERS? Come on, with the volume of spam we have to deal with, the iPhone's E-mail functionality is nearly worthless without filters.
- rubaaan, on 10/07/2008, -5/+1time to play catch-up, Apple. :]
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