i phones to access internet
Submitted by Faulkner Family on Mon, 2010-02-22 21:51
Just noticed lately more and more kids and adults have got these i phones or whatever they are called. how do they go accessing a site like fishwrecked, is there a delay or are they prety quick. also are they relatively cheap to use on line
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garethgkr
Posts: 317
Date Joined: 16/12/09
they are fairly reasonable.
but i have a problem not being able to comment on the stuff.. each time i try clicking on the comment box it wont let me type.
it is pretty fast. and depends what carrier you go, and what plan.
Plans range from 100mbs-1gb of data downloads.
i still find accessing fishwrecked easier with a computer.
SaintAsh
Posts: 115
Date Joined: 16/11/09
Try disabling rich-text,
Try disabling rich-text, just under the comment box, should fix your problem, only thing i find i cant do is upload pics.
cheers
dodgy
Posts: 4577
Date Joined: 01/02/10
Not too bad depending on
Not too bad depending on what plan you are on. Pretty quick to load up for me. (im on Telstra 3g and in the Pilbara). They are great.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
synthos
Posts: 522
Date Joined: 23/06/07
great for seabreeze on teh run at sea ;)
great for seabreeze on teh run at sea ;) make sure if u do u get the 3 GS way better then the older model I rarly use it for fishwrecked but generally browsing works well
silly
Posts: 382
Date Joined: 02/01/09
I'm on $49 a month includes
I'm on $49 a month includes 250mb which is more than enough for checking various sites. Use it to check tides/weather/moon when on the boat
dont forget the navionics chart app which is the best $15 i ever spent. Has the chart for all of australia and can mark points and use the phones GPS to navigate.
H.S. Chan
Posts: 587
Date Joined: 04/01/09
i dont use iphone and the
i dont use iphone and the phone is how i started fw. All on phone. I had the nokia 95 for a while and since it came out i have the nokia n97. Alot easier with the full qwerty keyboard and full touch screen. Typing with touch keyboard is the most the annoying thing ever.
I can upload pics and search anything and everything as well as the 32gb hdd and still micro memory card expansion slot. Iphone, good for apps and for fiddling. N97 more executive and professional. Accessing emails, writing my long posts is a real breeze, scheduling etc. The qwerty keyboard is a must unless you wanna spend forever editing and writing stuff. Since i started fw my n97 is all i use and still do, if you guys have seen my long posts, you can imagine how long it'd take a normal phone to do, or a full touch screen only, the amount of time you press the wrong key is 'ffs'. N O K I A n97 is bombdiggityfresh! Lol. I use seabreeze, watch youtube and google all the time. Also did live fishing reports while sittin on the rocks in freo at earlier times
H.S. Chan
Posts: 587
Date Joined: 04/01/09
oh yea, its cheap depending
oh yea, its cheap depending on who you use. I buy data packs that range from 10-30 bucks and data sent and recieved is not like a computer. Files are so much smaller for phones and for using 1gb of data is bloody heaps on phone but stuff all on computer. And yea its just as quick as computer nearly. As you get used to your phone, everything gets even quicker. User friendly and mobile internet is so quick now. Internet speed isnt only to do with the isp, its mostly to do with the phone and whether pages can be refreshed quick enough or if the phone has a large capacity cache and such. Good phone, the quicker you can do whatever. I do everything everyone else does on fishwrecked, only i do it at work, fishing, in the car, at the movies... =D
jono.s
Posts: 440
Date Joined: 27/07/09
There pretty good for
There pretty good for internet I'm using my iPhone right now there pretty fast . Only bad thing about them is you can't post photos.
scottnofish
Posts: 1621
Date Joined: 28/08/07
have no probs posting pics
with my nokia 6720 and i get 4gig free with my phone plan and being a rural phone with teltra it works just about every where including 35 ks out to sea
Bodie
Posts: 3758
Date Joined: 05/11/07
Good phones, 1 major down
Good phones, 1 major down point in battery life.
We use them throughout our company for management. All love them, all bar the battery.
Very good with connecting to mail servers too, quite quick, and simple to setup. Less buggy than other products like Nokias Mail for exchange.
I always check seabreeze on it, and also use the GPS software, either on the water or in the car. Very handy.
roberta
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Date Joined: 08/07/08
I've just got a LG
telstra 3 next generation and it does all that with blue tooth, I can go on the internet, facebook, blue tooth, takes good photos but haven't downloaded them to the computer, must get eldest grandson to show me, you know what kids are like now-a-days with tech stuff hahaha.....What difference is the i phone to mine, as I'm no computer/mobile phone wizard. We need Telstra coverage for Leeman when we are up there.
Will my 3 wireless broadband work in Leeman, as I want a laptop to take up there, does anybody now????
Ginger Tablets Rock
kaney68
Posts: 401
Date Joined: 29/07/08
If your wireless broadband is with 3
probably not.... as it will be roaming and not in the wireless broadband zone..
if however you are with Telstra.... you might be lucky !
That's one of the downsides of being with 3, Vodafone, Optus, etc.... cheaper plans, but coverage can be limited ! (not bad in metro area tho)
H.S. Chan
Posts: 587
Date Joined: 04/01/09
next g mobile phone service
next g mobile phone service providers covers 99% of australia. Telstra actually took over 3g and now has maximum coverage. But mobile broadband is the solution to those in remote areas as most dont have the copper phone line to run hardwire broadband. Unless you have a dedicated wired foxtel, not satellite foxtel , then you can run maximum speed internet that outdoes adsl2 with that same line. Mobile broadband is satellite so it should be fine, thats the whole point of it. You know the commercial, 'i been everywhere man' for telstra mobile broadband... Well that says it all.
I used to work in telecommunications so yea.
till
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Date Joined: 21/02/08
Telstra didn't take over
Telstra didn't take over 3G.
Mobile Broadband is not limited to satelite.
Used to working comms ... did you sell phones?
H.S. Chan
Posts: 587
Date Joined: 04/01/09
hold up, yea your right, i
hold up, yea your right, i didnt mean 3g, i meant the cdma network. My bad, Its been a while since then. Where next g was since the start in 05 sometime, they didnt have much coverage as the cdma network was the only one working in rural locations, until 08 when next g took over the cdma network and forced all cdma users to convert to next g. With the coverage of next g plus the aquired coverage of cdma, next g pretty much covered all of australia no matter where you were.
And Yea, i did do phones but mostly targeted on broadband and internet services and foxtel. And no they arent limited to satellite but in most rural areas, that is the only option. So for remote areas, they are limited to satellite.
till
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Date Joined: 21/02/08
I don't sell a lot of
I don't sell a lot of satelite, but that is mostly because it is horrid.
I sell these devices that let you attach a normal phone and fax, as well as provide local wired and wireless internet, to either a NextG or regular 3G service.
Primarily they go to people in the bush, but they also go on boats. Telstra used to only supply ericsson gear for this use, but they now sell a lot of cheaper, less reliable, alternatives. I sell a few competing brands to the ericsson gear; Telekomunikase and Topex.
synthos
Posts: 522
Date Joined: 23/06/07
Apps
Dont forget teh apps on the iphone :) Yeah battery live when u use it gets hammered but every phone does once u use wifi gps n bluetooth. The apps on iphone are great i even have navionics charts on mine cost me $15 they have decent detail I would not trust them for navigation around reefs :) but for basic looksees and as a backup y not.
Oh was bored at teh focs clinic last night so I browsed fishwrecked was fine nokias are to antiquated skip them the symbian os is not very good these days. Alos any iphone user get trapster even more hammers battery life but its handy.