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So can anyone inform us of how good/bad the AGPS accuracy is on the new iPhone? I know the iPhone doesn't speak the directions to you as regular GPS, but is it as accurate as one?

Also... has anyone tried to push-email with Exchange? If so, do you have the regular or business plan (I'm referring to US users in particular)

Sounds like the launch was total disaster here in the UK. Apparently O2's systems were down for the majority of the morning, and stock was VERY limited.

I'm glad I waited!

yeah... in the US they have had issues with faulty screens (some with a yellow-ish tint)

Sounds like the launch was total disaster here in the UK. Apparently O2's systems were down for the majority of the morning, and stock was VERY limited.

I'm glad I waited!

I was listening to BBC Radio 1 at Sixth Form earlier and they said that each O2 store only had around 40 units of the 3G iPhone. Later on mentioned that the phone is still ?99 and the monthly bill is ''Extremely Expensive'' :shifty::

I know how much the monthly charges are, but the max monthly bill is ?35 to still pay ?99 for the handset, BBC likes to exaggerate a little.

i managed to get the last but one in the local store here and have to wait till tomorrow for activation.

It accepts my work T-mobile SIM card but so far I have no signal will try again once its activated and see :)

So you're going to activate the iPhone, sign an 18 month contract, and then use a T-Mobile PAYG SIM?

On a slightly related note...

I downloaded the software and installed the update on my iPhone non-3g... and when it went to reactivate iTunes wasn't able to do it.

So now I'm sitting here at work (i upgraded on my 1 hour lunch... it shouldn't take longer than 30 mins, let alone an hour)... with an apple ibrick (unless I have an emergency) until its activated... which won't happen till I get home (in 5 hours)

Pretty annoying.

Yeah activation servers are dud shockz, sad they never learned anything from last time. Maybe microsoft can loan them a server farm that can handle it :p

Yeah... this happened to me on christmas when I got a new iPod. It wasn't until late night I was able to register.

Oh well... luckly people call me on my work line when I'm at work. lol. So it isn't a major problem, but it'd be nice to have it going just incase i got an urgent call or something.

Well, I just headed down to both of the AT&T's here in Gainesville, and both of them had sold out of iPhones within an hour of opening at 8am this morning. I think it's ridiculous that Apple can't send appropriate stocks of iPhone to the AT&T retail stores to keep up with demand, or that they create artificial shortages. Oh well, I'm not paying in advance to wait a week to get it - I'll just check every morning as the lady from one of the stores said it's possible they'll get an early shipment tomorrow.

Well, I just headed down to both of the AT&T's here in Gainesville, and both of them had sold out of iPhones within an hour of opening at 8am this morning. I think it's ridiculous that Apple can't send appropriate stocks of iPhone to the AT&T retail stores to keep up with demand, or that they create artificial shortages. Oh well, I'm not paying in advance to wait a week to get it - I'll just check every morning as the lady from one of the stores said it's possible they'll get an early shipment tomorrow.

keep in mind the AT&T only has so much room to stock all of these.

Apple hasn't created an 'artificial shortage' since they are shipping more units to AT&T just about every day for the 1st week.

what I'm disappointed about is that the servers went down... how is it that nobody at Apple Inc. realized that releasing the 3g iPhone and FW 2.0 for the iTouch and iPhone was not a bad idea..... even if they could handle last years load with the new equipment... by releasing them together.. they are looking at potencially DOUBLE what they had last year...

Oh Apple... you may be good an marketing and sales, but not so good at load balancing / request handling :p

has anyone tried the push-mail for Exchange on the 3g iPhone?

if so.. what type of data plan do you have?

Push mail from Exchange is very nice! Very fast on both my old 2G iPhone and my new iPhone 3G. E-mails sent from my MobileMe account get to my Exchange account and to my iPhone in about a minute.

I just turned up at a O2 store at 9pm and got my iPhone at 10:30; last person!

One thing I'm trying to suss out is using the GPS, or even the "locate me" function. Seems to not work at all!

yeah same for me, just loads forever when i click the locate me button, nothing happens :huh:

i can call, send sms and use internet so it can't be my provider that causes it?

in Melbourne, Australia - iPhone 3G was launched on the 11th July, I wasn't part of the queue who waits on that cold night, with temperatures dropping to 3 degrees....but the next day, Saturday the 12th at around 4:40 PM, I got it, so far, I am satisfied with the 8GB iPhone 3G, I was going to go for the 16GB ones it runs out, so being a fan of Apple iPOD, I couldn't resist the temptation :D

So can anyone inform us of how good/bad the AGPS accuracy is on the new iPhone? I know the iPhone doesn't speak the directions to you as regular GPS, but is it as accurate as one?

Got mine on Friday (2.5 hours in line, 2.5 hours in store, ugh). Used the GPS a bit over the weekend while driving around.

It's really good pretty much all the time. It was accurate enough to tell which side of the road I was on. When I parked in a parking lot and brought up satellite view, the dot was right on as far as where I was parked.

The only time it faulted on me was when I drove in the right lane and there was a large wall just off the road (like a sound barrier). The dot veered off the road for a few seconds but eventually found me again.

Overall, I'm extremely happy with the purchase. The only thing I find unfortunate is that it is not aggressive enough in switching from 3G to Edge when a 3G signal is weak. Even on 1 bar it'll stick with 3G. I have to manually turn 3G off to get an Edge signal, which is normally much stronger. It'd be nice to set the 'tolerance' yourself. For instance, have a setting that says "when there is 1 bar or less of 3G signal, switch to Edge".

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