Those with an iPhone 3G

How is the contacts performance and overall phone performance (and battery life) when you have 700+ contacts and up to 6 email accounts checking mail at least every 15 minutes?

Just wondering because I've been offered a really good deal on a new iPhone 3G, so it would be a good companion to my bold and I could ditch my other crappy phone and iPod Touch.

 

I don't have nearly 700 contacts, but I would assume it would work as good as scrolling through songs. The interface is almost the same between the two. I do have about that many songs and it doesn't lag at all. I'm not sure about the email. I use gmail and mobileme, both worked fine. Mobileme seemed to load messages easier without updating as much. I didn't feel it was worth $100 though so I canceled the account.

 

I already had mobile me from before, it was kinda an impulse buy because I really wanted the name, which I couldn't get before, but after the transition to mobile me from .mac it became available, so I bit the bullet..lol.

Anyway, I guess since mobile me seems to load messages easier because they are pushed, as opposed to gmail (correct me if I'm wrong). I have 3 personal accounts, and 3 work accounts. Yahoo and Mobile Me have push, so I guess they wouldn't be as much of a battery drain as the other ones, which are imap and pop3, so they'd be checking data every 15 or so minutes.

 

The iphone is great, but the contacts are a pain the rear.... it is really a companion phone in my opinion.

 

How are they a "pain in the rear"?

 

The iPhone software is still highly glitchy, you are able to deal with it, but applications crash, such as safari and if you open up contacts on the contacts shortcut rather than from the phone icon there is some lag.

The iPhone is far from perfect, but it is a step in the right direction and is useable. The battery life is ok, if you listen to music all day it will be drained by the end of the day. But if you have it on standby it can last a good 3 days before really needing to be charged.

 

actually, the iphone software isn't really "glitchy" at all. i use it probably 3-4 hours a day checking/writing email, safari, and on various apps. in that entire 3-4 hours of usage i rarely get a crash. and when i say rarely, i mean maybe once every 2 days.

and you have to remember, an iphone "crash" just means your app is closed and you're sent back to the springboard. that's it. reopen it and 2 seconds later you're back where you were.

and i don't have 700 contacts, but i have 300, and 3 mail accounts rather than 6. but it handles 300/3 just like 50 contacts and one mail account. really no slowdown at all.

the iphone 3g seriously blows everything else out of the water. nothing, not even a t-mobile G1, has the capabilities of a jailbroken iphone. and it's FAR more stable than people on internet forums suggest. the only time i can really count on a crash is if i'm doing some heavy installing or uninstalling in cydia or installer. and that's avoidable, and completely harmless. not to mention it's only 5 seconds of downtime anyway.

 

Who still uses Installer? Buggy piece of crap. Cydia is awesome.

I get crashes whenever trying to load a huge website, or two large ones open in tabs. And sometimes my apps crash at bootup, forcing me to do a quick respring with BossPrefs.

vm, that was a pretty biased comment.

Some HTC Touch Pro and HD users will argue against that.

 

Actually the iPhone is highly glitchy. I did not mention it, but when my aps crash, such as Safari it takes me back to the home screen then I open safari again barely 10 seconds go by without it crashing again and again and again... the only way out was to turn off and on the iPhone. Furthermore, often when listening to music through the headphones and I lock and unlock it fairly fast the music starts to skip and it doesn't recover, I have to do a hard reset for it(hold the hold button and the home button for about 5 seconds).

I use the iPhone to its fullest potential the way it is supposed to be used and at times it is a glitchy P.O.S. And yes I have updated to the latest software for the iPhone.

 

Perhaps you somehow have a faulty unit? I don't experience any of the problems youre having, apart from the rare safari crash, but I use myFox anyway.

 

I am getting rid of my 3G next summer. Going to get a HTC. Hope WinMo7 is out by then but I doubt it.

 

i am not a fan of winmo

 

**** what are you guys doing with your iphones, i have had mine for just under a week and yet to jailbreak it, although dunno if i will sounds like it could cause me some pain, also i have never had a crash, battery life is fine usually finish the day with more than half left, under all default settings.

what are the advantages to jailbreaking? is it just to get installer and cydia installed or is there more advantages than just that?

 

That's more than enough advantage in itself.

 

yeah i know but is there anything else, also i haven't used cydia and installer so maybe thats why i dont see the greatness, access to more phone preferences and such? i have googled and cant find a very definitive answer.

 

Access to hundreds of new applications.