Just invested in a 3GS. Suggest some skins for me please!

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=854_859

yo jimbo, incase slider is the shiznit, i got one. they are the least bulky and still look good with best protection.

just ebay one

cheers

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Don't mean to s*** in this thread, but if you had a choice between buying an N97 or a samsung ultra touch, what would it be?

an iphone

yeah wtf

I'm all for naked gadgets.

i have this one:

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=854_859&products_id=11115&zenid=680c78b64d8f430c6d346e38de813027

last edited by ravn0s at 21:14:54 16/Aug/09

People who have iphones are wankers, people who have cases for them are just plain tools.

People who have iphones are wankers

People who make assumptions on a person based on their type of phone are f*** ups

Of those f*** ups the ones who think their opinion is worth voicing are worse

thanks for posting you tampon

"SwitchEasy Rebel Serpent" as mentioned. Brilliantly designed, great access to entire screen, very stylish and feels awesome. Easily slips in and out of pocket (but not -too- easily). I love this thing.

or

Contour Hardskin. If you walked up to Batman and touched his batsuit, that's pretty much what this hard plastic/rubbery case feels like. You will be rubbing it lovingly every day. Covers more of the screen than the RebelSerpent but of course you get more protection. If you're rough with the case and scratch it, the scratch will eventually peel slowly over time. Doesn't slide out of the pocket as easily as the other skin but not as clingy as other skins on the market - I reckon it has the perfect amount of cling.

I bought both - kept the RebelSerpent and gave the Hardskin to the gf. I still grab her iphone sometimes and dream of being batman.

haha cassa reeled in an uber big Jimbo

Don't mean to s*** in this thread, but if you had a choice between buying an N97 or a samsung ultra touch, what would it be?

Neither.. However the N97 isn't entirely that bad I guess, it's just a little bigger than an iPhone but the touch interface isn't as good. The Samsung Ultra touch though, just ugh. Horrible touch interface, terrible menu, unresponsive and an all over s***house handset.

haha cassa reeled in an uber big Jimbo

haha

People who have WRX's are wankers, people who have GIANT WINGS on the boot of their WRX are just plain tools

:p

I got one of these shields It works a treat and adds no bulk to the phone which rocks.

naked, just like god intended - if you you're not a twit you wont be constantly flashing your precious around and the odds of smashing your phone are very low.

Yeah, I've never had a case on my current phone, and it hasn't got a single scratch on it after nearly 2 years. Naked gadgets ftw.

These guys are pretty good!
http://www.gelaskins.com/

this one is mine: http://www.gelaskins.com/skins.php?Skin=107&Category=25

last edited by dranged at 02:38:17 17/Aug/09

id say a glad bag thats been fitted inside a resceptical would make a nice snug fit...........

people get over iphone users because they're so smug i guess......
i just wouldnt wear my commercialism and eagerness to embrace a corporation on my sleeve like the crapapple geeks do.......

You should just get a clear skin plastically sticker type cover things. I have one that just goes over the screen and not the back and you don't even notice its on there.

Also stay away from Windows Mobile.

Also stay away from Windows Mobile

Could you be a bigger Mac fanboy if you tried?

oh f*** oath... WinMo is a piece of crap no matter where you come from. Who includes a registry editor on a freaking phone... S60 is better than WinMo and I don't even like S60.

last edited by 3dee at 08:51:57 17/Aug/09

roff roff I had to get one bite, was hoping it'd be bigger than that.

ha. this whole oh youre an apple fanboy is full of chucklef***ness. Its so incredibly lame. Wow I prefer to use apple stuff. Whoop de f***ing doo dah.

/end possible fuelling of the flame war

last edited by 3dee at 09:01:34 17/Aug/09

Also stay away from Windows Mobile.

Seconded. And I don't own any macs for the record.

The singer in my band just got rid of his Samsung Omnia WinMobile because it was a piece of s***e. He ended up with an iPhone quite ironically.

ha. this whole oh youre an apple fanboy is full of chucklef***ness. Its so incredibly lame. Wow I prefer to use apple stuff. Whoop de f***ing doo dah.

What's lame is you showing up in every iSomething thread singing the virtues of Mac over Windows. It just gets really f***ing old, and that's what the fanboy label is about.

I don't give a s*** if you like Mac, but I'm tired of the endless preaching!

/end possible fuelling of the flame war

Yeh, that's how you defuse a flame war, with a rant!

last edited by Hogfather at 09:20:38 17/Aug/09

+1 switcheasy

got mine on ebay cheaper than pccasegear though

I tried a few cheaper cases/skins and the switcheasy poops all over anything else many times over for looks, protection and fit (which is exceptional)

Its interesting that I have had 27 mobile phones now, 6 of them winmo, hacked the crap out of 2 of them and thought they were okay. Then I bought the iPhone despite people paying out on apple constantly. The iPhone for me, is the best phone I have owned.

Recently after a massive flame war of OSX vs Windows that was on this forum I decided to build a hackintosh. At home really all I do is download eps, process photos, web and email. Iv always hated macs, iv always paid out on its users.

But I took the time to sit down and try it out and discovered I f***ing loved it. I needed a new laptop at the same time so I bought a MBP, dual booted it with windows 7 and that tied into VMware fusion which was just amazing and I have booted into windows ONCE, to run xencenter or whatever its called.

I dont love apple, I just happen to like its products after using them....I guess what 3dee is trying to do is make more people a little more open minded instead of bandwagon riding idiots who believe we purchase apple products to wear a turtleneck and sip a mochachino.

Funny thing is I keep having to pinch my wife's WinMo (my hand me down HTC) because the iPhone still can't do basic s*** that it should be able to if its a real smartphone.

I love my phone and wouldn't likely go back to WinMo6, but the iPhone is not the magic do-everything uber device people make it out to be.

What basic stuff? as I pointed out above, its perfect for MY needs :)
and yes I agree that it is missing a few features but in the long run, I would rather lose some of those features and have a pleasant and quick UI and the app store rather then go back to WinMo

No silly case on my iPhone because it's just a phone, I don't wrap my cordless phone in balls of cotton and gently place it down on the table every time I use.

Dropped my iPhone on the concrete, slide it across desks, throw it down on the couch and so on without any damage.

.I guess what 3dee is trying to do is make more people a little more open minded instead of bandwagon riding idiots who believe we purchase apple products to wear a turtleneck and sip a mochachino.

I've never ever and would never ever wear a turlteneck... :P

A few things spring immediately to mind:

Open MS Office documents

Turn by turn GPS navigation. Where's mah Garmin? I know its apparently coming, but APple explicitly blocked it for some reason for ages, and its still not here!

Playback of anything other than quicktime files. Jailbroken phones can do it so it must be an app-store cockblock. Lame, Apple.

Easily save and read files to the phone memory.

Lack of standards-happy micro-USB port. I don't know how many times I've f***ed myself because I didn't carry the cable around with me.

No Macromedia Flash. Say what you like about Flash, its everywhere on the web, and because I use an iPhone I'm limited when I'm on the move.

No video recording.

Runs like a dog after 3.0, locks up and needs to be rebooted a lot, ironically like a Windows Mobile phone with low memory.

There's more but that is what has pissed me off about the iPhone in the last few days and is fresh in my mind. Some of it is solvable with app store apps, but I'm hesitant to install a lot of apps because last time I did that the phone took a nosedive into uncharted poor performance.

last edited by Hogfather at 09:47:04 17/Aug/09

What's lame is you showing up in every iSomething thread singing the virtues of Mac over Windows. It just gets really f***ing old, and that's what the fanboy label is about.

Lol. I've tried using Windows Mobile. Its horses***, so I suggest people to not get one with it on. I dont say get an iPhone, other people do that. Not because its microsoft, its because its plain crap (and is widely regarded around the world to be mediocre).

I don't give a s*** if you like Mac, but I'm tired of the endless preaching!

When did I preach? I remember suggesting one kind of protecting case thing. Then I said dont get winmo (which is because Ive tried it and it was a pain in the ass to try and even set up its own ActiveSync crap on).

People who flame in Apple topics are the ones who cause problems.

I might mention this thread was going fine until one of these Apple haters started posting. Derails every Apple thread instantaneously into a flame war. Way to go!

*You can open office documents, just not edit them, however I believe there is apps available to allow you to do that.

*Damn right, should have been in since day 1. I suppose at least it IS coming and I have a GPS in my car with a bigger screen

*I thought you could get VLC legit for your iphone? I dont know that for sure

* Yeah that s***s me as well, I wish I could copy it straight in, but it doesnt effect me too much because I just email the document.

* This too when I first started using the phone, then I bought 3 cables, leave one in my laptop bag, one at work and one in the car :D

* Yep, no idea why its not there yet but I back the need for flash 100%

* 3GS can do that, the camera in 3G is balls, but I dont video record

* You are on your own with that, 3.0 runs fine on my phone and I havnt rebooted it since I loaded 3.0 on it, runs just fine :/ Maybe its a fault ?

I would be checking your install on your iPhone, because I have a heap of apps and photos and crap on mine and it runs great. I remember it being s*** when I had it jailbroken but after reverting back it was fine.

You have valid points I grant you that but for me, they definatly arnt deal breakers.

GPS has been out for weeks...

The thing with the iPhone is that everyone expects it to do absolutely everything under the sun. It seems to attract way too much attention when it doesn't do something that "all other phones have done for years".

Not saying it never needed a lot of 3.0 features that were finally put in but people cry way too much over the phone after buying it and realising it doesn't do some stuff.

If it doesn't do what you need then why did you buy the thing?

You have valid points I grant you that but for me, they definatly arnt deal breakers.

Nor for me - I haven't taken the win mobile phone back for more than the time it takes to get whatever I need done.

But f*** its close! I reckon if I could free myself from the stylus and it ran a bit better (that's a hardware complaint more than anything, the HTC Touch was a bit cheap) I would switch back. The screen keyboard is completely arse but that's what bluetooth keyboards are for - something else on the list of things I miss.

I'm definetly looking into WinMo7 or more likely 8 when it comes out, or maybe Android (someone used this much?). Its just aggravating that the phone has a lot of flaws and (seemingly) deliberate ommissions. It could have been the perfect mobile device!

If it doesn't do what you need then why did you buy the thing?

Because what it does do, it does very well. But as I note for my uses its a line ball.

I'm massively disappointed in 3.0 formware's performance, and I couldn't have known about that before I got it (and I chose to get it because a lot of lacking features were coming soon).

last edited by Hogfather at 10:05:02 17/Aug/09

this thread is officially derailed!

... but its been a fun ride

Its always a fun ride mixing Apple with QGL. So in the end, what did you get?

Quit your bitching, you got your advice and your purchase defended, what more do you want :P

I guess its the same argument as windows desktops.

Apple writes its OS for a certain set of hardware, windows has to right it for a s***load of combos so its hard to get that optimisation right.

Hard for micrsoft, easy for apple.

I don't see how turn by turn GPS will be any good anyway.
Even in 3G areas it doesn't seem to be able to stay ahead of you.

Often it takes 10-20 seconds for the blue dot to catch up to where you really are.
Not much good hearing turn left 50m after you've passed the street.

Its still handy as to give me a rough idea where I need to go or after I've taken a wrong turn.

If it really wanted turn by turn (which I'd very rarely use) I'd just buy a proper GPS...

Hard for micrsoft, easy for apple.

That's no excuse for Microsoft though, they have their market position and fat stacks by being everywhere. I'm a consumer and I don't give a s*** whose why a product isn't as good as its competitor's, I just won't buy it.

It would be hypocritically fanboy-ish of me to not acknowledge WinMo's failings. To be clear they are there bright and large, WinMo6 has well and truly had its day, and no amount of 3rd party hackjobs can cover the fact that in 2009 its innately ugly and clunky. Before the iPhone and Android (imo) it shat all over Symbian.

Anyway, taht's why I use an Apple phone, cos I think that its the best we have right now. If I could just somehow mate my iPhone and my wife's WinMo...

I don't see how turn by turn GPS will be any good anyway.
Even in 3G areas it doesn't seem to be able to stay ahead of you.

Turns out that this is because its relying on tower triangulation, and that the regular 3G doesn't actually have a real GPS!

Its entirely likely that the phone won't be able to use Bluetooth GPS (I have a this Holux thingy, works a charm with WinMo and Symbian nav apps if the phone doesn;t have built in GPS) so you're probably right - I'll be stuck using the Win Mo for this indefinetly :)

last edited by Hogfather at 10:33:05 17/Aug/09

You would have android. Hopes and dreams and a pretty UI but really slow and unhelpfull :D

I'm waiting for the car mount that TomTom is bringing out to go with its Turn by Turn app (which is out right now). Apparently it basically has its own GPS chip in the mount that overrides the iPhone GPS and makes it work much better. But will have to wait and see how it turns out. The app itself only just came out today...

My TomTom GPS is a bluetooth handsfree for my iPhone as well, it also has my address book from my iPhone in it.

If I want, I can get a cable to plug in the iPhone to the unit and it will transmit my music to the radio.

f*** using a phone when you can get 3 devices in 1!

Turns out that this is because its relying on tower triangulation, and that the regular 3G doesn't actually have a real GPS!

Wot?! Of course it has GPS. It has A-GPS which in addition to a standard GPS chip also uses cell tower triangulation to find your current location quicker.

Turns out that this is because its relying on tower triangulation, and that the regular 3G doesn't actually have a real GPS!


Wot?! Of course it has GPS. It has A-GPS which in addition to a standard GPS chip also uses cell tower triangulation to find your current location quicker.

Didnt see hoggys post but yes, the 3G has GPS, A-GPS and another form of tracking.

I too was tempted to get iPhone 3GS when I got a new company's phone, a Blackberry Bold even. But I guess I'm just a sucker for punishment and went with HTC Touch HD. It has some annoying things but overall I'd say it's been a positive experience upgrade for me (from Omnia). I do agree to some extend with 3D, winmo really can't touch iPhone os but seriously worse than S60??? I'll have to disagree there, MS just need to hurry the f*** up and bring out Winmo 7 when I'm still alive...

Dude, a nokia 8210 is a positive experience when upgrading from a samsung omnia :D

Hmm well according to this site it doesn't - now I'm confused! I couldn't find anything on the Apple site - their iPhone pages seem to have been replaced with "S" model variants.

Its possible I guess that the "wobbly" GPS is just that it hasn't gotten a satellite yet?

EDIT: Ahh they're talking about 3G as the "new" phone not 3GS. Stupid dated websites. As always, teh Wikipedia has teh answers!

A software update in January 2008[48] allowed the first generation iPhone to use cell tower and Wi-Fi network locations trilateration,[49] despite lacking GPS hardware. The iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS employ A-GPS, and the iPhone 3GS also has a digital compass.[14]

So the TomTom thing might be the goods - I've held off on a car kit in the hopes that this would be awesome.


last edited by Hogfather at 11:38:16 17/Aug/09

Yeah apparently the in-built iPhone 3G/3GS GPS is not really that great for real-time turn by turn to work effectively. I'm pretty sure the Tomtom cradle thing just has one of their standard chips in it.

last edited by 3dee at 11:51:18 17/Aug/09

Yeah I think the tom-tom thing will make the iphone a pretty damm good turn-by-turn gps device, depends how much it is going to cost though.

Yeh, the app is 99 dorras on the store, which is a bit exxy but pretty typical of the software. You'd want to be sure it worked well on the iPhone before forking out for it :)

Anyone tried XGPS? I tried the demo and it seemed pretty neat. I'd like it for mapping bike rides more than navigation.

You can get the TomTom app from the iStore .. it is like $100 or something.

PS just jump on ebay and look for covers, they are cheap as chips so just buy a few and keep the one you like :D

last edited by Clubby at 13:01:17 17/Aug/09

You can also read two posts prior to yours for free.

haha eds nah I actually found the omnia to be just fine, the reason I switched to HTC Hd is because I finally decide to get work to pay for my phone instead of me claiming it on tax at the end of the year and more importantly nextg support...the omnia's incompatible with nextg was reallygiving me the s***s. I gave it to my other half and she loves it, go figure.

best case is incase x fragment design

huh?? Was just looking on ebay Australia and iphones are going for $1000!?!?! In Japan they cost about $300 outright or free with a 1 year plan.

f*** Australia is a rip off country, glad I don`t live there anymore.

I also noticed while browsing that people are charging $25 to ship a pair of jeans within Australia. $25????? Are they being shipped by horse drawn carriage on a golden pillow??? In Japan it costs $7 to get a pair of jeans delivered overnight signed for express.

Bodyguardz

f*** Australia is a rip off country, glad I don`t live there anymore.

I wish you would post more on Japanese forums and less on Australian ones.