I recently joined the iPhone community with the expiration of mobile contracts. I am extremely happy with my new hand-held computer!
I have 1 major problem and two real irritations. First Bluetooth, I have a BlueAnt X5i that works better with my iPhone than my MacBook [13″ Black Late 2007]. I have discovered that my iPhone has a bit of a problem. If I let the headset die while connected to the phone I lose all sound. I turned the Bluetooth off and back on then off again, but that didn’t work. I had to power-cycle the device [No, I didn’t try a soft reset which might have worked]. I had to run the battery down before I got the audio back. It was really annoying.
Second, I was using my headset to listen to music in the office and turned off the Bluetooth [on the phone] before turning off the headset. I lost all audio again, I was frustrated; but then reconnected them and I was able to listen to the audio through the X5i. I then turned it off and then turned off the Bluetooth [on the phone]. My audio returned.
Sheesh, can’t they just release the audio channel when Bluetooth is turned off???
Okay, this relates to both iTunes and the iPhone. Why does the software not remember my Account Password?!?!? I don’t understand what is wrong or not working in iTunes or the iPhone App [Store]? Why does the software not save the password even when the check box is selected in iTunes and why does the iPhone App [Store] or iTunes App. This seems pretty simple to me, it is MY phone and MY account, if content is downloaded it is going to be . . . where . . . on my iPhone!!! I tried several tricks from The MacCast and still iTunes doesn’t save my password for downloading new Apps or Digital content.
I realize that Apple & Mr. Jobs have their way of doing things; however, this doesn’t meet the simplicity rule that Apple likes to apply to almost everything else they do. I really like the simplicity model that is used in many things; yet, this seems like something that would make sense. Make it a feature and allow users to turn it off and on, so I can decide if I want to save the password or not.
Oh, yeah and don’t forget to make a check box area for Audiobooks so that I can decide what Audiobooks I put on my iPhone or iPod!!! Seriously, I have a dozen Audiobooks on my phone & I know that I can delete them from iTunes; but I would rather just control them like other media on my devices.
No, I still love my iPhone and am happy with it . . . let’s keep it simple Apple!!!
This rant is now over.
iron wil
