Iphone works great her in CDG. Just as I was pulling into the hotel my wife called but hung up before it went to voice mail. Once we were checked in I used truphone and called her back. Like everyone has said I have data roaming off and set email to manual. I even turn push off but not sure that needed to be done. Meanwhile I have been using it with the wifi in the hotel and it works just like at home.
The only problem has been trying to download the update but that has to do with the hotel wifi not being the not my laptop or the iphone.
Anyone else have trouble with the GPS not working overseas?
I only had my new phone in the US for about 3 hours before I went to Europe. Once I got there everything worked great (I had the international data plan set up) except for GPS - over 7 days the phone could never figure out where it was.
I got back in the US today and the GPS worked like a charm.
... I only had my new phone in the US for about 3 hours before I went to Europe. Once I got there everything worked great (I had the international data plan set up) except for GPS - over 7 days the phone could never figure out where it was.
sorry about not posting earlier but I have busy palying with my new iphone. I never tried the gps function in CDG since I had the data off and you need that for it to work.
I did learn something the other day at the Apple store in ORD. I was having problems making calls, they didn't drop, they failed! The apple guy told me that if you goto setting and then to the general section at the bottom is a reset button. One of the options under that is to reset the network settings. We did that and still no help. The next thing we did was to turn of the 3G and then things worked great. I guess ATT was having problem in ORD with the 3G.
When I got back into ANC this morning I was having the same problem with failed calls so I reset the network and it worked great. Just one more thing to help everyone out.
Those of you who use MobileMe - are you happy with it? I tried to sync my new iPhone through the iTunes and selected my 'google' account instead of outlook as I've never used outlook - well, now I got some 700 names on my iPhones I never planned on having there to begin with. Oh well, no problem I’ll just do some serious deleting here…
I'm trying to figure out how to sync phone numbers so the iPhone overrides whatever the PC has (Treo would let you choose). So far I love the phone but syncing it through the iTunes and even transferring files, music, etc to the phone seems to be little confusing to me. Of course, I’m an Apple virgin…
Those of you who use MobileMe - are you happy with it? I tried to sync my new iPhone through the iTunes and selected my 'google' account instead of outlook as I've never used outlook - well, now I got some 700 names on my iPhones I never planned on having there to begin with. Oh well, no problem I’ll just do some serious deleting here…
I'm trying to figure out how to sync phone numbers so the iPhone overrides whatever the PC has (Treo would let you choose). So far I love the phone but syncing it through the iTunes and even transferring files, music, etc to the phone seems to be little confusing to me. Of course, I’m an Apple virgin…
I signed up for MobileMe when I got my new iPhone. The first week or two after the new 3G iPhone came out, MobileMe was very sluggish and I wasn't impressed. Now Apple has fixed a few issues and it seems to run very nice. I had way too many contacts show up initially on my phone also when syncing contacts with Outlook on my PC. And to make matters worse some how I ended up with duplicates of each contact and all my calandar events such as birthdays, etc. I did some serious deleting to. I decided to sync MobileMe with all my contacts on my PC and then I edited the contacts on MobileMe to the ones I actually wanted on my iPhone. I have a lot of contacts in Outlook that I rarely, if ever, will call. So after I edited my contacts in MobileMe they synced to my iPhone and now all is good. I do like the "Push" feature in MobileMe. If you get an email sent to your xxxxxx@me.com address it will ding and show up on your iPhone. Plus if you add a contact to either MobileMe or on your iPhone it shows up on both ends. You don't have to enter it everywhere. I have my PC's set up only for Manual Sync with MobileMe so they don't add or change my contacts on the iPhone. You can sync manually in one of 3 ways. You can sync from PC to MobileMe or vice versa and you can also merge data. Depends on what you are trying to do. MobileMe is fast now and the initial bugs appear to be fixed. I just haven't made the transition yet to changing my email address to MobileMe. I think I will tell a few select people my MobileMe email address so my iPhone doesn't get inundated with BS emails, only important ones from people I want to stay in contact with. One other feature I like is adding people's photos to the contact info in MobileMe. Then when they call me their picture shows up on the screen when calling for caller ID. You also get the text info but the picture is nice to. If you take a picture of one of your contacts on your iPhone and set it on the phone to their contact info the picture automatically shows up in MobileMe under their contact info via the "Push" feature. Also with MobileMe you can do all your typing/editing in MobileMe on a real computer and not be a typing fool on the little iPhone keypad.
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I did learn something the other day at the Apple store in ORD. I was having problems making calls, they didn't drop, they failed! The apple guy told me that if you goto setting and then to the general section at the bottom is a reset button. One of the options under that is to reset the network settings. We did that and still no help. The next thing we did was to turn of the 3G and then things worked great. I guess ATT was having problem in ORD with the 3G.
Chicago is known to have major 3G reception problems. There are numerous threads here:
Thanks for the detailed reply but I got a few more questions.
"I decided to sync MobileMe with all my contacts on my PC and then I edited the contacts on MobileMe to the ones I actually wanted on my iPhone. I have a lot of contacts in Outlook that I rarely, if ever, will call. So after I edited my contacts in MobileMe they synced to my iPhone and now all is good."
- So basically you can create several folders in MobileMe and chose the one you want on your iPhone? For example "iPhone folder", "All Contacts" folder", etc.?
- Is MobilMe an application that only exists on your iPhone or do you have one on the PC too? I figured it'd be quicker to revise the list on the PC and then sync it to the iPhone.
- Also, will I still need to use the Outlook or can it be done solely on MobilMe?
"I do like the "Push" feature in MobileMe. If you get an email sent to your xxxxxx@me.com address it will ding and show up on your iPhone. Plus if you add a contact to either MobileMe or on your iPhone it shows up on both ends. You don't have to enter it everywhere."
- So do I have to get the …@me.com email address or can I use my regular email address? I guess I'm still confused on the pros of the MobileMe.
One thing I DID like on my Treo was the Palm Address Book where I could go in, click on the address/name I wanted to change then put my phone in the cradle, press the sync button and the change would show on my Treo. Not sure how to do that on the iPhone.
I must say I love the iPhone - it seems to be very user friendly and intuitive. The iTunes - much less so.
Thanks for the detailed reply but I got a few more questions.
"I decided to sync MobileMe with all my contacts on my PC and then I edited the contacts on MobileMe to the ones I actually wanted on my iPhone. I have a lot of contacts in Outlook that I rarely, if ever, will call. So after I edited my contacts in MobileMe they synced to my iPhone and now all is good."
- So basically you can create several folders in MobileMe and chose the one you want on your iPhone? For example "iPhone folder", "All Contacts" folder", etc.?
- Is MobilMe an application that only exists on your iPhone or do you have one on the PC too? I figured it'd be quicker to revise the list on the PC and then sync it to the iPhone.
- Also, will I still need to use the Outlook or can it be done solely on MobilMe?
"I do like the "Push" feature in MobileMe. If you get an email sent to your xxxxxx@me.com address it will ding and show up on your iPhone. Plus if you add a contact to either MobileMe or on your iPhone it shows up on both ends. You don't have to enter it everywhere."
- So do I have to get the …@me.com email address or can I use my regular email address? I guess I'm still confused on the pros of the MobileMe.
One thing I DID like on my Treo was the Palm Address Book where I could go in, click on the address/name I wanted to change then put my phone in the cradle, press the sync button and the change would show on my Treo. Not sure how to do that on the iPhone.
I must say I love the iPhone - it seems to be very user friendly and intuitive. The iTunes - much less so.
MobileMe, formerly mac.com, is a subscriber service. You have to subscribed to me.com, $99/yr (subscribed initially for the web galleries and iDisk and will eventually have a personal website hosted there), I believe, to use MobileMe. The beauty is, make a change on one, and all 3 stay updated!
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MobileMe, formerly mac.com, is a subscriber service. You have to subscribed to me.com, $99/yr (subscribed initially for the web galleries and iDisk and will eventually have a personal website hosted there), I believe, to use MobileMe. The beauty is, make a change on one, and all 3 stay updated!
I understand it's a subscription service. I'm merely looking for a way to keep my address/phone/email book updates as simple as possible. I'm not very impressed with the iTunes sync for now, I ended up with some 800 entries on my phones, including people that I’ve only emailed to or who emailed me once.
Basically I'm looking into something much simpler - I never thought I'd say it but I do miss the Palm address book and the simplicity of the syncing it to the phone...
If I find out MobileMe can do all that I'll sign up for it in a heart beat...
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Oh well, no problem I’ll just do some serious deleting here… 
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