And Then That Phone...

I’m betting that after the post regarding my little nest of vipers wanting a new phone, you’re most likely not in the slightest bit interested in how we’re getting on with that iPhone lookin’ thingy. I’ll tell you anyway. Not too bad as it happens and below, for anyone still here, is wot I’ve discovered so far in Apple land.

Got the thing and went along to the service provider store to get a SIM and transfer stuff from the old to the new phone. Yes, they can do that they said and asked for her phone. Upon the old clamshell being passed over the young fellow said, “No. We need your phone, not your makeup compact.”

We leapt this obstacle like young gazelles and the job was  completed. Accompanied by  many chuckles from the staff.
”And how much do I owe you my man?” I pensively enquired.
”Free.” said he. We quickly left the shop.

Back home, unpack new toy, charge, turn on and first things first. “Hi Siri. Oh, and bu-by.” And off she goes.

Sadly, it seems the iPhone stores stuff internally and doesn’t look at the SIM. Or something like that. No biggie and soon had her contacts in place on the phone.

She wants her wallpaper that shows her phone number, right? Okay, I’ll Bluetooth the image over. Guess wot; iPhone only does selective Bluetooth transferring. Damn! I’ll E-mail the sucker. That worked and that was when I ran into another Apple peculiarity. Find the photo, discover how to set it as wallpaper and Apple then insists on zooming in. Damn. Dear Google...
Finally got it with trial and error by playing with varying sizes of boarder on the photo so that the zoom results in a perfect borderless picture fit. Boarder sizing was done on the laptop by the way.

Off to settings to sort out speed dial for her most used numbers. Damn! Nothing there! Dear Google...
Swipe right, as you do, and there’s a widget screen full of, not surprisingly, widgets. Wot to keep. Us? Delete the lot except Favourites. Then, in the phone book, add the priority numbers to the phonebook Favourites and there they are in the widget; a swipe right, tap an’ dial. 

So far, so underwhelmed. Whoa! Look at that big solid colour dock bar at the bottom of the screen! Off to settings to make it transparent. Damn! Can’t find it nowhere. Dear Google...
Say what now? It’s not allowed? All you can do is make it use a colour close to wot’s in the wallpaper and a little fuzzy? Damn.

Apart from that, it’s a solid little sucker and seems pretty swift an’ slick at wot it does. And Skype works good so she’s happy. For now.

The most exciting thing I’ve discovered about this here iPhone so far is that, amazingly, it makes and receives telephone calls! Really, how, like, cool is that then?

Quote;  Dutch Jones.

“Thank Siri when she helps, it's only polite!”