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smartphones and forums

To check on forums, I use my smartphone or iPod-like player or iPad...

  • several times a week

    Votes: 13 19.4%

  • only very occasionally

    Votes: 11 16.4%

  • never

    Votes: 43 64.2%
  • Total voters
    67
Daveroo said:
i just ordered a apple iphone 3g ....dont know what im getting into but here goes eh?...having my home phone turned off and my landline number ported over to my smartphone so i dont need to change all the drs offices contact numbers....hmmm i wonder if my unlisted status will be dropped now?
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Nice! Thats what I did. Now the land line is in my pocket.

There is an app out called Live ATC. Might want to check that out.

Did you get the 3G or 3Gs?


Bill
 
i have a problem when someone emails me from a blackberry
i cannot read it with thunderbird

but as far as using a phone to read threads
my 21" monitor is still too small
H
 
To reduce cost I don't keep a data plan active on my smartphone. The brief time that I did (to test it after initial purchase), I found it convenient a couple times to browse the web, but the interface was not intuitive for me.
 
Bill,,,its 3G...no S i can see...lol.....im still learning the thing...almost had a disaster yesterday..went with my dad to bestbuy and helped him buy a new desktop...the phone fell from y pocket.( i needed a wheelchair) and i just happened to see it as we left...whew.....my dad got an asus 8Gb ram.1tb HD 3.0gz processer..told him its to fast for him.and his needs..he needs to trade pcs with me......i thought he was gonna punch me...LOL
 
Congrats on the new iPhone!

There are some great Apps out there for it.

You can create a special photos file system for it to hold your photo albums. Create a folder on your main computer you sync with, and name it something like iPhone Photos. then in that folder, place new folders with subject names and populate them with photos, such as Cesna 140. Then open up iTunes and in the top tabs when your iPhone is synched, click on PHotos and direct it to synch with a specific folder and go to that folder you just created. Sync and save. Then when you open your photos, they are all in proper folders.

Makes it pretty nice and organized.
 
I have an iPhone and use the Tapatalk app to read forums. I find it very much easier to use on the small phone screen than the regular forum sites. The Tapatalk app is available for iOS and Android. The free read only version lets you lurk, while the $3 paid app allows full forum functionality like posting, replying, PM'ing etc. The only downside is that the forum admin has to install a free plug-in to make it work. Currently it is available on the AVSIM, Orbx, OZx and Aerosoft forums.

I don't know how hard it is to install the plug-in on the forum software and certainly don't want to make more work for Ickie since smartphone users seem to be a very small minority, but if it is easy to do then maybe we could get it on SOH?

see http://www.tapatalk.com/ for more info.
 
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