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From HTC Tilt to iPhone
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Posted by: Low J.

Well, I grew to hate my Tilt so sold it last night and bought an iPhone today. The Windows Mobile 6 was just terrible....bad UI, not intuitive, unstable.....after about the 5th time removing the battery to recover from Windows freezing up I was done. The camera also sucked and the video playback was intolerably bad. I just wasn't willing to pay that price to have a really cool keyboard, 3g, the very useful GPS/Nav, and synching with my corporate Exchange server.

I messed with my buddy's iPhone for about 5 minutes a while back and was hooked......the UI and video playback are just amazing. I'm a Linux guy so not happy about having to use Winblows and iTunes but am willing to give it a try with my work laptop which has XP.

I'm under no delusions that Apple is any less of an evil at making EVERYTHING proprietary as opposed to Winblows, but at least the Apple stuff works really really well. I'm excited to break out my iPhone and start playing with it tonight.

So, any ways to synch this thing with Linux guys??? (Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon)

Posted by: amkls704

I'm not too sure. Can you download iTunes to Linux?

I'm sure there is a way, but it probably takes some modding maybe. Someone else may know a little more than I do. If you can get iTunes to work with Linux, I would think so, but I could be totally wrong.

Posted by: dsigma6

What up, J LO.

Honestly, I wish I could take out the battery on this thing when it freezes.

You have to hold the power button and the home button to force it to restart if it freezes, but I've had that not work a couple times (on 1.0.2).

Welcome. WM sucks.

Posted by: Donnation

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Originally Posted by dsigma6

What up, J LO.

You have to remember that you are using it hacked and unlocked, which could account for the freezes.

Posted by: SimTech

My 1st iPhone kept freezing... but my replacement one hasn't frozen once in over 2 months (jailbroken, many many apps loaded)

Posted by: kinderco

haven't hacked mine and its never frozen....

Posted by: DukeL

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Originally Posted by Donnation

You have to remember that you are using it hacked and unlocked, which could account for the freezes.

Chances are your right. Mine only freezes once in a blue moon and when it does it just kicks me to the homescreen, never actualy freezes like WM phones. And I've had like 4 iPhones, never once has one actualy frozen.

Posted by: KDarling

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Originally Posted by Donnation

You have to remember that you are using it hacked and unlocked, which could account for the freezes.

Originals can also freeze, or more often, crash back to the home page. Well known occurence.

Originals can also lock up during software updates. Again, not uncommon.

Basically, the OS isn't that tight yet.

Posted by: ngo8

i went form a TYTN II (tilt) to an iphone and there both good the iphone is alot easier to work with . the problem i had with my tilt is i got the the standby of death and at first i gave up on it and bought an iphone BUT thanks to the good people at xda developers i fixed the problem by flashing a cooked rom made by dutty which has the complete touch flo technologie on it and all the toys which ran pretty good, i did use it for a week to test it out didnt freeze once or nothing worked perfectly but i am keeping and using my iphone cause i love that thing i realizied i dont need the all the stuff the tytnII has so now its for sale .

Posted by: Low J.

Yup!!! Now that I've been messing with the iPhone for 2 days I really like it so much better than the tilt. It still synchs with all my calendars and contacts so the only thing I'm really missing is the GPS but it's a small price to pay for a much more superior phone. I never used the 3g much on my old phone so not an issue.....I'm near wifi enough so that's what I use most. Couldn't be happier right now.

Posted by: ngo8

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Originally Posted by Low J.

Yup!!! Now that I've been messing with the iPhone for 2 days I really like it so much better than the tilt. It still synchs with all my calendars and contacts so the only thing I'm really missing is the GPS but it's a small price to pay for a much more superior phone. I never used the 3g much on my old phone so not an issue.....I'm near wifi enough so that's what I use most. Couldn't be happier right now.

honestly the edge speed on the iphone is pretty quick no need for 3G yet and the gps i hardly used it cause i live in a small city no need for it here only good for traveling might as well get gps unit alone and leave it in the car plus google maps work pretty damn good ..... anyone intersted in a tytn2 let me know 4 gig card totom maps car charger, i need to unload it just let me know .