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Apologies for waking a dead thread (Dead Thread Walking?), but... holy smokes TL. That is a thing of beauty.

And your danglies are indeed awesome.

j.

I updated the blog page after I dug a bit deeper and spoke to AppleCare. TLDR: It's a feature.

Depressingly that sounds entirely logical. However, even when you get totally away from WiFi (i.e. go out and about), nothing changes - it still keeps chewing through the data. It's not just that it's finishing existing downloads either - it starts new ones!

Thanks for reporting back on your testing - that's very cool!

I've dug around a bit, and it looks like this may have been a problem in the past too - i.e. in iOS5. It's not clear that Apple actually acknowledged this as a bug, but the reported behavior is that the "use cellular data" option certainly works in terms of stopping the Music app grabbing music from the cloud via 3G (e.g. if you Shuffle all tracks), but if you click the cloud button to sync manually, it seems to ignore the setting. So it might have happened before, but now two things exacerbate it:

1) LTE means your data plan gets eaten up way faster than before;
2) The iPhone 5 WiFi problems means than even while in your house, the phone is jumping on to LTE when it really has no reason to.

I sure hope not... but if it's ignoring the settings in one app, there's no reason it wouldn't ignore them in another.

I don't know if you saw the feature in iOS 6 Beta that would have allowed WiFi to Cellular roaming when the WiFi signal was not performing - see here for details: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/08/09/ios-6-beta-adds-wi-fi-plus-cellular-option-to-increase-data-reliability/

That feature was not included in the final iOS6, but I'm wondering - since the code base to allow this kind of roaming has got its hooks into the networking stack - whether they screwed up and left that feature enabled. Pure speculation of course, and the option to not use cellular should STILL be honored.

*snorts quietly* ;-)

Yay. And for those that were wondering, I have archives of all the old LAN photos that were uploaded to the gallery site I ran - I just haven't found time to get them over to tealeaf yet in a way that makes sense. They weren't lost though, which is the key thing

Anybody folding on their PS3?

He made a second video, released earlier this month:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUWqRhReaZk

What's the laptop? Is this when using the built-in keyboard, or an external?
 
Does indeed seem a bit odd that it is treating your full keyboard like a laptop (no num pad) one... Any settings in BIOS about that?
 
j.

You do? Cool - I didn't know. Apologies if I was treading on toes - just trying to keep ahead of the game for once.
 
If you get it set up, just get in touch if you want to transfer all the old stuff over - I'm sure your backup regime is stronger than mine
 
Cheers
 
tugs.

Couldn't agree more. While I like the idea they haven't engineered this thing for the European market. When I go back home I'm still amazed at how lacking the mobile phone market is over there..

Supposedly the next release of the iPhone will support 3G, and hopefully by then they will have managed to do 3G without totally killing battery life which is not great (claimed) on the iPhone as it is with standard GSM/EDGE.
 
The mobile market in the US is... interesting. The biggest issue is one of scale - both geographic and in terms of total subscribers. I lead the IP Engineering team for one of the big US wireless service providers, and we have something in the region of 60 million subscribers. To put that in context, in 2003 the entire UK subscriber base (all providers added together) was around 53 million, and the USA is about 38 times the size of the UK in terms of raw area.
 
Upgrading your network to 3G is not a small undertaking, and the efforts in the UK pale ito insignificance when you look at the scale of the US networks. I also recall that that USA had some real issues doing spectrum clearing for 3G - you have to allocate paired frequencies for 3G, and there were some seriously bad overlaps of existing usage that had to be cleared for it to be feasible in the USA.
 
The final oddity is that the market works in a different way in the US. e.g. in the UK, you can typically get a given Nokia phone in one form or another on every network. In the US, it's absolutely normal to find you can only get a certain model on one network - and the iPhone is no different, as they have signed a 'multi-year' exclusivity deal with Cingular Wireless (who are busy rebranding as AT&T again after the latest merger was approved).
 
The reality is that most people don't really need or want 3G - they want a camera phone, video messaging, maybe email on their phone, maybe MP3 ability - mostly stuff that you can handle well enough with EDGE. 3G is taking off in the USA, and interestingly (if you care about these things), Cingular was the first company worldwide to roll out UMTS/HSDPA - with the Isle of Man or something following shortly after, if you believe that. HSUPA will be next on the horizon.
 
When I was in the US a few years back what was interesting was that despite the apparent backwardsness of the market, they were introducing new content technologies (games, music downloads, two-way radio) before the UK. Guess it depends on what you think backwards means.
 
On the trademark note, you may enjoy this link too, claiming that Apple doesn't actually own the iPhone trademark: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=236


Argue away

But it has cute specs, even if it has expensive tastes. It's not going to end up in my system any time soon, but I enjoy the look.
 
I guess the parallel is that people buy pr0n mags in order to ogle that which they can't get.

"Papa Has a Brand New Bag", the coroner said, zipping it up.
 
RIP, Mr B.

*lol*    
 
:lmfao: