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Thanks! Yep, I worked out the trick with the word suggestions - it seemed a little unintuitive at first, but actually Apple's approach really makes a lot more sense once you're used to it, letting you clatter on with your bad typing uninterrupted except for those rare moments when you actually meant to type gibberish!

I'm already finding typing on this to be a lot easier/more accurate than on my old Tytn II, bizarrely, considering that had a "proper" keyboard. Apart from the fact I don't have to slide anything out or use two hands, the predictiveness is actually improving my accuracy and reducing the number of times I'd have had to go back and change things on the Tytn II. I often found with that keyboard that it would either not register certain keypresses, or register them twice, which really lost any advantage it might have had in being a hardware keyboard. I know it (or rather WM) would suggest words too, but it was always a bit slow and fiddly, and unlike the iPhone misspelling something means the correct suggestion gets lost rather than used.

Using the iPhone keyboard reminds me more of happier days with the M600i - not a great phone in many other ways, but great for text with that clever keyboard and a similar degree of predictiveness on top.

[ This Message was edited by: Boinng on 2008-10-29 13:19 ]
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Posted: 2008-10-29 14:15:53
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great!, i work a few minutes away from regent street so i will pop in to buy the case

yeah the font i use is helvetica and helvetica bold

uploaded here https://www.yousendit.com/download/Y2ovYURLU1BqV0N4dnc9PQ


to get them on the iphone i followed these instructions


Step 1: Install OpenSSH from Cydia (found easily in featured apps)

Step 2: Restart iPhone

Step 3: Use WinSCP to connect to the iPhone via your IP address Username:root Password: alpine

Step 4: Download the file and extract it to your desktop

Step 5: Navigate to the following folders on your iPhone using WinSCP and rename the following files, adding .bak at the end [this is just a precautionary measure, you don't ever wanna lose your original files]

/System/Library/Fonts/Cache/Helvetica.ttf

/System/Library/Fonts/Cache/HelveticaBold.ttf

copy the font files in the link to these folders, make sure each file goes where it belongs.

Step 6: Restart iPhone

Step 7: Enjoy!

i have found that for tasks like this iFunbox http://www.i-funbox.com/ is an easier file manager that SSH, you dont need a wifi connection, just plug in the usb and you're good to go! so if you have that you can use in place of SSH(just dont ever use it to copy music to the ipod part of the iphone)



[ This Message was edited by: NoKia on 2008-10-29 13:24 ]
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Posted: 2008-10-29 14:24:12
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Cheers buddy!

Personally i dont mind using SSH, i'm never x-ferring huge files across and i only fiddle with stuff at home. Will give that proggy a try though... the easier the better!

What colour slider are you going for? Post some piccies of it on the iphone when you get it
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Posted: 2008-10-29 15:14:37
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i was hoping to get it in gun metal, but they only had white and black colours

i dont know what to do now, maybe i will have to order it from the states

[ This Message was edited by: NoKia on 2008-10-29 21:32 ]
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Posted: 2008-10-29 22:31:39
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Gunmetal?
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Posted: 2008-10-29 23:05:03
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afaik they dont do it in gunmetal, just glossy white, matte black and pink. And thats coming from the incase US site
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Posted: 2008-10-29 23:51:43
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saw gunmetal on the apple website
http://store.apple.com/us/pro[....]A5Ng&mco=MTg5NTYzMA&s=topRated

and a few US ebay sellers carry it, i think i saw a few earlier

[ This Message was edited by: NoKia on 2008-10-29 22:58 ]
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Posted: 2008-10-29 23:57:56
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yeah thats the matte black one, think its just the picture tbh lol http://goincase.com/products/detail/slider-case-cl59055

Saw an Incase on ebay but they were in different colours like blue and red and they were the ones for £4.99 so must be fake as the official site only sells black, white and pink

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Posted: 2008-10-30 00:12:30
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yeah thats what i thought but some of the reviewers clearly refered to it as different from the matt black,
http://www.ilounge.com/index.[....]ase-slider-case-for-iphone-3g/


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Posted: 2008-10-30 00:18:52
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yeah you're right there's definitely a difference, it seems like the US Apple Store sells the Gunmetal one but the UK store doesn't

http://store.apple.com/uk/pro[....]node=MTY1NDA0NA&mco=MTcyOTEzMg
http://www.store.apple.com/us[....]node=MTY1NDA0NA&mco=MTg5OTcxMw

Hmm.

Don't know which i prefer now!

How much are the ones you've seen on shebay?

edit, oh Apple US do sell the black one as well

[ This Message was edited by: RyaN on 2008-10-29 23:38 ]
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Posted: 2008-10-30 00:31:47
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