I called jott.com and left myself a message while the music was playing at 90db using my jawbone and the iPhone. Its not as good of a test as I had hoped because if you pause at all Jott thinks you are done and stops recording. However, compared to the Mac Book Pro using bluetooth, its clear (pun intended) that the iPhone’s bluetooth is much, much better.
Here is the text of what Jott thought I said with 90 decibels of music playing at times:
Okay, so I am going to use Jott to record a second test this is a silent room just talking on the job on[1] I am going to get some audio going with iTunes at 19 decimal[2], okay the audio was[3] playing now and now I am going to go head[4] and turn off the no[5] active noise cancellation so now the actual noise cancellation is off, I am going to go ahead and send[6] it back and I will check on and we will see what it sounds like a[7] Jott.
You can listen to the original audio from jott (snagged via wiretap pro from jott’s website) here.
[1] Jawbone
[2] 90 decibels
[3] is
[4] ahead
[5] noise (hey I had no script)
[6] set
[7] through
Here is an audio example of the Jawbone bluetooth headset being used in conjunction with my Mac Book Pro while iTunes blasted 90db of music 6 feet away through my stereo.
It seems as though the noise cancellation needs a few seconds to settle, so its best to not start talking right away. Let the headset settle and then start talking.
Apparently my MacBook Pro sucks for bluetooth audio. Before you use this demonstration as an example of Jawbone’s audio quality for a phone, please see this post
Macintosh users have been dreading the day that our platform becomes popular enough to warrant enough scrutiny from hackers that our machines are compromised. While this day is yet to arrive, it may have arrived in a different form factor - the iPhone.
According to the register, the first Safari vulnerability has been found, which could be used to let a malicious site run code on the iPhone, potentially for example to make the phone dial 900 numbers and rack up unwarranted numbers.
Being an Apple fan, I say the solution is simple - Don’t allow charges to be made by simply dialing a phone number.
It will be interesting to see how Apple handles security risks on this new platform.
I wanted to record a replacement voicemail greeting so I went to Visual Voicemail, tapped greeting and then record. The button quickly hilited but nothing else happened. After several taps, I went to the home screen and then back to visual voicemail. No change.
I then powered off the phone, powered it back on and then I could record a new greeting.
The iPhone auto hopped to a wifi network called “wireless” that had no internet access. It must have been some goofy mall network, but we could not surf at all. It should have realized the network was bogus and switch to Edge.
When playing back a visual voicemail for the second time, dragging the time slider playhead jumped the voicemail to the proper time, but it then stuck at that time. The voicemail played properly, but the playhead no longer moved, unlike the initial playback of the voicemail. I tried a second time by going home and trying again. This time it worked fine.
I had received an email from the Apple Discussions Boards that a new post was waiting for me. I tapped the url in the email (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4827578#4827578) but I ended up on an error page at apple discussions.
From what I can tell, the # in the url gets escaped to %23 (I think) so you end up with http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4827578%234827578 and thus the page fails to load.
I had synced two photos from the phone to iPhoto. Then I restored the phone, which wipes the photos. Then I took two more photos. Now, when I sync, iPhoto tells me that i have downloaded the photos already, but it shows the “new” photos as blank. If I sync anyway, I get corrupted photo messages.
If I use Image Capture to download the photos, they too are corrupted. If I email the photos to myself, they are fine.
From Matt:
1. Insert iPhone into Dock
1. iTunes comes up
1. Click on iPhone in the list
1. Click the Info tab
1. Under Calendars… at the bottom, Change “new events created on this iPhone into the calendar:” to something other than “Home”
1. Note that the popup menu never changes from Home
I changed the contact list to short and display First Name, Last Name. The sort is totally messed up now. Under “L” I have H R (first last initials), then I L S, then D I B, I S, I S, I & O, etc. Makes no sense for being in the “L” grouping. So I set it back to Last, First sort order, then back to First, Last sort order, and now it is displaying properly. Weird.
When setting the time zone, I entered Portland and iPhone only offered Portland, USA. There is a Portland, Maine so I didn’t know which one iPhone had suggested. Accepting Portland showed it is indeed Portland, Oregon. Maine may take a quibble with this.
Update: I have tried this five times now and its worked all five times since this initial issue. I think it was happenstance and that due to a weak signal the call dropped at the same time.
I now consider this a non-issue.
I was on a call and realized bluetooth was off. So I enabled it via General settings, but the panel for the call did not change from “Speakerphone” to “audio sources.” I pressed the button on my Jabra JX-10 and the sound transferred and then the call hung up.
Twice now I have been using my Jabra JX-10 while on a call and surfing the web via WiFi on my Airport Extreme N router to watch the wifi totally drop on the iPhone, come back and have errors loading web pages. I then switched to the headphones, turned off bluetooth during the call and I was able to surf for 50 minutes with no drop outs.
(Original post to bug above) While on a conference call and using my Jabra headset, the WiFi connection to my Apple Airport N router kept dropping out. While trying to use Google maps, I’d continually get “Cannot connect to Edge” because I was on a call and WiFi had dropped. So I went to the wifi screen and could see three routers (two are mine) and watch them them go away and come back about every 20 seconds. I am not sure if this is because I had a laptop, Jabra, Express, Wii in the living room and two routers downstairs (one for the OLPC which does WEP only) or what, but it was sure annoying!
Yes indeed, the iPhone suffers from Bluetooth and WiFi signal overlap. While 5 feet from my Apple Router, and on Bluetooth, using both a Jabra and Jawbone, the wifi would consistently drop out, reset or never reset. As soon as I turned off the headset, the wifi and 5 other networks showed up (with some coercing from WiFi off/on button). This is now the most serious flaw of the phone as far as I am concerned.
I hate to say it, but we’ve put up with so much disregard for our country’s laws, for the respect of other people in this world and now President Bush has pulled the final straw out of his failed Presidency.
According to CNN, President Bush has commuted Lewis Libby’s prison sentence.
Mr. Libby was found guilty of perjury by a Federal Court.
President Bush says his friend got an “excessive” sentence and will pay financially and professionally as it is.
And? Don’t you think, President Bush, that each and every person in prison feels the same way? Of course they do. But the rest of this country’s prisoners don’t have a President as a friend, let alone a President who has time and time again shown disrespect for the office he was elected to by abusing presidential signings and now, a commutation of a prison sentence for his friend.
I don’t write much here about the political situation in this country but enough is enough.
I am not a fan of wielding the impeachment sword but this President has proven he likes to play by different rules than the rest of us, has no respect for our country’s laws and thus it is time to go.
Update: Barry points out that it seems that EDGE crashed. Thanks barry!
On the way home with my third Jawbone I was stopped at a light in my neighborhood, which according to AT&T is “marginal” (Damnit). I decide to check mail and it says “Could not activate EDGE.”
Well hmm. I have 5 bars. Cingular raised those bars. I have a “E” icon for Edge. But no Edge.
Then Mail complains that I can’t reach my mail server. Well yeah ok. I then turn on airplane mode and turn it off, to reset the radios. Same deal. I power the phone off and back on, same deal. Every light on the way home, could not activate EDGE.
I did learn that the tasty Nonna Emila’s Italian Restaurant has a wifi network named “Nonnas,” however.
Now that I am home I disabled WiFi and EDGE connected fine. Go figure.
