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What’s so special about iPhone 3GS

// November 10th, 2009 // No Comments » // Gadgets, iPhone

iPhone 3GS is the most awaited Phone of the year. it has a cool new features under the hood.

The list of features goes like this:

  1. Good news for all those who is complaining about iPhone being unresponsive at times, the new iPhone 3GS has better and faster processor, which makes it a snap to launch applications, better browsing experience over wifi, games load faster and exit faster without making the iPhone unresponsive.
  2. It has a good improvement with respect to battery life.
    • Talktime: 12 hours on 2G, 5 hours on 3G.
    • Standby: 300 hours.
    • Internet use: 5 hours on 3G, 9 hours on WiFi.
    • Audio Playback: 30 hours.
    • Video Playback: 10 hours.
  3. It has got voice control. It lets you control iPhone using voice control, you no more have to dig your pocket for your iPhone 3GS to control music or to make calls. With voice control you can tell phone to call a number in your contacts by speaking into the microphone.
  4. A whole lot of accessibility features.
    • text-to-speech voice over: lets the phone read text for you, from now on you can hear e-books for a change.
    • Zooming: lets you zoom the phone screen.
  5. It has got Compass. it shows you which direction if you are heading in case you are stuck in amazon jungles.
  6. Camera is best thing that has happened to iPhone 3GS next only to faster processor.
    • It’s a 3 Mega Pixel camera with Autofocus.
    • Tap to focus. It lets you record videos, edit them and send as MMS.

type music hearts cloud and other cool symbols using iphone or ipod keyboard

// November 10th, 2009 // No Comments » // Gadgets, iPhone, iPod

Here are the steps to follow, which enables you to enter special characters like stars, clouds, rain, sun music symbols on iphone, ipod touch

How to enable special symbols:

  1. Click Settings
  2. Click on Settings

    Click on Settings

  3. Select General
  4. Choose General from Settings Menu

    Choose General from Settings Menu

  5. Select International
  6. Select International from General Page

    Select International from General Page

  7. Select Keyboards
  8. Select Keyboards from International Menu

    Select Keyboards from International Menu

  9. Select Japanese
  10. Select Japanese from Keyboards Page

    Select Japanese from Keyboards Page

  11. Enable Kana Keyboard
  12. Enable Kana Keyboard

    Enable Kana Keyboard

Procedure to type special numbers

  1. Click World icon at the bottom of the keyboard until japanese Keyboard comes up
  2. Click on world until japanese keyboard comes up

    Click on world until japanese keyboard comes up

  3. Click on ABC twice (until you see numbers 1,2,3… with special symbols just below them)
  4. Click ABC twice to show numbers with special symbols just below them

    Click ABC twice to show numbers with special symbols just below them

  5. After clicking ABC twice the screen looks like this
  6. View of Keyboard screen with special symbols

    View of Keyboard screen with special symbols

  7. Click and hold on any button with desired symbol, for example click and hold 1 (it has music, star and arrow symbols) to get symbols around
  8. Click and Hold any digit to get desired corresponding symbols

    Click and Hold any digit to get desired corresponding symbols

  9. Drag and release your finger over one of those symbols
  10. Drag and Release your finger over one of desired symbol

    Drag and Release your finger over one of desired symbol

  11. Wait for 2 seconds
    A small menu pops up near the character you just typed, click on the small blue arrow to the extreme right of the popup menu
  12. A small menu pop up near the typed character with some symbols and blue arrow to the extreme right

    A small menu pop up near the typed character with some symbols and blue arrow to the extreme right

  13. Here you’ll find a whole bunch of symbols to serve you including but not limited to clouds, love, music, sun, star, brackets, dots and triple dots, not equal etc
  14. A whole lot of symbols to let you express your feelings better

    A whole lot of symbols to let you express your feelings better