You know how the podcasts app on the iphone is not all that.

You ain't seen nothing yet.

I don't like iPhone or any iOS because I can't watch video. There are some websites that has issues with Flash Player which is basically not in iOS.

Puffin Broswer for iOS (amongst others) plays flash fine.

Unless you get the latest version

Couldn't say, I don't miss flash at all anymore so don't use puffin or any of the other alternatives. It used to be necessary so I used it a fair bit, but don't bother any more as most websites don't seem to need it

For me, Iphone is not user-friendly, though, it has lots of features other mobiles don't offer.

Hi

I have an iPhone 5s. My beautiful wife dropped it on the drive a few months ago and put a nice crack in the screen near the bottom of the phone. Suddenly the reset button at the bottom is not working so to change modes I have to turn the fecker off and reboot.

Advice / help appreciated (other buy another obviously )

Tia

You mean the home button doesn't work? If you go to settings, General, Accessibility then scroll down to Assistive Touch and switch it on you will have a little transparent home button on your screen that you will be able to use on every page you open. Hope that helps.

You, my friend, are a star

Thanks

No problems :p

I just popped into Carphone Warehouse to see about an upgrade. I don't want to humiliate myself, but essentially I am looking at moving from a 3G to a 4G iPhone. The sales assistant calculated that I would need about three times the data I currently use. She did say that data was hard for people to understand and drew a nice graph of text (say 100mb), photo (say 500mb) and video etc etc. Well I am a bit of an old person and her explanation did seem to suggest that one of us was as mad as a snake because it looked like with 1GB data plan I'd be able to watch one video a month.

Anyway, the bottom line question is - does a 4G phone actually consume more data across all its functions? Does it maybe use more data to poll transmitters (seems plausible, but would have thought we were talking a couple of kb here)? Does it use more data in background? Or is it just if you put more cakes in front of people, they will eat more cake. Or is it entirely down to people speed testing their new 4G service?

Incidentally from the data settings page we worked out that I'd used an average of 140MB a month over 30 months, though I'd say more recently it's been more like 250MB.

Also, does anyone know whether EE will push you up a tariff on request if you keep running out of data. CW said not, but I found something on the EE website that says they would. That said, the tariffs EE advertise are less generous than the ones CW advertise so maybe you'd have to jump a couple of 'native' EE tariffs to get the extra.

Otherwise it's these 'add-ons' ... the prices of which I can't seem to find.

If you put more cakes in front of people they will eat more cake.

What do you use your data for - and do you use it when you could be using Wi-Fi?

From the info you've given, I'd say 1GB of data a month would be plenty.

An extra 1GB of data a month on EE is £2.99 http://ee.co.uk/help/add-ons-benefit...gb-data-bundle

Have you got the EE app? If not, download it and sign in etc and it will tell you how much data you've used each month which will be more accurate than you actual phone's calculations.

They won't give you extra data every month by itself I don't think, you'd have to increase your tariff to include additional minutes and/or texts too.

Thanks Woosie. I'm on Orange at the moment and deciding on an EE upgrade. And really I want to get away with a 500MB plan. I don't mind going over occasionally. I do tend to have wifi at home and work and use data pretty minimally except on special occasions where i really need it.

EE help chat is telling me the add-on tariffs are £6 – 500 MB, £10 – 1GB and £15 – 2GB and valid for 30 days.

I'm asking right now about 'bundles'

EE help on the website is atrocious. You just go round in circles.

EE's answer to what is the £2.99 bundle:

"It might be for contract deal and you can ask us to remove this Bundle by giving us 30 days’ notice."

Errr ... thanks.

My Dad has a 4g iPhone with a 500mb a month package. Don't think he's ever gone over.

I use between 3gb and 4gb a month. Just depends what you use your phone for.

Anyone else having trouble with Google Maps recently? It seems to forget the route I have requested if I don't go back into the app within a certain about of time.

Not sure what is causing this, some kind of app background refresh or something. Any ideas?

My Google Maps keeps crashing at the moment, but I've not updated to the new iOS yet.

apple maps > Google maps

Yeah, I love how Apple Maps doesn't show the town's name you want even when you are zooming in on it. Brilliant.