iPhone rant – after so long…

iPhone ranting had been one of my regular topics for blog but since so long, I have been absconding from it. Its not that suddenly, I changed my heart and brain and started ignoring all miseries and hard time I face using this phone… but I just not had a strong reason to rant about. But luckily, I got one now which actually had been always there from even the first generation of iPhones…

This is a landscape mode for composing a text message on iPhone. At first look, its impressive… offers a Qwerty keyboard, choice of adding multiple recipients (which was missing in iOS 1.0), option to choose numeric mode of keyboard etc. But what is indeed annoying is the placement of “Send” button there in blue. It is simply placed at such a wrong place that accidently hitting it has a very high probability. Further annoying is that there is no way to cancel the sending of the message once you hit the “Send” button even accidently. Nokia and most phones has this eminent and important feature to cancel a message being sent (and saving yourself from a big aftereffect). But people at Apple expect the users of iPhones to be of very thin fingers and very perfect that they cannot hit “Send” button accidently.

Anyway, I have few more rants about it but I will spare them for later.

Few days back, the whole social networking world got very excited when Facebook introduced location service. It indeed is interesting to geotag your postings on Facebook. This evening, I tried to test it and ended up getting below message!Seems location service is not available here in my part of the world. Its not surprising though. Hardly any telco company here complies with international standards of cellular service information. Most of the time, Google Maps on my iPhone shows my locations few Kms away from where actually I am.

Another interesting observation I had today about Airtel’s 3G service in Gujarat. Airtel hasn’t been that good in Gujarat from the very beginning. Even after few years of its service in Gujarat, it is still struggling to provide a quality service. Call dropping, no coverage, poor customer service, lack of intention to prevent unsolicited text messages from telemarketers and landing calls to wrong numbers are few of the complaints many of its users face on a daily basis. Unfortunately, we are stuck with Airtel for reason beyond my understanding and I have accepted it as it is. This evening, my data plan got approved and I can now use internet through my iPhone. This will help me especially for emails and any other quick information I may need while I am traveling. When I enabled cellular data service on my iPhone setting, I tried to check if Airtel provides 3G service in Gujarat (Ahmedabad at least). When I enabled 3G, below is the screen shot of what happened… Did you notice I lost the signal??? So, if I enable 3G, I am just disconnected from Airtel service! Well, no wonder as 3G in India is still in its infancy.

Anyway, it would be interesting to end this post by sharing a picture recently I took using iPhone…

Unless you click on this picture and zoom it to its full size, you won’t be able to notice that its labeled “School bus” though it is for the students of “Alpha College of Engineering and Technolgy”! No wonder there is a lack of “grown up” students in our colleges. Either their parents don’t let them grow up or the college authorities treat them as school children… Too bad too bad, rt?

Slapped or not???

Sometimes, its interesting to know how American child protection laws work… I came across a news article on CNN.Com titled "Mom reportedly slaps baby on plane”

Seems a couple with their 13 months old daughter was flying from Dallas, TX to Seattle, Washington on Aug 16. The daughter for some reason was crying and despite sincere efforts of mother, she could not be calmed down. The fellow passengers saw that the father was getting upset and angry at mother for her failure in comforting the baby. While the mother was trying  hard her way, a fellow passenger heard a slapping noise and he/she assumed that the mother beat the child. A flight attendant intervened the situation and finally the father managed to make girl sleep in his arms. But this is not an end of the story… The flight attendant had reported this incident to the authorities and when the plane landed at a scheduled stop at Albuquerque, New Mexico, cops were waiting for these parents. The couple was deplaned and interrogated. The child was examined by Para-medic which was called on standby with an ambulance. The incident report concluded that no such physical abuse took place nor there was any sign of ill-treatment on daughter’s face. The couple was released and it continued their onward journey to Seattle, Washington.

What is the moral of this incident?

1. Never get married.
2. If you do, get a parenting training before becoming parents.

3. If you intend to fly with children, before booking your flights, please pray that your fellow passengers don’t get suspicious for your lack of parenting skills.

4. If one parent fails in calming down crying baby, other parent should try to calm down the baby instead of yelling at other parent.

5. If baby is crying, yelling at him/her won’t stop him/her crying. Yelling simply does not work always elsewhere as well then how can it work here?

6. If both parents fail to stop baby from crying, they should seek a help of a flight attendant. Most flights in US now have at least one beautiful flight attendant who can make the child distracted (actually attracted?) from his/her crying.

7. Keep throwing smiles to your fellow passengers when your baby becomes unstoppable crier… You never know if you were sincere in your booking-time prayer. The fellow passenger may complain about you if your prayer wasn’t heard.

8. If you are detained, co-operate fully with the authority. That is the only way to prove your innocence as you already created issues with fellow passengers, beautiful flight attendant and of course with your spouse to begin with when you failed to help her/him in comforting your child.

O Thou iPhone users…

This morning, I received an email from J-Lo… While the email mentioned some “genuine” concerns, it started with this link on wired.com.

The article derives a conclusion from a survey made on another site that the iPhone owners get more sex.

Courtesy: okcupid.com

Look at the another graph below this article has:

Courtesy: okcupid.com

Looking at this graph, it reveals that Andriod teens are either “deprived of” or they are nerds that either no one want them or they prefer to remain virgin by choice! (We have  a fellow friend using Android… and either of these conclusions suits him… maybe!)

Another interesting article on this website explains why thou should never pay for online dating. Read it here…