Aayush Arya is India Editor and Apps Co-Editor at On the iPhone, if your having a phone conversation and you need to save a number to your phone there is no easy way to go about it. If you tap the number onto the phone’s numeric keypad you’ll lose the digits once you hang up. If you type it into the Notes app, you still have to remember it in order to dial and call the number.
Alternatively, you could just hit the Add Call button and then, if it isn’t already selected, hit Keypad on the next screen. Any number you type on this keypad will remain there once the call is disconnected. You can also save or call it then and there, even while you’re already on another call.
It’s surprising how few people know about this trick. The Keypad button on the six-button grid that is displayed during a call is for button presses that actually affect the ongoing call and is supposed to be used during calls intercepted by IVR (Interactive Voice Response) systems. That’s the reason why it doesn’t save the numbers entered into it during a call. I do think there is room for improvement here though.
Another reason I held out last summer was in anticipation of the 3rd generation iPhone that is now just around the corner. Leap-frogging iPhone upgrades makes sense for two reasons: First is Apple’s subscription-based accounting for iPhone sales. This means they report the income for that phone sale as spread evenly across two years (or eight quarters), and is why iPhone owners get free software upgrades. When the two years are passed, iPhone owners will (presumably) have to begin paying for software upgrades, just like iPod Touch owners.
Secondly, when you sign up for, or renew a 2-year contract with AT&T you get to pay the subsidized cost ($199 / $299) of your new iPhone. If you purchased an iPhone without signing up for a new contract, or were to upgrade while still in the middle of your current contract you would have to pay full price for the phone ($599 / $699). Meaning, if you were to buy the latest iPhone every single year, you would only be able to pay the cheaper, advertised price every-other time, with the rest of the upgrades being at full price.
Er, either I’m not reading this right or both of the observations above are misguided. Firstly, it is extremely likely that first generation iPhone owners will not have to start paying for software updates once they’ve had the phone for over two years. Secondly, we all know that when you buy another iPhone before your previous contract with AT&T is up, you get it at the subsidised price and your existing contract just gets extended to two more years from the date of purchase of your newest iPhone.
I am curious what app in OS X the notes will show up in? Will they sync as rich text files into a pre-designated folder? as some sort of message in Mail, alongside to-do items and RSS feeds?
They will show up as notes in your inbox in Mail. Switch to it right now and select ‘File » New Note’ (or hit ‘Cmd-Ctrl-N’) to see what they look like.
However, a bigger hard drive will certainly be a welcomed addition when it comes to voice memos and (rumored) video recording capabilities.
iPhones come equipped with flash based storage, not hard disk drives. Duh.
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