Sometimes I just wonder who came up with the crappy auto correction engine of the iPhone, sometimes it’s just really annoying and sometimes I get really, really mad.
Like when needing to type this little word: “bigger”
For some reason, I’m not quite aware of, the people at Apple seemed to have created the ultimate, untouchable racist device. Nobody hates the iPhone… well maybe until they see this on their screen…
iPhone bigger auto correction
Now, somebody please deliver some tar and feathers to Apple.
Mirco
16:30 on Saturday, 22. November 2008 |
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German prepaid mobile provider Simyo teamed up with RetailkeyShop to bring the unlocked iPhone 3G to the prepaid market.
The phones are offered at 588,90€ for the 8GB and 674,90€ for the 16GB version. Simyo offers three different payment plans from 0,09€/minute to 15,00€ per 30 days for calls and a new mobile Internet offer which includes Internet traffic of 1GB per 30days for 9,90€.
If there is one thing on my iPhone I could kill someone over it would be the auto correction.
Since my phone is set to German I do expect it to correct my German typos, instead it create new ones. The first three lines represent a german and the latter three a english version of roughly the same sentence.
Neither is spelled right. I don’t mind that Caps are not corrected, but i do mind that it automatically changes correctly written words into something that doesn’t even exist.
What the Hell is “rächtachreinkorrektur”? You can’t even find a word like this on Google! But what I did type was: “Rechtschreibkorrektur”. So why autocorrect something that’s not misspelled?
It gets even better if I try typing English text. “Äre” would be Swedish, Quedt turned out to be a family name, THW is an organization like EPA, that actually does help, and the only reference to “fünfion” I found is in the book:
Oekonomische Encyklopädie
By Johann Georg Krünitz, Friedrich Jakob Floerken, Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth, Carl Otto Hoffmann, Ludwig Kossarski.
Published in 1805.
Remarkably I did find a reference to “Sehepoper” on Google… about the iPhone auto correction.
In the last few months I was using some Geotagging services and tried to figure out, how to utilize them into my every day work and travel.
I first started with Plazes, a Germany based startup that was recently acquired by Nokia. For mobile Notebook users this service offers some very convenient search options, integration with lifestream.fm and twitter as well as phone support via SMS.
Although I couldn’t get the SMS service to post my current position, not having to use a smartphone to update the current location is good new for company users with standard cell phones.
during the last week Plazes announced the m.plazes.com mobile website. This gives you most of the features from the full blown application with less network traffic. searching new locations is a bit more complicated but the results have gotten better during my tests.
In addition to positioning Brightkite also offers photo uploads and short messages. It integrates into Twitter and the most common social networks like Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn.
Additional to the standard Website there are a mobile and an iPhone optimized version at m.bkite.com and i.bkite.com as well as an iPhone application and SMS service available.
The main difference in service is the privacy option in Brightkite. All of your contacts can be set to one of three trust levels: Trusted Friends, Friends and Everyone Else.
Each of these groups receives different details on your current location. You can choose between Exact, City and Hidden, which will not display your location at all.
So while Plazes will always post the complete address of your location to anyone Brightkite will only post the level your chose to twitter and show the details to trusted friends logged into Brightkite.
For me Brightkite currently offers the better overall service, with its easy to use iPhone application and privacy settings.
For the last few months I was a very satisfied owner of a portable JBL ON STAGE MICRO speaker set for my iPod. After switching to iPhone iRealized that in order to use it iWill need to switch into Flight mode, which turn off the phone.
In conclusion I have to go for a JBL On Stage IIIP (currently listed on Amazon for 150€) to use both the phone an the pod functionality.
