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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Top 5 Things to do When You Get Your iPhone 4S [Setup and Security], Auckland, New Zealand

There are a few things you need to do as soon as you get your iPhone 4S out of the box. After you activate it with your cell phone company, you should take the following steps to make sure your iPhone 4S is set up correctly and secure.

I know you want to start playing with your iPhone 4S right away, but if you follow these 5 steps, you’ll have a secure iPhone that is ready to keep going.

iPhone 4S Setup

Here are the first 5 things you should do before you start using your iPhone 4S on a regular basis. Once you are done with this short iPhone 4S Setup, you will have a secure iPhone that is backed up to the cloud, syncs wirelessly and is ready to use with Siri, Apple’s new virtual personal assistant.

Setup iCloud

In iOS 5, Apple has added the ability to backup your iPhone’s important files and picture to the cloud. When you setup iCloud, you can send your photos to the cloud and all of your devices with Photo Steam. You can also backup your entire iPhone to the cloud.

iPhone 4S Setup - iCloud Settings

iCloud also allows you to use the Find My iPhone tool to track down your lost iPhone. After you setup the backup process, your iPhone will backup every time you plug in and connect to WiFi. This means your contacts, apps and files are safe.

Set Up WiFi Sync

Once you get your iPhone 4S out of the box, you will be ready to start syncing with your computer. Thankfully, you no longer need to plug in to your computer to backup and sync. After you setup WiFi Sync, your iPhone 4S will sync with your computer when it is on the same network, without any connections or actions needed.

iPhone 4S Setup - Start WiFi Sync

This 9 step setup process will only take a few minutes. You need to plug in to iTunes and you’ll need to check the Sync with this device over WiFi checkbox. You should connect to power when syncing as it could drain battery life faster, but this is not a requirement.

WiFi Sync can sync, music, movies, apps and pretty much anything you used to sync with your USB cable. You can still plug in and sync if you need to, which I would recommend if you need to move a lot of large files fast.

Set Up a Passcode

In order to keep others from using your iPhone or to keep a thief from using it to access your saved information, you should setup a Passcode. This process takes a minute, and it will make your iPhone 4S more secure.

iPhone 4S Passcode Screen

Follow these directions to set up a Passcode on your iPhone 4S.

Tap Settings.
Choose Passcode Lock form the right side menu.
Tap turn Passcode on.
Enter a 4 digit Passcode that you will remember, ,but not something as simple as 1234. For help, use the letters to spell out a four letter word.
Enter the Passcode a second time to verify.

You will need to check the erase data box if you want the phone to wipe after 10 failed attempts. This can add security, but I do not check this box. You can use Find My iPhone to do this, and too often I hear of pranks that involve entering the wrong Passcode too many times to cause data loss.

Set Up Relationships

If you plan to use Siri, You should take a few minutes to setup your contact relationships. Once these are setup, you can ask Siri to send a text message to your Wife, Brother, Mother, Son, Daughter…well you get the idea.

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No iPhone 5, No Problem: iPhone Owners Will Wait For Fall Release Date.

While some Apple watchers held hope for an iPhone 5 release date announcement at the WWDC 2012 keynote, Apple chose to tell the world about new MacBook Pro models and amazing iOS 6 features.

Our best guess is that Apple will ship the new iPhone sometime in October.

A fall iPhone 5 release mirrors last year’s iPhone 4S announcement which abandoned the Summer WWDC announcement and release cycle for a the fall.

The lack of a summer iPhone 5 release date isn’t a shock, even if it disappoints iPhone owners waiting to upgrade from the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 3GS, to get the best features Apple has to offer.

The average smartphone user doesn’t care about the specs of the latest Android smartphone, certainly not enough to abandon an OS they know over waiting four months.

Geeks care about specs, complaining about the lack of a 4G LTE iPhone and a dual core processor, but geeks are the minority. Even then, I’m willing to wager there are plenty of geeks who won’t mind waiting four months either. Especially with the prospect of a faster iPhone 5 with 4G LTE connectivity.

The iPhone isn’t about specs, it’s about a user experience that is difficult for Android to duplicate and compete with thanks to developer support, third-party accessories and partners who develop cool gadgets that work with iPhone first, and focus on Android later.

The longer you use a mobile OS, the more you’re invested in it. Not only is there a learning curve to switch to a new operating system, there’s a financial burden after the phone purchase.

Many iPhone owners have hundreds of dollars worth of apps, music, movies and accessories for the iPhone. I spent over $250 in the iPhone app store in 2011, and even casual users can spend $100 in apps over the course of a year.

It’s possible to move iTunes purchased music to an Android device, but the average user won’t bother converting and breaking the DRM on iTunes movie purchases, and forget about iBooks.

The success of the iPad also helps lock users into a wait for the iPhone 5. Many iPhone apps also work on the iPad with a single purchase. Android tablets are improving, especially with the well designed Toshiba Excite 13, but the Android tablet app experience doesn’t yet offer this same attraction.

Apple also enjoys some protection thanks to America’s addition to cell phone contracts. Anyone who bought the iPhone 4S is still locked down until Fall 2013. Users who own an iPhone 3GS may have passed on the iPhone 4S, and aren’t likely to give up after waiting this long out of contract.

The users least likely to wait for the iPhone 5 release in October are AT&T iPhone 4 owners who will come out of contract in late June.

iPhone 5 Release Date Rumors

The latest iPhone 5 rumors point to a release in October, though some analysts still believe Apple could announce and launch the iPhone 5 in September. The iPhone 5, as many are widely calling the next iPhone, is actually the sixth iPhone, and will most likely deliver a new design and new features to iPhone users.

$200 Tablet Display Accessory Converts Your iPhone 4S Into an iPad Tablet!

Not to be outdone by Asus with its newly announced Padfone device at the Computex trade show in Taiwan, ECS and ICE Computer have joined together to show off a prototype of the same hybrid convertible form factor that will convert an ordinary iPhone 4 iOS smartphone into an iPhone 4-powered tablet akin to an iPad! Best of all is the accessory’s relatively low asking price of $200.

Essentially, similar to the Padfone, a modular dock on the rear of the tablet is where users can slide their iPhone 4 into. The device itself just houses the large 9.7-inch 4:3 aspect ratio display, connector and dock for the iPhone 4, SD card, front-facing camera, and two USB ports.

Once docked, the dock connector will output what you see on the iPhone 4 via HDMI and connect that content to the display, just as you would if you were to connect your iPhone 4 to an HDTV or to a projector, for example. The companies involved says that the docking slot is modular, and can potentially work with Windows Phone and Android devices via simple upgrades or alterations. Hopefully, we’ll see some device-specific dock accessories be available as well for Android users, and the company is saying that device is future-proof and would work with slight modifications for the iPhone 5!

The benefit here is that users don’t have to manage both an iPad and an iPhone, and the concept is similar to the Motorola Atrix 4G, Asus Eee Pad Transformer, and the new Asus Padfone in having a multi-purpose device that can change and transform to different form factors. In terms of overall cost, it will definitely be cheaper for iPhone 4 owners than having to get a separate iPad 2, but there are some limitations with the solution as well. For one, games optimized natively for the iPad 2 may not be as smooth running on the single-core A4 CPU on the iPhone 4. Additionally, various apps may upscale what’s on the iPhone 4 to fit the display on the tablet accessory, rather than displaying contents natively like on the iPad 2.

The accessory still doesn’t have a name nor a launch date at this time. For comparison, the laptop dock that the Eee Pad Transformer goes into to convert from tablet to laptop form factor costs US$150 while the Atrix 4G’s Laptop Dock accessory costs US$300 (US$400 at launch). The difference is that when docked, the Atrix 4G used a custom Linux-based Webtop OS whereas Android 3.0 Honeycomb is present on the Transformer in laptop or tablet mode.