iPhone 3G S > Teachers
6:30 Jun 13th, 2009 | Notes
With the announcement of the iPhone 3G S and the Find My iPhone for MobileMe, Apple has once again given school’s another curse.
Recently, our school has reprimanded the entire student body for the action of filming fights from their phones (naturally it was only a few people who actually filmed fights, but they wanted to talk to everyone). This comes after other Sydney schools have been caught out by the media having have found fight videos on Youtube containing student in uniform. What a fantastic way to promote you school!
So what it this curse? Well, our school’s policy has changed to “We’ll confiscate your phones and look at all your information. Because we can.” In my opinion, the school has now given teachers the power to confiscate anyone’s phone for any reason. It’s like the anti-terrorism laws, but not. The curse is the new iPhone 3G S and Find my iPhone.
Should your iPhone be confiscated for any reason (you could be an innocent responsible student or one with something to hide, it don’t really care) the first thing to do before you hand it over is make sure it’s switched off. That means that the teachers will be waiting at least a minute and a half before the phone turns back on. By then you’ll have been sent away. This gives you time to quickly rush to the library.
Why would you want to rush to the library? Because you’re about to wipe your iPhone of all it’s data. Using Find my iPhone, you can remotely wipe your entire iPhone from a web browser. If you have the iPhone 3G S, it’s wiped instantly unlike the iPhone 3G which has a two minute delay. There you have it. Whether you were trying to hide your fight videos or maybe just didn’t want teachers to scrounge through your entire library of private personal data, you can rest assured that they will get their hands on none of it.
Take that school! That ought to teach you to take my revolutionary mobile device away from me thinking I’m using it as a phone!
MobileMe.
Let’s not quickly forget about MobileMe this WWDC! It got some pretty cool updates in my opinion. First, you can use Find my iPhone to do exactly what it says it does, find your iPhone. I would find this useful say, oh, I don’t know, if I left my iPhone at a friend’s house and they live half an hour away. I would quickly know where I left my phone without panicking and freaking out. Find my iPhone isn’t just cool for clumsy people who lose their phones, it useful if you get your phone stolen as well. Using me.com, you can send a customizable popup message and warning sounds to your iPhone to deliver a message to the thief of your precious phone. “Give my iPhone back B@#$%!!” and “This iPhone has been reported as stolen to the local authorities. Thank you for stealing Apple products!” are a few of my favorite custom messages.
Along with finding your iPhone, you can even tell it to remotely wipe itself. That means it will delete everything on itself should you chose.
iDisk also gets an upgrade. First, the icon changes from that horrid pink to a somewhat nicer blue. Additionally, an iDisk app is finally coming to the iPhone/iPod Touch with all the features of the online iDisk such as file sharing.
Just a few more reasons to love spending that $99 a year!
