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!
The iPhone 3G S-QW38DOSN-FX/2
OK so I’m overexagerating. But I don’t like this constant addition of letter to the end of Apple product names. They’re starting to remind me of a Panasonic television.
Despite looking exactly the same (my friend Sam and I joked the ‘S’ stood for ‘Exactly the Same’) there are enough new features in the iPhone 3G S to make me go out and buy one. (See? It’s getting longer and harder to type out it’s name now!). I can think of reasons why Apple wouldn’t change the design of the iPhone. It would increase the price to manufacture a new body, it’s more cost during tough economic and there is absolutely nothing wrong with the old design. On the other hand, with the release of a new product I would have liked to see some sort of change.
Video capture and editing, a compass (“OMFG A COMPASS!! A COMPASS!!! HOW EXCITING!) and Nike+ support are a few good reasons to upgrade. I am also loving Voice Control. For me however, it’s the super ultra speed increase that has my wallet in hand. As previously mentioned, I’m an efficiency fiend. That means speed as well. There was no way I was going to idly stand by while someone else loaded Rolando faster than me! No way!
I also can’t wait for the 3.0 software to come out! Cut & Paste, MMS, full system search, landscape keyboards, notes syncing, faster web browsing and tons more! All for free on my current iPhone!
Continuing the trend, all the features of the iPhone 3G S and the 3.0 software update are incremental changes and aren’t anything bold and groundbreaking.
