There have been a number of complaints about MobileMe’s Push email speed. Some users seem to be experiencing “push” delays of up to 5 minutes.
I decided to time exactly how long it takes for a Gmail message to be pushed to the iPhone over Wifi and over GPRS / EDGE:
I’ve been using iChat AV quite extensively recently, as my girlfriend is spending some time in Sweden – the land of insanely fast consumer broadband. iChat AV has been a great way to keep in touch, however thre have been a few glitches here and there. Here’s a few possible remedies for common issues.
Low call volume, background noise and feedback are some of the problems you might typically run into.You can avoid most of these by using a headset (luckily now also available in better-looking behind-the-head designs, but if you don’t happen to have one handy, try these tips:
I just noticed a neat little feature on the iPhone I hadn’t seen elsewhere before:
If you manually dial a number, the iPhone will notice if it matches a number stored for one or more of your existing contacts and displays the name(s) at the top of the screen.
It also disables the “add to contacts” button, to prevent you ending up with duplicate contacts.
Not really groundbreaking, but indicative of the attention to deal found in every nook and cranny of Mobile OS X.
(Note: For some reason the video preview looks weird, but it plays fine once you start it..)