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Thread ID: 110990 2010-07-09 10:24:00 Things an iPhone does that you never would have believed! Billy T (70) PC World Chat
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1117409 2010-07-09 10:24:00 Read THIS (www.telegraph.co.uk) then tell me if you'd really want an iPhone or any other Apple phone-enabled communications device?

Cheers

Billy 8-{) :waughh:
Billy T (70)
1117410 2010-07-09 10:40:00 Makes no difference to me, If someone was looking through that information it would mean I had lost my phone, and that would be pissing me off. Metla (12)
1117411 2010-07-09 11:10:00 Umm Billy, The Google Nexus1 has the same features. Too be truly safe I suggest you go back to the trusty two cans and a piece of string plod (107)
1117412 2010-07-09 14:36:00 Most all smartphones have intelligent dictionaries today, and geotagging of images. Unsure about the accuracy of the "It saves a screenshot every time and keeps it logged" for the Maps ... If you're a developer, it'd make sense for it to cache a small amount of the maps, so when you re-open it, the map application won't have to download a screen full of data (It would just make it "appear" faster basically), but it's pointless caching every single exit screen, not to mention a waste of space. Chilling_Silence (9)
1117413 2010-07-09 23:39:00 Maybe a very forgetful Apple exec left an iPhone in Osama's local watering hole .... SP8's (9836)
1117414 2010-07-09 23:42:00 What if someone ties another can to your string, calls hacked. nothing is safe. The Error Guy (14052)
1117415 2010-07-09 23:53:00 Or they follow the string, and find your exact location.

Spooky.
Metla (12)
1117416 2010-07-10 00:00:00 Without reading the above,I can tell you I have no need of that kit. Cicero (40)
1117417 2010-07-10 00:28:00 Most all smartphones have intelligent dictionaries today, and geotagging of images. Unsure about the accuracy of the "It saves a screenshot every time and keeps it logged" for the Maps ... If you're a developer, it'd make sense for it to cache a small amount of the maps, so when you re-open it, the map application won't have to download a screen full of data (It would just make it "appear" faster basically), but it's pointless caching every single exit screen, not to mention a waste of space.

Perhaps it's a file system thing, where it saves it in a different location every time instead of directly overwriting the previous exit screen. It wouldn't be a waste of space as the space would be marked free - but if the phone wasn't full of data there would be gigabytes of space for 'deleted' things to reside.

That's just pure guesswork and I don't know why it would possibly work that way, but it is entirely plausible.
george12 (7)
1117418 2010-07-10 00:55:00 True, you have a good point. Chilling_Silence (9)
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