Reader Christopher sent us this succinct question about the iPhone:
Rumor has it that there is no vibrate function on the iPhone. True or False?Man, I used to love true or false questions—with a fifty-fifty chance of getting them right, they were totally way better than multiple choice questions. Hmm. Let me think…I’ll say “false.”
*Bzzzt*! That’s actually the sound of the vibrate feature, which the iPhone does in fact have. You can refer to the Apple’s own guided tour to see that under the Sounds section of the Settings app, there is an option for vibrate apparently under both silent and ring operation. We’ll know more on Friday, but for now it appears that those who prefer not to annoy their companions with incessant ringing—no matter how mellow those Apple-provided tones are—will have that option available.
Any idea if we can use mp3's stored on the iphone as ring tones?
I'm actually more concerned about the "profile" feature. It'd be troublesome to go in "Setting" and change the ringtone/vibrate setting every time you need to change your user profile.
I read something a few months ago (don't remember where, though) that iTunes may add a ringtone store. I doubt that they're going to make ringtones that easy...
~C
"Any idea if we can use mp3's stored on the iphone as ring tones?"
Do you really think Apple/AT&T will give up the revenue stream for ringtones? :)
Good point! I just enjoy editing a song in garageband and sending it to my current phone.
Vibrate is one of the things I need.
Two others (assuming it's not in vibrate only):
Does it make noise upon arrival of a text message?
(most likely answer is yes)
Does it periodically make noise after a text message has come in and been ignored?
Both are necessary since we send pages about system problems via email-to-text-message (I know that works for ATT/Cingular/ATT--enough name changes already). [I've probably sent 5 text messages in 3+ years. But I do need to know about pages.]