Just an ole programmer

[farmboy]

been programming computers since 1965, LGP-30 64 octal bytes, drum memory. been a long way since then.

 

[iCrank]

been programming computers since 1965, LGP-30 64 octal bytes, drum memory. been a long way since then.

Welcome to ipf. Farmboy, nice experience you have there

 

[Darkstar2007]

Welcome to the forums!

 

[farmboy]

Do you know how to change the behavior of the dial pad app? Any suggestions for speed dial?

 

[iCrank]

Do you know how to change the behavior of the dial pad app? Any suggestions for speed dial?

As far as the behavior if you're jailbroken you can install a tweak called phone closer from Cydia. As for speed dial there is a app in the actual AppStore called quick button

 

[EWyatt]

been programming computers since 1965, LGP-30 64 octal bytes, drum memory. been a long way since then.

Farmboy........... I remember those old days of drum memory, etc. Hell, I bought an HP calculator back in the 70s for $250 that you can get now for $3.99. My Atari 800 computer was the best in the land (sorry, Commodore losers!) and a 10 MB hard drive was mainstream.

Now we have the iPhone 4. How things have changed!

 

[iCrank]

Farmboy........... I remember those old days of drum memory, etc. Hell, I bought an HP calculator back in the 70s for $250 that you can get now for $3.99. My Atari 800 computer was the best in the land (sorry, Commodore losers!) and a 10 MB hard drive was mainstream.

Now we have the iPhone 4. How things have changed!

Wow. That $250 for a calculator. I could've suggested a calculator watch that I had in the 90's for a quarter that I won out of a gumball machine. Lol. Times have changed. Wait until my children are teenagers. They're going to laugh at me for having a iPhone 4.

 

[farmboy]

Do you know how to change the behavior of the dial pad app? Any suggestions for speed dial?

As far as the behavior if you're jailbroken you can install a tweak called phone closer from Cydia. As for speed dial there is a app in the actual AppStore called quick button

thanks for the reply. Am I the only person irritated by the way the phone app opens and closes? I have looked at the droids in detail. The Motorolas all act like iPhone. The Samsungs and HTCs all behavior the way I would like and expect. That is, whenever you return to the phone app, it always begins with the dialer. It doesn't bother me at home, office, or standing around, but it is hugely distracting when you are driving. I guess you shouldn't be fooling with this stuff when you are driving, but that's life.

 

[farmboy]

been programming computers since 1965, LGP-30 64 octal bytes, drum memory. been a long way since then.

Farmboy........... I remember those old days of drum memory, etc. Hell, I bought an HP calculator back in the 70s for $250 that you can get now for $3.99. My Atari 800 computer was the best in the land (sorry, Commodore losers!) and a 10 MB hard drive was mainstream.

Now we have the iPhone 4. How things have changed!

You're a young guy, I remember a 5 meg IBM 2311 removable disk costing $15K circa 1971. The drum memory machine actually used the drum for the memory. You spent a lot time putting the code in, the data in and in essence there was no OS, it just booted and started executing instructions at a predetermined location. I believe the iphone has more power than IBM 390 that sent Apollo to the moon in 1969 - seriously!

 

[iHolophyte]

Farmboy........... I remember those old days of drum memory, etc. Hell, I bought an HP calculator back in the 70s for $250 that you can get now for $3.99. My Atari 800 computer was the best in the land (sorry, Commodore losers!) and a 10 MB hard drive was mainstream.

Now we have the iPhone 4. How things have changed!

I had the commodore plus 4 and that was amazing! I also had the ZX Spectrum too.

As for the speed dial app. I always find with speed dial I forget whose numbers whose lol best just going into your contacts. You lose about 0.005 seconds against using a speed dial ha ha