iPhone, iPost

Posted on July 20th, 2007 in WordPress, Technology by Craig

Well, I did it. Went and got me one of them iPhones. The WordPress admin pages aren’t terribly well-suited to the device, but I think I’ve figured out how to post an entry from the phone.

It’s the best phone/iPod/PDA I’ve owned, in spite of a few annoyances. One dissappointment is the poor interaction with the Bluetooth hands-free feature in my Audi A3. The phone and car make a connection when I start the car, but the connection is unstable and usually breaks in five or ten or fifteen minutes. I filed a bug report with Apple this morning, and hope they can and will produce a software fix for it. A BMW owner said he has seen this problem, and found that by disabling the phone’s WiFi while in the car, he could get a stable Bluetooth connection. I’ll give that a try the next time I’m out and about.

Now for full disclosure. I wrote most of this post from the iPhone, but had to finish it from my laptop. I can’t copy and paste on the iPhone, which makes adding a lengthy URL to the post a difficult chore. Some of the controls on the Web interface for WordPress administration are invisible on the iPhone, too. Just the price of being an early adopter, as they say.

Update Turning off WiFi while in the car didn’t fix the Bluetooth hands-free operation bug. A search of the web for iPhone bugs leads me to believe that Bluetooth support is one of the most unreliable of features on the phone.

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  1. Steven said,

    on September 17th, 2007 at 5:17 pm

    I just got my iPhone. A3 in Feb. I waited 1/2 hour for the systems to pair, and I got nothing. Any ideas are much appreciated. iPhone has 1.0.2 software loaded.

  2. Craig said,

    on September 18th, 2007 at 11:28 am

    Steven, the system should pair with your iPhone in just several seconds when you run through the instructions found in the A3 manual. This worked fine for me even with the older 1.0 iPhone software. I haven’t looked at this section of the manual in a while, so don’t remember it well. I’ll check it again later.

    The problems that I had with the iPhone continuously connecting and disconnecting seem to have been largely resolved in the 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 iPhone updates.

    You might also check with one of the Audi forums, like the AudiWorld.com A3 forum where I hang out, to see if someone there has some good advice.

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