New to iphone from BB and Have some questions
- Just placed my order for the IP4. After wishing I had an iphone for about a year, and waiting for the IP4 to come out; Its finally a done deal.
What do you all do as far as email alerts go? I have 4 business email addresses set up currently on my BB and I am able to customize my alerts. Example. in Normal mode, my phone rings and txts come in and make noise as do CERTAIN email addresses. However in "Sleep" mode, my email does not vibrate or ring. Can I do this with the iphone?
How are you all doing it? do you just put your phone in Silent mode at night? If I need to take an important work call at 6am(while i'm in bed) I'd leave my phone on ring... seems like I'd also have to deal with emails, or turn each email address alert into OFF mode one by one every night before bed???
Sorry if this is a noob thing...07-21-2010 10:13 AMLike 0 - The iPhone does lack the notification system and customization that BlackBerry excels at. In your situation it sounds lime a BB is your best option. You cannot change the tone on incoming emails. Unless you jailbreak, there is no way of changing the sound at all.
There are only two profiles on the iPhone: vibrate and ringer on. On vibrate you can turn of the vibrate feature and your phone will be on a true silent, but there is no "phone calls only" profile. It's a profile I sorely miss07-21-2010 10:21 AMLike 0 - I have multiple emails set up and I don't miss it that much, I'm sure with newer updates with iOS4 we'll see these additional customizations for different email notifications although we may not be able to pick and choose unless jailbroken just to choose notifications would be a plus but I've accepted the differences and wouldn't go back to RIM if the paid me lol07-21-2010 12:26 PMLike 0
- Just placed my order for the IP4. After wishing I had an iphone for about a year, and waiting for the IP4 to come out; Its finally a done deal.
What do you all do as far as email alerts go? I have 4 business email addresses set up currently on my BB and I am able to customize my alerts. Example. in Normal mode, my phone rings and txts come in and make noise as do CERTAIN email addresses. However in "Sleep" mode, my email does not vibrate or ring. Can I do this with the iphone?
How are you all doing it? do you just put your phone in Silent mode at night? If I need to take an important work call at 6am(while i'm in bed) I'd leave my phone on ring... seems like I'd also have to deal with emails, or turn each email address alert into OFF mode one by one every night before bed???
Sorry if this is a noob thing...
Check out MailTones (link) in the iTunes store. It's $2.99 and works well... however, it requires that you set up a forward of the email message to their site - they receive it and send you an alert. Sometimes their alert actually beats the email to my iPhone. In my case, the email only contains a Problem Incident Number, and no corporate sensitive data. I have to log into my work system to get the details. But if your email(s) do/will contain sensitive data, then that may be a concern for you to reconcile.
It does work well for me.07-21-2010 12:56 PMLike 0 -
- 07-21-2010 03:58 PMLike 0
- When it comes to switching from and using different devices...there is some give and take. I carry both a Bold 9650 and an iPhone 4. The notification sysem on the iPhone has actually been a huge break from the constant demand of that blinking light and screaming alert.
However, that does not help your issue. and as of right now, there really is no way to get this functionality that you want out of the iPhone 4. I just "mute" my phone every night.
This is one thing I hope Apple addresses down the road, maybe iOS5?07-21-2010 03:59 PMLike 0
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