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Accessing AT&T’s Wi-Fi hotspots is easy. You can use any Wi-Fi enabled laptop or other device to connect quickly and seamlessly.

iPhone users, get started with Wi-Fi

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Activate Wi-Fi from the settings icon on your iPhone
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Select “attwifi” from the list of available networks
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Enter your 10-digit mobile number and check the box to agree to the Acceptable Use Policy. Tap ‘continue’
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You will receive a text message from AT&T with a secure link to the AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot. You will not be charged for the text message.
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The SMS link will only be valid for 24 hours at the location it was requested. Another request must be submitted when using another hotspot location.
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Open the text message and tap on the link for 24-hour access to the AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot

This is probably the thing I miss most about my old Palm and the one thing that held me back so long from buying an iPhone.  There is no way to store / read pdfs on the iPhone.

If you have an internet connection you can store a bunch of pdfs in a mailbox and then download each one and read it while you have an internet connection.  That was useless under edge and is only  a slightly better option on 3G.  It forgets where you are in the document each time.

So it was with great anticipation I downloaded and installed FileMagnet.  FileMagnet does what it says it does, it allows you to transfer pdfs (and other documents) to your iPhone and access them while offline.

What it doesn’t tell you is there is no landscape mode, or text mode, so you have to scroll back and forth through each line you read.  It also doesn’t remember where you are in the document.

So you can either store a pdf on your iPhone or read a pdf on your iPhone but not both.  At least not yet.

I’m still hoping Adobe will step up and fix this problem.

I love it.

The new phone gets a signal in the house which the old one would not. That’s a huge plus.

We are at the edge of a 3G network. If I stand out back on one leg and face north I get 3G. Otherwise a short walk down the street puts me in 3G. What a difference it makes. In the city 3G is everywhere and that’s when I need it most, when I’m not home.

So far battery life is fine. It was rough the first day, but I was playing with the phone a lot. It was better the second day. Today it is fine. Remember it takes about a week to properly break in the cell phone batteries so that they will hold a full charge.

The screen is fine. It does not appear yellow to me. It is crisper and brighter. In a million folks I guess you just can’t please them all.

The form is nice, the old phone feels clunky in my hands now.

The apps will get better. It took Palm a while to get some good applications. Palm never did give us gps before they vanished. This phone has gps which opens a whole new world of cool application possibilities. Windows Mobile has some great applications for their phones. Ours will be coming.

I am synching the old phone and the new with the same computer. I did give the old one a different name ( click on the name when the phone is hooked into iTunes and it will let you edit the name ).

The calendars got a bit confused at first when I synced both phones. I deleted the events in the old phone and told iTunes to over write the old phone calendar with the computer copy. That straightened everything out.

If you put your old phone in airplane mode and turn on wifi it will quick whining about not being able to activate.

If you’ve gotten a new phone number don’t forget to add it to the ‘Do not call list’.

I’m still wishing for a pdf reader that will let me store several pdfs on the iPhone. Other’n that all is right and wonderful.

The anti-glare screen covers (Power Support anti-glare screens ) you can buy at the Apple store do a great job of masking fingerprints. It makes the phone much easier to read outdoors as well.

If your contact list is slow loading and slow responding to your taps, try removing the Google application and shutting off and restarting your phone. It worked for me.