| EntilZha said: I did read your comment about the other browsers, but I ws not sure what you meant by it. I was not aware there were restrictions on what third party apps could do in this area. In my defense, CHROME does have a decent rating on the apps store of 3.5/5.0 I am not sure what you mean by keyboard applications, but I know you can use many different messaging apps on an iphone (skype, yahoo, etc.) But maybe that is not what you meant. If you are talking about changing text bubble colours, I can do that using Messages on my iMac, can not see how to do it on my wife's 3GS, and I am not sure if iOS 6 will or will not do that. TBH, it is not high on my priority list either way. As for saving email attachments, I have to apologize for my statement on that. It seems my wife was only referring to image attachments that she can save. Those are the only email attachments she gets. Further research on my part shows that other file types can not be saved without the use of an app like EVEREADER (free). Thank you for this mature conversation! I am really learning about smart phones, and it will help me to make informed decisions. |
Third party browsers cannot have their own engine and they can't use some of the Safari features. They can never be as fast and efficient as Safari. Because of this there is no point in using them unless you really like the looks. That was my point. It may seem like you can use other browsers but in reality you can't.
What I mean by messaging application is the system messaging application. Skype or other things do not send SMS. Sometimes I use other messaging applications that have different features that stock messaging applications don't. That was my point, colors were just an example. If you try to make an application like this it says that you can't change the core system functionalities or something like that. I thought you can't change the music application too, but apparently you can. Again, my apologies there.
There are various keyboard applications that have various features that stock keyboards don't. This video shows one of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B89NRAtnzo Skip to 0.33 or so. It doesn't show the features but it gives you an idea of how much customization you can do. There are other videos but they were too long I didn't watch them, sorry!
A lot of these things don't seem like high priority things when you don't use them, but they all add to the experience. I didn't even think I need a smartphone before buying one and now it is part of my body. You need to use them to appreciate them.
