Testing Iphone 3G on my way to the office

Global Position Satellite

I go to work from Kennedy Town to Central on a bus. I was expecting the GPS system to indicate the direction to Central as the bus move like any car GPS system would do. This is not the case. The GPS does not keep tracking the location, you have to keep refreshing it. Once refresh, it is zoom out and you have to zoom in again. It does not have anything to show turn left, etc. It is simply a google map with a GPS locator that needs refreshing.

3G Reception

On my way to work, I couldn’t get 3G reception. But on my way back home in evening I have 3G for the entire journey. I don’t know what happen. Perhaps many people use the waveband in the morning.

The Standard

Normally I would pick up a freebie newspaper as I get off the bus. I thought I will read online on the bus. This can also save paper.

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/

However I like to read the pdf version from http://202.66.86.27/. But iphone can not read the pdf off the site for some reason.

To test if iphone can read pdf files I email one to myself via Yahoo mail. Iphone can read pdf, excel, etc via email but does not appear to be able to read off the web.