[slackline]

Not as crazy as the recipient having to have exactly the same brand of phone?

iOS market share about 40% isn't it?

Close, 35% according to this which is high, about enough to win you an election in this countries backwards electoral system, but then consider what virtually all of the remaining 65% percentage is...Android.

And if the recent trend from "Quarter 2" continues where 85% of smartphones shipped were Android then the overall percentage market share for iOS will dwindle.

[Jaspersharpe]

If you're on O2 then you can use this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=es.tid.gconnect&hl=en_GB to send texts and make calls via Wifi. Yes it comes out of your monthly allowance but as JB says, who pays for calls and texts these days? Means you can call/text abroad for free.

We used it when a mast was down near here and it worked really well.

[slackline]

Slackers, Im on about sending photos, not taking photos, if you read my post. However you can share photos directly from the iOS camera/photos app anyway.

Yeah, I get that, but if I want to send a photo I do as I wrote and fire up my camera first and then choose how I want to send it rather than the other way round.  Similarly if I've already got a photo I took yesterday/last week that I want to send, I don't fire up which ever application I want to send it with first, I find it in the gallery and then choose the application I want to send it with.

Not owning an iFern I've no idea if this functionality exists under iOS.  You've confirmed it does, and I don't see why people don't use this method and are wasting time bitching over what application is easiest to send a photo* with because there are lots of applications that are able to do it and people can use the most appropriate one, which is often contingent on the recipient.


* Although the original discussion was about just messaging rather than attaching pictures.

[Johnny Brown]

Sounds a bit like some people aren't tech savvy enough to tick "send as text message" under "messages" in "settings" and are slagging off IMessage instead. Fair enough I say.

I use it at home on the wifi but don't think to change the settings every time I walk out the door in case there's no 3G.

It always tries to use a data connection first, but sends as a normal text if data connection is too poor.

...and if there's no/ poor mobile signal, it just sacks it off permanently. Unlike every other phone I've owned, which sends it as soon as it has good enough reception. I've got the right boxes ticked in settings, I'm not a retard.

[slackline]

If you're on O2 then you can use this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=es.tid.gconnect&hl=en_GB to send texts and make calls via Wifi. Yes it comes out of your monthly allowance but as JB says, who pays for calls and texts these days? Means you can call/text abroad for free.

We used it when a mast was down near here and it worked really well.

You can do this with Hangouts.

[SA Chris]

Any ideas how to get photos back off an iPad onto an SD card? I was using mine for photo editing before i got a new desktop, but now want to move them back to back up onto an external hard drive. I've got the little plug in SD card adaptor. A quick google says it's not possible without having to move them to cloud storage first, but I'm hoping that's wrong.

[GCW]

You can email them, so I presume you can save as an image file?

[tomtom]

iCloud?

[Stubbs]

Can you not plug your iPad directly into the desktop and download the photos? This is what I do with my phone.

[SA Chris]

iCloud?

A quick google says it's not possible without having to move them to cloud storage first, but I'm hoping that's wrong.

[SA Chris]

You can email them, so I presume you can save as an image file?

They are image files. I want to get them off and stored elsewhere as they are taking up a lot of space (circa 200 mostly RAW files) not keen to email them all.

[SA Chris]

Can you not plug your iPad directly into the desktop and download the photos? This is what I do with my phone.

Hmm, is that too obvious? I'll give it a try! Even if desktop isn't Mac?

[tomtom]

Photo's can be transferred from phone/tablet to PC (it appears as a drive) but its not so easy to go the other way...

[SA Chris]

Need to find the bloody USB adaptor now. Only found the SD one after a half hour of searching.

[Stubbs]

Is the USB adaptor not what you use to charge it stuck in the mains adaptor? Yep dead easy on PC, just like downloading off a camera.

[SA Chris]

Good point, I think it might be! I rarely get my hands on the thing, so not sure.

I'll have a go tonight, Thanks

[Jaspersharpe]

Where to start.......?

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/19/apple-iphone-6-plus-dropped-accident

[kelvin]

I despair. 'Man drops phone' was the leading news item on Facebook a couple of hours back.