Iphone questions - related to use while riding and running

Triathlon Forum
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  1. Is there a hands-free automatically answer a call setting so that you can answer the phone while riding without having to find the phone?

  2. Anyone figured out how to run with one - if so where do you keep it? Links to holders, etc would be awesome.

  3. Not triathlon related - can you send pics on phone to an other phone - or just through email?

Thanks gang.

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I think you are crazy to run with anything bigger than a nano. Plus, if you start running with your phone then I’ll have to start running with mine…and soon we all will…and that will just suck!

My only suggestion on biking is to use your hands free cable or bluetooth.

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  1. On the factory earbuds there’s a click button on the mic.

  2. A lot of my running shirts have pockets that can fit the iphone. If not, I use a generic “media player” armband I got from Target. Apple is pitching the iPod Touch as the official running device (with Nike+ support) and most cases for that can squeeze an iphone in.

  3. MMS? No, but it’s got to go away at some point. Why spend 15 cents for the privelige when email is free? And yes, I know some phones don’t support email… but honestly who would be lame enough to have one of those phones :slight_smile: In the cost saving for NOT using MMS you could buy a phone that supports email. There are workarounds (email to their number@ a magic email address, etc.) that may or may not work… but no official MMS support and I would bet it will stay that way forever.

I think the iPhone is the perfect running partner. It’s a great iPod and having a phone as a safety net is nice.

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Ok, hopefully this will help

  1. Yes. You can get a Bluetooth adapter and headset. I have a Jabra bt8010 headset and a125 adapter and a a120s adapter. Getting it to work with the iPhone has been totally hit and miss. More likely to run sub 5:00 miles up a mountain. Support is beyond horrible, though if you are patient they will replace items that don’t work. For either music or phone this works great and use it all the time at work. The 8010 is nice as you can just use one ear piece and this works great for riding. If phone rings you just hit a button on headset and it should flip from music to phone. When you hang up it should flip back. This is where I have problems.

Other catches - cases don’t expect a BT adapter and that’s why I have the a120s as it’s got a wire and hangs so it’s easier to stick somewhere.

Cases - I’ve got a marware case but there are many. I go for the upper arm ones. Do a search on eBay. Also careful if you have 3g phone or original as they take different cases.

Other options are a unit from Motorola but it does fit under a helmet and sweat will kill it - had three in a year.

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Go and get an ipod shuffle 1GB for like $40 brand new. Rain, sleet, snow, drop it, who cares rather than lugging an iphone around.

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I got a sports band for mine and hated it. My favorite way to run with my iPhone is to put it in a regular case that has a belt clip, and then clip that to a race belt. I have a little pouch on my race belt too (big enough to hold a little cash and my asthma inhaler). This set up allows me to carry everything I need, no hassle.

Sarah

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Go and get an ipod shuffle 1GB for like $40 brand new. Rain, sleet, snow, drop it, who cares rather than lugging an iphone around.

I agree. I have the 2g. It holds a ton of music, battery lasts 20+ hours, it weighs as close to nothing as you can get and you can clip it pretty much anywhere with its built in clip…can’t make phone calls with it though! : )

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Go and get an ipod shuffle 1GB for like $40 brand new. Rain, sleet, snow, drop it, who cares rather than lugging an iphone around.

can’t make phone calls with it though! : )

I see that as more of a “feature” than a drawback: training time is my time. Multi-tasking is great and all, but you end up doing multiple things poorly rather than doing a single thing well. If the point is to have your iphone with you for work calls you are going to interrupt your training, and handle work related issues in an out-of-breath hurried manner, and hence do two things poorly (working & training), rather than doing one thing well (training).

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Does the iphone use a flash drive? If not, wouldn’t running with it cause the HD to crash?

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iphone’s use flash.

you can run with the disk ipods too… i did for a while

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I couldn’t agree with you more…I never take a phone with me when training.

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Go and get an ipod shuffle 1GB for like $40 brand new. Rain, sleet, snow, drop it, who cares rather than lugging an iphone around.
I agree with this but I think the OP just wants to YAP on the phone or play with email.

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i have an ipod touch. i’ve owned many different portable music players. the iphone/ipod touch are the worst players for workout-related use that i have ever seen. they won’t work if your fingers have sweat on them. they don’t work unless you can actually look at the screen. you cannot access volume controls without physically rotating the player. as a portable, general purpose computing device, they show some considerable (though not infinite) promise, but as a music player (especially for workouts) … forget about them.

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Hey,

I think you need to get the phone to answer a call, I don’t remember seeing a button on the stock headphones, however I don’t use them much

I ride and ski with mine, however its way too big to run with, unless you like carrying a whole bunch of stuff in pockets and belts when you run. I second a cheap shuffle or nano for running.

Pics through MMS or email only as far as I know.

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It’s more a function of if my wife needs me, work needs me - other than a deep desire to “yak”. I’d like to be able to have the phone answer itself so that in the middle of descending huge hill I don’t kill myself and I don’t otherwise risk dropping the damn (and not cheap I might add) thing fishing for it with gloves right now - or sweaty paws in a few months.

Thanks everyone - I figured there was n’t an automatic answer setting - but wanted to make sure I was n’t just looking in the wrong place.