The app is very easy to use, and the menu is broken down into 5 menu options
1/ Send my location
2/ Request Others’ Location
3/ See Others’ Location
4/ Invite Others
5/ Settings.

The first is obvious, which allows your iPhone to find your location using the iPhone’s built in location capabilities, and send this information to any of your friends listed in HeyWAY. The accuracy largely depends on the area you are in, and is far better when outdoors which allows the iPhone to use GPS to find your location more accurately. If you are indoors when you send your location, it will be accurate to within 1km as the iPhone has to use Cell phone tower triangulation to find your location instead of GPS. You will be able to see your location on a Google Map before sending and will also be able to identify how accurate your current location is. When sending your information to your chosen friend/s they will receive a push notification (assuming they have enabled push notifications) and will then be able to see where you are currently located on a Google Map.

Requesting Others’ Location, will send a Push Alert to your chosen friend asking them to share their current location. They have the option to allow you access or deny it. You will be notified via Push Notification if they have given you access to their current location

See Others’ Location will show you any of your friends last location that they published and made available to you. If you want a more recent location status, send a ‘Request Others’ Location’

Invite Others, allows you to become friends on HeyWAY and therefore share your location. There are two options to add friends
1/ Invite By E-mail, which will send your friend an e-mail with instructions on how to get the app, as well as allow you to see their location
2/ Invite Nearby Device, which will look for devices near you with Blue Tooth enabled.
I personally have not had a great experience with using the Blue Tooth option, but the e-mail route works perfectly!

Settings shows you a summary of how many people you are following and how many people are following you. It also allows you to set your screen name, and choose the Map type to be used in Google Maps (Street, Satellite, Hybrid)

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I sadly, signed a contract with my old Cell Service Provider just before the iPhone 3G phone came out, and was quite sad that I hadn’t done the research before hand to see its arrival date. However, since I had a 24 month contract with my Cell provider, and the fact that the cancellation penalties were so high, I grinned and bared it and kept my old phone.

The good news, December 23rd my contract was due for expiration, and I had already placed a port request (to move from MTN to Vodacom, since only Vodacom has the rights to sell the iPhone in South Africa) to take place on the 23rd of December so I could finally get the iPhone, and by now of course the even newer version (iPhone 3GS) had been released which was in my favour of course ?

Now I had had many discussions with friends about the iPhone and the hefty price tag attached to the phone, even on a really high monthly package. In South Africa (at time of print of this) the iPhone 3GS 16GB will set you back between R2,000 – R5,000 ON A CONTRACT! There is currently no option to buy it on Pay as you Go, and there is no way to get one for free, regardless of the package that you subscribe to with Vodacom. Vodacom also have a sneaky way of getting you to buy the higher end package. I was previously on a 300 (free minute with per second billing option) which was more than enough for me in most cases. Vodacom however, have a 240 minute package (per MINUTE billing) or you can go for the 500 package which does have per second billing. This pretty much forces you to go for the higher package, and of course a higher monthly cost then I was paying for before.

It was the above reasons why so many of my friends had made the statement, “It’s not worth the money, after all, it’s just a phone”

Well, I took the plunge and decided I would go for it even with the extra cost, and after having the phone for almost a month now, I can confirm, this is NOT “just a phone”. With over 120,000 applications available for the iPhone (A lot of free, but even the paid apps are cheap, mostly been under R8 (£0.59) ($0.99)) it can do pretty much ANYTHING you want it to do.

In conclusion, I don’t think I will ever go for another phone, and certainly recommend the iPhone to anyone in the market for a new phone, and yes, it was worth the wait

Just a warning though, if you do get this phone, expect to spend a few hours a day addicted to it, and constantly looking for new apps and features for it!

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Country: South Africa

What caused the problem? :
I noticed that this occurred shortly after I had installed the new Facebook application update. This new update allows Facebook to search your contacts on your iPhone, compare them to the Facebook database, and then download all your friends profile pictures and attach them to your contacts.

I synced my iPhone to my Outlook (which out of interest is running on Windows Vista), and all my contacts in outlook were updated with their new pictures. All future syncing of my iPhone and Outlook would fail from this point onwards.

The Solution:
After fiddling for hours trying to find the best way to resolve this issue, I did the following

1: Open iTunes
2: Click on ‘Edit – Preferences’
3: Select the ‘Devices’ tab at the top
4: Click on ‘Reset Sync History’
5: Sync your iPhone
6: Smile that your problem has gone away ?

My Setup:

1/ Outlook 2007
2/ Windows Vista Home Edition
3/ iTunes Version 9
4/ iPhone 3GS 16GB

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