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Latest post on 04 October 2012 - 10:24

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Latest post on 24 September 2012 - 12:41

I have an Iphone 4 which I brought with me here. I will not install the "upgrade" to iOS6 as I've heard so many negative things about it (especially with losing google maps and youtube apps). The Apple maps have had so many reports around world with serious glitches and it's not properly up to date. I'm not even sure if you can revert back to an older software version once you've upgraded. With previous software updates I have waited several months before I have installed them to give them a chance to fix the glitches. Apple seem to release software that is not properly working. A friend of mine had issues when she bought an Iphone4. She lost all contacts and apps that she had on the Iphone3 even though she did a backup. It's always worth it to google what issues users have with new software before updating. if OP is after using Google maps I would recommend to not update the software to iOS6. Very good decision! I regret installing it:( I am trying to look for a way to downgrade it back to factory software.. I found this that might be of some help: You can conduct a factory reset (Restoration to settings you had when you first got the iPhone). However, all user profile/data will be wiped unless you backed them up to iCloud or so. Settings->General->Reset->Erase all content and settings. Note: You can no longer conduct a real 'flushing' or reinstallation of iOS5 because Apple has moved on and no longer validates iOS5.0 with their servers, thus making an iOS5.0 reinstallation impossible. The earliest "reinstallation" you can get is iOS5.1.

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Latest post on 24 September 2012 - 12:10

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Latest post on 20 September 2012 - 15:55

i try really really hard not to use taxis, if i do i expect them to stink, be dirty, be useless, rude and the experience to irritate me...... if only one of these things happen, it's better than i expected..... There is no public transport where I live so I have to get taxis. I have a European driver's licence that I could exchange to a UAE one and get a car but the traffic and the dangerous driving habits here are putting me off...

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Latest post on 20 September 2012 - 15:50

I have been in Dubai for a fair no of years and used many many taxis but the absolute worst experience was a Filipina in a Pink taxi from the airport to home and she was just so full of anger and venom at seven in the am that I just asked her to drop me off halfway and preferred flagging another one with my luggage. Never felt happier to get into a stinky male driven one after that I can assure you. :) Completely disrespectful, unsafe and I can't imagine how foul her mood may have been on some poor unsuspecting customer by the time her shift ended. Avoid pink taxis!! It sounds like I'm better off avoiding the pink taxis then... :-/

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Latest post on 20 September 2012 - 14:34

I've had mainly bad experience with taxis here. A lot of them are rude and don't know where anything is. Once I got a taxi from JLT to Palm Jumeirah and the driver did not know the way. It appeared that he couldn't read either as I showed him the signposts on SZR and asked him to look out for them and it should be easy to follow then but he still kept on asking "where now Ma'm". I've only lived here for a few months and I haven't been driving here so I have to rely on taxis. I also find that they are ungrateful for the tips. Most of them say nothing. I would expect some manners- a little "thank you" can't hurt can it? I said to my husband that we should stop tipping the ones that are rude or don't know the way. Tipping should encourage them to be more professional. We've also had problems ordering large taxis. The standard comment from the taxi centre appears to be "no big taxis available" or we can send you two taxis. Two taxis would be useless when you actually need a large one to transport a larger item from the shop.

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