Native iPhone Currency Converter
What’s that you say? The iPhone doesn’t have a native currency converter but only web apps available to handle it? Well, in actuality you do have a built in currency converter in the form of the stock application for the iPhone along with the built in calculator. In order to get the current currency exchange rate, you need to input the desired currencies into the appropriate formats specified by Yahoo as that’s where the info is being delivered from. So for instance, following this formula “USDPHP=X” where USD being the American Dollar and the PHP being the Philippine Peso, would give me the current exchange rate of the American Dollar into the Philippine Peso.
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There’s one now.
http://code.google.com/p/iphone-converter/
@adrian
yeah, we covered that one just recently, thanks.
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Sorry, the problem here is that you have to get online to convert your currency. If I have to connect to the yahoo stock system to convert my currency how is that any different than simply loading up Google and finding the website that does it? The issue is that you can’t always get online (in fact rarely can in foreign countries).
Also, im not a dumb person but your article above contains pretty much zero instruction on how to do what you’re showing. Where are the steps involved? Right now I am in Hong Kong and i click on the “Stocks” button on my iphone. What I am presented with is the notice that my data roaming is turned off, and im not connected to a wifi source. Your article doesn’t address this at all. I click “Okay”. I get another popup asking me if I want to connect to a wifi source in the area (which is not free). I say “No”. I am then presented with Google, Apple, and Microsoft stock prices from the last time I was online. And a message saying “Error Retrieving Chart”. Your article does not say what I am supposed to do. What do we click to see what you see? I see a “Y!” button and an “i” button bottom left and bottom right.
“You need to enter the appropriate currencies in the appropriate format specified by Yahoo as thats where the information is coming from”
What? English please. Do you mean they need to do this before they leave their country to make sure its already there? If thats the case then they might as well just write it down on a piece of paper and not bother with the iPhone. If the info is coming from Yahoo then that means you have to be online to get it, and this whole article is null and void anyways.
People need step by step instructions.
mr duh you are a truely a reflection of your name. if the data source is online then how do you get them when you are offline?
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