Originally Posted By: andy
I'm personally very glad Apple stuck with a fixed status bar, I wouldn't want to pull down a bar every time I needed to check signal strength, whether a GPS add is in the background, the time, whether wifi is connected, battery level remaining (and also keeping an eye on how fast I'm draining it) etc

If they ever make it hideable, I hope the make it optional (they probably won't make it optional knowing Steve).


I agree. Infact, a couple of versions ago TomTom went more fullscreen than it had previously, so now I have absolutely no idea whether or not I'm getting a voice or data service, I find that particularly irritating.