Comments on: The iPhone 3G S – Fair or Foul?

By: aamp

aamp — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:57:18 +0000

Oh, and before I get flamed – I love my iPhone!!

By: aamp

aamp — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:54:36 +0000

Again I say fair that the 3GS has some additional features – my 3G is getting a bit slow now and I’m glad they updated the chipset. The killer feature is the voice rec. I want to upgrade for this one feature but the price difference is keeping me at bay – I think they raised the price (in the UK) due to low stock, once stock increases they’ll lower the 16Gb to £400 on PAYG as it was with the 16GB 3G.

I have to say though, the constant ‘Apple is ahead of the game’ comments are a little fan-boyish. In terms of UI they have in the bag (or at least as close as poss without adding a sliding keyboard!) but in terms of software and hardware features they are still catching up. Symbian devices lead in that respect with 8meg cameras etc. features like mms and copy/paste are taken for granted, video recording is getting into the 720p territory on these devices.

Apple have a good UI – but Palm and Symbian are catching up.
Apple have a successful App Store – this is the biggest lead that they have at the moment – it’s not just the quantity of apps but the quality and store experiance. As with the iPod it’s iTunes that saves the day!

By: aamp

aamp — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:40:06 +0000

I’d say that Apple has kept updating ‘older’ models because they provided an incomplete system in the first place. We knew what we were buying but it doesn’t mean I’m happy to not be able to forward a cool text message or to have to re-type everything when a simple copy/paste would’ve done the trick.

WinMo didn’t have MMS in the beginning but the other bits were there 6 years ago. Then MMS came standard 4 years ago. I only mention WinMo because it has been trailing behind Symbian – if WinMo devices had this functionality then it’s true to say that Apple was able to keep customers happy with an ‘unfinished’ OS.

Now that they’ve added most standard features (video recording not included), I think they’ll do a few bug fix releases and call it a day – we probably have 9 months. Next years OS update will be for 3GS devices only…

By: Damien Edgington

Damien Edgington — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:15:21 +0000

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By: Scottie Withers

Scottie Withers — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:47:43 +0000

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By: Kimmy

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By: WPMJJ

WPMJJ — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:12:08 +0000

I say “Fair”. People can have whatever expectations they want and if a company doesn’t deliver then the company has disappointed some of it’s target consumers. I think the new phone is a letdown (regardless of how well it may work when it becomes available). Does the company “owe” these consumer something? – hell no. Is this the arguably reasonable upgrade people wanted? – hell no.

By: Brock mcdonald

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By: jaxim

jaxim — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:13:52 +0000

it would have been nice if Apple allowed multi-tasking with the new iPhone. With its faster processor, I am sure the new 3GS can handle at least 2-3 applications open at the same time. The Pre can do this. Other smart phones can do this? But no — Apple wants to baby its customers. They don’t trust us. Being able to have instant messenger on in the background all the time would have been awesome.

Plus it would be nice if they made the phone work as a phone better. Perhaps they did do this, but it would be an unannounced hardware fix. Where I live (Manhattan), iPhone users have terrible service. (I’ve heard San Fransisco is equally as bad.) Many have blamed these woes entirely on AT&T but I think they are only partly to blame as I use a Razr phone and use it under AT&T and my service is awesome – which makes me think that the iPhone hardware is at least partly (if not entirely) to blame in the terrible phone service.

If Apple had come out with answers to these 2 points, then we would have had another iPhone revolutionary on our hands instead of a modest update.

By: alex malone

alex malone — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:12:33 +0000

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By: Larry Greenberg

Larry Greenberg — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:50:25 +0000

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