As you all know, Apple has introduced a new version of iPhone, and claims that the iPhone 3G S is "the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet", with improved speed and performance.
According to the company, the new iPhone is twice as fast as iPhone 3G and has longer battery life, a 3 megapixel autofocus camera, video recording and hands free voice control. The new version has features such as cut, copy and paste, MMS, spotlight search and landscape keyboard and more. The previous version of the iPhone did not have cut, copy, paste, MMS and video recording features and the lack of these basic features in a 3G phone were regarded as a major slip by Apple. This has been addressed in the new version iPhone 3G S.
The iPhone 3GS is fast from the word Go. The startup time of the handset is 15 seconds flat as opposed to the iPhone 3G, which takes under a minute. Now even the transitions are much smoother, thanks to that 800MHz processor and a much more powerful dedicated graphics. The phone has really quick load times; games and applications easily take less than half the time taken by the standard iPhone 3G. Every time I timed the two devices it amazed me to see how well the power translated into a greater and much better experience. The thing about the iPhone that drove us all crazy was the experience, and now that it has become faster, it is all the more better.
The 3.0 OS brings along with it several goodies. Apple says the iPhone 3.0 software also includes a ‘Find My iPhone’ feature that works together with MobileMe to locate a lost iPhone on a map, send a message that will appear on the screen or play a sound to help the user to find it even if the phone i s set to silent. If the user cannot find your iPhone, he can erase all data and content with the Remote Wipe feature.
So far the iPhone 3GS has the same charm that the first-gen iPhone had when it was launched. The real downer here is the same looks. The hardware changes are all very much welcome but the question that I was asked later by friends and colleagues was "is it worth it?" Well, for the expected pricing of around 30K for the 16GB and 35k for the 32GB, it seems quite fine.
According to the company, the new iPhone is twice as fast as iPhone 3G and has longer battery life, a 3 megapixel autofocus camera, video recording and hands free voice control. The new version has features such as cut, copy and paste, MMS, spotlight search and landscape keyboard and more. The previous version of the iPhone did not have cut, copy, paste, MMS and video recording features and the lack of these basic features in a 3G phone were regarded as a major slip by Apple. This has been addressed in the new version iPhone 3G S.
The iPhone 3GS is fast from the word Go. The startup time of the handset is 15 seconds flat as opposed to the iPhone 3G, which takes under a minute. Now even the transitions are much smoother, thanks to that 800MHz processor and a much more powerful dedicated graphics. The phone has really quick load times; games and applications easily take less than half the time taken by the standard iPhone 3G. Every time I timed the two devices it amazed me to see how well the power translated into a greater and much better experience. The thing about the iPhone that drove us all crazy was the experience, and now that it has become faster, it is all the more better.
The 3.0 OS brings along with it several goodies. Apple says the iPhone 3.0 software also includes a ‘Find My iPhone’ feature that works together with MobileMe to locate a lost iPhone on a map, send a message that will appear on the screen or play a sound to help the user to find it even if the phone i s set to silent. If the user cannot find your iPhone, he can erase all data and content with the Remote Wipe feature.
So far the iPhone 3GS has the same charm that the first-gen iPhone had when it was launched. The real downer here is the same looks. The hardware changes are all very much welcome but the question that I was asked later by friends and colleagues was "is it worth it?" Well, for the expected pricing of around 30K for the 16GB and 35k for the 32GB, it seems quite fine.
