iPhone certainly stirred the mobile phone market and ever since the introduction of the iPhone, people started expecting more from Apple. After iPhone 3G makes great success, APPLE introduce iPhone 3GS which upgrades the 3G model to keep up the excitement. The iPhone 3GS supports new hardware and firmware upgrade as well as O2 network. Maintaining the traditional candu bar design, the iPhone 3GS measures 115.5 x 62.1 x 12.3mm and weighs 135g.
The iPhone 3GS looks just like the previous model. However, uniqueness is found in the design of 3GS in many ways. The screen has a fingerprint resistant coating.and the menu interface is very smooth to use. The most important is that you can add as many apps as you want to the home screen, but please do remember to limit yourself in this point becouse you will have to go through multiple page menus if you overdo it.
The 3.5 inches HVGA widescreen is very pleasing and it is a capacitive touch screen. Forget about using the stylus to activate menus on the iPhone 3GS. The images will look sharp and clear on the high resolution screen. The screen occupies a large part of the phone and you will have to move your fingers around to reach the control buttons for the silent mode, volume rocker and the like .
Inorder to satisfy most userss demand for iPhone upgrading, a few tweaks are brought about in the interface of the iPhone 3GS to make the phone a little different. The spotlight helps you view the email messages and get the apps starting by typing just the first few letters of the name .
With a 3MP camera, the iPhone 3GS makes it possible to take clear and bright pictures, which is a considerable improvement to the previous iPhone. The Tap to focus feature is pretty simple and straight forward to use. The white balance, color, exposure, and contrast can also be changed easily,. However, flash is still missing with the camera. Auto focus and macro setting are great additions, but still the users are given less control over the camera. Video recording isnt bad either, with a respectable VGA quality resolution..
In particular, the iPhone 3GS has a voice calling feature and meanwhile, voice control works well with the iPod player and iTunes list. You can use your voice to control the song play by issuing commands to your iPhone. A complete set of accessibility features are available with the iPhone 3GS, making it possible and easy for the visually impaired people to take full advantage of the phone using voice control.
The compass shows your location and it integrates with Google Maps to let you navigate by finding the location. Support for Nike + iPod is now available and the sensor fits in your Nike running shows. The MMS feature is made available with 3GS and stereo Bluetooth is also useful. The iPhone OS 3.0 has many new updates that support hundreds of features. The cut, copy and paste features were long overdue for the iPhone and it was introduced in 3GS. A landscape keyboard was introduced and it will take a couple of days to get used to the wider buttons. Fast browsing is possible with the 3G support.
The standard Li-Ion battery supports 300 hours of standby time, 12 hours of talk time in 2G and 5 hours of talk time in 3G networks. Even though the iPhone 3GS is loaded with features, the absence of multitasking is very disappointing, especially when the competitors were able to facilitate multitasking with their Symbian and Android operating systems.
Jerry Smith, the editor of
http://www.mobilephoneonly.co.uk. An expert on mobile phone and an observer of UK telecommunication market. He writes
reviews on latest mobile phones, and also suggests promotional deals and special offers from mobile phone retailers in UK.
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