Well guys as you know I recently received my iPhone 3Gs (on Friday June 19). For the last 2 or more years I have used various phones many that claim to be smartphones, but they were not very smart at all. I eventually settled on of all things a freaking Motorola Razr2 V8 and then used a 32gb iPod Touch as the smart part or the PDA. This worked well. Believe it or not, I have found it so very difficult to leave my house with just one device as I've been so use to carrying 2 and if you throw in the Slacker G2 that is 3 devices. Now I have relegated the G2 to just my vehicle, so I don't carry it around anymore. My iPod Touch 32 has been sold.
Now on with my iPhone 3Gs review. First of all I had the orignal iPhone that was released 2 or so years ago, but AT&T coverage in my area was so pitiful, I ended up returning it. What good is a great phone with no coverage? I even got AT&T to waive the restocking fee because they knew their coverage was bad. So, I have had some experience with the iPhone (original), plus many of the features via my iPod Touch.
First thing I noticed about the 3Gs is that it booted up pretty fast. Applications just pop up with no delay or lag. Graphics are faster from viewing video, to viewing pictures to loading web pages. I was really surprised how much more crisp Safari is.
I am still learning about this phone and my first few days I was sort of lost because I am use to have 2 devices, one for music, mail, etc and the other just for talking. Now they are combined and so I've had to get use to that. I discovered the iPhone handles this very well. You get a call, the phone rings as normal, but the music gets muted. You talk and when you are done, you can end the call and it immediately goes back to music.
I have especially enjoyed the speaker phone, which is pretty sad on most phones these days. I can dock it in my 3G dock, use it as a speaker phone, while doing that, I can continue to surf the web, type email, review documents sent via email. Heck I can SMS or IM while talking and never skip a beat. The ability to multitask on the iPhone is an unexpected surprise. I am finding that my 3Gs is helping me be more organized and I am able to quickly respond and process a lot of information. I love the voice mail system where you can scan through it and just get to certain points to record phone numbers. SWEET. I"ve already used the voice memo, which is really great.
Honestly I could go on and on... this phone is well designed, well though out and it lives up to the hype 100%.
Oh I know there are those that say well my phone has been able to do all those things for year. Yeah maybe, but just how eligantly has it been able to do all those thing. How simply can you do those things. I can tell you on the iPhone it all just works together seamlessly and without having to even think about it. It is intuitive and you can tell those that have worked on this phone use this phone.
I can say right now without a single doubt this IS the best phone I've ever used. I don't give two shits about what other phones can or has already been able to do before now. Heck I have not even used the compass or maps, other than till it to find me, then I mapped a hotel I will be staying at next week. It gave me point by point directions. I did type in the name of a business in the maps program and it found it, gave me the phone number which I was able to call write from within the maps program. How cool is that? I really could just go on and on, but I think you all get the point. This phone is fast, all the new features and adds on that the 3.0 OS brought is super nice.
I have to say that I am also well pleased with AT&T's coverage thus far in my area, this is much improved.
If you are sitting on the fence and AT&T has decent coverage in your area, getting the iPhone is a no brainer!
Now on with my iPhone 3Gs review. First of all I had the orignal iPhone that was released 2 or so years ago, but AT&T coverage in my area was so pitiful, I ended up returning it. What good is a great phone with no coverage? I even got AT&T to waive the restocking fee because they knew their coverage was bad. So, I have had some experience with the iPhone (original), plus many of the features via my iPod Touch.
First thing I noticed about the 3Gs is that it booted up pretty fast. Applications just pop up with no delay or lag. Graphics are faster from viewing video, to viewing pictures to loading web pages. I was really surprised how much more crisp Safari is.
I am still learning about this phone and my first few days I was sort of lost because I am use to have 2 devices, one for music, mail, etc and the other just for talking. Now they are combined and so I've had to get use to that. I discovered the iPhone handles this very well. You get a call, the phone rings as normal, but the music gets muted. You talk and when you are done, you can end the call and it immediately goes back to music.
I have especially enjoyed the speaker phone, which is pretty sad on most phones these days. I can dock it in my 3G dock, use it as a speaker phone, while doing that, I can continue to surf the web, type email, review documents sent via email. Heck I can SMS or IM while talking and never skip a beat. The ability to multitask on the iPhone is an unexpected surprise. I am finding that my 3Gs is helping me be more organized and I am able to quickly respond and process a lot of information. I love the voice mail system where you can scan through it and just get to certain points to record phone numbers. SWEET. I"ve already used the voice memo, which is really great.
Honestly I could go on and on... this phone is well designed, well though out and it lives up to the hype 100%.
Oh I know there are those that say well my phone has been able to do all those things for year. Yeah maybe, but just how eligantly has it been able to do all those thing. How simply can you do those things. I can tell you on the iPhone it all just works together seamlessly and without having to even think about it. It is intuitive and you can tell those that have worked on this phone use this phone.
I can say right now without a single doubt this IS the best phone I've ever used. I don't give two shits about what other phones can or has already been able to do before now. Heck I have not even used the compass or maps, other than till it to find me, then I mapped a hotel I will be staying at next week. It gave me point by point directions. I did type in the name of a business in the maps program and it found it, gave me the phone number which I was able to call write from within the maps program. How cool is that? I really could just go on and on, but I think you all get the point. This phone is fast, all the new features and adds on that the 3.0 OS brought is super nice.
I have to say that I am also well pleased with AT&T's coverage thus far in my area, this is much improved.
If you are sitting on the fence and AT&T has decent coverage in your area, getting the iPhone is a no brainer!
