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iPhone 3G S

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I can't wait to get it, my current phone's battery is starting to die the past month or so, only holds about a day's charge. Didn't want to pay for a new battery in the mean time so I'm glad they're releasing this in June.

I've been using the beta version of the iPhone 3.0 OS for a few months and it rocks, and as always Apple's API's are a joy to use. Since I use it for development I can write off most of the cost of the hardware ;) Now I just have to actually release finish one of the my half finished iPhone apps...

I've heard from a couple people that it's kind of a boring incremental update, but since I have the original version of the iPhone, it's actually a fairly large step up for me. Mostly, due to the 3G network and 4x as much storage. 32gb, yum. Also, the new camera is a huge upgrade, w/ auto-focus and macro. Sick of blurry looking crap photos.
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  1. paul ·

    The camera is a huge upgrade in that it does video and auto focus but I am really surprised they kept with 3 megapixels when all the high end phones are going 5+.

    I definitely will consider getting one seeing as the price is reasonable. What I don't understand is the 7.2mbps HSPDA. Do we have that here? The whole time it is just the phone hardware holding back the speed?

  2. jim ·

    And still no file upload in mobile Safari.

  3. paul ·

    Ya that is lame, but this is nice :::link::: I imagine my journal will be much more interesting with an app like that.

  4. jenks ·

    and still no flash support in mobile safari, too, right?

    Not to mention that f**king ATT isn't going to support MMS and tethering right away (see my journal). Blah.

    I still want one.

    But the 32gb will cost me not 299, but $699, until february when my contract is up. Oy. $400 change?! I can live without video until then. Esp since a lot of what I want (cut and paste, text forwarding, +/-MMS) will be available for free in the software update next week.)

  5. jenks ·

    oh yeah and what about push notifications? they mentioned it, but I don't see it listed anywhere on the iphone site.

    I was also hoping for a revamped notification manager. Like I only get a popup when I have texts, but not emails? etc.

  6. jim ·

    Supposedly AT&T has manually flagged all iPhone accounts as not capable of receiving MMS messages, and has to manually unflag them all again, hence the delay until late summer.

    Seriously. :::link:::

    Also in that report, tethering will bring the data cost of the plan to $70 from $60. Yeah right.

    AT&T: fuck you and die.

  7. jim ·

    Sorry, $70 for data & tethering - as opposed to just data, which is currently $30 not $60.

  8. jenks ·

    Yeah really. That's about the most retarded reason I've ever heard.

    And I'm no computer guy, but- even if they DID have to go manually change a feature on every account, would that really take 2 months? Can't they write some little program that would do it in like 5 min?

    And, if they have manually put all iphones on "no MMS" accounts- I wish they would bounce them back to the senders or something.

    I mean I can handle not sending MMS myself, for now. But I hate that people send them to me, and they get no error or anything, but I have no clue they've send it, and then they're annoyed that I don't respond. At least bounce back "unable to send, this user cannot receive MMS" or something.

    Grr.

    And while I'm griping about ATT- do you guys drop calls like ALL THE TIME? For a company whose ad campaign makes such a big deal about 'fewest dropped calls'- I had NEVER dropped a call before switching to ATT. Now it happens OFTEN. Now, I don't know if that's ATT or the iPhone, but I have my hunches.

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