
Caption: "iPhone has been waiting for you" Apple's website says it all.
The fact is, despite its revolutionary user interface and an excellent user experience, the original iPhone was missing some very critical functions that you will be linked with the 18-month contract and the price of £ 269.
At a time when many speculations have Apple iPhone 3G.
We will not dwell on all the characteristics of the original model in this study (see the first-gen iPhone review here), but as the name suggests, this model features of 3G (including HSDPA).
There is also a free phone if you sign up to £ 30 per month, but again must have at least one contract of 18 months. Thank you for the 3G upgrade, web surfing, is now much more of a WiFi hotspot - we tested an average of just under 700Kb/sec - and navigate through the Safari browser, by squeezing and stretching gestures with the fingers on the screen is just as impressive as before. Sites appear just as they do for PC or Mac, although this does not mean that you often zoom in to read the text and Flash content is not supported.
Apple has a number of changes in the physical design, most significantly a slightly curved spine. It is also a little thicker and heavier. Visits to the 3.5in screen with a resolution of 480x320 pixels and 802.11b / g wireless products of origin is also present. And even though Bluetooth is a built-in, there is no support for A2DP format used in wireless stereo headphones.
A small but useful for the design of the amendment is that the 3.5 mm headphone is no longer a sunk, so you can create your own set of headphones instead of Apple's trademark white buds that come with the package.
Those who want to replace the 40 GB iPod with the iPhone will be sad to hear, it is only available to 8 GB and 16 GB versions.
As in the past, Google Maps is already installed, but thanks to a built-in GPS receiver, will now be able to your location, assisted GPS function to be used in the vicinity of masts for mobile telephony rough indication of where you are, up to overhead satellites are located. But do not turn audio directions or instructions, it is not the compensation the nave Saturday.
Those who are interested in the GPS is to be used sparingly or risk draining already under pressure, battery less than a day. Even if you steer clear that the GPS function, you will most likely have to turn the phone on a daily basis, if in a reasonable amount of web surfing and listening to music. With very light, we need a little more than three days.
Apple has the feeling, and opened the iPhone to a third party software developers, even if you only can they download from the Apple Store, App.
Not surprisingly, the developers have tried to develop their own piece of the iPhone action with approximately 500 titles that are already available. Games like Texas Holden, and Crash Bandicoot top download charts, but there are a large number of downloads available, including training, business tools, and eBooks.
The two-megapixel camera has not led to an upgrade will disappoint many, and the persistent lack of flash, or LED, moreover, they did not very good, low-light environments. Perhaps more surprising is the fact that Apple has chosen not to install the second front facing camera - despite the extensive coverage of 3G video calls have been able to take off in Britain, but the iPhone is certainly a device that everything can change.
There is no doubt that the iPhone 3G makes a number of important improvements over the original, but even if it trounces the competition in the form of convenience, but still no characteristics that of its competitors. Video recording, multimedia messaging, and removable battery is given by the iPhone.
It is available free of charge in the contract, the iPhone will be forced to attract new customers, but we do not believe that Apple has done enough to attract the current owners to upgrade. It goes without saying that those who want to do a lot of web surfing, the temptation will be placed on 3G, but there is not much else for a rapid improvement. And while GPS module is a bonus, not his own satellite-navigation.
The iPhone is still by far the easiest to use smartphone currently available, but it is not quite the upgrade, we had hoped.