Apple iphone 3gs

Apple’s smartphone still at the top of its game


Let’s get this out the way right away. The latest revision of Apple’s ridiculously popular mobile phone is the best one yet. It’s the fastest and it is the
most powerful. The iPhone 3G S is, also, the most over-priced handset to ever hit the market.

In slightly less than two years, Apple’s iPhone has transformed how the world thinks of cellphones. Phone companies and hardware-makers alike have rushed to ape the iPhone’s touchscreen interface, easy access to the Internet, and bustling App Store. The iPhone is no longer the mind-blowing, category-busting product it was in the summer of 2007. Our minds have been blown, the category was busted, and now competitors such as Palm, Google, Nokia, and Research in Motion are fighting back.
In the face of the stepped-up competition, it’s possible to consider Apple’s new iPhone 3GS a minor step forward for Apple. After all, it looks almost identical to its predecessor, which itself offered very few changes from the original iPhone model. But with the iPhone 3GS, combined with the iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update, Apple has addressed all of its product’s keyweaknesses while adding several important new strengths.
Yes, the competition is much closer to Apple now than it was two years ago. But the iPhone 3GS makes it clear: Apple is still leading the pack, in most cases by a wide margin.

The S is for “same”

Externally, Apple hasn’t messed with success—the iPhone 3GS is almost completely indistinguishable from the original iPhone 3G model, which itself was remarkably similar to the original iPhone. Front and center is the iPhone’s signature feature: a bright, beautiful high-resolution 3.5-inch diagonal touchscreen, offering a resolution of 480-by-320 pixels. The iPhone 3GS has Apple’s usual complement of four physical buttons (Home just below the touchscreen, sleep/wake up top, a volume up/down rocker on the left side, and a ringer toggle just above the volume controls) and the same black or white plastic back shell introduced with the iPhone 3G.



If you need to know which model is which, there’s only one clear way to do so: Look at the lettering on the back of the phone. If it’s in the same silver ink as the Apple logo, it’s an iPhone 3GS. (Likewise, if 32GB appears below the word iPhone, you know it’s an iPhone 3GS—the previous model was only available in 8 GB and 16 GB editions, while this phone’s capacities have doubled to an impressive 16 GB and 32 GB, allowing users to load their phones up with even more apps, tunes, and videos.)




The S is for “speed”

The lack of external changes belie what’s going on underneath the iPhone 3GS’s glass and plastic exterior. The iPhone’s last upgrade added a faster cellular radio and a GPS chip, but otherwise, the iPhone 3G’s internals were largely unchanged from the original iPhone. The iPhone 3GS, on the other hand, is a major step forward in terms of the iPhone’s technological underpinnings. Its processor runs at 600 MHz, compared to previous models’ 412MHz. It’s got 256MB of RAM, compared to 128MB in previous models.

The result is an indisputably faster device, not just at some tasks, but at every task. The iPhone 3GS booted faster than any other iPhone OS-based device, and launched every app I tried in record time. Its Safari browser had the dramatically fastest JavaScript engine as measured by the SunSpider benchmark, and loaded Web pages dramatically faster as well. Every aspect of using the phone felt noticeably faster on the iPhone 3GS than on the iPhone 3G. Even actions that only took moments before now happen instantaneously.

The speed doesn’t stop with app launches and fast-loading Web pages, either. The iPhone 3GS supports the new OpenGL ES 2.0 standard, meaning that a slew of iPhone game apps will be able to capitalize on advanced graphics features to create higher-quality graphics than have been seen on the iPhone up to now. But more important, the iPhone 3GS is just better when it comes to graphics. Games that featured jerky, low-frame-rate gameplay on the original iPhone and iPhone 3G—we’re looking at you, Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D—spring to life on the iPhone 3GS with high frame rates and smooth motion. The end result: old games will get new life, and the new games to come will blow away anything you’ve seen so far on the iPhone platform. Sony
and Nintendo, be warned.




The S is for “snapshots”

The iPhone 3GS finally addresses perhaps the iPhone’s weakest feature, upgrading the camera to a 3-megapixel model (still not exactly earth-shattering in terms of resolution). It still won’t zoom or flash, and the low-light images it produces are better, but still not great. Still, there’s no
denying that this new camera is an improvement on the original. In general I found the images from the iPhone 3GS to be clearer, with brighter colors and sharper definition.
Aiding the iPhone 3GS camera’s output is the ability to focus, which the previous iPhone camera lacked. By default the camera auto-focuses on the scene you’re shooting, though you can tap on the touchscreen to make it focus on a particular object. If that object is in a darker or lighter area of the frame, the camera will also adjust to make sure that location is properly exposed, even if that means other areas of the frame will be blown out or left in darkness. The focus isn’t exactly quick, but it does work, and the resulting images are definitely sharper than in previous models.

The new camera also allows you to take pictures of close-up objects—a test that previous iPhone cameras utterly failed. Not only is this exciting for people who want to e-mail a shot of a newspaper or magazine page or a close-up of one of their kids’ toys, but it opens up the possibility that the iPhone 3GS can actually function as a barcode reader for the first time, now that it can snap images of barcodes with clarity. (In many countries grabbing a bar code with your cell phone in order to get more information about a product on a billboard or in a magazine has become a somewhat common activity; personal-inventory apps such as Delicious Library could also benefit from integration with the new camera.)



Then there’s the big news with this new iPhone camera: it shoots video. It’s real video, too—not high-definition, granted, but full standard-def video.
To shoot video, you flip the Camera app into video mode by touching a small switch in the corner of the screen and press the big red button. Once you hear a chime and see a time code begin to count upward from zero, you’re recording video.
Once you’re done shooting your video, the iPhone 3GS stores them within the (now confusingly named) Photos app. Videos appear in the same grid as still images, but with a small strip at the bottom of their thumbnail image with a small movie-camera icon and an indication of how long the clip is.

User Interface and Software:
The Apple iPhone 3GS naturally ships with the latest version of iPhone OS. The most useful upgrades are the addition of voice command and copy and paste, though these have been standard in most smartphones for years now. The OS update is available to all iPhone owners, but voice command is only compatible with the 3GS. Apple has a weird balancing act going on of playing catch-up on basic features (video recording also makes its official debut here) while innovating in others areas (video editing, UI, the App Store.) The addition of stereo Bluetooth and MMS round out the “why the hell doesn’t a phone this advanced have this” features, but the “why the hell did it take this long” question still remains a mystery. There are many more
small tweaks in 3.0, for a more comprehensive list check out the unofficial iPhone User’s Guide



Voice Memos and Compass make their debut in the Apple iPhone 3GS, with the former being more useful than the latter. The most useful part of the compass is that maps now orientate in the direction you’re facing. however, when it is applied to the Maps application, it is actually quite handy. By double tapping the locate me button on the lower left hand corner of the map application, the program not only indicates where you are, but gives a free-flowing representation of the direction in which you are facing. Spin around and the map will spin with you, and a graphical cone of perspective will better acclimate you to the area you are in.

Beyond this you will find the standard set of applications out of the box, with tens of thousands of others ready to be downloaded, most for a price. We should start seeing some better games come for the 3GS due to its support of OpenGL ES 2.0 compatible hardware and a more powerful 3D chip. This probably means that we’ll also see games compatible only with the 3GS.

Spotlight search allows the user to search their contacts, calendar, notes, mail and iPod, similar to the universal search found in the Pre. Unlike the Pre, when the iPhone comes up empty on results the iPhone does not go out and search the web for the answer. It also only searches mail subjects, not the entire message. It’s a useful enough feature, but we feel Apple could have taken it further to make better use of it.




Performance:
The battery gets a modest bump from 1150mAh to 1219, but thanks to other hard and software improvements battery life has increased to 5 hours of 3G talk time and 9 hours of Wi-Fi browsing. More talk time is great, assuming you can make a call. While our reception seemed just fine, call quality was awful. Despite showing full 3G signal strength callers complained that we were static-ey, cutting in and out, tinny and just generally poor. Our end wasn’t much better; the volume was low enough that we had a hard time understanding callers even in quiet environments. There were a few calls we had to abandon because the quality was so poor.


Attractive Features
-3GS iphone have added few common features which are available in general phones like multimedia massaging, video recording, voice dialing etc.
-As Iphone 3GS is running on 600MHz CPU with 256MB of RAM, it is considerably faster than 3G, as a result it is called iphone 3GS (speed).
- It will allow faster access of heavy web pages. Inbuilt video camera is attractive and giving sharp result like Flip video camera. The 3GS display is ever-so-slightly warmer than the 3G’s, having a yellow/orangish tint when viewed side by side.
-Iphone 3GS height and width are almost same as 3G, so you will not have to buy new iphone accessories for 3GS.
-Iphone 3GS phone booting process is taking half of the time as compare to 3G Briefly, most of the applications are same in look and feel.
-The main improvement we can see in speed to run application, brows web pages, and videos.


Unattractive Features
-The iphone 3GS call quality is still same as 3G, there is no improvement and the 3G signal receptions remain uneven.
-There is not improvement in flash light I was expecting facility for USB transfer, but again disappointed.
-There are no multitasking facilities available in iphone 3GS version.




When all is said and done, the iPhone 3G S is a solid improvement to an already stellar smartphone that has energized an entire area of consumer electronics. There is no doubt that the iPhone has more room to grow and some problems still persist – lacking battery life, better video support, etc. – but like any product, those problems will be fixed in time as the necessary technology becomes more readily available and cost-effective. However, the value of the product ultimately comes down to the customer in question, and pre-existing iPhone owners should definitely proceed with caution.

From a consumer perspective, the iPhone 3G S is a mixed bag. Those who are considering picking up an iPhone for the first time should definitely go for the 3G S, as it is without question the best iPhone available.




From a purely performance and technical standpoint, the iPhone 3G S is an impressive piece of hardware, but like any major purchase, picking one up requires some serious consideration on the behalf of the consumer. If you insist on being on the cutting edge at all times, picking up the 3G S now only to upgrade a year later is a nonissue, but for those who want to settle into a phone for the next two or three years, we'd recommend waiting to see what's in store from Apple in June or July of next year.


For now though, the iPhone 3GS takes the crown as the best consumer handset available, but with the imminent Palm Pre and new Android based handsets on the horizon, it will be interesting to see how long it keeps it.


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