iPhone 3GS oleophobic = fantastic
Swain Valasek | Jun 29, 2009 News & Editorials
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Loading ...What seemed a total gimmic when first announced has proven itself to be the real deal. After putting the 3GS through its paces for about a week now and the 3G still fresh in my mind, there’s no doubt Apple’s new ‘oil-fearing’ coating on the 3GS is a marvel. I had to always carry around a quality microfiber cloth to truly get my 3G screen clean (which I had a screen protector on) as anything else really didn’t do much but move the smudges around to other parts of the screen. In contrast, the 3GS (with no screen protector) not only just stays cleaner longer in general but a wipe on the shirt or pants actually does clean it up nicely…impressive!
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iPhone 3G S is now ’3GS’
Swain Valasek | Jun 24, 2009 News & Editorials
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Trivial? You bet! However, everything’s done for a reason in Apple-land. Not officially stated on their site but you’ll notice everything has been quietly changed to reflect the new naming scheme, for example the 3GS product page. Makes sense to me really, never did see any logic in the 3G<space>S gimmic. Of course, people will continue be confused by the ’3G’ tag anyway, wondering if it means ’3rd generation’ or ’3G cellular technology’ (it’s the latter).
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iPhone 3G S First Impressions
Swain Valasek | Jun 22, 2009 News & Editorials
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(4 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5) Loading ...Fedex delivered a nice little box of awesome today in the form of a 16GB iPhone 3G S (yes the S really does officially stand for speed). There’s gobs of articles and videos out there comparing the speed of the 3G S to the Pre and original 3G and unfortunately I just don’t have the lab & time to repeat stuff like that so what I’m doing here is just rambling a bit about the OBE or ‘out of box experience’ which is a sort of intangible quality associated with any and every piece of high tech gear a man ever buys (women may not understand what I just said but all the guys are like ‘dude man, word’). At the risk of alienating the fairer gender, I trudge onward.
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iPhone 3G S!
Michael (Admin) | Jun 8, 2009 News & Editorials
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(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Well since the current vote tally is 38-28 in favor of non-review editorials , I suppose now is as good a time as any to start spewing nonsense…
So I was just over at TechCrunch reading about today’s iPhone 3G S announcement and I also soaked in everything I could from Apple’s site update. Here’s what you wanna know:
- U.S. release date: June 19
- Non-U.S. release date ~July 7
- Apps will run twice as fast
- 3 MP camera with autofocus!
- Video shooting & editing, currently only available on jailbreak apps
- Upload videos directly to YouTube or MobileMe
- Voice control similar to the “SYNC” system you see advertised in Ford car commercials, ie: “call the VD clinic” or “play a song by Wham!”
- Multimedia messaging (OS 3.0)
- Cut/copy/paste (OS 3.0)
- Built-in compass with map integration
- Improved battery life giving 9 hours of web surfing on WiFi vs. the current 6 hours
- 16 GB iPhone = $199
- 32 GB iPhone = $299
The article doesn’t say anything about contract requirements, but you can bet your broke ass that a two year contract is part of the deal. But hey, if you’re super poor like me you can now get the current iPhone 3G for $99! Yeah, you’re gonna run into another contract there as well. $99 is for the 8 GB model, and 16 GB will cost $149, or so I was just told less than a minute ago on the phone by some dude at a local AT&T store.
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