Comments on: Review: iPhone 3G Hardware

By: Demi

Demi — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:55:23 +0000

You want to sell it? I would be interested in how much

By: andreea

andreea — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:38:05 +0000

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By: R1 Exhaust

R1 Exhaust — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:02:31 +0000

Hey Justin, liked your collaboration with ludacris. sounds hot. please keep up gOOd work. was at your concert in chicago – THAT WAS THE BEST!!!!!

By: Jr Fashion Princess

Jr Fashion Princess — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:02:40 +0000

haha I totally love Justin

By: Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:02:40 +0000

who wants to talk

By: Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:01:42 +0000

Hey this phone is amazing

By: IPhone owner

IPhone owner — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:29:43 +0000

Im not happy with my iphone sound it sounds low

By: MB

MB — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:34:20 +0000

If I already have a tilt and a ipod there is no reason to get the iphone. It is a waste of money. I do not need my music and phone combined into one the battery will get toasted.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:13:01 +0000

The thing that really disappoints me about the iphone is that the developers have not really taken advantage of multi-touch. I mean, the iphone/ipod_touch are really the only devices out there with multiple touch interfaces, I want to see some absolutely killer apps taking advantage of this.

By: Brian Hughes

Brian Hughes — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:52:00 +0000

The iPhone is an interesting device… I’m not totally sold on it though. The app store has almost nazi-like restrictions on what can be put on there, and I don’t know if I would be able to adapt to a flat screen for texting and such…

By: Tashanna

Tashanna — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:23:40 +0000

I would love to have one of these as a side phone.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:21:06 +0000

I agree with the website issues too. Combine that with the lack of multi-media texting (Can’t send/recieve pictures via text) and Apple has some explainin’ to do. I like mine but certainly keeping an eye on the competition because others are getting better and better. Either Iphone is going to fix these media issues or somebody else is going to take over as King of the Hill.

By: BT

BT — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:44:53 +0000

Totally agreed Ben. That is one of my biggest annoyances, especially when the iphone site is poorly designed. There are some sites, such as CNN’s where I prefer the iphone site, but there needs to be a clear way to choose which site you want to access.

By: ben

ben — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:02:08 +0000

other than that it’s amazing.

By: ben

ben — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:12:02 +0000

Apples biggest movement with the iPhones is having “the Internet in your pocket”, but about half of the sites I view on mine direct me to a different page designed specifically for the iPhone which is EXACTLY what I DIDN’T want when I got it. Sometimes there’s not even a way to access the regular site. They claim not to offer “a watered down version of the Internet”, but that’s exactly what it is.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:12:40 +0000

The iPhone 3G has 2 major software problems right now. First, there is no flash. Adobe and Apple are apparently bickering about “rights” and we the end use suffer. Since Hulu.com and all the major free and paid online TV and Movie websites use a flash player, we can not access them. Given the large screen, and small amount of hard drive space, such sites are critical to media lovers like myself. Instead of being able to access a massive amount of free TV shows and Movies online I am limited to what I can fit on my 8 gigs (or 16 gigs is you’re a big spender) worth of hard drive space. Likewise, many of my favorite websites (including 2 of my own online stores) use a lot of flash. So they display funny, or are completely inaccessible to iPhone users. Flash won the web video war along time ago, beating out Apple’s QuickTime web player in the process. Perhaps this is why Steve Jobs is not anxious to see a flash player released for the iPhone? Regardless, as more and more people realize they can not access flash websites while other phones can…he is going to see the popularity of his phone diminish. Second, Google Maps is a rather pitiful GPS Navigation system when compared to the likes of TomTom or Garmin. Google Maps gives you page by page directions. You have to click the next button manually to see the next turn. TomTom and Garmin not only plot your course but follow you as you go and have an automated voice that gives you step-by-step instructions as you go. There are rumors that TomTom and others are developing software for the iPhone, but there are just as many rumors that the developers license agreement is preventing them from releasing their software to the public. Again, it would appear that Steve Jobs is standing in the way of making his own product truly great. Perhaps Apple signed some sort of agreement with Google locking them into Google Maps? If so that was pretty foolish. Especially since the Instinct has voice activated GPS that exceeds anything we’ve seen from the big boys in GPS software. Long story short, the iPhone 3G is a disappointment. It only kinda does the stuff they say it does. But not really. Push comes to shove, the Instinct is the best phone at the moment…not the iPhone 3G.

By: Tom. Z

Tom. Z — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:45:52 +0000

I have the LG Vu right now and im trading for i phone 3g. is it realy worth it?

By: L. Ben

L. Ben — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:59:07 +0000

Good and balance review.

By: Montana

Montana — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:58:08 +0000

I think Cliff at question 14 brings up a great topic. Is it really worth switching from one carrier to AT&T just for the new Iphone? what do ya think?

By: lei

lei — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:46:33 +0000

do u know how much iPhone 3G is?

By: Song

Song — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:17:44 +0000

Has anyone noticed that the supposed 3G speeds are totally offset by lag? I've been using my 3G for days now and it seems like web access is WAY slower than when I used EDGE. (San Jose, CA). Over the weekend I went to Santa Cruz where it's EDGE only, and ALL the websites and apps that accessed the web were much faster. Now I have switched off my 3G and use only EDGE.

This makes me very sad as 3G was a MAJOR reason I was so anxious to get this phone. Is anyone else seeing this?

By: Chris C

Chris C — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:59:04 +0000

RE: Darrin Pruitt Said: " ringtone for ringtone we played one 2G and then the 3G phone and they sound the same. "

The ringtone volume may be the same as the old model but the speaker phone volume is now considerably louder. Music and movies still play at the basic same level - which was acceptable before, though small sounding and not in stereo. If you want louder ringtones on an iphone you can try 3rd party ringtones which may be louder.

By: NickNorthern

NickNorthern — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:35:21 +0000

My old auto cig-lighter charger does not work with the 3G what gives? I have to buy a new one now?

By: Somner

Somner — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:53:04 +0000

^ Texting while driving. LOL.

And the battery life drains somewhat quickly. I need to get a car charger fast.

By: Somner

Somner — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:45:17 +0000

I haven't had any issues with my iPhone 3G. I don't really know the difference between the first because I didn't own one before.

I absolutely love the GPS and in San Jose, California, the reception is amazing and VERY clear. My other phone, AT&T 8525, voice calls were a bit muffled. The new iPhone looks better than the first, one of the reasons I didn't buy the original because the back looked, ugly. LOL.

I bought Monkey Ball through the iPhone and I'm not sure what happened - but it's not working after the sync.

I noticed that the Contacts lags a bit. Also, when texting, I notice a lag when a new text is about to arrive. That, is... a bit annoying. Other than that, the keyboard works wonders - I have to say bye to my texting because I'm not sure where the buttons are. LOL.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:04:03 +0000

I have also noticed the battery life issue. It makes me feel like I will have to keep it pluged in every chance I get. I have also experianced unexpected quitting in safari and maps. Has anyone else had this issue? Other than that I love the phone, I’m using I for this post and it is working great. But I do have I pluged into the wall.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:03:55 +0000

I think a question many of us are having – is it worth switching from another carrier for the iPhone?

By: david

david — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:03:04 +0000

my contacts are super slow too

By: Benji

Benji — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:59:40 +0000

Where i’m from (Belgium) you can only buy seperate iPhones. It’s illegal to sell the phone and a contract together here. But on the downside we do pay 525€ for the 8GB model :s

By: Gareth

Gareth — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:34:03 +0000

I’m overall very happy with my 3G – I’ve only one gripe so far; what is being sold as a ‘black’ iPhone 3G is in fact dark blue – albeit very dark blue…

By: David

David — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:46:46 +0000

Sean Robertson:

As of right now, I don't see a way around signing a contract with AT&T. At the Apple Stores: They change your service to AT&T first. Then they sell you the phone. Then they activate the phone using iTunes in-store.

Seems difficult to get around currently. Plus, is AT&T really any more evil than Verizon, T-Mobile, etc.? All of the cell phone companies in the U.S., at least, are inordinantly large in scale and (not that I care) all participated in allowing the government in 2001 to use their services.

By: James

James — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:42:41 +0000

I have to say that I love my new iphone. The battery issue is somewhat of a problem but will become less so after I get over the initial phase of playing with my new toy all day. Also I found the sound to be very good. I would have liked there to be 2 speakers for sound instead of the one, because it’s easy to cover up the single speaker and completely block the sound. But overall I’m very satisfied with the new Iphone 3G.

By: Jamey

Jamey — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:35:11 +0000

Hello, I read above that the speaker volume is supposed to be better. But my 3g phone speaker is so weak. I can’t hear!!! Do I have a defective phone?

By: Sean Robertson

Sean Robertson — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:50:28 +0000

C-r-a-p is censored here? You gotta be kidding me!

By: Sean Robertson

Sean Robertson — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:48:11 +0000

I’m really curious whether there will be any way at all to get one without the AT&T bullshit. I refuse to give that company any money after all the warrantless wiretapping crap, not to mention the fact I don’t think a deal like this between them and Apple should even be legal. I don’t care so much about the 3G stuff (I hear it won’t work with T-Mobile even if you do unlock the phone), but I do care about better reception and speaker/microphone quality and the GPS could be useful.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:25:26 +0000

I believe some of my battery issues stem from my son playing the new free games on it. They seem to drain the battery very fast. Has anyone else seen this or seen where it has been tested?

By: Dieter Bohn

Dieter Bohn — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:59:57 +0000

@Darrin — Don’t know what to say, the speaker seems nearly twice as loud to me. :-/

By: Ivan Williams

Ivan Williams — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:48:41 +0000

As always, excellent review. I love my iPhone 3G thus far. But, I’d kill for my YMail to be instant, ALL the time. Even my Mobile ME mail is not ALWAYS instant, as it should be, weird, nonetheless…

By: Darrin Pruitt

Darrin Pruitt — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:22:15 +0000

I am getting tired of people saying the speaker is better. I read this so many times I went into a ATT store with cash in had ready to upgrade. I took my wife with me. I dont have 3G in my area, I have to drive 200 miles to get 3G service. I have a Garmin in all my cars. I do basketball tournaments for kids and anywhere near the place I cannot hear my phone. Yeah, I know put it on vibrate. But my wife’s phone the pearl has no problem with sound. I know Apple loves to see everyone with those white headphones but I would have thought a mistake the first time would have been corrected on a phone that is such a good media player. Anyway, I took my wife with me into the store and ringtone for ringtone we played one 2G and then the 3G phone and they sound the same. Exactly the same. So could someone please how the speaker is so much better. Apple could have put the mic else where and make the right side a second speaker.

By: Dieter Bohn

Dieter Bohn — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:10:47 +0000

Oh and of course, it also blends.