My review of the new iPhone

So I finally took a trip to my local Apple store today and checked out the new iPhone (One interesting note, there was still a line of people out the door of people wanting to buy the iPhone, 11 days after it came out). Here's what I thought.

The 3G  makes it pretty speedy. I tested the phone with Wi-Fi turned off,  and couldn't tell much of a difference between 3G and Wi-Fi (One thing to keep in mind is you won't have 3G coverage everywhere, so check out a coverage map before you buy).

Other than the speed; and the lower price of course, there isn't much difference between the new iPhone and the old one. The GPS is improved, however it's not good enough to replace your current GPS unit (unless the rumored TomTom app shows up). You still can't get iTunes downloads over the network, you still have to be on Wi-Fi to do that, you still can't record video, things that a lot of people were hoping for.

The best thing about the new iPhone is the app store. I got a chance to check out a few games, and they are really fun, the graphics are great, and these are only early games, it can only get better from here. Plus, as time goes on, developers are going to come up with all kinds of genius apps that fully take advantage of the iPhone's abilities.

Unless you need a camera and want to be able to access the internet from anywhere, I advise getting an iPod touch instead. You'll save a lot of money, you still have access to the app store and all those goodies, the iPod touch has e-mail access, it's just a better value in my opinion. However, both are excellent, and I will be saving up to get one myself.

Has anyone gotten their hands on an iPhone yet? What do you think so far?

Yellow Tinted iPhone 3G

Some people are complaining that their new iPhone has a yellowish tint on the screen. Here's the original article:

http://www.appleinsider.comyellow_tinted_screens.html

Is anyone else experiencing this? Let me know

Need IPhone 3G for review

I would love to do an IPhone 3G review, but first someone needs to send me one. I promise I'll send it back after I've spent adequate time with it to garner an accurate impression. Just throwing it out there. If you want to, contact me and I'll get my info to you. Also, if someone wants to give me money to put towards purchasing my own IPhone, my Paypal address is GUITARMANJT2000@gmail.com. Thank you very much. I look forward to hearing from you.

Line for IPhone 3G

It looks like people are already lining up at an Apple store in New York for the new IPhone, even though the launch isn't until the  11th. I would be there myself, except I have to work, I don't have the money for an IPhone, and my wife won't let me. Oh well.

Thoughts on IPhone

The IPhone is the new laptop. Think about it. Why is the Asus Eee PC so popular? It's because it's an easy to use, VERY tiny way to get on the internet, plus do some basic computing, such as word processingone. What is the IPhone? An easy to use, EXTREMELY tiny way to get on the internet, plus word processing (if you can get used to typing on the thing). Why do people most people lug their laptops around with them? To get on the internet, doing some word processing, and maybe watch some videos and listen to some music. Hello, the IPhone does all that!

So why isn't everyone getting rid of their laptops and getting an IPhone? Storage is a big reason. The IPhone has limited capacity, with the highest available only 16 GB currently. Many laptop owners today are used to having at least 100 GB of storage, save those Eee owners I mentioned earlier. But this is all changing. As online storage becomes more capacious and faster, we will start to see more mobile users relying on online storage rather that a local hard drive. Eventually, online storage will be just as fast as using a local hard drive, and then IPhones can really start getting tiny.

Another problem is size. While the IPhone is an ideal size for portability, it makes typing on it hard to do right now. An easy solution to this would be to create some sort of type as you speak software for the IPhone, but the technology isn't there right now, and it wouldn't always be appropriate (You wouldn't want to be speaking a paper in a public library. Librarians can be pretty tough).

So there you have it. The IPhone is the new laptop; not yet, but we're getting there.