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11 Jun

Hands On 3G iPhone - 3 top websites put it all together

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Yes, we are now talking about how does 3G iPhone look and how much different it is from the previous iPhone. 3 of the top websites - Gizmodo, Macworld and Engadget got a change to touch and work on 3G iPhones for  a short while and here is what they have to say:

Gizmodo

• In my hand, the 3G iPhone is lighter, fits better, and noticeably thinner feeling as it doesn’t have the same squarish shape. (You won’t notice that it is thicker at all.)
• The reception increase is partly to do with the new plastic back.
• 3G data on the maps and browser were only slightly slower than Wi-Fi.
• The black is very very nice. The white? It’s ok, but very feminine, so maybe it’s good for Jason or Jesús.
• Audio? It was definitely clearer than the single mono speaker in the first iPhone. (Even if this one is not stereo either.)
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Macworld

• Fundamentally, this new iPhone feels very much like the old iPhone. It’s apparently lighter than the old one by a minuscule amount, but in my hand it didn’t feel any different from the current iPhone.
• The biggest cosmetic changes are on the back panel, which is now shiny plastic instead of metal.
• The back panel is curvier than the one on the current iPhone, and the recessed headphone jack has been replaced with one which lies flush with the iPhone’s body, meaning the days of iPhone headphone adapters are gone forever.
• When I asked about the new GPS features of the iPhone 3G, Borchers explained that iPhone’s Core Location function—which uses Wi-Fi and cellular tower locations to compute a location on current iPhone models
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Engadget

• The enable/disable 3G setting is real, and buried a few menus deep. There is no automatic switching, Apple just assumes you’ll leave 3G on, and that the iPhone has the juice to support that usage.
• It’s tri-band 3G, as we reported the other day. This same phone will ship worldwide.
• WiFi is still 802.11b/g, no support for n yet.
• Yes, that GPS is A-GPS, just as we mentioned.
• Geotagging photos is a thumbs-up. We were deep indoors though, so native GPS wasn’t working and we couldn’t get a clear idea of satellite acquisition time.
• The plastic back didn’t feel too cheap. In fact, it felt pretty solid. It’s very glossy, so it’ll pick up fingerprints just as well as the glass up front (yay).
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