3G

So I got sucked in thanks to Mike and Alex . Went to the AT&T store when the 3G came out and voila, it was love at first site.

So I was able to get it over the weekend and have been messing around with the applications and features.

I can see why the hype caught on and lines still going on throughout the city.

Amazing what Apple has done with the marketing. I finally gave in folks.

The Pros:
1. Push email improved, easy to add your gmail, just like the crackberry.
2. Ipod/Itunes combo is great, don't need an ipod no more.
3. The calling quality got a lot better from the 1st Gen.
4. Decent quality of video along with having youtube in the applications area very easy to get to.
5. By far best browsing & navigation for any phone that I know of in the market.
6 you can log on to the apple store, which gives you access to a gigantic library of third-party applications to add features such as controlling your iTunes, instant messaging, 3D gaming and To Do lists
7. Picks up wifi very fast when you enter a wife network - old iPhone's connection died at 100 ft. and the newer one lasted to about 120 ft.
8. Price and availability are pretty good compared to the first Iphone and if you have a different service provider like me, you're able to keep your number and I had Verizon and they just ported the number over to AT & T which took minutes.
9. transferring my contacts was painless as long as you have Microsoft Outlook
10. headphone jack, lock, and volume buttons are very easy to locate along with no dock, just a cable which I like

The Cons:
1. no cut & paste
2. phone camera quality didn't improve much, 2MP shooter which returns 1600 x 1200 pixels, I would still need to bring my Canon G9 around with me.
3. for all you gamers - Apple may not support the cool (illegal) apps like the NES emulators and video recording programs as of YET
4. text messaging costs $.20/text if you do not have a plan
5. reduced battery life (battery stinks, need to charge once a day especially if you are using all the applications)
6. no video or video capture for 3G, which means countless youtube moments.
7. no MMS
8. use of the phone as a hard drive just like the ipods.
9. doesn't support true streaming natively
10. doesn't play FLASH - so you can't port/expose existing flash players in the Browser(you need native plug-in streaming support or Flash.)
11. The lack of multitasking support is a bigger limiting factor than what appears on the surface for the iPhone. Particularly for social music and discovery applications.

To get a full report about it, you can go here:

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