![]() Taking Wi-Fi out of the equation though, the 3GS is consistently faster, whether you’re switching between apps, or simply opening up the settings page. This turned out to be the case, since when I tried the same test an hour later the 3GS once again spanked the 3G, and running the speed test again turned in a download speed of over 600kbps. So clearly the problem was to do with Wi-Fi rather than the speed of page rendering.Ī bit of digging around the Internet showed that I’m not the only one who’s had Wi-Fi issues with the 3GS, with most reports indicating unreliable or intermittent performance. This had me very confused until I ran a data speed test and found that while my iPhone 3G was managing around 700kbps on the office Wi-Fi connection, the 3GS was reporting download speeds of between 19 and 40kbps. Today I tried exactly the same page load test and the 3GS was far, far slower than the 3G. Today things played out very differently indeed. Well, that’s what happened when I ran that test yesterday. The 3GS simply blew the 3G away in terms of speed, with the page rendered in less than half the time. Connecting the 3GS and my iPhone 3G up to the TrustedReviews Wi-Fi network, I then opened on both handsets simultaneously. In fact, in this respect the 3GS really does live up to Apple’s claims of it being twice as fast as the 3G. Mobile Safari has always been one of the iPhone’s trump cards, but the 3GS takes it to a new level of usability, rendering graphics heavy web pages in the blink of an eye. There’s no doubt that the 3GS renders graphics far, far faster than the 3G, whether that be on a web page or even in the phone’s own user interface. My guess would be that the new graphics chip plays the biggest role in the 3GS’ ode to speed. In practice though, I can assure you that Apple is not exaggerating – the 3GS is significantly quicker than the 3G in pretty much every area. The result – according to Apple at least – is that the 3GS is up to twice as fast as the 3G, which is a pretty bold claim. But one of the key changes isn’t a new feature, it’s the 3GS’ ability to do exactly what the old iPhone can do, just faster.Īpple is still pretty cagey when it comes to the exact hardware specification in the iPhone, but the 3GS has seen an increase in speed for the main processor, along with a new graphics chip, while there’s also more memory on tap. On the surface, the iPhone 3GS doesn’t look much different to the older 3G, especially if the latter is running the latest 3.0 version of the firmware (more about that later). For now though, let’s see what new features the iPhone 3GS brings to the party. Whether there’s enough of an improvement over the 3G to make it a worthwhile upgrade for existing iPhone users is a different matter though, and one that I’ll look at in more detail later in this review. Although I wouldn’t necessarily call the iPhone 3GS the third generation device, there are enough tweaks and improvements over the iPhone 3G to make it appeal to some of the naysayers. However, if a list of features is really that important to you and you can’t see beyond it, the new 3GS may offer just enough to convince you of the iPhone’s merit. Did I ever wish that I could whip my iPhone out of my pocket and video some mundane occurrence in the hope that I might get it shown on BBC News? Absolutely, positively never! ![]() Did I ever wish that I could wirelessly stream music to a pair of Bluetooth headphones? Nope – I’d far rather plug my Shure E500s in and make the most of my music. ![]() Apple addressed some of these issues with the iPhone 3G that launched last year, adding (unsurprisingly) 3G data support along with GPS functionality.īut, even the iPhone 3G was open to very vocal criticism – no MMS, no copy and paste, no video recording, no A2DP Bluetooth support… The whinging went on, and once again everyone at TrustedReviews was accused of being biased towards Apple, when in reality we believed, and still do believe, that the user experience afforded by the iPhone far outweighed its lack of certain features.ĭid I ever sit there with my head in my hands lamenting the lack of copy and paste on my iPhone? No, not really. Put simply, the original iPhone changed the face of mobile devices, and proved without a doubt that a great user interface is far more important than a long feature list.įor years iPhone haters have always been keen to point out all the features that are missing from the device and how their Windows Mobile/Nokia/other handset is better because it supports a host of features that the iPhone doesn’t. No matter what I write in this review, there are people out there who will instantly accuse me and the TR team in general of being Apple fan boys, so I may as well throw the cat among the pigeons straight away.
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