3G iPhone Review - Full and Detailed

[iNfEk]

since this is a review thread.. I thought I'd add that with all the previous iphones that I've purchase till now (everyone from original to 3g) the vibrate seems not as strong to me. is this just me?

[lexmac215]

Amazing review! nice job!

[Gustavo Saliola]

Great Info. Much Better than a "iPhone 4 Dummies". Apple Style.
Thanks.

[rkisling]

I am just happy that I can now delete or move multiple emails at once... now if I could just copy and paste ....

[SiddallStudios]

thanks PF, did not know about the screenshot ability.

[LeathaFace]

extremely great review!

[iPhoneMadness]

and from what i understand, t-mobile 3g will work with the iphone by the end of the year. this was announced shortly after the keynote, so yes there is a reason for the t-mobile users to upgrade aswell.

Source?

[kastegir]

Great review!

Anyone know if there is a way to turn off the 3G antenna, to just use the 2g for voice if you're not going to be using data for a while? My understanding is that they quoted longer talk-times for 2G and that the 3G runs the battery faster, so I'm wondering if there is a softswitch to use only 2G to save battery (kind of like turning off the wifi on the original iPhone).

[almacruel19]

Has anyone noticed that you can not charge your iphone with ipod accessories anymore

[bschucher]

Great review!

Anyone know if there is a way to turn off the 3G antenna, to just use the 2g for voice if you're not going to be using data for a while? My understanding is that they quoted longer talk-times for 2G and that the 3G runs the battery faster, so I'm wondering if there is a softswitch to use only 2G to save battery (kind of like turning off the wifi on the original iPhone).

Yes you can turn off 3G. In settings, general, network. You can also turn off the GPS to save battery life as well..

[iphonekid]

Great review =] ... I accidentally found out the screen shot thing and was going to post it but you beat me to it lol =[

[ThinkTank]

guys GPS? What happened to Tom Tom? The old ten iPhone will have the 2.0 firmware? So what is issue here. Yes I am with TMO and I pay 5.99 for egde can beat that. I use my phone at home and I have wifi. Nice phone if I didn't have one.

[Rescuer]

I wonder, with the plastic white back cover, if it will turn a bit yellow in certain places, if I recall, didn't the white iBooks have that type of problem?

the old school 8bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) had that problem

[trilogy069]

Very nice review, appreciate it!

[GHOSTYAIRO]

great review pf, now I'm more exited about getting my iPhone

[huntor]

good review. thanks.

[kiji]

I have been looking and thinking about getting one for sometime and this is what I needed to make up my mind, so thank you.

[cspybraek]

Does SMS allow you to add more recipients to a previous mass txt now because in 1.1.3 it did not?

Thx Star

[jayson9]

Thanks for the review! Overall, the 3G is a hit!! One thing Apple missed was a "Select All" delete function for emails.......... that would be nice. Maybe the next update will have it.

[DaveiPhone]

Really nice review, PF, thanks.

A couple of things I didn't see mentioned:

• Syncing is snail-slow if you have a lot of apps installed. What I did to solve this, was to disable application syncing in iTunes, and then reinstall all the apps via the AppStore from the phone itself. Now syncing is zippy again.

• Contacts now has a Search bar.

• Calendar now supports multiple calendars!

• .wav files can now be played! This means that you can have Vonage forward your voicemails, and you will now be able to play them directly out of Mail. Nice! Yes, I know some .wav files were supported before, but not the ones from Vonage. I just tested and it's not that Vonage has switched formats...they still don't play under 1.1.4 firmware.