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what's up everyone John rector here I've got a review for you of the iPhone 3GS I'm gonna try and make this review more of the 3GS and not an overview of 3.0 like I've done in the past so without further ado let's go ahead and get started I always start all my phone reviews with its phone and it's gotta make phone calls and I will say it call quality on the 3GS does seem to be sniffing Utley better than call calling on the 3G on the 3GS have regularly having dropped calls people on the other end could definitely know I was on the cell phone with your white noise and some sort of sputtering I'm not so with the 3GS I made something to deal with the new radio that's used or just even the upgraded hardware in specs but call quality is fantastic I'm also a heavy speakerphone user and the speakerphone on the 3GS is extremely loud in fact where when I was on the 3G I turned up all the way to hear adequately now I have to turn it up about half the way full volume really is just too loud so I will probably quite quietly up updated the speaker on the 3GS so some of the things that I enjoy about the 3GS at the end I'll give you my impressions but whether or not I think it's worthwhile upgrading if you have a 3G so voice command and a lot of these features that I'm going to discuss our features that I know have been around on other phones and I know that this discussing them always causes quite heated debate in the comments buttons and our new features on the iPhone aliefs this certainly married some sort of discussion so voice command voice command and voice control is really a fantastic implementation on the iPhone and on doesn't let you do voice styling which certainly been around for a while but you have full control over your iPod and other phone functions which are quite nice they're a lot of times and I just want to say call Rebecca and it'll just go ahead and call her so I have to take the phone out while I'm driving unlock it slide to unlock hit top of the phone button go to favorites and then hit her name now they can just take too long to do and quit unsafe while driving so I'm very happy right now there's voice control and the fact that you can access it while the phone is locked it makes it that much easy so there's no longer need to unlock the phone so I really am a big fan of the voice control the compass feature I've got no need for and I don't think Apple anticipated delay consumer needing to use the compass but I think we're the interesting thing with that comes into play is how developers we're going to use it so if you're playing a game and you're moving around and it'll know how you're moving and where you are I think it will start to see the benefits of the compass down the road I don't even start to see it exclusively I think in the App Store I'm not that much of a need to know what my latitude longitude is you know maybe you guys do or if you're going hiking it's certainly nice to know but nothing that I really require expect in a phone one of the things that I really love about the 3GS one things really pushed me over the edge to upgrade was video as you guys know I make a lot of videos sometimes it's a pain to have to carry my big camera with mirror tripod now with this I can't record and upload videos directly to YouTube like I did yesterday with the Roomba demonstration and the quality as you guys saw is actually really strong for a mobile phone at 30 frames per second I think it really rifles a quality of a standard flip mino the audio fidelity also is absolutely fantastic it's clear it's crisp and it's been overall very impressive the editing sort of software that's on here isn't really editing software it's mostly just ability to crop you can't piece two Clips together at least right now it's just ability to cut clips but that being said I really like having an extra camera you know if I'm out and I want to see something that I want to record to share with you guys I know that that ability to do that with the iPhone 3GS that I didn't have with the iPhone so that alone for me was worth it the 3GS also has updated hardware and specifications let's talk about those and how they affect the real-world usage I did head tech comparison the iPhone 3G and 3GS and you can see some of those speed increases play when you're opening applications and such I will say that I do notice a significant speed increase over the three G's in everyday use that wouldn't be enough of a reason for me to upgrade I think the 3G was playing fast enough the extra speed is quite nice one of the things that I really was looking forward to the 3GS was the supposedly increased battery life they were saying realistically he was getting anywhere from one and a half to even two times as good a battery life and I got to say I have not seen that yet had the phone a week and I've done really decent amount of battery conditioning and battery usage to try and drain it pull it back out the drain it pull it back up to really get it to full strength and battery wise I see zero improvement over what the 3G was that main chain is only had the phone a week and if it does I'll update this video you know maybe two three weeks down the road I'll actually see the benefit of the supposedly increase battery but right now I'm just not seeing it so some 3.0 features that I should mention cut copy and paste is very nice but now you get those on the 3G you know nothing the revolutionary there the Universal Search is nice I've never used it outside of just playing it and see how it worked and at some day hopefully the ability to MMS and tether at least legitimately will be a quite nice addition as well so overall the 3GS for me has certainly been a very worthwhile upgrade if only for the video capabilities it's the fidelity of this fantastic audio and video and it really is a nice alternative to carrying around a camera so for me personally it was a no-brainer to upgrade her for you guys if you're not into the video you're not making a lot of video if you don't have a need for an increased still and video camera and you have a 3G you may not want to upgrade no one can tell a difference when you're talking on your phone this looks exactly the same has a 3G there's really no way to tell the difference other than you know some shiny lettering on the bottom you know one can no one can tell him it really doesn't matter that much the increased speed inspects well nice and though help webpages load a little bit quicker there's nothing that drastic but if video is your thing then I think the 3G X is a great way to go also the increased processor and RAM if you play a lot of games on your 3GS you only know that a significant gain both graphically and speed was so if you're a big gamer on your iPhone I think you might be a big gamer on your iPhone the 3GS you may also want to consider are they's gonna come down to a personal decision about whether or not you're eligible for the upgrade and if you are is it worth the money or if you're not eligible is it still worth the money to kind of force your upgrade it's gonna be a personal decision but for me it was definitely an easy one to make I am thrilled with the 3GS I think it's probably one of the best phones out there I do wish after using the Palm Pre for a while there are some way to multitask on the iPhone 3G s 3G or original iPhone I just think something like that would be coming I think the 3GS on its own is a great phone but again it may be a victim of Apple success and really the rumor mill you know there were rumors that Apple was gonna have front facing camera and a new design and I think that when you didn't see those people were disappointed that took away from what Apple didn't do and they did update the specs and they did offer an amazing phone at the same price point about the iPhone 3G that introduced it so you aren't getting really improved function but you're not getting an improved design and I think that that's also where some of this deployment came in you know it looks exactly the same and that may be nice if you have cases or what other sort of accessories you may have for the iPhone but you know what are you gonna do I would expect the next generation iPhone to have some sort of radical redesign hopefully with that front facing camera that most people have talked about but of course Apple's development cycle doesn't coincide the rumor mill so you can't really hold them accountable for it so overall if I have to rate the iPhone 3GS on scale from one to five I give it a really really really solid 4 and 3/4 it's a great phone one of the best I've ever used and it's why I use it every single day and you know I test a lot of phones are here and there are many that I like to keep and used for myself with the iPhone 3GS and the 3G before it one of the few that I really hold on to and use on a daily basis but I got white with the 3GS and kind of dig the white back and for those you that are asking it doesn't show fingerprints it's not cracking it looks just as good as the black just in white so anyway I hope you enjoyed for occlusive we should have follow me on Twitter twitter.com slash John four Lakers and if you want to see the iphone 3gs twigs and head tag comparisons with the Palm Pre the blackberry storm and the original iPhone 3G go back and check out some previous videos that did really some thorough comparisons of each phone hope you enjoyed and I'll see you reckon you guys will see me in the next video bye