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First 24 Hours With the iPhone 3G

2008-07-12
hey guys John retinue here with John for Lakers and I wanted to give you guys my impressions of my first 24 hours with the iPhone 3G this is not my full review the full review will come after I've used it for a week or so but I wanted to just let you guys know what up and thinking when my first day first thing having 3G is really nice I went out to dinner last night and I was able to log into the website check my email all in all most broadband like speed so that's really handy I tested out the GPS while I was outside and was able to find my location very quickly I'd say maybe five seconds and I was pinpointed and then it followed me as I was moving down the street which is very cool that's a nice feature but it doesn't have full turn-by-turn directions with voice and speaking you the directions supposedly TeleNav or TomTom are coming out with something but there were some limitations in Apple's SDK so we'll have to you will have to see one thing that I did notice immediately was a screen looks a little bit yellowish compared to the original screen I only noticed that when you're looking at something with a white background well I'm feeling a lot of people noticed the same thing and I'm saying gadget spoke with Bob Borchers who is the senior director of product marketing for Apple on the iPhone and had some kind of cool things to say about the you know the yellowish green phenomenon according to him the screens color temperature has been purposely altered on the new iPhone to produce warmer more natural tones sharper images and deeper blacks the company is saying that the first gen iPhone screens appeared colder and less defined in the mid 10 adjust some adjustments in the new model and I will say when you're viewing images on the new screen the images do look much much much brighter which is very nice and when you're outside and you can view the screen much easier than you could on the first generation iPhone so I guess that's why Apple one head and did that and they made it a little warmer I guess what they're calling it so if you have a phone and you're saying it screen looks a little bit different it's supposed to be like that I compared it with three other iPhone 3G screens they were all the same so yours is not unique call quality while on 3G sounds absolutely amazing Gizmodo set it right on the bat if it sounds difference between somebody speaking to you their hand over their mouth and then then taking it away it just sounds so clear and so loud it's fantastic call quality over edge network is the same as the first generation the speaker on the new phone down there is really loud when I used to watch YouTube videos in the first generation I'd have to turn it all the way up to hear it over my fan or whatever noise I had in the background now I have to have it almost half way down I get the same volume all the way up is almost too loud so if the speaker volume was an issue for you on the first one second one's gonna be a very worthy upgrade and much like everybody thought the back is definitely a fingerprint magnet you know that's expected Apple went plastic because the radios inside give better reception and I've absolutely noticed that I can get a Wi-Fi signal now when I'm down in my garage whereas I would lose it almost when I walked at my door so that's a pretty big difference so Wi-Fi even though it's using the same radio with the plastic back really strengthens a signal so that's really nice now notice that I'm getting a better reception I'm an edge only areas then I did it the first generation so that's why they went ahead and you know put the plastic back on there I had the 8 gig version it's also really nice to put all the music on here and still have like a loving gigs free umm so I'm looking forward to that I haven't tested out the putting headphones in there or anything else haven't really played a fit terribly much just last night miss afternoon but I wanted to give you guys my first impressions I'll recap all this when I do a review look for that coming up and for more information be sure to check out the website at wwlp.com don't forget hit 2ww I'll put the link up there in in the sidebar and if you like the site we're always looking for more writers you can send me an email either via YouTube or John for Lakers at gmail.com with a sample post in your email address and we'd love to have you as a writer and if we're interested in sponsoring my channel or the website go ahead and they'll let me know even if you're just a youtuber looking to get some exposure you know we got for you guys anyway hope you enjoyed my first impressions of the 3G iPhone guys I'll talk to you soon I'm off to go see a movie not sure yet either Hellboy 2 or wanted for watching this months after this as opposed to probably gonna watch them on DVD right now and I guess I will catch you later bye
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