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what's up guys John rettinger here I want to give you my thoughts on the iphone 3gs so first as an apple fan when they announced the new iphone I couldn't help but have my whoo moments and then as they went along I kept waiting for the big thing kept waiting for the front-facing camera kept waiting for the o LED display kept waiting for some new design or some killer feature that maybe I hadn't thought yet and what I didn't come I and I'm sure a few of you were definitely disappointed and I kind of made me think is that apple's fault you know it's almost impossible for them to live up to the hype then one of those companies that really is a victim of their own success matter what Apple does is always going to be people that are disappointed with the results if they put in a front-facing camera it doesn't work well enough if they put in 0 LED display it adds too much cost the components there really is it's very hard for Apple to find a happy medium between features and hype and they've been so successful in the past that really then they have nowhere else to go but down a little bit in very few times they live up to those expectations so once I was able to get over the where you are all the cool features and I started thinking about what the 3gs actually does I started to get a little more exciting so let's go over some of the comparisons here between the 3g and the 3g s so first of all comes in 16 and 32 gigabyte configurations which is quite nice if you're a big audio file or have a lot of videos pictures or whatever 32 gigs is definitely going to be a lot of space for you I mean the entry level 16 gig model is quite nice I have a 16 gig iphone 3g I never even came close to filling it up so for me a 16 gig would be plenty you're getting two times improved performance which is just speed and processor was so I started thinking about that a little bit more and that doesn't mean just absolutely quicker that means improved graphics so when you're playing games now bought through the app store you're getting a lot of improved graphical performance and for what I've seen in videos you're getting quality which looks much better than you nintendo dsi so you're getting really almost mobile console like quality on a phone which is very impressive so that two times improved performance doesn't just mean app speed so that was very nice you're also getting a built-in video camera whip editing which is interesting there have been a few times when I really would like to capture something the ability to edit it and send it right up to youtube for mobile meteor send it to a friend is very cool it does take advantage of the iphones 3 megapixel autofocus camera and the quality does look to be relatively decent certainly i'm going to reserve reservation until i see it but it does look to be good enough although the video recording features are not coming to the current iphone 3g which is very disappointing if you jailbroken your iphone you've got ex having a video camera the iphone 3g can certainly handle recording video all the megapixel sensor i believe is about 1.3 doesn't look great nothing has the ability of doing it so just interesting that Apple didn't put that into the 3.0 software but moving along you're also getting voice control and this was more of an assessment than anything else people use their iphones in the car and whether you have a bluetooth headset or speaker hooked up the only way to dial was to take your eyes off the road and look down at your phone i'm sure there's a lot of pressure on apple institute this and they finally put in voice control what they did was though was not make the voice control just for phone calls it can control your itunes it can make genius playlist you can dial a number just by saying dial 714 555 whatever and it will dial it for us it did institute some new features but force controls one of those things that phones from five or six years ago ahead and Apple was definitely missing so definite was nice to see that had it to the cache of new features and I see me edit was a compass which they're probably about three are you out there that are excited about a compass but it does have some interesting functionality if you're using google maps for example and you're navigating with google maps you know that you have to kind of turn the to see which direction that you're heading so you can follow that little blue line but the compass will do is that actually align itself for you or if you're using let's say street view and your attic olas afghan as you move your phone around in your hand the compass will know where your where your line dat it'll move the picture for you not so cool what I think it does have a lot of potential those with the developers how having access to what their our API is they're being released for the compass let me actually put into game which is kind of cool maybe you can move around and the game will sense that you know the developers have really almost infinite creativity so I'm very curious to see what they do some of the things that all the iphones are going to be getting so the 3g in the first gen they're coming with OS 3.0 gonna get cut copy and paste and the mess which I'll talk about in a minute spotlight search landscape keyboard voice memos so one thing I do want to bring up at least if you're in the United States is WTF AT&T if you guys have watched my videos you know that AT&T is my primary carrier I test a lot of their phones and I use an iphone 3g but seriously dude seriously you're not ready to handle mms at launch for the iphone 3gs that is ridiculous this is back to the argument that i've had phones four or five years back to mms 18t you can't handle it is it a network issue what is it why can't users are probably one of the most powerful smart feature phones out there send a picture or video message the phone now has a capabilities it's not apple's fault anymore and it's not like ETD didn't have a heads up OS 3.1 in beta for months they knew mms was coming or even before that I'm sure Apple gave him a friendly heads-up Steve jog calls up 18t CEO hey and this is coming your network might want to support it really annoying on the AT&T front apple also announced tethering capability via USB or bluetooth which is fantastic the ability to share your internet connection legally is is a great thing and again AT&T is not supporting this what the heck how can you not support this I'm sure you've had a heads up there are windows mobile phones Simeon even blackberry that you can tether with why can't you tether with the iphone you do not have enough heads up can't your network not supported what is it I think that we actually deserve some sort of answer from ATT but why these features are not included out of the box if Apple is an American company the phone was developed and a lot of research was done in America on the US carrier it should have it to the rescue in the world that are getting these capabilities congratulations your carrier is certainly head of the ball as opposed to what we have it is very very very disappointing that 18k was behind this although I'm sure a few months from now once we have tethering and once you have mms it won't matter as much but at least right now it really is quite infuriating another thing that's upsetting and I'm not sure if this is an apple or an ATT thing is the price points if you want to get an iphone 3gs and if you're a current 3d owner meaning you used your upgrades get a 3g about a year or so ago you don't qualify for the upgrade price so if you want a 16 gig black or white 3gs you got to pay 399 and if you want a 32 gig black or white 3gs you're gonna have to pay for 99 now at first I was really upset about this because what Apple did between the generation 1 and the 3g they gave everybody who had a gen want essentially an early upgrade and as a consumer I can understand the outrage Apple set a precedent now they're changing the president when the iphone first generation was released it was sold unsubsidized at a ridiculous price i believe it was 499 that it came out at they change that with the 3g and they subsidized it and they gave everybody an upgrade with the 3gs they went back to the old way and now you have to pay essentially a full retail price now if this is any other phone let's say six months ago you upgraded your phone from AT&T verizon sprint whatever your carrier is and now that six months later you decide you want to a new phone you walk into the store they're not going to you an upgrade at the end the day the iphone is just a phone and I suppose you can't expect a carrier to take such a big hit when they just give you a discount on the phone when you sign a new contract you're getting that lower price because your carrier is actually paying a portion of that phone for you anticipation of the revenue they're getting gained through the light beer contract if they again six months a year year and a half late or whatever it is take another hit to give you the lifestyle who's got a certificate amount of money from a business standpoint I understand the move I understand why Apple or ATT whoever made that decision decided to not offer upgrades to 3G owners I get it I can respect it people are going to go to the iphone just because it's an IFO people are going to switch carriers they're going to pay the more expensive price because it's an iphone and you get a lot with that however as a consumer ridiculous you set a precedent you should stick with it five hundred dollars for a phone that you're not getting unlocked you can't that doesn't have mms capabilities out of the box I can't tether you're almost getting a cut phone for five hundred bucks or four hundred penny on which model you get so again from a business standpoint I understand it from a consumer standpoint totally pissed so just want to give you guys my impressions on the 3gs and the last thing that I want to talk about is design apples known for revolutionary designs they've done it with the unibody macbooks the aluminum imax and even the mac pro's to some extent i was hoping for some sort of redesign of the iphone 3gs did have to be anything major taking a matte finish just so you knew it was a little bit different than the 3g something subtle putting a 3gs logo on it and it didn't have to be a radical redesign didn't have to change the functions or form of the phone that much something a little bit different the 3gs and a 3g look identical i would have been another opportunity for Apple to sell accessories is well if they change the design even just a little bit think of all the cases that are sold at the Apple stores I think they lost out on a significant revenue by not changing it plus it's nice to look at a three gene the 3gs in your hand side by side and know that this is a new version be able to see something different it's exactly the same with thickness it just looks the same it's a little bit boring and for those that have had an iphone first gen and iphone 3g and are going to get an iphone 3gs well the operating system is quite elegant and very powerful you may be a little bit bored with the looks of the phone and the feel of the operating system and in getting almost exactly that same thing i'll be a little bit faster with a few new features with the 3gs I'll are like something a little bit different some sort of revamp I know this is a pie-in-the-sky of thought but even possibly multitasking something to make it feel fresh the UI again well very powerful and revolutionary the time is becoming a little bit stale so I would have liked to seen something done there just want to give you guys my opinions on the 3gs maybe maybe you agree disagree you completely hate what I said or you love it leave your comments down below i'm really curious to know what you guys think so that being said everything put aside all my rants and thoughts about the 3gs i will tell you that i did preorder one i pre-ordered a white just like a tell a difference between the 3g and the 3gs I've got the black the black model 3g i had an upgrade on my account able to use an upgrade to get it but had the phone VIN 499 i would have been very hard pressed to justify that much money over 3g get to the day whether the features i went over are worth it for you it's going to be a personal decision and i hope you enjoyed for exclusive content be sure to follow me on twitter twitter.com / junk for lakers i'll see you guys in the next video bye bye