Pogue's summary of new 3GS iPhone + firmware

Our 32GB 3GSs are sitting in a UPS warehouse somewhere in the city, waiting to be delivered to the AT&T store later today. I think my wife and I will swing by the store early tomorrow before work to pick them up.

Can't wait! I feel like a kid on Christmas Eve... :lol:

 

Oh look, David Pogue blindly loves a mac product. Shocking.
Anyone who is paying to upgrade from a 3G to a 3Gs is a stupid fanboy.
Come next year, when mac releases yet another version of the phone, the people who buy this stop-gap version will be kicking them self.

 

Lol those are fighting words

 

:biggrin:

but anyway, back to reality. the 3gs offers faster processing power, and a better camera? That's cool. Kind of reminds me of the mogul>touchpro>touchpro 2 upgrades. Not really much changes in software, but the hardware gets a tiny boost.
People really should hold off until next year though. This 3gs model seems like a bad investment IMHO.

 

I agree. I was considering the 3Gs due to the processor upgrades, but I'm going to hold off until next year. In my opinion, Apple will have to release something nearly groundbreaking or very exciting, because people will start to get bored of the small updates and it won't be a big deal. Just my 2 cents.

 

If I had a first generation iPhone, or no iPhone at all, I don't see how the 3Gs is a bad investment. This is where Apple is focusing on. Not everybody has an iPhone 3G. For those of us who have the 3G, it may not be a compelling upgrade, but for millions of others who don't have a 3G, it is very compelling. Think about those who didn't upgrade last year, or those who were in the middle of a contract with another carrier, or those who just didn't decide yet until now, or those who's deal breaker was the lack of copy and paste: there are millions out there that can be potential buyers for the 3Gs.

 

My original post points out that I am really just talking about people going from 3G to 3GS. That is just plain stupid. Other people, going from 2G iphone, or anything else, is OK I guess, but I predict that in one year from now, they will be kicking them self when a real upgrade comes up.

 

My wife and I went to the AT&T store this morning at 7:15am. It wasn't that crowded and we picked up our phones and were out of there by 8. Haven't really played with it - in fact, I popped the sim into my V3 for today because I had to rush to the office and I didn't have the screen protector, etc. on the phone. It is charging at home, so I'm looking forward to spending some quality time with it this evening :thumb:

 

LMAO! Now that's mean just to throw that line in there. LOL! :lmao:

 

hey, im going to take those numbers and call myself in an exclusive club :O

 

Lol, I like that, specially since I belong to a "more" exclusive club. . I don't even know if 50,000 GSM Treo Pros have been sold since it first came out in September of '08. I certainly have never seen someone with one & I don't think anyone else on the board has one. I very much like the exclusivity actually, never believed in being a part of a crowd.

Back on topic, Pogue is a known Apple fanboy, so I wouldn't have expected anything different from him anyway.

Palm850/v0100 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11)

 

haha, GSM Treo Pro. The only time I have ever seen a treo pro, be it CDMA or GSM, is in stores. How do you like it? I actually considered it for a while, but then I remembered it was on winmo, and I am done with winmo for a while.

Oh, and screw David Pogue, he is so closed minded.

 

David Pogue is a comedian/brand not a serious tech columnist.

 

I like it very much, this is the best phone I have had todate. It has exceptional call quality & reception. It is more stable than my WM 6.0, I haven't been able to lock it yet.

I have traveled to India, Singapore, Hongkong, Bali & Java with it & it has given me the same flawless performance everywhere. For some reason I was not able to get a satellite fix in Indonesia, but considering I wanted the GPS to work only for the *neat factor* it didn't matter that much

If I had any complaints it would be the battery life but for all has on it & all I do on it, I think the battery life is pretty decent. It gets me through the day gracefully.

Palm850/v0100 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11)

 

Sounds good to me. Batteries are the worst part about smartphones. The pre sucks it down like I drink coffee on a monday morning.

 

Re: Confirmed: 1 million iPhone/3Days

You found an old story from July 14, 2008 12:00 PM ET about the "3G". You did quote acurately. I wonder how the "3G S" is doing.

COtech

 

David Pogue is richer than I'll ever be, so he doesn't need me to defend him, but I don't have a problem with his column or professionalism. Of course he's somewhat of an Apple fanboy, that's where his money comes from. The original Missing Manual books were all about Apple stuff. But he isn't really a HoFo-type fanboy that likes his favorite toys to the exclusion of others, based on personal idiosyncrasies. In my view, he's still a journalist who calls the good and bad points of products as he sees them (as he did listing the shortcomings of the original iPhone in viewfly's original post).

And he is only a comedian in his videos. I rarely watch those - too cutesy - but to me they don't detract from his written stuff. And since when is promoting your personal brand a bad thing? I think Martha Stewart, Oprah, Ralph Lauren and Donald Trump would disagree.


SW

 

IMHO "somewhat" is quite the understatement.

Yes, he pointed out the shortcomings of the original 3G, only to flaunt how much better the 3GS is, I hardly call that impartial. When the iPhone 3G first came out he sure did a great job of masking these so called 10 shortcomings.

He is enterprising that's for sure, how many people are a summa cum laude in Music, spend ten years conducting and arranging Broadway musicals. and then pass as a tech jounalist.

Here you go.

http://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/wireless-news/75154-apple-sells-over-one-million-iphone.html

 

Doh! lol. anyway, 1 mil aint bad. I wonder how the pre would have done with worldwide sales. It's kinda slim pickins, launching just in the US, and just on Sprint. I wonder how it will do when it launches in Canada.

I remember when the iphone first came out, Canadians were paying through the nose to import one from the US and activate it up there.