Saturday, June 20, 2009
The iPhone 3Gs is Here: My First Impressions
Posted by Vincent Ferrari in "Apple iPhone & iPod Touch" @ 09:25 AM
Physically, if you've seen the 3G, you've seen the 3Gs. In fact, if I put both in your hands and didn't tell you which was which, you wouldn't know. The box is slightly smaller, but there's nothing different, aside from one thing that came out of nowhere and, despite how silly it seems, it really does work! The iPhone 3Gs has an oleophobic screen, which, to put it bluntly, means all that ear and face funk won't get stuck to the screen. Don't believe me? Try it. I didn't buy it either, but the results are hard to ignore. Gearlog checked it out, also, and found it lived up to the hype.
As for the screen itself, it seems slightly cooler than my original iPhone, but not annoyingly so...
Figure 4: I know it's slightly out of focus, but it was the closest representation to the actual screens I was able to shoot.
All in all, hardware wise, the biggest changes are the invisible ones; namely the faster CPU that makes opening apps much snappier and switching them much smoother. It doesn't take long for you to realize just how much faster the 3Gs is than the 3G. It boots faster, loads apps (to readiness) faster, and bounces screen to screen much faster. It's understandable where the "S" comes in.