Most of the things they do are, dude.....Sorry, but Apple is the leaders of innovation. I have owned all kinds of phones and I have never had my hands on a better device, EVER! I even said this when I had Sprint with just a Touch.
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3.0 is Completely MIND BLOWING!!
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Most of the things they do are, dude.....Sorry, but Apple is the leaders of innovation. I have owned all kinds of phones and I have never had my hands on a better device, EVER! I even said this when I had Sprint with just a Touch.
All great new updates. I'm really surprised though that no one has mentioned voice dialing ...... a simple thing that is on pretty much every other phone and not here. Such an advancement and we still have to fumble around with a series of steps to make a call in our cars. I don't understand that one.
(Also it will be interesting to see if they improve battery life like they did on previous upgrades.)
(Also it will be interesting to see if they improve battery life like they did on previous upgrades.)
I'm pretty sure you can send a buisness card through email now...
Anyway I have to say the upgrade is quite fulfilling. Yes it took a while to get a lot of features that are already on other phones, but apple probably (don't look at what happened to 2.0) wants to perfect these features and not have a 2.0 fiasco. The c/p is probably perfect (I don't know how you could screw that up) and the spotlight and new springboard probably make the device just all that much better when using.
So to sum that up, yes they finely got features that other phones have, but the features are probably perfected, and have no bugs (hopefully)
I say overall the upgrade is satisfactory, one reason in being that theres no word of putting backgrounds on your home screen, and another being that the update is on my device right now. It's smart thinking to announce it, but they should have announced the 3rd gen iphone with it. This would make me wait for the new iphone, right now even though there'll be an update to iphone 3g, I'm still thinking "what about other smart phones" If a 3rd gen iphone came out with something like quad core (although I fine that unlikely personally) then I would definately wait for this upgrade and the 3rd gen iphone.
After all of that, I say that I'm going to have to pat apple on the back for this one, they did much more than I thought they would, but still they could have done more.
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I agree. Everything I wanted the iPhone to be and more is in 3.0, besides like a video camera, but I'm def. not complaining!
I was hoping for some improvements with the way it handles Exchange.
They say it's the #1 phone for business, yet I can't invite people to meetings or book resources nor can I look at other people's calendars.
I'm satisfied with the update, but hope that some more is done in terms of exchange.
They say it's the #1 phone for business, yet I can't invite people to meetings or book resources nor can I look at other people's calendars.
I'm satisfied with the update, but hope that some more is done in terms of exchange.
What the hell are we going to complain about now?
Still no video?
I would trade in any of these features just to be able to record video. That's the one thing from my old phone I actually miss...
That sir is the funniest thing I have read all day.
Thank you!
On topic:
Oh and didn't everyone just love how a 1/3 of the way through people were already claiming this to be a "boring" update..
More comedy right there.
well is mind-blowing as owner of the device, who bought iphone with the hope of using notifications at least in september'08.
is awfull because is NOT NOW NOT FOR DOWNLOAD. AND CAN CHANGE.
is NOT STATE OF ART anymore.
is awfull because is NOT NOW NOT FOR DOWNLOAD. AND CAN CHANGE.
is NOT STATE OF ART anymore.
Yeah I'm sure they decided to start working on all these updates after the Pre showed up.
Not "Mind Blowing" as all of these things should have been with the phone in the first place. I did say satisfied, though, because I do appreciate the announcements and I was surprised with what we got.
I think video will be a selling point for the new iphone being introduced in the summer.
That logic doesn't make any sense. When there is an update (there will be one) it will continue Apple's evolution of the iphone, nothing mind boggling, you can't have a revolution every time.
wait, you expect a device made in september of 08 to continue to be the latest and greatest?
Things get old and new models are made, thats technology. And why were you expecting a download now from an event that was clearely labeled iPhone OS 3.0 PREVIEW!?
What I mean is... where's the incentive to add more RAM if there's no background processing? I could see maybe higher capacity battery, but it's going to pretty much stay the same... they can do a lot with software alone.
There is always incentive to up capacities, its a selling point, and it also allows more advanced apps to run. Backround processing isnt the only reason to add memory.
Of course its going to stay relatively the same, the iphone evolves, it doesnt revolutionize every time.
mms will continue to be useful until all phones have email. most phones do not have email, and most people do not have data plans. mms does not require a data plan email does. as long as there is SMS there will be mms.