The Speaker is MUCH louder.

[stu212]

It's a 3G im Upgrading from. It is alot louder and the vibrate is stronger too in my opinion.

 

[BrownManUPS]

This I completely agree with. Playback on video is fantastic and picks up a lot of sound.

 

[Davide82]

hmm i havent played music yet but the phone speaker sucks om mine

 

[bmms8]

It's a 3G im Upgrading from. It is alot louder and the vibrate is stronger too in my opinion.

i agree, i find the speaker and the vibrate to be much louder. i think it is great!

 

[gr8tfly]

I noticed it right away. And, it's finally loud enough to be used as a speakerphone.

 

[Nikos]

I just made my first phone call and the ear speaker was crackling. Didn't sound good at all, I had to turn the volume down a lot. I didn't even have my ear against the phone. Is everyone's like this?

 

[Nikos]

The regular speaker crackles too. This is terrible IMO.

 

[iUser4Lyfe]

Haven't heard the either speaker crack. The speaker is much louder and I like it.

 

[deceptichop]

was dissapointed that the speakerphone was the same. However my girl called and it SCARED THE S*** OUT OF ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

VERY A NICE! YES!

 

[Inf4life]

I could tell right off the bat that the S was louder than my 3G. The clicks and slide were louder. The ringer is also a lot louder. This was one of my biggest complaints with the 3G.

 

[zoeconner]

My 3g s is a lot louder than my wifes 3g. Coming from 1G it kind of herts my ears.

 

[Eallan]

The regular speaker crackles too. This is terrible IMO.

Ok good, it's not just me. My 3gs speaker almost sounds like it's blown sometimes. Some frequencies of sound are worse sounding than others.

 

[1QukMINI]

Had to turn volume to 50%, I kept jumping when I get a text it's so loud. Always had it on max with my 2g.

How did you turn down the volume for these alerts? Or when you unlock it? It's so freakin loud.

 

[Switz213]

That's my take on it. You had the 2g. Then you had the 3g.

This iPhone has many of the same parts, some internals improved obviously. But it's not only the software that makes it better either. If that was the case, the 3G and 3GS would be closer.

As you can tell from folks, there's an overall feeling of improvement across the board beyond the itemized refinements.

So I called it 3G 2.0 for those reasons.

Its more like iPhone 2g. Then iPhone 2g 2.0 if you want to measure it by the hardware. The only hardware that really changed from 2g to 3g was the 3g receiver.