Nope. The only damage on mine (before I had it replaced for unrelated reasons) was from a 5ft drop onto concrete, and even that was minimal. I don’t keep it in a case and just throw it into my pocket–not a mark to be seen.
My impression is that the processor in the original iPhone and the 3G were closer in speed and power than the 3G and the 3G S. I could be wrong, though. If I get paid from clients in the next little bit, I might still get the 3G S.
Want Monkey has woken up again…
I’ve just got a Touch, but I think I’m going to upgrade anyway since I have a bunch of iTunes gift cards left over from Christmas. I don’t expect a lot of changes since I’m on the most recent Touch, but hey, why not, if it’s on a gift card.
Make sure that the gift card works in the App Store or for the software upgrade. A friend got a gift card and found that she could only get music and videos with it, and she wanted to buy an app.
You can get an app for that for earlier models of the iPhone. I have a free one, in fact, called Melodis Voice Dialer. It’s very easy to use and reliable. You touch a green button and say “Joe Cool,” or whoevfer, and it brings up the contact’s name. If you preface the contact name with “Call…,” it will automatically dial the spoken contact. It works almost flawlessly
Speed wise with the processor, the touch is the second fastest of the devices, only the 3GS is faster, with the 3.0 software and bluetooth, you could pair a 3g handset and get pretty much the same thing the 3GS does.
Declan
My iPhone just automatically hung up on a telemarketer! I hadn’t even downloaded the app for that!
Okay, maybe the connection died, or there was a mistake on their end. But I choose to believe my iPhone loves me and wants me to be happy. Kind of a complimentary counterpoint for why God invented beer.
I had no problems upgrading to 3.0 on my 3G.
Through trial and error, I can receive pictures (MMS) but sending has failed every time. My son, who is on my plan but owns the Dream phone, can send and receive.
I must be under using my phone. The search function does nothing for me. What do I want to search for? I have no use for most of the new functions.
What carrier are you on with regard to problems with mms
The search function is more for power users with a lot of stuff on the phone, music , apps , emails , email addys , it can even launch apps if your not quite sure what page an app is on.
The phone does a lot of things, but its possible that its not going to improve your way of life and you may have spent more money than you needed to when another handset might be a better choice.
Declan
I’m on Rogers (in Canada). I thought maybe it had something to do with my plan, but since my son has no problems on my plan, it must be my phone.
I don’t know if another phone would have been better or not. Since I changed careers last year, I never really use it for work purposes, although it is synced with my work email and calendar.
What I use? E-mail (just to read, rarely to reply). iPod. Camera. Facebook. Twitter. Sudoku. Text. Flixster. Maps. Alarm Clock. Weather. Wikipanion. Safari (usually to look up where something is, when it is open, or settle a trivia dispute).
Other than short texts, I don’t type a lot on it, primarily because I have long nails. No matter how long I use the phone, the virtual keyboard is just too hard to type on. So maybe that’s why I don’t use it more than I do. Also, I don’t even search for stuff on my home computer. If I use it, I know where it is. My home life isn’t that complicated, and my work stays at work.
Do you think another phone would have been better? Maybe I didn’t research enough first. My primary thought was that I wanted a smart phone so I could have email and internet on the go, and something with a big screen that would zoom easily. And it also meant I could ditch carrying a separate iPod by combining it with my phone.
I’m so jazzed about the new iPhone (I’m trying not to think about the three Franklins I spent, along with more expensive contract).
And, Sunspace, I upgraded from the original iPhone.
I downloaded the free RunKeeper app today and went for a rather unpleasant 5 mile run, and the app used GPS to track me all the way.
It’s not perfect (the speed graph is noticeably jittery—it is not likely that I went above 7mph anywhere during the run).
I’m still on the fence about using RunKeeper vs. using the built-in Nike+ app; the latter isn’t GPS, but it tracks gym runs as well as trail runs.
The camera is so much better; it has controllable autofocus, reasonable macro, and more pixels. I bought RedLaser to see how well it works and was pleased. The camera is good enough to support a real-time video bar code scanner.
Everything else just flies compared to the original phone.
[ul][li]Internet is much faster (3g vs. Edge)[/li][li]Safari renders much faster (even comparison of wifi to wifi)[/li][li]All transitions and keyclicks are immediate; on the original phone they are pretty pokey some times.[/li][li]GPS is great to have.[/li][li]32GB will help. I was getting tired of picking a small subset of my iTunes library to load.[/li][li]The new camera is actually good enough to take usable photos with. It’s 3mp, and that’s the same as my first good digital camera had (Canon G1).[/li][li]Don’t know what I’ll do with video, but it’s nice to have.[/li][/ul]I was still in a fog and blew an extra fifty bucks on an Otter Box case for it. The phone is absolutely safe, but the jury is still out on the bulk.
No for what you use it for , I can’t think of a better phone to use, except at this time one of the blackberrys with the hard keyboard.
if your still having problems sending mms, then you might want to call Rogers, for the most part I haven’t heard of any technical probs on rogers or fido with mms. But that may just indicate a problem with your phone line specifically, did Rogers send you an updated carrier list via iTunes, I remember seeing something like that pop up when I was doing the upgrade.
Declan
Thanks.
No, nothing through iTunes. Just did the update and voila - I can almost send pics. I don’t even know what an updated carrier list would be.
New information suggests that there is a system wide problem with MMS, i tried to send one several hours ago, and it failed to go through. So far I believe its limited to the iphone, I have not tried with a normal phone, so I will post more info as it becomes available.
Declan
Well damn! You’re right! This whole time I’ve been buying apps and they’ve been charged to my credit card! I just never really looked closely, it was just $0.99 here, $1.99 there, not even $20 in total.
Ah well, backup plan: Visa gift card. They ain’t gonna reject that, suckas!