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- mobilebond, on 06/19/2009, -4/+64Apple underclocked the CPU to save battery life... I'd agree to have a bit weaker CPU but with a longer battery time.
http://www.mobilebond.com/iphone-3gs-available-loo ... - spookyttws, on 06/20/2009, -4/+55"There is no visible difference between the 3G and the 3GS other than the model number and, if you opt for the 32GB iPhone, the number 32 on the back. This is good news for 3G owners — you won’t look as goofy as those cheapskates still on the chunky 2G version."
***** you, my 1st Gen iPhone cost $500, you're the one with the $99 version. - MyNameIsJoe, on 06/19/2009, -3/+35The 3GS is really worth it if you like to open multiple tabs. With double the ram I can now open a few of pages and it won't have to reload them when I switch to them. Also the interface to switch between pages is a lot faster to load and switch between pages. The 3GS is going to save me a lot of time when I'm browsing through stories on Digg.
- jeffmon, on 06/20/2009, -4/+33Just got it today, very impressed with the updated camera. Direct Youtube upload is also a plus. Here's a sample I took today while waiting for a light: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI7MZBTUPFU
And holy ***** opening everything is so much faster, even opening contacts is almost instant. - BrendanSheehan, on 06/20/2009, -3/+28Under-clocked CPU with great battery-life ;)
*****, someone from the past stole my comment and placed it above me. I notice a few changed words. They did this as to not arise too much suspicion - just like Sam Becket would. - Mothh, on 06/20/2009, -0/+18Did you just run over a homeless guy in broad daylight? There's an app for that!
- superkendall, on 06/20/2009, -5/+21If you understood how it works, you'd know it always has multitasked. It's just a question of what.
- JkEw, on 06/20/2009, -12/+27BlackBerry Bold is a piece of *****! And yes I've owned one.
- bjstiktrix, on 06/20/2009, -0/+14Haha! Oh there's still a lot of us out there...
- schnikies79, on 06/20/2009, -1/+15The 32gb is flash based. No iphones have hard drives.
- Me1000, on 06/20/2009, -1/+14Cocoa apps > Java apps
- SuicideMouse, on 06/20/2009, -2/+14That is pretty damn fine.
- Indecision77, on 06/20/2009, -2/+14Better yet, allow apps to set the CPU higher or lower depending on its needs.
- blackjack75, on 06/20/2009, -0/+11Oh, it _can_ multitask.
It just refuses to. - inactive, on 06/20/2009, -3/+13I had an iphone and just got a blackberry bold (traded) just to try it out before I get a new phone. The blackberry bold is a huge joke. I miss my iphone severely. The bold does nothing. ***** java apps, terrible browser, the texting on it sucks BALLS. Why can't the blackberry have conversation view in texts? Or create a descent ***** browser. I'm still so mad!!
- zzz@tkz, on 06/20/2009, -0/+10I agree, I'm no cheapskape, I'm an early adopter!
...I'll be getting my new iPhone next week when I get paid. - eq2s, on 06/20/2009, -1/+10Spambots on digg have increased a lot in the past month.
- Brak710101, on 06/20/2009, -0/+9I assume this is a hardware underclock, and there is no real way to maybe up the clocks on a jailbroken phone?
Would be a cool hack to have a speed setting for what battery life is not an issue. - Maalesh, on 06/20/2009, -0/+9Overall, I'm pretty impressed with the speed so far. Apps and Safari pages load much faster.
3G network is very fast on this phone - I'm averaging 1700kbs near DC.
I'm also loving the new oleoresistant screen.
- inactive, on 06/20/2009, -4/+11And I've heard some people call Digg a "tech website".
On Slashdot, you'd be modded +5 funny. - Me1000, on 06/20/2009, -1/+8They did the same thing with the original iPhones and the 3G (underclocked them)
- cthellis, on 06/20/2009, -1/+8Technically, it _does_ multitask. A lot. It just doesn't let more than one third party app run at the same time.
The "refusing to" is for the same reason that they delayed on things like Cut & Paste for so long:
A) It's not a life-or-death feature for most consumers, so they can take their time.
B) Multitasking with 3rd party apps is a constant source of instability and battery drain on other devices, and they didn't want to go down that path.
C) It's pretty easy to hack a device (either the phone's firmware or another app) with it, too, so they didn't want to go down THAT path immediately, either.
D) They're building something Apple-y around it, instead. But that means taking a long time to parse things out, countering all the downsides they don't want, and implement it in a way that's slick and intuitive. (Since Apple really likes slick and intuitive.)
In short, it'll take a while. And the RAM bump was needed to be able to dedicate separate pools to different apps, so it's not a feature they could roll out into general firmware for all the devices... Once the 3GS has sold a bunch of units, fewer people complain when they DO get around to rolling it out. (All the 3G owners would be out of their contracts to be able to upgrade hardware and partake, and all the 3GS owners WOULD be able to partake with Firmware 4.0, if it gets around to that.) - Coolmasta89, on 06/20/2009, -1/+7i lol'd
- t0ny, on 06/20/2009, -0/+6Your mom!
- danielwsmithee, on 06/20/2009, -0/+5There could have been other reasons besides just battery life to under-clock the CPU. It is possible they needed to under-clock the CPU to meet their thermal profile in such a small enclosure. It is also possible that they had to under-clock the CPU do to timing requirements of chips the CPU is interfacing with. Or it allowed them to use smaller voltage regulators...there are a million reasons why their engineers could have chose to under-clock the CPU.
- cthellis, on 06/20/2009, -1/+6A very smart and diplomatic answer. It's really appreciable and generous.
- RocketGib, on 06/20/2009, -14/+18Yet it still can't multitask?
- EllimistX, on 06/20/2009, -0/+4Agreed, and I much prefer aluminum to plastic. That said, I bought a 3g last week, but I dislike the plastic back.
- cthellis, on 06/20/2009, -1/+5Nono, silly...
iLol'd - wbienek, on 06/20/2009, -2/+6I think there are so many 3g users the 'reviewers' dont want to hurt their feelings. HAVING A FASTER PROCESSOR is the biggest upgrade they could have done!
Its like going from a 486 to a pentium.. And alot of people are saying.. There is no difference!
Imagine back in the mid nineties if instead of introducing the pentium they just changed the case design! Come on people get real.. this is more of an upgrade than 2g to 3g.. Specially since at and t sucks and in alot of areas people dont get good 3g coverage.. - inactive, on 06/20/2009, -0/+4sooo many damn touchpads have i replaced on my iphone. wait, what
- vrikis, on 06/20/2009, -0/+4Actually, kepping pages 'open' like that is a 3.0 feature. Maybe you can have more tabs open in 3GS, but on my 3G I can now have several open and not have to reload them every time since having upgraded to 3.0
- jeffmon, on 06/20/2009, -0/+4Hawaii.
- cthellis, on 06/20/2009, -0/+3We really do...
No idea why Nokia failed to penetrate out here. And the few that ARE available are pretty much non-notable. - cthellis, on 06/20/2009, -1/+4What, do you close your eyes when you type on a touchscreen or something? I'm typically at 30 WPM and can hit 40 WPM on a good stride on the iPhone. Do you magically type at 250 WPM + on your cell phone? ...or do you think you simply have to USE your Touch more? ;-)
I'm curious which phone you're talking about, though. Because all the reviews I've ever run across that compare the predictive/correcting text on the iPhone list it as top notch, and the saving grace that makes its touchscreen typing actually usable at speed. - krisrm, on 06/20/2009, -1/+4Dugg for Quantum Leap :D (I hope, anyway... it's "Beckett", isn't it?)
- sneezefart, on 06/20/2009, -0/+3How about taking a photo while a web page loads in the background?
Or finding an address using Google Maps when you are sending a text...
MMS is really only good for getting sex pics...therefore very useful. - rnawky, on 06/20/2009, -2/+5More like anything > Java apps
I use a Blackberry and I love the thing, except for the fact the damn thing runs off Java.
Every ***** piece of equipment I have (all two) that run off Java take FOREVER to start up. My Phone takes over 5 minutes to restart after a battery pull (which I only really every do when I upgrade the phones OS) and my DVR which runs off Java takes over 10 minutes to boot up if you unplug the ***** thing. - zakool21, on 06/21/2009, -0/+2First thing that shocked me (so to speak...) was the size of the USB power supply for UK users.
- supermanred, on 06/20/2009, -12/+14No, but its still better than any celphone ever made. Windows mobile celphones can multi-task but I can get stuff done a lot faster on my iPhone...
- ATL, on 06/20/2009, -0/+2I'll have to agree with your last statement. After jailbreaking, it took much much longer for the camera to initialize.
- hardeep1singh, on 06/21/2009, -0/+2In case you forgot, Internet works throughout the world. And in most of the countries, networks are nothing more than dumb pipes used for information, voice and data transfer, they certainly don't play the role of final decision maker who decides what phone you deserve to get.
- shipwreck58, on 06/20/2009, -0/+2Sometimes breaking gadgets is just plain fun!
- seventoes, on 06/20/2009, -3/+5RAM increases only speed you up if you have constant swap thrashing, which doens't happen on the iPhone since there is no swap file. The iPhone just kills the program taking up the extra RAM if it has a problem.
- vagrantwade, on 06/20/2009, -0/+2I absolutely love my 3GS and I think the speed increase is very very noticeable. I switch from app to app to app with no hangups.
- kimballj, on 06/20/2009, -0/+2Those license plates look like California...lucky you didn't get a ticket for using your phone while driving.
- supermanred, on 06/20/2009, -0/+2I dont see why everyone is digging me down. Its common practice that AMD and INTEL have been doing for years. If you have a batch of chips that are 1.2 ghz and they are not reliable you clock them down to 1.0 ghz and sell them as that. The chips have built-in error correction that when you underclock the chip, it runs stable.
I remember when I used to build my own overclocked PCs that some chips would overclock well while the chip just behind it at the store wouldn't. It all depended on the manufacturing quality of the chip. - hardeep1singh, on 06/20/2009, -2/+4You guys really need some good Nokias out there in America.
- molotovcat, on 06/20/2009, -0/+2 MP =/= Quality
- GIScope, on 06/20/2009, -0/+2electroporn only for diggers!
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