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Iphone 3GS Advanced Review

Well, another version of the iphone from the oh so retard friendly Apple. Where to start… LOOKS! Looks are very important in this modern day and age, so let’s start doing what everyone else will do, and criticize them first.

Well… it looks pretty much the same as the last iphone. Well done with that Mr. Jobs. Money well worth spending on a new piece of merchandise from your specky self. The good thing about it is it does come in multiple colors. So if you do want to make it match your handbag, you totally can. Long as it’s maroon, black or white.

Good job guys! Nice selection there, I can get a bloody N64 in more colors than that.

The menu layout is exactly the bloody same as well. How the hell is this upgrade? So far there appears to be no change at all with this. It’s pathetic. Once you start to over load the menu with applications, you will start to get pissed with the constant swiping through the pages to get to your newer, more used apps.

Seeing as most of the features were just carried over from the previous versions, I’m just going to ignore them as covering old stuff is getting quite annoying.

The camera. Oh the camera. Previous models have had some seriously sub-par cameras. The “Tap to Focus” option is pretty damn amazing. Literally tapping on the screen to focus on that certain point.

Video recording is a new item, which is a standard feature on pretty much all phones at this point. It’s quite pathetic that it has taken Apple this long to add it. The “Tap to Focus” also works on the video recording. It’s basic VGA quality, but it records at 30fps. Finally something to be amazed about. Once you’re done with your clip, you can automatically email it to someone or upload it to your you tube account.

The video editing is also pretty damn good. Intuitive and actually fun to use. You load up an old shot and you see it frame by frame. You slide to the part the you to screw about with and just go nuts. If you chop a clip down it does save over your old version, good for cutting down long clips or removing the boring bits from videos of your mates making an arise of themselves while wasted.

Voice control is handy, which you can use to control the whole phone. From the actual calls, to the iPod features. It isn’t perfect, but to be fair, no voice control is perfect. My desktops voice control isn’t perfect, so I stopped using it to control my music player from my bed anymore.

The best option of them all though, is “Find my iphone”. For all you people that are retarded enough to lose a piece of junk you paid through the teeth for. You can track your iphone using your computer and it pops it’s location on a map for ya. Also letting you send it a message with instruction for someone if they happen to find it. But to be fair, I’ve lost old Nokia bricks before, sent a message to it off of a mate’s phone with where to take it, and the fact I’d give them some cash for it when they handed it over as a thank you. And they never did. They are still using it today. I ring it occasionally in the vein hope that they will answer. 4 years on, it rings but they never answer.

Now we’ve covered the important stuff, onto some more techie stuff that only the truly geeky will care for.

The battery life is slightly longer than the previous version, so they actually managed to give us that. To be honest, it’s not hard to improve on a battery that needs charging up ever day. Not bad, but still could be better.

The applications do run faster how ever because of the better power usage.

The call quality hasn’t improved much from the previous generations, which is still a large problem. Can you imagine trying to get vital information about a piss up from someone screaming it at you with a mouth full of bricks? Yea. Another problem Mr. Jobs. Yet another problem.