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Home » Mobile & GPS » Mobile Phone » Apple iPhone 3G » Video

Apple iPhone 3G video review

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It may be seen as little more than an incremental upgrade, but Apple has hit all the right buttons to make the iPhone 3G an instant hit. It's still sleek, it's still great to use and it's still the best touch screen phone by a country mile. Wed to this the excellent value it now represents and you can understand why people have been falling over themselves to get one. Unless you absolutely must have a better camera, MMS or any of the other missing features, there's no other touch screen phone that comes close. Read full review

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By Andy Vandervell
Reviewed 21 July 2008
Updated 26 May 2011

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  • Review
    • 1: Apple iPhone 3G
    • 2: Battery Life & Design
    • 3: Design Cont. & GPS
    • 4: Interface, Mobile Safari & Multimedia
    • 5: Firmware 2.0, Exchange, MobileMe &...
    • 6: Problems, Missing Features & Call...
    • 7: Pricing & Verdict
    • 8: Full Size Test Shots
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  • Reviewed by Andy Vandervell
  • 21 July 2008
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Apple iPhone 3G details

Performance
9/10
Value
9/10
Usability
10/10
Features
9/10
Design
10/10
Overall
10/10

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1:42 PM on 21 July, 2008

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Thanks for the great review. One small correction. You wrote: "There's still no progress bar" in the iPod. The fact is, when you tab the screen once while the song is playing, a progress bar will appear towards the top. It's still doesn't make sense not to have the progress bar on all the time--especially with a 3.5' screen!

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How come Sandra only gets to (expertly) review all the `boring` handsets but when it comes to the `sexy` iPhone 3G we get one of the in-house TR Apple Fanboys?! ;)

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Finally, an iPhone 3G review that concentrates on what the iPhone does, not what it doesn't!





Great review, I like all the comparison pictures with the old one. The iPhone 3G just looks so much better - it's amazing how the minor changes they have made to the exterior have enhanced the (already great) design so much.





MobileMe is actually proving to be the winner for me. Push email, contacts, calendars and bookmarks - as a Mac user the iPhone really has become an extension of all of my Macs and then some. Having this level of synchronisation is just incredible. A revolutionary change over my Nokia N95 8GB - which is a fantastic phone, but it just can't match the iPhone 3G in terms of the user experience.





My first iPhone. Definitely not my last!

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2:10 PM on 21 July, 2008

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*sigh*





Just for the record I've never been an Apple fan, or a fanboy for that matter. Believe it or not this is first Apple product I've used or been interested in owning, ever. If that makes me a fanboy then the barrier of entry must be exceedingly low.

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Sandra should have done this review. Matt G - I wouldn't accuse anyone of being a Mac Fanboy at TR, they seem to lack a sense of humour when it comes to anything, err, funny. Good review - 10/10 for design though? It's a big black slab, boring! So the UI is designed well, but the phone itself is HUGE (hardly fits in a pocket like an E51 or E61)and tricky to hold without dropping (slipping), they should have put some kind of grippy stuff on the back.

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Heh, apologies. Missed the wink in there. Clearly we need emoticons on here.

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2:27 PM on 21 July, 2008

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The phone is great but it's over priced in my book, I would rather get a 12 month contract and a phone and buy the Ipod touch.

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Ok, but with all respect, if you're not an Apple fan, how can you give 9 for features when:


- there is no AD2P (probably because Apple has no BT headphones/headsets to sell)


- no mms, 2mp camera, half speed 3G...


- no VGA screen


- No proper GPS software


- etc...





Yes, the interface is the best at the moment, but frankly the features if the iPhone 3G are less than what you could get a year ago in a high-end smartphone like a Tytn II (bar the screen size). It deserves a 7 at most (in this area). Otherwise what do you give to a Touch Pro, feature-wise?

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The new black plastic back makes the phone considerably stickier and less prone to being dropped. And, it really isn't huge. Certainly no bigger than any other full size smartphone.

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Manni:





I can see most of your points, obviously some of those were already mentioned in the review. GPS software, obviously there is none at the moment but software will always be an added extra on any contract - if it's included you're still paying "extra" for it.





VGA screen. It would be cool, but would push the price far too high and is by no means a standard feature on many phones. Hopefully in a year or two the price of that resolution on a screen might make it possible.<br />





Of all the things you mentioned, the lack of A2DP is the most ridiculous thing, MMS and the camera are personal things. You either want them or you don't.





As a general comment the Features score doesn't just reflect the number of features, but also the quality and implementation of those features - something the iPhone scores highly on.

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