Apple iPhone 3GS

Nice phone.Shame you have to turn all those great features off before you get through a day without the battery flunking out. Anyone buying the 3GS should take a look at apple's battery advice page before spending any money. Maybe the software update will help.

Khufus, you're right about battery life, and I doubt a software update will help here... But in fairness, poor battery life is not unique to the iPhone and is common to other smartphones with similar features. That's the cost of the features and power... if decent battery life is a priority then you'd need to consider a more modest type of handset.

Hi....chiming in here so late that I doubt I will get a reponse but I'm really tempted by one of these when my upgrade is due in a month...my major issues are: I'm not entirely happy with O2's customer service and speed of their data network and found Orange offered better service when I was with them.....

...and 2, just what is the music sound quality like? I currently have a Cowon S9 which can generate a pretty potent sound, driving a set of Shure SE530 IEMs...previously I had an 80GB iPod Classic, and prior to that an 8GB Sony walkman and a 20GB HDD Sony walkman...of the four, although the iPod by no means sounded *bad*, it definitely had the weakest and worst sound.

Most reviews don't seem to mention much about the quality of an iPhone's sound when using the iPod function. I've always felt (in my opinion, of course, which is no more or less valid than anyone else's) the one fly in the iPod ointment is the fact that the audio processing was never as good as the interface etc and doesn't stack up to the best mp3 players out there

And I'm not even going to mention the bundled white Apple earphones that I still see regularly on the Tube....