Going 3GS way
When Apple unveiled the iPhone 3GS, one of our friends, a diehard iPhone fan, asked what's the point of buying a new iPhone which looks exactly like the old one? Well we guess many of you have the same question specially those who already own an iPhone 3G. Well all we can say is that you wont know unless you start using it, it's the speed that will amaze you. In fact that is the reason why it's called iPhone 3GS. Apple calls it the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet, and also mentioned that it's packed with incredible new features including improved speed and performanceup to twice as fast as iPhone 3Gwith longer battery life, a high-quality 3 megapixel autofocus camera, easy to use video recording and hands free voice control. The iPhone 3GS includes the new iPhone OS 3.0, which according to the company is the world's most advanced mobile operating system with over 100 new features such as Cut, Copy and Paste, MMS, Spotlight Search, landscape keyboard and more. From the outlook perspective the 3GS is exactly the same as the 3G. It's slightly heavier and has glossy text on the back. The screen is slightly more reflective because of the new fingerprint resistant coating, which works in preventing a good deal of fingerprints and face grease The 3GS features a new 3 megapixel autofocus camera that takes pictures as well as videos. The new autofocus camera adjusts focus, exposure, color and contrast for the best possible image and includes an automatic macro focus for extra close up shots. The voice control feature in iPhone 3GS is new and offers hands free operation for both iPhone and iPod functions. Simply speak the appropriate commands into the built-in microphone or headset microphone to dial by name or number. With voice control you can play your favorite music by artist, album or playlist and activate the feature by saying "play more songs like this." You can also tell iPhone to pause the music, play the next track, turn on shuffle or ask, "What's playing right now?" iPhone 3GS features a new built-in digital compass for instant navigation. The Compass app shows you which way you are headed and rotates as you change direction. You can orient yourself to true north or magnetic north, and iPhone's built-in GPS automatically displays the coordinates of your current location. So how fast the iPhone 3GS is? The video really shows, so does built in applications such as Safari, Email and Camera. Even booting the phone takes about half the time. Apps with long loading time also works faster in the 3GS compared to the older version. The iPhone 3GS runs on a 600MHz CPU with 256MB RAM, so the processes are much faster. With improvement of all these features, one would think the battery life of the new iPhone has been compromised, but surprisingly that's not the case. In fact it has become better.
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