The iPhone 3GS Review: A Closer Look at the New Features and Improvements

One of my favorite things about the iPhone 3GS is actually something I wasn't expecting - you can edit photos, well, it's not exactly editing, but it's still a very cool thing that you can do automatically on your device. Just by twisting and pinching everything, you can trim the edges and make your photos look more professional.

Another big improvement in the 3GS is the graphics, which are going to be very improved with the upgraded RAM. I'm really excited about this because, as we all know, running out of memory is a common problem on our devices. With the 3G model, you always run into memory issues, and it's frustrating when your apps start freezing or becoming unresponsive. But with the 3GS, having extra RAM should help alleviate this issue.

The graphics in the 3G are also going to be improved, but we'll see how that plays out once the games are optimized for the device. It's going to have some new 3D graphic support, which will mean much faster and nicer-looking 3D games.

Now, there are some slight problems with this, because if they really optimize it for the 3G model, it might not work as well on the older models or look worse. But we'll just have to wait and see how that plays out.

The design of the iPhone 3GS is almost identical to the original iPhone 3G. I was expecting some major changes, but there wasn't much - which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The iPhone is very recognizable, so it's not like they need to make drastic changes to keep it looking new and fresh.

One feature that I really want to highlight is the magnometer compass, which basically allows you to use your phone as a compass. You can download an app from Google Maps that will let you change your orientation, which is a very cool feature.

The iPhone 3GS also supports voice control, which is a great feature for accessibility. Whenever you touch something on the screen, it will invert the video and make everything easier to read.

Another new feature is Nike+ support, which I'm sure everyone was expecting. It's just another example of how Apple is always pushing the boundaries of what we thought was possible with our devices.

Finally, let's talk about battery life. With the 3G model, you had six hours of internet time over Wi-Fi, and now with the 3GS, that number has increased to nine hours. The video playback has also improved significantly, from seven to ten hours. And if we're counting audio, that number is up to 24 hours, compared to 30 hours on the 2G model.

But despite these improvements, the 3G talk time remains at five hours, which I find a bit puzzling given the bigger battery and improved efficiency of the new device. Maybe it's got a more powerful 3G antenna or something, but we'll just have to wait and see how that plays out.

Pricing is probably one of the biggest issues with this device. As you can imagine, many people are unhappy with the price point, and I don't blame them. It's always frustrating when Apple makes us pay more for their devices than our friends who are still using older models.

But if you're interested in learning more about the iPhone 3GS, I recommend checking out a great video by John from Lakers, which explains the pricing issue really nicely. I agree with him one hundred percent, and I won't even begin to get into it here - just go watch the video!

That's all for now - stay tuned for more videos, and be sure to check out Zizzi.com for the latest app reviews, iPhone and iPod touch news, tips and tricks for your device, jailbreaking information, and more.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys what is up it's duncan and today i have a full wrap up on the iphone 3gs i'm sure everyone knows the iphone 3gs new i mean everybody that's that's something but i'm going to go in depth i'm going to go uh i've spent a few days most the specs are out all the pricing and a lot of the pros and cons are out so i'm going to try to go over as many as i can and i try to help you guys out and decide if you want to go ahead and buy one or not so let's get this one started so okay guys so as everyone knows the iphone 3gs was announced and uh showing all kinds of new features such as the new camera with video recording much faster specs all kinds of stuff i'm going to go over some of it try to help you guys out and see if you want to go ahead and upgrade or not um now i'll go ahead and run through some some of the base features just in case you don't know it's going to be available and this is the subsidized price the uh which everyone's talking about this is the price that if you're a brand new customer or whatever not if you have a iphone 3g or you're currently under contract anyway so the iphone 3gs will be available in 16 gigabyte version for 199. and 32 gigabyte version for 299 which is very similar to the iphone 3g except it's got more obviously more memory 16 and 32 compared to 8 and 16. now i'm going to go into some of the well some of the more just wrap up um now i i will say this is not 100 confirmed but i would definitely bet on it um there was a there's a leak uh i guess a couple days ago basically uh it's from t-mobile basically said that the uh cpu and ram were big really ramped up basically the ram the ram was doubled from 128 to 256 and the processor was from 400 to 600 megahertz um that's a big deal att uh i mean apple had been talking that obviously that the iphone will be two times faster than all this and when you see those kind of specs definitely it does it does make sense um that's kind of in line with what i was thinking um so i guess i was right anyway okay so let me just go through some of the things um i've had a couple questions and i'm gonna try to answer as many as i can one of them was what does the s stand for the s stands for speed i'm not the best name in my opinion but hey whatever yes it is the iphone 3g s or the 3g speed i don't think anybody would call it that but you know that's what it stands for it's got the new processor like i said it's basically about 50 faster apple claims it's up to two times faster than the 3g is here launching messages is like over two times faster loading the new york times and safari is almost three times faster oh and it loads sim city like two times faster i believe and it also consumes less power which is good because the battery life is up that was one thing i was really surprised about it's got obviously battery technology is continuing to evolve and it gets better and better but what i was surprised is what i was surprised at was that it's got much better uh all the better processor better memory and generally more uh upgraded specs um and then it's got much better battery life than the 3g so i thought that was very cool because the iphone both iphone and ipod have kind of poor battery life so adding a couple extra hours it's a pretty big deal anyway okay now let me get into one of the bigger things probably well between not quite as big as a processor in my opinion but still very big is the camera um increas they increased the megapixels from two to three which three is not bad i mean i've my i have an old digital camera that has three and things you can get that in a cell phone that's like what half an inch thick that's that's pretty cool um let me run through some of the things it's got auto focus auto exposure and auto white balance um now those are pretty important they're not i mean absolute necessities i mean you could take okay pictures with the normal 2 pixel 2 megapixel camera on the iphone 3g but believe me you're looking at some of these pictures that have been taken and just knowing these specs this this is going to take some really nice pictures i think like digital cameras i mean very very nice um one of my really pretty cool things is that you can tap to focus and that's pretty cool i think because instead of having to mess around with you know maybe some menu whatever apple kept it nice and clean just tap it and you're good it's got special macro and low light modes low light's a big deal because obviously the 3g had a kind of didn't take that great night pictures a lot of time and then it has uh photo and geotech video tag photo and video geo tagging that's a mouthful anyway and then the main thing is video um and it from what i've seen they showed a little bit of video and looking at the uh specs on it looks pretty good with the 3gs the camera is going to be more optimized for it it's going to shoot nice 30 frames per second with the same auto focus auto white balance and auto exposure as the normal camera um it's going to be very cool my one of my favorite things actually that i was not expecting at all was actually you can edit and well it's slightly misleading you're basically just trimming it but that's still a very cool thing that you can do automatically on your device just by twisting and pinching everything now one of the bigger things was is that the graphics are going to be very improved with between the upgraded ram which i'm really excited about having extra ram because you always run into memory run out of memory running out of memory and because all the applications are made to run 128 megabytes of ram when you put it on a device with 256 i doubt that until the applications really start being optimized for the 3gs i bet that every all these applications you won't see any memory freezing glitching besides what would be normally so that's a really cool thing it's going to have some new 3d graphic support which will mean much faster and some really nicer looking 3d games um now there are some slight problems with that because if they really optimize it for 3gs obviously it might not work for the 3g or look worse or so it depends um it'll probably be a little while before people real they really start just forgetting the 3g and putting it all on the 3gs um then one thing uh i'll go over real quick everybody's probably seeing it the design um i really wasn't expecting a whole lot of change in the design but there was no change i'm i mean there was a very slight change but it's not i mean it looks almost identical uh i mean you can look at a picture of a 3g and a 3gs and it'll take you a while to tell apart which i don't know the iphone is very recognizable people look at it and go oh that's an iphone so i understand they want to change it a lot but i don't know anyway let me just run over a couple of the spec features just really quickly it's got a magnemeter compass which basically you have compa you have a compass application and google maps will let you change your orientation you've got voice control which is a very cool feature that you can just speak to and say i want to listen to green day and it will start playing green day same with calls all kinds of stuff that should be cool provided works pretty well nike plus support that's everybody was expecting that and then uh you can zoom in on text invert video and then voice over whenever you touch whatever is on the screen that's nice just because it's it adds some accessibility to it that really wasn't there before um i'll run over the battery life a couple of the specs real quick um with the 3g you had six hours of internet uh over wi-fi the 3gs is 9 hours video 7 now 10 24 hours of audio compared to 30 and 2g talk time 10 hours compared to 12. for whatever reason the 3g time is exact same at 5 hours i totally don't get that because you would think that with the bigger battery and everything so maybe it's got a more powerful 3g antenna actually does but i guess it takes more power or whatever anyway um now i won't get into the whole pricing a lot of people are really mad about that what i will do is in the description look there's a really great video by john for lakers check that out he totally explains it very nicely um i agree with him 100 i won't even begin to get into it just go watch that video and uh he he really does it nicely well that's just about my uh my wrap up of the 3gs definitely stay tuned i will have more videos it will be coming out here very soon so on june 19th so uh definitely watch out for some more videos and i will be talking about it and yeah be sure to check out zizzi.com for the latest app reviews iphone and ipod touch news tips and tricks for your device jailbreaking information and more thanks for watchinghey guys what is up it's duncan and today i have a full wrap up on the iphone 3gs i'm sure everyone knows the iphone 3gs new i mean everybody that's that's something but i'm going to go in depth i'm going to go uh i've spent a few days most the specs are out all the pricing and a lot of the pros and cons are out so i'm going to try to go over as many as i can and i try to help you guys out and decide if you want to go ahead and buy one or not so let's get this one started so okay guys so as everyone knows the iphone 3gs was announced and uh showing all kinds of new features such as the new camera with video recording much faster specs all kinds of stuff i'm going to go over some of it try to help you guys out and see if you want to go ahead and upgrade or not um now i'll go ahead and run through some some of the base features just in case you don't know it's going to be available and this is the subsidized price the uh which everyone's talking about this is the price that if you're a brand new customer or whatever not if you have a iphone 3g or you're currently under contract anyway so the iphone 3gs will be available in 16 gigabyte version for 199. and 32 gigabyte version for 299 which is very similar to the iphone 3g except it's got more obviously more memory 16 and 32 compared to 8 and 16. now i'm going to go into some of the well some of the more just wrap up um now i i will say this is not 100 confirmed but i would definitely bet on it um there was a there's a leak uh i guess a couple days ago basically uh it's from t-mobile basically said that the uh cpu and ram were big really ramped up basically the ram the ram was doubled from 128 to 256 and the processor was from 400 to 600 megahertz um that's a big deal att uh i mean apple had been talking that obviously that the iphone will be two times faster than all this and when you see those kind of specs definitely it does it does make sense um that's kind of in line with what i was thinking um so i guess i was right anyway okay so let me just go through some of the things um i've had a couple questions and i'm gonna try to answer as many as i can one of them was what does the s stand for the s stands for speed i'm not the best name in my opinion but hey whatever yes it is the iphone 3g s or the 3g speed i don't think anybody would call it that but you know that's what it stands for it's got the new processor like i said it's basically about 50 faster apple claims it's up to two times faster than the 3g is here launching messages is like over two times faster loading the new york times and safari is almost three times faster oh and it loads sim city like two times faster i believe and it also consumes less power which is good because the battery life is up that was one thing i was really surprised about it's got obviously battery technology is continuing to evolve and it gets better and better but what i was surprised is what i was surprised at was that it's got much better uh all the better processor better memory and generally more uh upgraded specs um and then it's got much better battery life than the 3g so i thought that was very cool because the iphone both iphone and ipod have kind of poor battery life so adding a couple extra hours it's a pretty big deal anyway okay now let me get into one of the bigger things probably well between not quite as big as a processor in my opinion but still very big is the camera um increas they increased the megapixels from two to three which three is not bad i mean i've my i have an old digital camera that has three and things you can get that in a cell phone that's like what half an inch thick that's that's pretty cool um let me run through some of the things it's got auto focus auto exposure and auto white balance um now those are pretty important they're not i mean absolute necessities i mean you could take okay pictures with the normal 2 pixel 2 megapixel camera on the iphone 3g but believe me you're looking at some of these pictures that have been taken and just knowing these specs this this is going to take some really nice pictures i think like digital cameras i mean very very nice um one of my really pretty cool things is that you can tap to focus and that's pretty cool i think because instead of having to mess around with you know maybe some menu whatever apple kept it nice and clean just tap it and you're good it's got special macro and low light modes low light's a big deal because obviously the 3g had a kind of didn't take that great night pictures a lot of time and then it has uh photo and geotech video tag photo and video geo tagging that's a mouthful anyway and then the main thing is video um and it from what i've seen they showed a little bit of video and looking at the uh specs on it looks pretty good with the 3gs the camera is going to be more optimized for it it's going to shoot nice 30 frames per second with the same auto focus auto white balance and auto exposure as the normal camera um it's going to be very cool my one of my favorite things actually that i was not expecting at all was actually you can edit and well it's slightly misleading you're basically just trimming it but that's still a very cool thing that you can do automatically on your device just by twisting and pinching everything now one of the bigger things was is that the graphics are going to be very improved with between the upgraded ram which i'm really excited about having extra ram because you always run into memory run out of memory running out of memory and because all the applications are made to run 128 megabytes of ram when you put it on a device with 256 i doubt that until the applications really start being optimized for the 3gs i bet that every all these applications you won't see any memory freezing glitching besides what would be normally so that's a really cool thing it's going to have some new 3d graphic support which will mean much faster and some really nicer looking 3d games um now there are some slight problems with that because if they really optimize it for 3gs obviously it might not work for the 3g or look worse or so it depends um it'll probably be a little while before people real they really start just forgetting the 3g and putting it all on the 3gs um then one thing uh i'll go over real quick everybody's probably seeing it the design um i really wasn't expecting a whole lot of change in the design but there was no change i'm i mean there was a very slight change but it's not i mean it looks almost identical uh i mean you can look at a picture of a 3g and a 3gs and it'll take you a while to tell apart which i don't know the iphone is very recognizable people look at it and go oh that's an iphone so i understand they want to change it a lot but i don't know anyway let me just run over a couple of the spec features just really quickly it's got a magnemeter compass which basically you have compa you have a compass application and google maps will let you change your orientation you've got voice control which is a very cool feature that you can just speak to and say i want to listen to green day and it will start playing green day same with calls all kinds of stuff that should be cool provided works pretty well nike plus support that's everybody was expecting that and then uh you can zoom in on text invert video and then voice over whenever you touch whatever is on the screen that's nice just because it's it adds some accessibility to it that really wasn't there before um i'll run over the battery life a couple of the specs real quick um with the 3g you had six hours of internet uh over wi-fi the 3gs is 9 hours video 7 now 10 24 hours of audio compared to 30 and 2g talk time 10 hours compared to 12. for whatever reason the 3g time is exact same at 5 hours i totally don't get that because you would think that with the bigger battery and everything so maybe it's got a more powerful 3g antenna actually does but i guess it takes more power or whatever anyway um now i won't get into the whole pricing a lot of people are really mad about that what i will do is in the description look there's a really great video by john for lakers check that out he totally explains it very nicely um i agree with him 100 i won't even begin to get into it just go watch that video and uh he he really does it nicely well that's just about my uh my wrap up of the 3gs definitely stay tuned i will have more videos it will be coming out here very soon so on june 19th so uh definitely watch out for some more videos and i will be talking about it and yeah be sure to check out zizzi.com for the latest app reviews iphone and ipod touch news tips and tricks for your device jailbreaking information and more thanks for watching