Comments on: iPhone 3GS: The Key Australian Details

By: Zac

Zac — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:16:17 +0000

The fact is that the iphone revolutionised the mobile phone interface. The existing main players were simply stagnate in bringing in something new. They were bringing out new models every few months but there was no progress, they were stuck in a rut. Certainly the iphone didn’t have or still hasn’t got x,y,z but Apple wants x,y,z features to be fully and seamlessly integrated (and of course they have their business reasons as well) and that takes time. The cut/copy/paste in the latest software update is a great example. Other phones has features x,y,z simply tacked on with no thought to the user and it certainly feels that way.

I have a Nokia N96 and it has many more features than the iphone 3GS, but it’s a total mess. It’s clunky. Even a simple thing like copy/paste on the N96 (which people have screaming for Apple to introduce) is done terribly that I just don’t use it.

By: K

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:40:56 +0000

@ SouthPacIslands – “the best time to buy technology is never!”

That’s the motto of the Amish!! :)

I was sure most of the features offered by the 3GS is already available to the current iPhones via the last update – so really the only things new to the 3GS is mainly hardware-wise (ie. new processor).

By: SouthPacIslands

SouthPacIslands — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:22:58 +0000

Why tha f@#k doesn’t the 3GS have a flash, when so many other manufacturers are now integrating this feature into current models?…

p.s. the best time to buy technology is never!

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:55:21 +0000

It is if you are a member of the iPhone developer program.

By: Kelv Lim

Kelv Lim — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:55:16 +0000

I’ve been able to send an MMS to an Optus iPhone sucessfully however can’t receive them on my Telstra iPhone. Anyone know what you need to do? The optus iPhone has no trouble sending and receiving MMS.

By: Tim Cinel

Tim Cinel — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:22:34 +0000

I didn’t know you had to pay for updates. That’s so Apple. It should be called iPhone OS 1.30.00 (Or Service Pack 3) anyway!

By: ibu

ibu — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:02:47 +0000

u cant have upgraded its not out yet

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:19:05 +0000

Telstra has already enabled MMS on the iPhone v3 software. Got a welcome message from them as soon as I upgraded.

By: Faaiez

Faaiez — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:10:51 +0000

All I can say is that those who have not used an iPhone for more than 3 months don’t know what they’re talking about. I had a P800, N95, palm etc etc. Non of the OS’s on these come close to the OS on the iPhone.

By: DDS

DDS — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:48:11 +0000

Here we go again, another flame war about whether the iPhone is good, or crap.
Look, to be honest, a phone is supposed to cater to what a specific person needs. If you think the iPhone is crap, fine, whatever, but if you think its fantastic, then its fantastic.
All depends on what you use it for. Personally, I’ve had my iPhone 3G for about 6-7 months now, and I love it. I admit, Apple did a terrible job of giving what was already on the market. But at the same time, they produced a phone that works, and although it leaves out some things that people consider “neccessities” I didn’t really feel like I was missing out when *upgraded* from my N95 8GB to my iPhone.
By the way, the iPhone can do cut, copy & paste, MMS, Video Recording, Digital Zoom, play DivX and Xvid files and also background running programs. Has been able to do it pretty much since I got it. *uhem* simple process called Jailbreaking. My friends, who regularly teased me for having such a feature lean phone quickly stopped complaining when they realised that I could do everything they could do, and better (ie. Web Browsing- I’m sorry, but Nokia failed there. I never used my phones browser on the N95, it just seemed clunky, slow and a bit disjointed).
I’m not a fan boy, never have been, but I love my phone.
Apple can get away with making different products because thats what they do. So stop complaining and try one, just make sure it’s jailbroken ;)