No problem: The in-player iMovie -like frame editor makes snipping the beginning or end of a clip a breeze. The videos I captured looked better than many typical camera phone images at the same resolution, and I found the inclusion of a video camera handy in a pinch when I was caught off-guard with a video opportunity and had no other camera on hand. And like-resolution dedicated camera and camcorder devices generally have a few advantages, such as greater stability for hand-held shots, and a tripod shoe if you want to steady the image.
The video feature has a few other rough spots. Voice dialing is fairly common, and has been for years. This is a seemingly basic feature on which the iPhone 3GS is playing catch-up.
But, at least it goes further by providing a range of voice controls for both dialing and music playback. When it works, I found it a wonderfully handy feature when driving, or even when walking down a street. Hold the Home button for a count of three a count of two invariably took me one page to the left , and the Voice Control screen pops up.
I found this feature worked with varying degrees of success. But Voice Control stumbled on other names, either offering the wrong name or not recognizing anything.
And it missed some voice commands when a TV blared nearby. One detail worth noting: Apple makes the iPhone 3GS more accessible to vision-impaired users through its new Voice Over feature. Once enabled, the phone can talk at you as you navigate among the touchscreen icons.
The iPhone 3GS has the same 3. The display still looks beautiful, displaying images at bypixel resolution. Android and iOS, as concepts, are remarkably similar. Where things get different is how Google and Apple planned to disseminate the software; Apple made iOS totally proprietary, whereas Google took a more open-source approach with Android, allowing third-party OEMs to use it on their phones.
In the end, Android won the most market share. By a considerable margin. But it is Apple that makes the most money, even when it sells fewer phones. And the reason? The forward-looking vision of Apple and Google, of making platforms that would unify many different features and abilities, all under one roof, was what set it apart from BlackBerry and Symbian.
This is why Android and iOS took over; they completely reinvented the phone from the ground up, while brands like BlackBerry were still focussed on niche-pursuits that had no place in the future of how mobiles would go on to be used and perceived.
By pulling together applications under one roof inside the App Store, and selling millions of phones, Apple effectively created a new developer platform.
And where there are developers, there is innovation. Because of iPhone and, to an extent, Android. If BlackBerry and Nokia were still in charge, things would look very different today — and not in a good way. Millions of people bought and loved the iPhone 3GS. As Apple released more phones , its tribe of users grew. It augmented and changed the iPhone but always kept its core principles in place which attracted new users and ensured its current ones always came back. Bottom line?
Richard Goodwin has been working as a tech journalist for over 10 years. After that, we saw the commercialization of the 3G network. To this end, Apple skipped the iPhone 1 and released the iPhone 3G in In June , the company announced the iPhone 3GS. What did we have in and what did we get in ? Even in third world countries where you find the oldest iPhones, iPhone 6 is probably the oldest active iPhone you can find.
So, during a cleanup, a close ally stumbled on iPhone 3GS from the corner of the drawer a few days ago. This smartphone is a complete history, but here we are with an active iPhone 3GS. With the introduction of Apple Store with the iPhone 3 a year earlier, it was clear that 16GB will not cut it.
Even in China, iPhone 3GS sales were massive. On Oct 31st, , the first official sales of this smartphone held at Apple Store in Sanlitun, Beijing. There was a total shutdown that day with a host of people trying to buy this device.
The hardware configuration and software functions of both smartphones are a world apart. If two iPhones separated by ten years are put together, perhaps we can more clearly see the progress of the iPhone over the past ten years.
Unsurprisingly, the iPhone 4s also had a 3. The first iPhone to support new digital assistant Siri, it sold more than 1m units within 24 hours of pre-orders opening in early October The iPhone 5 was the first iPhone to have a screen larger than 3. The new large screen facilitated an extra row of apps, making room for five rows and an additional four in the dock at the bottom. Despite both sporting 4-inch displays, the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c were very different in terms of both aesthetics and power.
The pair were the first iPhones to be announced during the same event, and set the future precedent for multiple handset launches. The iPhone 5s was the first to come in a champagne gold shade, while the iPhone 5c came in a range of five bright plastic finishes.
Larger handsets had been growing in popularity in Asia for several years, namely thanks to Samsung, and the new 4.
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