Personal: My Apple iPhone 3GS
Tom on November 09, 2009
I bought an iPhone 3GS last week, on November 5. A short essay on my thoughts follows the picture set.
In the end, it was the sixteen-gigabyte black 3GS that I went for. Of course, I didn’t wish to buy it outright — I instead opted for a reasonably-priced Telstra corporate plan that includes a fair bit of the traditional voice and text allowance, but a lot of data built-in. And from what I’ve seen over the last week, that data will be the most important part.
While I did, in part, buy an iPhone because I am a self-confessing Apple fan (not to be confused with ‘fanboy’), the by-far larger logic behind the purchase was the fact that the iPhone is the benchmark on today’s phone market. Even after two or three years of a nearly non-changing design and fairly standard feature set, it is the phone to beat.
While the iPhone 3GS did not offer the revolutionary change highlighted from the transition from first-gen iPhone to second-gen iPhone 3G, the 3GS offers the best features, speed and general ‘happiness’ of any smartphone on sale. While it works great simply as the phone that it is, with the excellent Mobile Safari, decent email (not BlackBerry-beating, mind you) and nice standard feature set, the collection of over 100,000 third-party applications for download at your fingertips is the number to beat, as well.
It’s not difficult to access these, either; the App Store can be accessed in a single tap, anywhere, anytime, especially here in Australia on the Telstra network. While Telstra is seen as the ‘big bad looming shadow’ over the domestic telecommunications industry, it offers network speed and coverage that is unparalleled.
The phone is amazing – not because it bears an Apple on the back (that doesn’t exactly hurt it though), but because it offers unbeatable interconnectedness with the outside world. The phone has started to interact with almost everything I do; and there are about 99,950 more applications for me to discover and that number is still growing.
It may not be ‘king’ forever, but for now, the iPhone, in 3GS form, is simply the best there is.
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