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I just picked up my iPhone 3GS this morning from the Apple Store at the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica, CA. Waited outside in line for an hour before opening. Restored my old phone settings, and now I'm at work. 
Wish I could play with it, take some video, but that will have to wait. At least all my apps, contacts, bookmarks, music are on it.
One thing that's really strange is it feels like I can move apps around on the touch screen faster when I'm reorganizing their location. Maybe it's placebo effect, but it feels like the page shift when dragging app icons around is faster. Could be the new touch screen too, since my 2G phone was well-worn through heavy use.
Wish I could play with it, take some video, but that will have to wait. At least all my apps, contacts, bookmarks, music are on it.One thing that's really strange is it feels like I can move apps around on the touch screen faster when I'm reorganizing their location. Maybe it's placebo effect, but it feels like the page shift when dragging app icons around is faster. Could be the new touch screen too, since my 2G phone was well-worn through heavy use.
Marty Chinn
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Damn it Apple, where is my push IM app???
I figure ok didn't launch wednesday, didn't launch yesterday, surely they'll launch it with the phone.....
I figure ok didn't launch wednesday, didn't launch yesterday, surely they'll launch it with the phone.....
Gary Whitta
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Got my 3GS! Can't wait to put this puppy through its paces...
Buckethead
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This threads needs more pictures of any 32GB model and also the ass of the white model.
K thx.
K thx.
Marty Chinn
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Buckethead said:
Do we really? It looks the same as the 3G that's been out for a year.
StrikerObi
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Eggo said:I just picked up my iPhone 3GS this morning from the Apple Store at the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica, CA. Waited outside in line for an hour before opening. Restored my old phone settings, and now I'm at work.
One thing that's really strange is it feels like I can move apps around on the touch screen faster when I'm reorganizing their location. Maybe it's placebo effect, but it feels like the page shift when dragging app icons around is faster. Could be the new touch screen too, since my 2G phone was well-worn through heavy use.
Moving apps around is definitely faster. It's so responsive it will actually take some getting used to.
Duane Cunningham
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Anyone who was waiting for the JB will be pleased to know that the mac version of Pwnage 3.0 just went up on the dev team blog's official torrents link.
Buckethead
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RubxQub said:
I will eagerly anticipate this moment.
I've literally never seen the back of a white iPhone beyond the Apple/press pics and thought it'd be fun to wait for the 3GS to see any.
I don't know what one I'm going to get, the black is sexy and all piano-shiny, but the white is so foreign and dangerous.
Keylime
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I basically got the white one only because I previously had a black one, and since they look exactly the same I had to get something different to make it feel new to me.Buckethead said:
The white is definitely interesting. When it's laying flat on it's back you can see the white creeping up the sides, but looking directly at the screen you'd have no idea what color it is on the back.
Taking the white in and out of my pocket a few times has shown me that the iPhone can pick up some little lint pieces on it (think white 360 controller if you have one), however the smudges are much less obvious.
Buckethead
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RubxQub said:
Hmm. I'll test it out at an Apple store sometime and see what one tickles my fancy.
I think I'll probably go with the black ultimately. Everything in my office/entertainment room is black and silver besides my Wii so don't want to throw off the chi.
Marty Chinn said:
Kidding. Well since I can't have one, I'm diverting some of that annoyance by watching other people be happy. Haha. Also I want to see the thickness of the 32GB model.
Gary Whitta
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Looking forward to seeing people post photos and vids taken with the new camera... I'll try a few later myself.
Killer app confirmed.Tobor said:
Don't forget the semen.RubxQub said:
Assuming you're not still spent from the WWDC thread
Duane Cunningham said:
ok time to back up and set up. Too bad backgrounder doesn't work yet but that's the only thing i'll be missing for a while. I'm out of here. LatersStrikerObi
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RubxQub said:
It fucking better be. I would occasionally type entire sentences into my iPhone OG with no keyboard response, only to have the whole sentence pop into existence 5 seconds after I was finished.
StrikerObi
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Tobor said:
Don't forget to factor in the finally decent java performance of Mobile Safari. Lots of the speed is coming from that.
Gary Whitta
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Has there been any indication in any reviews if the cell radio is any better in the 3GS? I'm so tired of spotty network performance and dropped calls while my girlfriend who is on the same network and has a shitty free phone has no problems at all.
Keylime
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I am fucking loving the increased cadence of jumping between apps.
Was looking to update the wallpaper on my iphone by browser (sciphone.net), it opens the image in a new tab, saving the image, hitting home, opening photos, selecting camera roll, selecting image, assigning wallpaper, hitting the power button, hitting home button, unlocking phone, jumping back into browser.
...in the middle of all that I got an e-mail that was spam, quickly swiped and deleted and went about my business...
The experience doesn't have those little beats anymore where you're waiting for something to load, you just keep spamming commands as the new screens come up and can get things done faster.
The performance enhancement isn't really obvious normally, but when chaining together multiple commands like this, it's much much more obvious.
Was looking to update the wallpaper on my iphone by browser (sciphone.net), it opens the image in a new tab, saving the image, hitting home, opening photos, selecting camera roll, selecting image, assigning wallpaper, hitting the power button, hitting home button, unlocking phone, jumping back into browser.
...in the middle of all that I got an e-mail that was spam, quickly swiped and deleted and went about my business...
The experience doesn't have those little beats anymore where you're waiting for something to load, you just keep spamming commands as the new screens come up and can get things done faster.
The performance enhancement isn't really obvious normally, but when chaining together multiple commands like this, it's much much more obvious.
Steve Woz was spotted at the Valley Fair store in San Jose, again
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=725868
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=725868
Lord Error
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Same here, although I waited one hour, and had to go, but the nice lady that works there told me she would keep trying and then get back to me as soon as the request goes through. Crazy.capslock said:
Classic_Gs
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Man.....now I am going to the At&t store on lunch to try my luck because I too have a OG 4GB iPhone.Tobor said:
Gary Whitta
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I think it's the people who are going from the 1G phone to this who are going to be most blown away. It's a HUGE leap up.Classic_Gs said:
TurtleSnatcher
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Does the touch screen normally freeze when its pulling mail?
I have my gmail and outlook web access for work set up on my iphone and sometimes the touch screen just freezes and i cant do anythign for 15 secs until it pulls or checks on mail or something.
I have my gmail and outlook web access for work set up on my iphone and sometimes the touch screen just freezes and i cant do anythign for 15 secs until it pulls or checks on mail or something.
Jugendstil
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Gary Whitta said:
Don't say that! An AT&T store opened directly across the street from my office yesterday. The last thing I need to do is spend $300 on a new phone, or at least I'm trying to tell myself that...
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