Apple iPhone 3G

Recently I took that jump (leap) and purchased the iPhone 3G. I know, I know after all my iPhone bashing on the first gen it seemed like I was going to be a Nokia NSeries fan forever. Fact of the matter is the iPhone ended up being the only option I had when it came to upgrading my phone when my contract ended.

Here's how it goes. I haven't got deep pockets so very rarely can I buy a mobile phone simfree, with no contract from such sites as www.expansys.com or www.clove.co.uk or ebay.com for that matter. So I have to go through my upgrade. Previously owning the Nokia N95 then the N95 8GB I was hoping to get the N96 which was due out around the time I could get my upgrade. But then I found out that O2 were not going to be getting the the Nokia N96 so I was quite bummed. So I then went online to see what other phones I could upgrade to. There was a point I was thinking about the Sony Ericsson Xperia 1 but I couldn't wait for that so after much deliberation and reluctancy I upgrdaded to the iPhone 3G. I was quite reluctant at first to get the iPhone 3G as I was totally bashing the iPhone when it first came out last year and I'm sure most of you agreed with me. But in all honesty I must say that I am loving the new iPhone 3G. I love the fast access I can get to the internet, email etc. One of the major updates from the first gen being that it's now 3G and has GPS so those are a big plus. I am also loving the new App Store, having already downloaded many apps. It's a phone you just can't put down. It does drain all that battery and find I have to charge in nightly but it's all good.

I'm still bummed be to camera but it's a sacrifice I took as I love taking my pics and videos on the go and the N95 8GB allowed me to do this greatly so that's something I miss, being able to take good quality pictures but I'll save up for a point and shoot maybe.

There are still some nitty gritty bits that could be improved such as the simple things that should be standard now on all phones: MMS, copy and paste (at least with smartphones), video recording, autoflash, even landscape mode for typing SMS or Email. But other than that I am loving my iPhone. Surprising, maybe after I had been an iPhone basher when the first one came out but there are improvements on the 3G version that make it a little bit more worthy than before.

Apple just get your act together and fix the simple things that do matter to people, whether you think so or not.