My New iPhone 3G 1

Posted by Trey Connell on July 31, 2008

I decided to go with direct fulfillment in order to get my grubby hands on one of the new iPhones. The past Monday I finally got the call from my local AT&T store. My iPhone 3G had arrived!

First, it does look a bit sleeker than the old iPhone but there’s not really a big enough difference in appearance to rave about. Second, 3G is GREAT. Many of the applications can use your current location to make doing things more efficient – such as listing movie theaters near your location. There’s a really big difference in how fast you can use those applications from EDGE to 3G.

The GPS is indeed very cool although I’ve only played with it and have had no real reason to use it yet.

All in all, I’m happy with the upgrade.  There are a few features such as video chat that I wish they would have included. I was also rather disappointed there is still no copy and paste.  I mean c’mon Apple…

iPhone 2.0 Applications

Posted by Trey Connell on July 14, 2008

I’ve determined that the best thing about the release of the iPhone 3G is not the device at all. It’s the application store that Apple has introduced and included in the iPhone 2.0 software update. I spent some time Saturday browsing through the applications and games, and there really is some useful stuff out there. Here’s a list of what I’ve installed so far:

  1. AIM
  2. Twitterific
  3. Aurora Feint
  4. Cro-Mag Rally
  5. WeatherBug
  6. MySpace
  7. Remote
  8. eBay
  9. Jott
  10. YPmobile
  11. Where
  12. Google Mobile
  13. PhoneSaber
  14. Pownce
  15. Shazam
  16. ShoZu
  17. IGN Reviews