Last Saturday in a bit of geek hastiness, I went and upgraded my iPhone 3G to an iPhone 3GS. Why did I do it? Well, my son was looking at buying an iPhone and this gave me a good excuse to upgrade and I am a geek 
. I didn’t have to wait in line at the Apple store for two hours like last year, only about 45 minutes this time. I think it took that long because the store wasn’t dedicated to just selling phones like they did before.
Things you notice right away with this iPhone is it is truly faster. Much faster. No more lags when launching apps and even surfing the web seems faster. Email, everything, is much faster.
But the camera is why you will want the upgrade; it is great. I finally have a nice slim auto focus still and movie camera in my pocket. My normal camera is a Canon Powershot SD that I have almost worn out and the pictures I get out of the iPhone are pretty good compared to the Canon. I may not even carry the Canon anymore.
Voice control is wild as well. My old Kryocea palm phone had voice dialing but the iPhone has voice commands; you can tell it “play songs by alison kraus” and off it goes playing those songs. Real cool.
But the biggest hangup I have (pardon the pun) is the way AT&T is so sloooowww to adopt the new phone features. This phone has MMS, but AT&T won’t commit to it till the fall. This phone supports tethering, but AT&T just says they plan on supporting it. Thank God that the Apple-AT&T exclusive arrangement is over next year because we all know that competition is a good thing!
Later,
matt
