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It’s fair to say that the arrival of the second iPhone has
caused a bit of a fuss. Interestingly, the new features it has
– 3G, GPS, the
ability to run third-party applications – only just bring it
up to the level at which most mobile manufacturers have been running
for some years.
But we’re not going to get bogged down in industry
implications of the iPhone 3G, just get on with reviewing the hardware,
and the new features of iPhone software 2.0.
Familiar face
From the front, the iPhone is largely unchanged. It still uses
solid-state memory in 8GB or 16GB capacities. It gets a new curved back
panel that comes in shiny black plastic or, with the 16GB version, the
choice of a white finish.
Don’t be alarmed by the word ‘plastic’:
typically for an Apple product, it feels solid and classy, and nearly
all the people we polled preferred it to the old matt silver metal
finish. On paper, the new iPhone is not thinner than its predecessor,
but the curved back makes it feel so nonetheless.
The recessed headphone socket is gone so you can use any headphones,
without an adaptor. Great news, even if a little of the jack is exposed
due to the curved back.
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Impressive GPS
As you’d expect, the inclusion of GPS doesn’t mean
any unsightly external aerial. It locked onto satellites quickly,
taking between 30-45 seconds from ‘cold’ (when
started up in an entirely new location).
A blue marker shows your position on the familiar Google Maps
application, and it will do visual and text – but not spoken
– directions to a location. It uses A-GPS, which means that
it gets (A)ssistance from the network provider to maintain a good fix
even in built-up areas. It dropped out in a couple of
London’s alleyways, but quickly recovered once you got back
to wider streets.
Supercharged web browsing
So, to the headline: 3G, or, more accurately, 3.5G, as
there’s support for O2’s HSDPA
network too. Unsurprisingly, it’s all good. Clearly, download
speeds over are greatly improved over its EDGE-only
predecessor.
But there’s more good news. We raced it against a Nokia
N-series mobile running on Vodafone’s HSDPA network, and the
iPhone was first nearly every time. Whether this is down to the
network, or Safari’s superior rendering, is unclear, but the
benefit is: your webpages and downloads, faster.
There’s more. Wi-Fi
reception seems to be improved over the previous iPhone. In one part of
our office, the new iPhone showed full wireless signal; the old iPhone
only one bar.
Music and video playback are excellent. You still need a Wi-Fi network
to connect to the iTunes Store, so you can’t threaten the
data usage policy by downloading videos.
Well juiced
Battery life seems to be close to Apple’s claims: five hours
of phone action, seven hours of video, and 24 hours of audio. All
figures aside, it passed the real-life test – we
haven’t been able to keep our hands off the thing, and it
still had battery left at the end of the day.
Other iPhone 3G highlights come courtesy of the new 2.0 software.
Microsoft Exchange support we’ll be handling as part of our
review of the new third-party apps. The ability to delete and move
multiple messages is a boon – although copy and paste is
still absent. Support for PowerPoint and Office documents is welcome,
and the new scientific calculator is a nice touch
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