Gadget Friends

The IPhone 3G is the beingning of a new computing platform. With 3G and the App store, the best iPod ever is now one of the best handheld computers ever. While not a huge physical upgrade over the original iPhone, the 3G hits two of the older model’s critical weaknesses, such as, the poor phone call quality and the slow Internet connection speeds and makes it clear that the iPhone is now a platform, a pocket computer that software developers can empower to do anything its users want. It’s a formidable smartphone, a heck of a lot of fun to use, and a device that will grow with you.

What Hasn’t changed Much

By and large , the 3G looks, feels , and acts similar to an iPhone. It is still a bigslab of touch screen with a single Home button. The display is the same 3.5-inch 320X480-pixel panel with multi-touch capabilities, but it’s a little bit brighter than the previous iPhone’s screen. There is a slightly thinner metal bezel around the screen and the back of the handset  is plastic rather then metal. It is also slightly rounded; the iPhone wobbles a little on a table if you push on its edges. The plastic back attracts fingerprints like nobody’s business. A new metal grill over the sound quality for music lovers. And thank goodness, the 3G eschews the recessed head phone jack for a regular one that acceptsordinary run-of-the – mill music headphones.