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iPhone 3GS

Finally, after locking myself into an 18-Month contract with Vodafone on a stupid LG Viewty, I can get the iPhone 3GS.

Back when the original iPhone was announced, I said to myself, “I don’t need a phone, I just want a touchscreen iPod”. So when the iPod touch was announced, I bought that thing up, and I’ve been very very happy with it ever since. The only thing that I wasn’t so happy with, was that I couldn’t fit my whole 19GB song library within its 16GB capacity, and that many of the apps available are so much more useful if you have an always on connection instead of just WiFi.

Around the same time, my Sony Ericsson k800i died, so I ended up getting a new phone on a new contract. I coulda got an iPhone then, but I didn’t since “I don’t need a phone, i just want a touchscreen iPod”. What a mistake that was… I got an LG Viewty, what a piece of shit. The main selling points of that thing were the “touchscreen” and “5MP camera”. First, the touchscreen required so much effort to get working since it worked on pressure and not capacitence. Second, the 5MP cam took good pictures, right until it saves the pic to the memory and adds a lovely blur effect onto it making all pics look out of focus. How useful.

I lived with that thing for 13 months until the battery started to run out within half a day. So I put it on eBay and got around £70 for it which I was happy about. Since then, I’ve been using a Vodafone *cough*Sagem*cough* 527 pay as you go phone. Its nice and small, but the functions are crap, but I expected that from a phone that costs £30. My vodafone contract ran out in May, and ever since, I’ve been holding out until WWDC for Apple to announce the new iPhone.

Now its here… it looks the same as the iPhone 3G. It adds a few features that the 3G won’t have even with the iPhone OS 3.0 update such as video recording/editing, compass, better cam, voice control and better graphics. Now if I were an iPhone 3G owner, I don’t think these extra features would make me wanna upgrade. But since I’m a new user, hell yeah do I want it! At last, I’ll be able to sync all of my songs and videos, instead of a random subset of them. I’ll be able to use connected Apps wherever I am like all of those location based apps. I’ll be able to Twitter on the go (I’m getting bored of twitter… maybe this will invigorate my interest).

Bring on Friday 19th. I’ve been waiting for over 18 months. This better be as good as I’ve hoped.