Is anyone going to trade up to the iPhone 3GS?

I also have a 1st Gen and will be upgrading as soon as they're actually in stock. (I hear they are back-ordered 7-10 days already.) I upgraded to the 3.0 OS last night, to tide me over.

FWIW, the 1st Gen iPhone works great with our 2010 Prius III bluetooth.

 

I upgraded to 3.0 on my 3G, and will upgrade in December when I'm eligible for the reduced pricing again.

 

I have a motorola razer and am planning on going to the 3GS. I already upgraded my Itouch to 3.0 (bunch of stinking thieves at Apple, cause I had to pay for the upgrade)

I thought I was going to have to wait til my current contract expired in Sept. However, I just read that I wont have to wait. So, probably next month I will be getting the new phone. Hooray!

 

I have a perfectly good Prius that, while I admire the changes, I have no plans to get rid of. I have a perfectly good iPhone that, while I admire the changes, I have no plans to get rid of.

 

I also am upgrading as I also passed on the 1 to 2 upgrade. Looking forward to the 3G network and can't wait to see how well the voice control works

 

My cell phone does absolutely nothing but make phone calls. It does that perfectly well. I see no reason to get a telephone that also bakes bread.

 

My wife has just upgraded her iPhone 3G to the latest OS. She's just called to say the phone still works but all her contacts have been blown away.

Oops...

I guess that's one way to eliminate the phonebook transfer problem...

 

Just got the 3GS -- my local Apple Store had plenty for walk-in customers. Activation took about 30 mins, and subsequent number port took 5 mins. Surprisingly painless...

 

I have the 3G and it's not worth it to upgrade. Heck, I can't even upgrade to 3.0 because I am waiting for a jail break solution. I can't live without some of the apps only available on jail broken phones.

 

Reminds me of the time we tried to use the Get Out Of Jail Free card from the Monopoly set to get out of the Yankton, South Dakota jail. The guard refused to honor the card. We all agreed that the guard was breaking the rules. He was supposed to let us out when we presented the card.

Sorry... :focus:

 

Did she back up her iPhone to iTunes on the computer?
If so, all she has to do is hook it up and iTunes will ask if she wants to 'restore' it.
Painless, did it today and I have all my apps, contacts, bookmarks, even the settings in each app.
This is SOOOOO much better than the first generation iPhone

 

I broke down today and got the 3G S in black, upgrading to 32 GB from a white 3G 16 GB iPhone. I was tired of managing my music into 16 GB, and now I have the music I want, all my apps, and still have 2+ GB left over. The Voice Control is cool, and will make it easy to select music to stream through the BT audio.

 

Did I hear that AT&T will soon lose exclusive rights to the iPhone, and also that T Mobile is coming out with a G2 that will have a touch screen keyboard?

 

I'll retort with a story or two.

When my wife and I flew to Dallas to visit relatives and were done visiting the 7th Floor Museum (from which JFK was sniped), we were both hungry, but weren't familiar with the area and where the good food was.

Since we had the "Yelp!" app on my iPhone, we checked the restaurants near our current position and found one that the web user community gave 4 stars. We chose the restaurant, clicked a link to open Google maps, which used GPS to automatically give us walking directions to the restaurant. It was delicious!

I've also been lost on a mountaintop trying to find a cave. I didn't know where my friend and I were, but we had a cell signal. I just downloaded a GPS app, got our bearings, and waltzed right over to the entrance given the lat/long!

The iPhone just opens up so much potential, from a very usable web browser that's always with you, to a video player that lets our kids watch "Wall-E" and not throw a fit while the wife and I finish eating at a restaurant, to a music player (both .mp3's and streaming internet radio like Pandora) you can use while driving in your car. My wife, the nurse practitioner, even downloaded an app called "Epocrates", which lets her look up drug interactions and keep her patients safe!

Once you get used to it, it's hard to imagine living without it.

My 3Gs is ordered, and scheduled to come next week.

I tried to go to the local Apple Store after dinner out tonight to look at the new phone, but Apple had barricades up and a big line to even enter the store. It was sort of silly, though: there were only about a dozen customers inside. I wondered if they were just trying to make the 3Gs launch look more exclusive and big than it really was.

 

I wanted an iPhone the minute it came out. Unfortunately I had just changed from Cingular/ATT to Verizon because of their poor reception, dropped calls and poor customer service. My buddy has an iPhone and couldn't get reception in our house. He couldn't even call me and I was standing next to him. Until Verizon gets the iPhone I am going to wait. I would never ever go back to ATT even if they offered it for free.

 

I always laughed at people who had iPhones. Then several things happened at once:

1. My two-year contract with Sprint, and their one-bar-if-you're-lucky service, finally ended.

2. My computer died. Unfortunately, I then could only find PCs with Vista (unfortunately, I need Office for work. I tried Open Office awhile ago and at the time it wasn't quite compatible enough). Amongst the other 1,000,000 reasons why I HATE HATE HATE Vista, suddenly my Palm wouldn't sync up with it.

3. This actually happened last fall, but my iPod had a battle with the sidewalk. The sidewalk won.

So, rather than get a new cellphone provider AND get a Vista-approved PDA AND get a new iPod, I just did all three at once and got an iPhone, and discovered it more than lives up to the hype.

 

i just upgraded my verizon phone. ordered it sunday night online, got it tuesday. activated it, took 2 minutes. transfered all my data from the other phone. that took about 15 minutes (have to download program to sync contacts, email, and navigator separately)...

can't imagine wanting a cellphone bad enough to go to a store to get it...that is simply beyond me. i can understand getting in a plane, flying 1000 miles and driving a new Pri home if it meant getting it 3 days early...but going to a store for just a cellphone?? wow...hmm...

 

No need to, you could do the same thing with the iPhone. Order it online, wait for it to arrive, activate and reload all the old info in minutes.
The interface is what got me.
For many many years (15 or so?) I have been looking for an smooth working interface that would allow me to have a calander and address book and rudimentary programs in one small device.
Palm (for me) was aweful. I could not get it to understand what I was telling it using 'grafiti' and the on screen kb with stylus was just painful. Mostly due to my familial tremor.
I tried every device that came out since the original palm came out. The iPhone finally did it for me. And, it is a phone, browser, and has far more in terms of programs I could ever hope for.
Sure, others are following now. But until they come up with something that is important to me that the iPhone can't do, I am sticking with iPhone In my own small way it is my way to reward innovation.
Same reason I am sticking with the Prius even if someone else 'ties' it.

 

iPhones and other smart phones are very convenient. They combine the features of many separate devices into one convenient and highly portable package. However you pay a high cost for that convenience. (A iPhone cost a minimum of $1000 a year for the smallest AT&T plan)

I've had several blackberries with for work and my wife had a smartphone with our most recent Verizon plan. They are nice but I couldn't justify the cost. We dropped the data plan of my wife's phone when we realized that it was much less expensive to pay by the megabyte for just the data be used. We never came close to using the number of anytime minutes in the smallest family plan. (We talk about 700-800 minutes a month combined but most of that is nights and weekends.)

So in May as part of our budget tightening measures we dropped the Verizon phones when the contract ended. We added an AT&T landline and bought 2 tracfone pre-paid cell phones.

The reality is nothing changed. We still talk the same amount and we also found that we do most of our talking at home. On the landline , incoming calls are free, outgoing long distance is $0.05 per minute. The Tracfones are $0.06 per minute / $0.02 per text.

So without changing our habits our phone bills dropped from $100 a month to $50 month.

I would like a iPhone but will likely buy a iPod Touch instead. I have wireless networks at home and at work so I will have access to the internet and email most of the time. Add an orange gadget GPS receiver and I have GPS for a one-time price of $75.