With the iPhone 3GS Apple introduced a phone that looked exactly the same as the earlier iPhone 3G. After all, why change something that practically defines the iPhone, the minimal styling with the black plastic surround and silvery bezel. It’s what’s inside that sets the iPhone 3GS apart from its predecessor. The only visible difference in the newer version is the mirrored Apple logo.

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Inside is another story, the S in the 3GS stands for speed and to do this the CPU was souped up to almost 600 MHz from the previous 412 MHz. The iPhone 3GS also offers double the RAM at 256 MB, while storage is optional at 16 GB OR 32 GB. Even the visuals have changed with the new PowerVR SGX graphics chip that supports better visuals using OpenGL ES 2.0. What you get out of this slew of new and improved technology is faster application speeds and quicker loading time. You can use multiple applications without losing efficiency, or battery life, for instance, play a game and make a VoIP call at the same time. The good news for obsessive gamers is that playing a 3D game is when the more powerful CPU really kicks in by reducing time to load and offering smoother frames.

 

The appearance of the iPhone 3GS is deceptively similar to the 3G. Just one detail sets it apart ¾ the oleo phobic coating treatment that does exactly what it claims by protecting your phone from those nasty fingerprints and smudges that can be surprisingly difficult to remove. Not any more, the surface comes clean with one wipe.

 

Apple has added a megapixel in the iPhone 3GS camera, which uses an ingenious autofocus function. The onscreen trigger allows you to zoom in on the subject by positioning the touch-trigger where you want to take the shot and then tapping it. The shutter speed of the iPhone 3GS is better than the 3G.

 

New software is what makes the iPhone 3GS so feature rich. Even the simple copy and paste function that we are all familiar with from the world of computing is implemented smoothly. Just tap on the text you want to copy, using a predictive text input your phone gives you what you probably want. Else you can use the anchors provided top and bottom, right and left to tweak the copy area to your requirements. To paste the text you copied, tap on the empty spot of the document where you want to place it. To undo, shake the phone. The copy and paste function also allows you to copy sections of text and images and paste them with the format intact.

 

The iPhone 3GS also provides push notification, instant alerts that divert your attention towards either an update or a message. Further, the addition of Spotlight to the operating system enhances the functionality of your phone, allowing you search all that you have stored, by way of mail, contacts, notes and applications. Video recording on the iPhone 3GS is superb and you can even edit the content.