News
iPhone 3G - Happy Days For iPhone Fans
London, UK
July 2008
The new 3G iPhone, incorporating super fast 3G wireless technology, has punters panting over its ramped up feature list which now includes support for enterprise features like Microsoft Exchange. Despite the advanced usability that it certainly provides, the device still has room for more additions and streamlining down the line - nevertheless, its benefits are exciting customers coast to coast as the iPhone 3G gets set to launch across the globe. Just as the original iPhone revolutionised phone capabilities, the iPhone 3G has once again flipped mobile technology on its head by offering even more features in one unit - a slick phone, a widescreen iPod, an internet device previously unmatched in the field with it's rich HTML, a desktop class browser and now, Exchange support!
For business usage, the iPhone 3G is superb. As with all iPhones, it offers by far the best mobile email viewing experience available due to its rich HTML format. Handily, the support for Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint, PDF, JPEG and iWork, means that attachments can be seen as they were designed to be seen. And all of the benefits of push email are now at user's fingertips because this iPhone now has built-in support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. It also gives mobile users, as always, secure access to corporate resources with Cisco IPSec VPN and wireless network services with WPA2 Enterprise and 802.1X authentication.
As for the rest of the good news about the iPhone 3G? For starters, GPS is on board, and battery life has not been impacted, with standby of up to 300 hours, video playback up to 7 hours and music playback 24 hours. Furthermore, the 3.5 in screen retains its size, despite speculation that it was being shrunk, there's a flush headphone jack , the weight is cut by 2g and the price has dropped
significantly.
And what about the other news? Well, it seems it's not quite perfect just yet - it's slightly fatter, the weight reduction is due to the metal backing being replaced with plastic (which poses durability and building quality questions), the GPS doesn't have 3D mapping, Bluetooth is still not present and video recording remains absent, as does video calling.
Still a desirable little acquisition though, wouldn't you say!