FxrAndy Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 I will be upgrading my phone soon and i have a choice of the Iphone 3gs 8 gb for €49 with the contract i want of an Iphone 4 for €199 with the contract i want, My question is the i phone 4 worth the extra and why? Would the 3gs8gb be just as good for phoning, collecting emails and occasional RWG oh and the GPS Thanks in advance for your replies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slickdick Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 IMO if you can get out of the contract, forget about iphone and take a good android based phone. Ive got an iphone 3gs 32gb its almost a year old and i am sorry i followed the hype instead of common sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smc Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 Iphone 4. Definately iphone anything unless you want to hack around with your OS and you don't care about updating apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gianton Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 Didn't have the iPhone 3Gs but my iPhone 4 is the best mobile device ever had. Hardware is just unbeatable, better finish, awesome retina display, great camera (video is just amazing), battery life lasts 2 days easy. I'd say it's worth the extra cash mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FxrAndy Posted January 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 Hmm my wife has an Iphone 4 and i have played with it but it is just the extra cash ontop of the 3 is it so much better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gianton Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 Have you handled the 3gs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FxrAndy Posted January 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 I have a had a couple of plays with it but only 5 mins, i have had a good play with the 4 though, Tribal had a 2g that i played with and i was impressed with the GPS even with the plug in modual he had to use for GPS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gianton Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 IMO if you can get out of the contract, forget about iphone and take a good android based phone. Ive got an iphone 3gs 32gb its almost a year old and i am sorry i followed the hype instead of common sense. I had the HTC Desire and the Samsung Galaxy S, nowhere near the iPhone 4. Android is in baby stage ATM maybe next year will be a lot better. iPhone 4 vs Nexus S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanuq Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 I have them both. For serious use (not as a telephone) the i4 is better because it has a faster CPU. Some apps load and run so slowly on i3gs that they're almost unusable. That was the bottom line when I made the same decision 6 months ago. The advent of OS 4.0 slowed the iPhones down dramatically and the i4 is a way to mitigate some of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiker01 Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 iPhone is overblown hype.......I just switched to an Android Phone - myTouch 4g (I think it's made by HTC for tMobile) and it beats the iPhone in speed. Try Tango on the iPhone 3 or 4......over their 3g system.....and tell us what you think! Most of the apps you think you need are also available for the Android....and I love their touch KB! IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephane Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 Andy, If you want to call, get a Nokia 6310i If you want to text...tell your friends to call (voice is 256 times faster than text) If you want your mails...get a andy.com domain connected on Google and you will never miss a mail. I mean a cell phone...is supposed to be a ...phone Cheers Stephane PS: I have an iPhone 3G (not s) and I'm happy with it but realised I was only using their features to text my better half So my next device will be an easy to use telephone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chronoluvvv Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 neither, go Droid and live happily ever after I'm running Froyo side-by-side with Windows on a HTC hd2 ... damn thing is just unbelievable the Mrs has a 3gs 32gb and even she is bored with it already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highoeyazmuhudee Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 HTC evo. i despise apple products for a plethora of valid reasons im too lazy to explain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tribal Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 Andy defenetly the IPhone 4 much better than the 3G or GS. Better overall quality,great Retina Display, half more ram than the 3G 512MB,1Ghz CPU. I own a IPhone 4 believe me great device and u can get most Apps for free Can guide u about it hehe. Cheers Tribal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
concepta Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 If you can..wait for 6 months and get the Iphone 5! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoTone Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 I have them both. For serious use (not as a telephone) the i4 is better because it has a faster CPU. Some apps load and run so slowly on i3gs that they're almost unusable. That was the bottom line when I made the same decision 6 months ago. The advent of OS 4.0 slowed the iPhones down dramatically and the i4 is a way to mitigate some of that. I'm a gadget junkie... Have been for years... Owned [and sold] the original Motorola Brick Phone back in 1989... I've owned and used the 3G, 3Gs, and now the 4... Hands down the best unit on the market today... Is the Droid software and apps good? Sure it is... And some of the handsets that the software runs on are pretty good as well... But in the end - they're all clone wannabe's of the one, the only, the original... The iPhone... Apple has polished every aspect of this phone - Hardware and software... The display, video, dual cameras, CPU, etc... The little guy ROCKS... I became so sold on it that I even ended up switchin' to a MAC as well... Will never go back to a PC... Double T Running iPhone 4 with IOS 4.02 Jailbroke... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slickdick Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 The whole 'jailbreak' phenomenon really says it all. It is ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tribal Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 By the way I had the 2G for three years never switched to 3G and GS because they where not dramatical better. So now the IPhone 4 has all features I want on a smartphone. FaceTime is great and Skype over 3G works also fine with camera. Anyway it's a matter of taste I think. Shure Android is also nice and HTC build nice Phones but what u can do with IPhone is really amazing. I'm not a Applefanboy but for me it's the best Phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cougaree Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 I love my IPhone 4. If you have small kids, iPhone 4 allows you to shoot hd videos right out of the box. Very good for candid videos. With IPhone 3, I believe you will have to get an app for it and it's not as good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanuq Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 The whole 'jailbreak' phenomenon really says it all. It is ridiculous. When you jailbreak it opens up a whole new arena of apps that Apple doesn't want you to know about. Like packet sniffers, gateway emulators (intercept traffic by subnet mask), traffic in/out monitors by port, laptop tethering, ability to make wifi-only apps run on 3G, FTP access, rootkit tools... it's wide open and it becomes a tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swdivad Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 I had the iphone 2g, 3g, and 3gs... I gave apple the boot due to steve jobs' condescending attitude towards his customers: "Just don't hold it like that" re antenna design flaw. I have an HTC Desire, love it... it works great, but admittedly the iphone is still the slickest HW/SW combo available IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highoeyazmuhudee Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 (edited) the android doesnt need jailbreaking because it natively supports homebrew apps and giving the end user the choice to fully own every aspect of their phone. not to mention a STANDARD sd slot and a usb/hdmi interface. its 2011 if you give me any device with out an sd slot or mini usb you should be out of the game (its a user controlling tactic). luckily traditional convention doesnt apply to apple, they have their marketing moniker to fall back on, who else could sell you a notebook with out a user replaceable battery, patented proprietary ac adapter, no dvd drive, and a proprietary standard(does that even make sense?) mini dvi comm port interface with intel hardware for twice the price of the pc equiv and people will buy it. you say you want OSX? run linux. anyone who says osx doesnt crash is lying. apple is brilliant at herding sheeple. if you succumb to the hype and get the iphone 4 do indeed jailbreak or you're only using 25% of your phones potential, and do not buy the ipod touch its a severely crippled version of the iphone in ways you cant even imagine or will ever see advertised. but truly the htc evo should get your money, theres even an app to theme the iphone like the htc evo. http://reviews.cnet.com/2722-6452_7-697.html Edited January 16, 2011 by highoeyazmuhudee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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