Jun 21, 2009
An iPhone 3GS for Father’s Day
This is my Father’s Day gift from my wonderful wife and two lovely daughters.
Gillian upgraded her first generation iPhone to the 3GS, wrapped it up and the girls gave it to me this morning, along with a brilliant home-made card. She now has my one-year-old iPhone 3G along with my wonder and gratitude.
The new phone is very fast and the touch-to-focus camera is fantastic. When I read the specs on the 3GS I was a little bit underwhelmed but having it in my hand really made me appreciate what Apple have achieved: an extremely responsive device which can take great photos and videos, render web pages a lot faster than anything else in the mobile space, track your run with the built-in Nike+ capability, be controlled with voice commands, and a lot more. The innovations also extend to the charger design. Here’s the new charger on the left and the old one on the right:
And yes, I am incredibly lucky to have such a wonderful family.
Congratulations!
I know Arif is trying to push me to visit France on the way to Canada so he can pick one up… whether he’ll be successful in doing so is under debate at the moment
I think he’s won that argument already! Are you planning on getting one for him as well?
Nice phone Hani!
Do you think it’s worth getting in comparison to the 2nd gen iPhone? Also, Is it easy to swap the SIM cards. I was thinking of getting the new iPhone and giving my old one to my wife (who’s on O2 btw)
Cheers, Michael.
I would!
It’s much faster than the old one and the camera is a lot of fun. You could point it to a window, tap on the window and the exposure changes. Very cool.
How’s life with you anyway?
I might just do that. It’s an itch that needs scratching…
Things are good. Still on set at Leavesden doing post-viz (what ever that is!)…. How’s life in London?
Of course! I forgot you’re working with Tim on Potter!