The iPhone 3GS Thread
#37
I'm not sure it's Apple messing up the MMS date. If you look on their site, the small print says "MMS support from AT&T coming in late summer". This leads me to bleieve when AT&T set up the iPhone network, they left out MMS support to save costs, and now needs to go back and upgrade their own stuff independant of Apple. Keep in mind I'm not talking the towers here, rather the data servers currently serving up the stupid webpage for picture messages. it will need to be rolled into true MMS. At least we'll be able to cut / paste the login and password now. Anyone confirm MMS on 3.0 works out of the box on other carriers?
As for the hardware on the 3GS, the only things I noticed were the digital compass and moe memory. I doubt they're using a different processor, display, battery, etc. Maybe a different antenna to claim the 2x speed over 3G, but I'm not sure.
I have the 3G and can see no good reason to trade it in, if I need a compass I'll get a regular old analog one. I am hoping Garmin, Tom Tom, or someone will finally release a turn-by-turn GPS so I can finally get rid of my old Garmin i5, preferably with local map storage so i can still drive in poor cell reception.
As for the hardware on the 3GS, the only things I noticed were the digital compass and moe memory. I doubt they're using a different processor, display, battery, etc. Maybe a different antenna to claim the 2x speed over 3G, but I'm not sure.
I have the 3G and can see no good reason to trade it in, if I need a compass I'll get a regular old analog one. I am hoping Garmin, Tom Tom, or someone will finally release a turn-by-turn GPS so I can finally get rid of my old Garmin i5, preferably with local map storage so i can still drive in poor cell reception.
#38
#39
AT&T was the one who blew it on the MMS support.
And yea, the 3Gs does have significantly better hardware, still isn't enough for me to buy one for 600 bucks though. Mine will do fine.
And yea, the 3Gs does have significantly better hardware, still isn't enough for me to buy one for 600 bucks though. Mine will do fine.