Apple Iphone 3g Black 8gb

		5 New From  £ 390.00 19 Used From  £ 240.00
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Customer Reviews
Brilliant , but poor phone reception 2010-03-08 I love everything about this phone, with one BIG exception: poor reception. Where my £50 LG Cookie shows 4 bars, the iPhone has either no service or one bar - not sufficient to make a call. Fine if you live in a strong signal area, but a disaster if not.It's a real shame because the rest of it is so excellent.If Apple could put a really good phone chip in, I'd give up the search for the ideal phone, but alas I'm still looking. It is so puzzling that Apple, with its excellent pedigree, should fail so miserably in this case.
Inflexible friend 2010-02-23 Things I wish I'd known before I bought my iPhone: I cannot use the ringtone I have carried from phone to phone for the past 9 years. I can't use tracks I have recorded myself (on which I own the copyright) and I can't even use tracks purchased in iTunes. In the UK we cannot buy ringtones in iTunes and the ones available direct to the phone are not up to standard. You can't back up SMS messages as text; the only way you can back them up messages is by taking a screenshot, which is great but you can't convert photos to text without more software. The phone is very power-greedy; keeping it on all day and sending 3 messages and talking for maybe 10 minutes and surfing for 30 minutes uses up most of the charge, and that is with me turning off the back light whenever I can. On the plus side the ipod function is very powerful and the speakers good and loud though not sophisticated. Most of the happy users of iphone I know have used the hacking software called Jailbreak which Apple deems breaches copyright and users' license; Apple would, wouldn't they?
Wouldn't recommend it to others. 2010-01-30 I will start with positive aspects of the phone: - I think the camera offers very good quality pictures compared to others phones - dimensions and the general look of the phone is quite attracitve too - very intuitive and easy to operate There are few major cons however, due to which I would be unable to recommend this phone: - I have to reset it every other day as the phone starts working extremely slowly even when typing a message - go to Youtube and type "iPhone freezing" or "slow iPhone" and you will see what I am talking about. This is not only a problem with my single phone, but rather a major issue with others too. I believe iPhone 3GS has already faster OS so the problem is supposedly solved, but I am not 100% so I cannot really comment on that (+ I don't like the fact that I would have to pay a premium to Apple for 3GS, because they fixed something that should be working in the first place). - the battery life is unacceptable. The phone in medium use will barely last 24 hours - and I don't even play music on it! Sure, someone can say that I can charge the battery when I get back home in the evening, but sometimes people are out for 2 or 3 days and they don't want to bother taking the charger. If you watch Youtube, use apps (especially games, the phone will not last longer than 3 hours at most). Major issue for me. At the end just a final warning. When you are buying iPhone do not expect that the 200+ GBP for the phone will be the end of your spending. This is just the beginning. All the decent applications cost money. Personally, I got over the "cool" status of Apple and I am going buying a different smartphone.
Review after 18 moths of use!............ 2010-01-13 I have now owned my iPhone 3g for roughly 18 months, I mostly use the phone for recreational reasons but also for business occasionally. I have not gotten board of this phone even after 18 months, I seem to be using and messing about with it all the time like I only bought it yesterday! The main issue with the addictiveness of the phone is that the misses really really hates it! (even though she wants one her self!). Pros: 1.Durability, in my case the phone has held up extremely well, I do not keep the phone in any proper cases but it is kept in an old Oakley sun glasses case which does a very good job of keeping it from scratching in my pocket. I have dropped it about 5 times onto hard floor including the drive outside and to my surprise it hasn't damaged it at all, I also have a friend who has the same phone and he threw it against a wall in anger once and that didn't break ether! (don't ask why he did this?(nothing to do with the phone)). So even after all of this dropping my iPhone hardly has any scratches on it and functions the way it did when I bought it. 2.Applications, this is my favourite part of using this phone, there are constantly new applications on the app store to stop you getting board! I don't care what anyone says about other smart phones and how they do everything the iPhone does, this is complete rubbish! My girlfriend has the newest blackberry and the apps on this are so minimal and are not user friendly atal, one of my work colleagues has one of the Google phones (cant remember which one but this is quite good for apps from what I saw but still didn't look as user friendly but I cant really comment as I would probably like it if I had one. Anyway, apps are very good on iPhone 3g. Some of my favourites are iFooty, Sky News, Shazam, Around Me, Facebook, ebay and Wikipanion. 3.Look and Feel, I love what this phone looks like and feels like to use, the screen is big and bright, the touch of the screen is amazing and is very accurate compared to other touch screens and never gets frustrating for me to use atal, can imagine it would a bit if you had massive fingers but not a problem for me. This also looks better in the plastic style rather than the 2g with a metal back. 4.General phone use, very good works fine for me, the one thing that frustrates me with a lot of phones is the volume of the speaker or loudspeaker as I am a bit hard of hearing in one of my ears but the iPhone is fine and I can here it fine even from the load speaker when driving. 5.Internet, this part is absolutely amazing, I remember when I first looked at this phone in the apple store and I could not believe how good the internet (safari) browser was, its just like using the real internet! It is especially good if you use it with wifi or 3G. 6.Email, this also real impressed me when I first got the phone and it still does, the way it sends you emails just like your receiving a text message is amazing! I think quite a few phones do this but still impressive. 7.Calendar, I use this a lot to remind me of things I have to do as I have quite a bad memory, looks good and very easy to use and navigate round. Cons: 1.Camera, this really annoys me! The phone is so sophisticated but they cant put a decent camera and flash in it from the start?? Of course im aware that the 3Gs has a better camera but its still C**P, no flash low mega pixel? Its obviously because they want to make more money by making the phone better gradually so people like me end up buying about 20 different iPhones over the course of my life!! 2.Battery Life, I have gotten quite used to charging this every night but I remember the days where I didn't need to charge my phone for at least a few days! This issue may be due to me playing on this phone more than others but apple should compensate for the obviousness of what people are going to do with this phone. 3.Not very compatible with a lot of hifi's etc, I find that the phone does not work with a lot of things that ipods are although I think this issue is getting better now. 4.Better Bluetooth, I also think this has been resolved with the new 3Gs now but I am reviewing the 3G here so I am allowed to moan! 5.Im with O2 and the contracts could be a little cheaper. ( may look at a different provider next time) I cant think of any more pros or cons now but im sure ill think of some just as I post this review. Conclusion My final thoughts about this phone is that it is an extremely good smart phone that does almost everything you want it to and I strongly recommend it to anyone. I personally am not going to spend all my hard earned cash on upgrading to a 3Gs as its quite obvious that apple will probably bring out something better this year and I think il wait for that as I can imagine it not being to long till they announce it. Plus 3Gs isn't in my eyes worth hundreds extra for the stuff it does over the 3G.
iphone 3g 2009-12-18 this phone is amazon really good phone had for 2months now and not one single problem with it although seen prices people are askin for it on this site is unreal where a new one from any o2 shop is 349pounds prices here are nearly double that