>> Hi, I'm Ken Sherman, senior editor at cnet.com. Here
today to take a first look at the iPhone 3G S. This is
the third generation of Apple's iPhone, so S stands for
speed. And that's supposed to come in a couple of ways.
In terms of the processor a did notice -- a little bit
quicker, opening certain things, scrolling between the
menu pages. On this 3G speed, however, that is going to
be dependent on AT&T's network. What AT&T is doing is
moving to an H SD P A network which is supposed to
provide 7.2 megabytes per second. However, AT&T really
isn't going to get there until later this year. So
while the phone will be able to support faster network
speeds, AT&T is really the one driving that. So, this
is an important point. Overall, the phone has almost
exactly the same design as the iPhone 3G. It does come
in black and white, also comes in 16 gig and 32 gig
models, so the 32 gig is new. And the white model will
come in both the 16 gig and the 32 gig. Now the iPhone
3G S will over the iPhone OS 3.0. So what that is, of
course, is the new iPhone operating system that you're
going to get on the iPhone 3G, and you will get partial
on the iPhone classic. That brings things like
multimedia messaging and of course when AT&T is ready,
brings the copy and paste, brings the landscape
keyboard. So iPhone 3G S will offer all of that.
However this phone does offer some new features that
won't be available on the previous models. Three of
them, really, the improved camera, it moves to 3 mega
pixel, and it offers video recording, also offers voice
dialing, and a compass feature. Talk about the camera
first. It is a 3 mega pixel camera, so it does have a
little improved quality in the photos I took squared
with the iPhone 3G. Did notice a little better outside,
indoor shots under fluorescent lights, didn't notice
that much of a difference. But marginal difference in
photo quality over all. Also the iPhone 3G S has a tap
to focus feature in it's camera. So what that is,
you'll see a little square appears in the center of the
view finder. If you tap that, it will focus on whatever
area you're tapping. So you don't have to do it in the
center, you can move if around. You can press the side,
you can focus on that area. Did notice a little bit of
improvement there, for instance when I had a piece of
paper on the desk. Taking a photo of the writing on
that paper. Was able to focus in on that if I used
attempt focus. If I focused on something else other
than that piece of paper, the writing did appear a
little blurry. So definitely a change there. When you
take a photo, a thumbnail of that photo will actually
appear at the bottom of the view finder down next to the
camera shutter. If you press that thumbnail it will
take you directly to the photo gallery application.
It's a nice addition, and it saves a bit of time. Video
recording is great. We've been waiting on that for a
long time. There's a little slide button down here to
the camera control, slide that over, takes you right to
the video camera. Interface is exactly the same. Press
that recording button, you start, record however long
you want, and then you stop. Apple does go a little
step further than most phones out there. You can edit
clips right on the phone. Really easy to use. Once you
open a clip you already shot, you'll see that it's
displayed in a linear format. If you click on a little
border surrounding that, that border will turn yellow.
Then you can move either end and cut the clip however
you want. The editing is linear, so you can really cut
the middle, you can cut off one of the halves. What you
can't do is you can't cut off either end and then splice
them together. Also, once you trim it, as it called, on
the phone, it replaces the video that you shot. So you
want to be careful if you're doing any trimming you mean
to actually create a whole new video. Once you're
finished with the video you can send it in a multimedia
message when that's available, you also can e-mail it,
and up load it to YouTube. Video quality on the phone
at least seemed pretty good. Colors were a little
muted. It is 3G A, but it shoots at 30 frames per
second. So could handle movements and actions, a lot
better than most video phones out there. Another
feature is the compass. You can see latitude and
longitude is displayed. You also see the orientation
for true north and magnetic north, also interacts with
the maps. You can see your position as usually. Press
that bulls eye function again. As you turn the phone
the map will rotate. So that's another nice feature as
well. Last feature I want to show you is voice control.
You hold down the button. With your voice, you can dial
a number, you can get a contact. Another thing will
phone will promise is better battery life, and if anyone
used the iPhone 3G, you know that it depletes in about a
day. That's a great thing. We're really glad to see
that. Battery life is almost double what's offered on
the current iPhone 3G. That includes up to 9 hours of
Wi-Fi, 10 hours of video playback, 30 hours of audio
playback, 12 hours of 2 G talk time, so that's in the
normal GSM network. And then 5 hours of 3G talk time.
So that's when the little 3G is showing up here. The
iPhone 3G S will be out in the United States on June 19.
It will roll out to about 80 countries around the world
throughout the summer, comes out again in a few more
countries on June 26, and then a huge batch in June, and
then another big batch in August. Also, if you want to
learn more about the iPhone OS 3.0, I did do another
video on that where I rock you through those features.
I use the iPhone 3G for that. But the interface will be
exactly the same. I'm Ken Sherman, and this is the
iPhone 3G S.
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