Apple iPhone 3G review
Introduction
In June 2007, Apple launched the iPhone on the US market, a sort of mix between a phone and an iPod, with a revolutionary and fully tactile user interface. It was particularly open to the Internet, thanks to its browser, the excellent Mobile Safari, which make Mobile Internet Explorer looks like a little freeware without interest...
After having sold more than 6 million copies in the few countries where it has been distributed (USA, UK, Germany, Austria, Ireland and France), Apple launched in Jully 2008 its second iPhone offensive, with the iPhone 3G, now available in twenty-two countries, with an already scheduled extension to forty-eight other countries.
Compared to the iPhone, the iPhone 3G provides relatively few technical evolutions: it only brings the support of the 3G mobile networks for a faster Internet access and an A-GPS chip to improve the precision of the positioning in Plans.
The other changes are primarily aesthetic and software, the latter being also offered to owners of the first iPhone through a free firmware update.
In this article, we will compare the two generations of iPhone, and do a short presentation of every preinstalled application. For each on, we will also do a brief comparison with its equivalent on Windows Mobile 6.
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