Though lacks some crucial features, it offers significant improvements

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Though the iPhone 3G still has flaws and lacks some crucial features, it offers significant improvements that make it worth the upgrade. The faster 3G browsing experience and the GPS support are nice. The application store, which is available on the original iPhone as well, is the cherry on top. Hopefully the future will bring MMS and video recording, as we continue to be surprised that a media-centric device lacks these features. Though it makes significant strides in the right direction, it's still not a BlackBerry, and business users may want to take a second look before they purchase.

As an iPod and consumer device, the device is absolutely remarkable. As a phone, it offers some neat features, but lacks in some departments. As a web browser, it is stunning, thanks to the landscape option and 3G. Fortunately, for what it does incredibly well in, I was unable to find anything that it performed incredibly poorly in. The phone aggrivated me at times, but keeping it in perspective, every phone has one or more such issues. The iPhone comes quite close to what I desire in a device, and more importantly, what I expect from a revolutionary technology company like Apple.

The iPhone 3G is a very respectable product and continues to penetrate the smartphone market, and we expect that the Exchange support and new improvements will continue to bode well for the company. I give the device a 'recommended' rating with the caveat to try it before you buy it.

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Aaron Baker from MobileBurn (Jul 22, 2008)