• Top 5 Reasons For Not Upgrading to iPhone 3G

    Top 5 Reasons For Not Upgrading to iPhone 3G

    Techtree News Staff, Aug 08, 2008 1800 hrs IST

    Thomas Hawk's blog post, provocatively titled 'The Top Five Reasons Not to Upgrade to the New iPhone 3G', compares the iPhone 3G to the original model.

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Ever since the iPhone 3G was launched, there are all kinds of news and views doing the rounds on the Internet - many of them complaints about the new generation iPhone.

For instance, this story on the hairline crack on the back plastic shell and its poor battery life.
Every user has his/her own verdict on iPhone 3G. Thomas Hawk, a photographer and blogger from US has also penned down his review of the iPhone 3G, provocatively titled The Top Five Reasons Not to Upgrade to the New iPhone 3G.
The iPhone 3G is scheduled to launch in India on 22nd August.

According to Hawk, his experience with the iPhone 3G has been similar to that of the first generation iPhone, and upgrading to the newer one has just not been worth it. There are various reasons behind him saying so. However, Hawk's listed out his top 5 reasons for the same.

First, "AT&T's 3G network sucks," said Hawk. One of the main reasons to upgrade to the new iPhone is for the supposedly faster speeds associated with the 3G network. But unfortunately, the page loading speed of the 3G connection is hardly better than the old Edge network.

Second, battery life. This is the most common reason for complaint among iPhone 3G users, and Hawk finds it poor too.

The next reason is WiFi. It is almost ubiquitous now, and will continue to be more and more available over the next two years, or so believes Hawk. While using WiFi, the new iPhone really has no advantage in terms of Internet speeds over the old iPhone. So, there will be really no need for 3G in the next few years.

The last two reasons are no free SMS messages and $10 more per month for the data plan.

Read Thomas Hawk's complete review here.

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(7) Comments
Pat
,Mumbai, on Aug 08, 2008 08:04 PM
What the hell ? How does this even qualify as news ?
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Philo
,Bangalore, on Aug 08, 2008 09:53 PM
Exactly... This India centric news, and 3G is launching for the first time in India, where is the upgrade? Article talks about AT&T, does it matter to India?
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madjack
,mumbai, on Aug 10, 2008 01:47 PM
hey pat that was right on the dot. You nailed it. they should write abt rakhi sawant..its abt time they learnt from bombay times readers like you
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sriniwas
,hyderabad, on Aug 09, 2008 05:28 PM
its time for tech tree to focus more on news than copy paste business!!
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Abhishek
,Bangalore, on Aug 08, 2008 09:25 PM
WTF? Why do we care about the AT&T Crap? Its not related to india! Dont just copy stuff and post it here.
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Firefly
,AC, on Aug 08, 2008 08:24 PM
There's a major blunder in Hawk's opinion of AT&T's 3G network. It has to do with processing power of the iPhone vs. the processing power of his MacBook (the one he compared the speeds with). Its more like an apples to orange comparison here and not an apples to apples one. I personally use the Tilt on the AT&T's 3G network and it definitely blows EDGE out of the water!
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Anonymous
,Bangalore, on Aug 08, 2008 08:01 PM
What relevance does this article has in context to India?????? Have you guys read what Thomas Hawk writes in his article..
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