Birmingham Web Designers Jeremy Flint

I recently was in a situation where I had to upgrade my iPhone. I have been using an original iPhone for over 2 years now, and it has served me well. Even when the original iPhone 3G was released, I decided not to rush to upgrade. When the iPhone 3GS was released, and had a better camera, video capabilities and more, I still decided I would wait until my original iPhone was on its last leg.

Why Wait?
I am usually a latest technology kind of guy. If something new comes out, I gotta have it. But with the iPhone, it was serving its purpose just fine. Sure, Edge is a much slower network than 3G, but I rarely used EDGE. Between the hours of 6am and midnight, I would say that I was on WiFi for at least 90% of that time – either at the house in the morning and evenings or at the office during the day. The only time I was on EDGE during the week was when I was driving – a time I wouldn’t use my phone anyway.

The additional cost of the 3G data plan had a little to do with my decision not to upgrade, but not much. As everyone else started upgrading, it almost became a badge of honor to still be one of the few using the original iPhone.

Why Upgrade?
So why did I upgrade? Well, about 3 weeks ago, the top 20-30 pixels of the touchscreen on my original iPhone stopped working. This is affected the area where the top menu bar usually sits for the browser, email, and lots of other apps. Since I use my iPhone for email (probably more than for making calls), this immediately started to annoy me. I was having to turn my phone every which way to be able to do simple things like create a new email or navigate from my Gmail account to my work account. I just couldn’t take it.

One thing that helped my decision to upgrade was the $100 Apple gift card that had been in my wallet since Christmas.

So, I have upgrade and been on the new phone for about 3 weeks now. I don’t know that I would have upgraded if I didn’t have to, but it is definitely nice to be on a faster phone with a faster non-wifi connection speed. The GPS functions are nice too. They have come in handy in some cases of using Maps and also let me play Gowalla, which I will write about soon.

The video features are nice, although I haven’t really taken too many of them. It would be nice to have other upload options rather than YouTube. I know the recently launched Flickr app allows you to upload video to your Flickr account from the iPhone.

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