No autofocus with your camera.
Ok, I can understand this one. The camera is not good enough.
No video recording.
Umm... I could see how this could rely and need a faster processor. I'd just like to say... but, jailbroken phones could record video.
No voice control.
I guess this could require a more powerful phone consider this thing needs to run in the background most of the time.
No digital compass.
Can't help this one. It's new hardware.
No Nike+ iPod.
According to what I can learn from Apple's site, new iPhone 3G S will come with a Nike + iPod app. Doesn't seem like iPhone 3Gs will get this app with the 3.0 upgrade. Doesn't seem like it's hardware dependent. If not, at least, they should make this available on the App Store.
Nevertheless, I think the iPhone like the iPod touch is too big to run with.
If you have need the above features, you might want to consider buying the 3G S. As for me, that digital compass is tempting me...
Source: Apple
2 comments:
I was so pissed that my 3g won't record video after I updated to 3.0! I recorded video just fine when my phone was jailbroken! I'm fine with not having the other 4 mentioned features.. Oh it came with a voice memo thing.. Which is pointless! The search feature is handy though! Good thing the update was free! Let's hope I can jailbreak it soon so I can record video again! Or atleast have an app in the app store for non 3G-S users!!!
Hi Brando, thanks for the comment! Yes, it's quite disappointing that video didn't make it to our 3G phones. I can think of two reasons why it didn't happen - 1) 3G phones just didn't have enough power to do video recording the "Apple way" smoothlly and 2) it makes sense because Apple probably needed a way to differentiate the current 3G with 3GS phones.
I am not a big fan of the voice recording memo thing either. If they can translate my voice into text, that's another story though =)
And like you say, they really should let a third party, at least, release some kind of video recording app.
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