This smartphone is using the Samsung S 5L 8920 ARM Cortex A8 processor which has a speed of 833 MHz, underclocked to 600 MHz. Its RAM memory is 256 MB eDRAM, and depending on the model you choose, it may have a storage capacity of 8 GB, 16 GB or 32 GB. It has a built in rechargeable li-ion battery 3.7 V 1219 mAh one that can last for up to 300 hours in stand by mode, up to 12 hours when talking, up to 5 hours when using 3G and up to 30 hours when listening to music. Its display screen is a TFT capacitive touchscreen which has a diagonal of 3.5 inch, and a resolution of 320 by 480 pixel resolution at 163 ppi with an aspect ratio of 2:3. It is also a LCD screen, with 24 bit (16.7 m colors).
Among the other features of this display screen there is an accelerometer sensor for auto rotate, a proximity sensor for auto turn off and a scratch resistant surface. This phone is quite similar to a computer, so it even has a video card – the PowerVR SGX GPU. It also comes with a built in camera, one that has 3 MP (2048 x 1536 pixels) with video (VGA at 30 fps). Among the features of this camera there is geo-tagging, and automatic focus, white balance, & exposure. The connectivity details of this phone are: Quad band GSM / GPRS / EDGE (850 900 1800 1900 MHz), Tri band UMTS / HSDPA (850 1900 2100 MHz), Wi - Fi (802.11 b / g), Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, USB 2.0 / Dock connector. It is not the smallest one, but it is really thin with dimensions of: 115.5 mm (4.55 in) (h), 62.1 mm (2.44 in) (w), 12.3 mm (0.48 in) (d) and a weight of just 135 games (4.8 oz). And as we mentioned earlier, it is the predecessor of the iPhone 3G and the successor of the iPhone 4.
For ring tones you can use polyphonic tones and also MP3 songs, and you can also use the vibration mode. It has a speakerphone and a 3.5 mm headphones jack. You will have practically unlimited entries and fields for the phone book and it records 100 received, dialed and missed calls. It doesn’t have a card slot loading multiformat DVD ± RW / CD - RW Super Drive with double layer support which can record up to 8.5 GB of data or 4 hours of video using compatible DVD + R DL and DVD - R DL media., but the internal memory of 8, 16 or 32 GB should be more than enough. It uses the iPhone OS 3, operating system, and it is upgradable to iOS 4. The price for an Apple iPhone 3GS can vary a lot, depending on the store where you buy it from, and on the network plan that you are choosing.
So here was a short review about the third version of iPhone released by Apple. In case you too own the Apple iPhone 3GS, we invite you to tell us all your opinions about it, whether if they are positive or negative. Have a nice day!