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The iPhone 3GS is the best it is more lightweight and is quicker but is more expensive.

But - what are my first impressions of the iPhone 3G?

1. Good: the ugrade procedure was painless. Plug it in, and it asked me whether I was upgrading. I said yes. It silently copied everything over to the new iPhone 3G - settings, music, wallpaper, photos, the lot.

2. Fail: the iPhone 3G doesn't come with a dock, unlike the original.

3. Fail: the dock for the original iPhone does not fit the new one - the new iPhone is slightly wider. This is damn annoying, Apple. More annoying: the Apple store has sold out of the new ones.

4. Fail: it feels cheaper. Mostly, this the plastic back, which has a cheap-looking printed Apple logo on it (rather the nice inset metal one on the metal back of the iPhone).

5. Fail: its bulging back means that you can't stick it on a table and type on it - it now rocks and won't stay still. Very annoying.

6. Fail: 3G actually doesn't appear to make much difference. Downloads aren't really much faster; and because the phone likes 3G cellsites over EDGE cellsites, that means that at home I now get the weak 3G cellsite with only one bar, instead of the full 5-bar EDGE cellsite. And given that my phone's stuck on my home wifi, that's doubly annoying.

7. Good: there are some design tweaks. Notably, there's a visible piece of rubber between the glass front and the metal casing, enabling (one would assume) less glass breakages from dropping it. And the little buttons (mute and volume) are rather nicer, made from nice shiny metal.

8. Fail: the annoying inset headphone socket is now no longer inset. This means that leaving the phone in your pocket with headphones plugged in will now flex the circuit-board and the headphone socket, instead of being protected with a big amount of metal. (There really is no pleasing me, is there?)

9. Fail: the new operating system is notably more sluggish than the original, sprightly, v1. Hitting 'contacts' or 'SMS' makes me wait a good five seconds or so before the phone wakes up. And there's at least one bug with the 'delete' key, which appears to go mad and delete great swathes of text.

10. Good: audio quality on calls is notably improved.

11. Fail: the last.fm app doesn't monitor what's playing (unlike the jailbreak MobileScrobbler version).

12. Fail: the wifi connections for BT Openzone and The Cloud need resetting, which isn't entirely obvious if you're using wifi to check your email.

13. Fail: the iPhone now performs a backup every single time you connect it to iTunes, making quick synchs a thing of the past.

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The iPhone 3GS. It's faster, has an improved camera with video recording capabilities, has a digital compass and more. It's also compatible with the latest software (at the moment), iOS 6.1, whereas the iPhone 3G is only compatible up to iOS 4.2, meaning you won't get as many software features and many apps won't be compatible.

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The iPhone 4 is better than the Iphone 3gs

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