My new phone!

A friend suddenly lost touch sensitivity on her iPhone, and so offered to buy my original iPhone if I were interested in upgrading. (She has a jailbroken phone on T-Mobile, so an original iPhone with no AT&T contract was ideal for her). For me, I got to upgrade to a sweet new iPhone 3GS for very little down.

The phone is pretty cool! I like the digital compass, though it's slightly different at different times. I'm guessing it's handy for getting a general sense of direction, not for precise orienteering.

I've been playing around with voice control. Seems to work well for phone calls, and it's results have been mixed for music.

The camera quality is a noticable improvement too. And I had fun testing the "Find My iPhone" feature, where I logged onto me.com and it showed me a map of where my phone was and gave me the option to have it play a noise (handy if you've lost your phone or if it's been stolen).

And it is most definitely faster. I haven't spent too much time playing on that yet to tell, but apps seem to load faster (the camera used to be incredibly slow) and the Internet seems faster too.

So whoo-hoo! I didn't re-buy last year when the phone improved from the original iPhone to the 3G. But this seems like a good jump to make.