[genxinvest]

According to AT&T, I cannot upgrade my iPhone 3G until March. Therefore, I am going to wait. Who knows?! Maybe, there will be a newer model by next spring. My wife will be upgrading her Motorola to the new iPhone 3GS soon. I am excited about the faster processor and larger capacity.
My real hope is for a modern Newton. I would buy it a heartbeat!

[Tarponsprings]

I will be keeping my 3g 16gb until Verizon gets the iPhone. In addition to AT&T's high upgrade cost, I have had it with AT&T's lousy GSM and 3g coverage. I drop at least 5 calls a day, and when I do have 3g coverage, I find AT&T's data network to be about as fast as other carrier's Edge. Love the iPhone, but hate AT&T.

[absolutegreek89]

I ordered my iPhone last night. I wanted to go to an Apple store, but I get a premier discount on my service so it was easier to get it at ATT.com

[Fpryor]

I live and work in an AT&T deadzone in San Francisco and my iPhone is rarely ever able to carry a conversation from start to finish. Verizon, Sprint, Tmobile phones work just fine, but my own communication here must be done by landline because AT&T cell calls become unintelligible after about a minute. This happens consistently even though the phone shows five bars and it happens with other people's AT&T phones, not just mine.
Since AT&T won't offer me an incentive to upgrade until December, I might as well wait a little longer to see if another carrier signs on with Apple.

[alderete]

MacPCJustCreate said:

I would like to know why voice control requires a hardware upgrade? Is this an artificial distinction e.g. is the iPhone 3G hardware capable of running voice control, but Apple, Inc. is not including it to drive upgrades to iPhone 3GS?

Has anyone proven that voice control can run acceptably on the iPhone 3G hardware?

According to Daring Fireball, voice control probably uses and requires digital signal processing hardware found only on the iPhone 3GS. So, it's not Apple trying to force you to upgrade your hardware, but merely a reflection that voice recognition requires more processing power than is available in the original iPhone or iPhone 3G.

Note: I cannot find the DF article that mentioned this, though I believe it was in an earlier version of The Next iPhone, http://daringfireball.net/2009/05/thenextiphone. I can find the passage via a Google search, but the page it links to does not contain it, and the cached version has been updated, so it's gone from there, too. The exact text in the search result is "The compass app is based on a hardware magnetometer, and my somewhat-informed understanding of Voice Control is that it uses new digital ..."

[cmejia_]

That's right it's about the hardware, the new iPhone 3Gs is like the new iPod Shuffles, they require that hardware chip that iPod itself uses to decipher voice commands. This is why new headphones for the iPhone 3Gs and the new iPod Shuffles will require that chip that has to get licensed from Apple. This is probably what the new iPod line up will bring, "voice over" and what ever else they can think off, maybe simple apps or 3.0 software type of upgrade.

[alderete]

cmejia_ said:

That's right it's about the hardware, the new iPhone 3Gs is like the new iPod Shuffles, they require that hardware chip that iPod itself uses to decipher voice commands. This is why new headphones for the iPhone 3Gs and the new iPod Shuffles will require that chip that has to get licensed from Apple. This is probably what the new iPod line up will bring, "voice over" and what ever else they can think off, maybe simple apps or 3.0 software type of upgrade.

Ummm... No. The current iPod Shuffle does not recognize voice commands, it responds to clicks with a synthesized voice (which is actually generated on your computer, not on the iPod), which tells you what the click will do (what playlist you just switched to, etc.).

And neither of these has anything to do with the chip in the latest headsets. That is entirely about controlling volume and recognizing clicks on the headset multi-control buttons. It allows the headphone cable to send more complicated signals from the multi-control to the iPod, providing options beyond just play/stop. The headset chip has zero relationship to voice, microphone, or speech.

As for what the Fall update to the iPod lineup will bring, look at the iPhone 3GS. Whatever doesn't require the phone/data connectivity will almost certainly be in the next iPod Touch.

[charliechan]

I'm waiting to see what carrier it goes on next. But I might pick one up anyway. I currently have the 2G version.

[badhabit]

Woke up from my trance. Wont be upgrading unless i can change the phone's carrier. i'll keep my iphone 3g as a memorabilia of my slavery. I don't mind being with their preferred network. it is when i wanted to send my phone to my family in another country after upgrading. I'm not the selling type, that sells things on ebay.

[entspeak]

I bought my 3G in January, so I'm not eligible for an upgrade until next July. I figure there may be another iteration of the iPhone by that time, so I figure I'll just wait... in envy. ;)

[akessel]

Yes, I plan to. Speed and battery life and 32gb. I've run out on my 16 gb. What's your time worth, with even a 30% speed improvement, I will save many many hours a year - that's worth the bucks.

[patje72]

Yip, as soon as I receive my july paycheck I will upgrade

greetz, vrouw zoekt

[owmyheadhurts]

You'll love it. I upgraded from a 3G and the battery life is far better on the new model. And being able to post videos online within minutes of shooting them without hooking a camera up to the computer. Amazing. I couldn't be happier with my purchase.