With the arrival of Apple’s [NASDAQ:AAPL] new iPhone 3G nigh, the big three tech reviewers of the print journalism world — Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal [NYSE:NWS.A], David Pogue of the New York Times [NYSE:NYT], and Ed Baig of USA Today — have weighed in early on their thoughts about their test devices. Each one of these guys individually has the power to make or break entire gadget companies, so their combined advice will account for a sizable percentage of sales (or not-sales) at AT&T and Apple stores this Friday. So what’d they say?
这三个人很快指出，尽管原始iPhone是一年前的严重游戏规则改变者，但新iPhone却远不及第一个iPhone的突破。实际上，这甚至不是实质性的修订。3G速度的增加是旗舰功能，但除非您住在存在3G覆盖范围的主要大都市中心，否则不会意味着太多。GPS is also being touted as a worthwhile add-on by Apple, but as Pogue notes, the iPhone’s compact GPS antenna isn’t strong enough to give turn-by-turn driving directions, and is easily confused by large metal objects like cars and skyscrapers.
这三个人也同意，声音和演讲者的质量已经取得了巨大的飞跃。尽管iPhone很少因质量不佳的音频而受到批评，但它并没有因其高保真度而受到称赞，这是新的3G版本的声音和透明音频中的传输，也使用了更强的扬声器。
Baig lamented that the device still won’t have a user-replacable battery, support media cards or Java, or natively shoot video, but Pogue was quick to point out that many of the phone’s existing shortcomings — no video, for example — will be quickly and easily ameliorated by the iPhone’s phone-based applications store, where third party apps will be downloadable for free (or a nominal price.) Mossberg fumed that he couldn’t sync Exchange contacts as well as personal contacts (from Apple’s own address book application) at the same time; they erase each other.
尽管他们所有的小抓地力，Baig，Pogue和Mossberg都很清楚，第二个iPhone是一种近乎完美的设备，可以操纵电子邮件，浏览网络（现在更快），并比其任何一员更好地充当迷你计算机模仿者。他们都不建议从旧iPhone进行升级，因为该设备的大多数改进都是倒退的软件升级，但是如果您通过第一代，专家们都同意：现在是时候购买了。