Should I buy the iPhone now or wait?

I'm indecisive about whether or not to buy the 3GS. I'm not sure how to gauge the problems cause everyone I talk to who has one loves it. A lot of people on this forum however are having repeated problems, even on multiple returns.
Are they gonna do a recall? Is it necessary? I'd just like some opinions to help me decide.
What are the pros and cons of waiting vs. buying now? Thanks.

songbirdsound wrote:
I'm indecisive about whether or not to buy the 3GS. I'm not sure how to gauge the problems cause everyone I talk to who has one loves it. A lot of people on this forum however are having repeated problems, even on multiple returns.
Of course - this forum is expressly for people with problems - they sold a million phones the first three days - probably 3 million by now -- and there are 1564 problem topics - many duplicates and most simply failure to read the instructions
So the problems are miniscule compared to the number of phones sold - IMHO
Mine works just fine BTW
Are they gonna do a recall?
No one here knows - and speculation about Apple policies os forbidden by the TOS
Is it necessary?
No - a few hundred problems out of a few million phones delivered - why would you even ask?
What are the pros and cons of waiting vs. buying now?
If you buy now you have the latest neat phone now
If you wait you do not get it until later
LN

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Should You Buy An iPhone Now, Or Wait For The Next One?

Great article by HuffPost Tech.
The most common thing I get asked whenever I tell anyone I'm a tech writer is some version of the question: "Should I get a new iPhone now, or should I wait until the next one comes out?" It is as though my business card should read not "Technology Writer," and instead "iPhone Psychic"
Not that I am not happy to prognosticate! And in that spirit, here's a look at the questions on everyone's mind: Should I buy an iPhone now? And if not now, when?
First, let me say that I am fascinated by the peculiar kind of panic that I encounter in people I meet who are deciding on a purchase date for their next Apple phone. I call it the iSenberg Uncertainty Principle: Potential iPhone buyers exist in a constant state of anxiety, perpetually worrying that purchasing an iPhone on any given day will mean that they will miss out on the inevitably cooler version with the mind-blowing new features soon down the road. The Cupertino Sword of Damocles constantly dangles over their heads, threatening to pierce them with unhipness and iShame.
Here is one solid piece of advice I can offer to help you avoid the Sword: Do not buy any new iPhone until September. Apple has an annual media conference each September, and every blog with the word 'Mac' in the title is reporting that Steve Jobs is going to do his black turtleneck thing and introduce some kind of new iPhone there. The September Media conference is generally used to present the new iPods, but as All Things Digital reports, Apple plans to "commandeer" the conference for its official iPhone announcement.
Apple is long overdue to release its new iPhone anyway, if history is any indication. Look at this handy little timeline:
June 2007: original iPhone released
June 2008: iPhone 3G released
June 2009: iPhone 3Gs released
June 2010: iPhone 4 released
June 2011: Nothing!
In other words, the 5th generation iPhone is already a month late, so it makes sense that the rumors are swirling. Apple's tardiness can be explained by the fact they've actually already released two iPhones in 2011 -- the Verizon iPhone in February and the unlocked iPhone 4 in June. Their schedule is all screwy, like a traveler trying to get over jet lag. But all signs point to them getting right with a September Apple iPhone release.
So what jaw-dropping new feature will this iPhone boast? We're hearing that the "iPhone 4S," as it is rumored to be called, won't be the dramatic re-imagining that many of us have come to expect with each new iPhone release. Tech blogThis Is My Next thinks that it will be thinner and lighter, and that it will run on a new chip; the New York Times thinks that it will be the same dimensions as the iPhone 4 but that it will be cheaper. Bloomberg agrees with This Is My Next on the chip and adds that the rear-facing camera will upgrade to 8 megapixels from 5 megapixels.
Now, even if you're just a normal, non-geek iPhone user, who doesn't care if the rear-facing camera doubles its megapixel count, or if Apple has changed the manufacturer of its data processors, or whatever, you still need to at least wait for the alleged iPhone announcement, and here's why: if history is any indicator, the introduction of a newer iPhone model is accompanied by a drop in price of older iPhone models. When the iPhone 3GS was announced, the price of the iPhone 3G dropped by $100; when the iPhone 4 was announced, the price of an iPhone 3GS also dropped by $100. Even if you know that you're not going to drop $400 on whatever iPhone Apple begins peddling in September, there is no sense in paying more money for an iPhone 4 or 3Gs now when the base price of both seem like locks to drop in two months.
But before we start fantasizing, how can we be so certain that Jobs is even going to announce an iPhone in September if Apple hasn't so much as indicated such a thing? How do we know that all of these rumors weren't just started by lonely nerds like me and my co-workers emailing each other from our mother's basements, inciting iPhone rumors all on our own?
Well, first of all, I don't live with my mother; and second of all, the new iPhone rumors have sprung forth from two reliable sources held in high journalistic regard.
The first is esteemed, award-winning tech journalist John Paczkowski of All Things Digital, who blazed iPhone prognostication trails by predicting back in April that an updated iPhone 4 would be unveiled at the September Apple music Conference and has steadfastly maintained the claim is true through June and into July. In fact, he confirmed as recently as July 5 that a shiny new iPhone looked to be in the early stages of supply chain production, and that people close to the company still believe that the new iPhone would be ready for the Jobs treatment in September.
So there is Reliable Source One.
Reliable Source Number Two is the Wall Street Journal, not exactly a one-laptop operation. The paper gives "the end of September" as a target launch date, which squares up with both Paczkowski's prediction of a September announcement and release. This doesn't even mention This Is My Next's separate prediction of a September release, nor 9to5Mac reporting that there are going to be two new iPhones in September, one low-end and high-end. But now we're falling down the rabbit hole and into the basement again, so let's focus:
There is likely to be a new iPhone in September. It will likely affect the price of all the other iPhones. The iPhones available now -- the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 3Gs -- will probably be cheaper in two months. Unless you drop your current iPhone in a pool, a bathtub or a volcano, do not buy an iPhone until Steve Jobs opens his beautiful brilliant mouth at the Apple conference in early September. When the post-turtleneckian dust settles, we'll have a clearer picture of whether or not this rumored new iPhone is worth the money. And then we can talk about--well, whether or not you should buy an iPhone now, or wait until the next one comes out.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/12/iphone-release-5-september_n_896345.html

Apple has two prototypes out testing now. One is a thinner totally redesigned case. The problem with it is that Foxconn can't seem to build it. Hence the delay. The other prototype uses the existing case, but with updated (read dual core) internals. If they can get production up by September the first phone will be released and will be the iPhone 5. If they cannot, then the second prototype will be released as the iPhone 4GS.

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Hello everyone, I bought the i-phone when it first came out. Returned it within 3 days, because the ring volume and speaker volume was too low for my ears. I keep stopping and asking i-phone users if there has been an upgrade, some say yes, but most say NO. How much has your volume improved? I love the phone and will get on the day the volume issue is fixed......All you i-phone users please give your thoughts on the volume and how many updates have there been to the software? Thanks

Ive had no problems with the volume. The speaker phone could be better, but plug in the headphones that come with, even with one ear in, i can hear in the middle of the city just fine. The volume for the rings has went up, plus now you can make your own custom ringtones which grab your attention pretty fast.

On the Apple webiste, I read that you must run OS 10.6.8 in order to sync the iPhone 5 with the computer. However, in the tech specs on the "Buy the iPhone now" email I received at my .me email address, it list the OS sytem needed as 10.5.8. Which is it

On the Apple website, I read that you must run OS 10.6.8 in order to sync the iPhone 5 with the computer. However, in the tech specs on the "Buy the iPhone now" email I received at my .me email address, it listed the OS sytem needed as 10.5.8. Which is it?

In Reply to all fellow Apple fans: It is great that someone found a work-around to the iTunes 11.4 no syncing problem. I think that is fine for the short term. And I am really glad that we customers have a forum to share information and experiences regarding Apple's products. However, as someone here said, we are all customers; and posting a problem here "IN HOPES THAT APPLE READS THESE POSTS" is NOT a way to resolve this issue or any issue.
PLEASE CONTACT APPLE: Apple Service Center: 1-800-275-2273 - Once you get a ticket number then and only then is this documented and then Apple can follow-through and alert the engineers who will fix this.
The "CWA2" work-around band-aid does several things in addition to reverting back to iTunes 11.3.1. :
1) It ensures that Apple continues to know nothing of the problem.
2) It ensures that the faulty code that is within 11.4 remains there and is perpetuated into future versions.
3) It ensures that YOU can never upgrade to future versions. (If the resident faulty code remains and perpetuates)
So once you have reverted back to 11.3.1, the problem APPEARS to have gone away (FOR YOU) but you have not solved the problem.
Again, respectfully,
1) Sending feedback to apple (using the "Report Bugs To Apple" menu item in Safari will get the information to someone, somewhere and add it to the pile of issues, complaints, suggestions, etc.
2) CALLING the Apple service/support Center at 1-800-275-2273 will put you in touch with a real APPLE person who will begin the process of documenting and forwarding this issue on to those who will fix it.
and
3) emailing Apple directly will make sure that they get the information.
lets get this fixed !!!!!!!!!

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hi, just wanted to know if i should buy an iphone 4s or simply wait for the iphone 5 to come out... Do you know what is going to be new on the iphone? is there going to be another iPhone?

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I think the danger is in approaching the question from the wrong angle. Considering it from the standpoint of what the iPhone can (or can't) do in comparison to other devices isn't the best way to analyze the matter. In every case there are comparative products offering more or less features, at greater or lesser prices, that's the nature of the marketplace. Applying your set of criteria to someone else's choice would be the equivalent of telling a prospective car buyer that you wouldn't get the SUV being considered because you can't carry a cow in it.
The only valid approach is to consider what the individual actually needs first, and then basing a choice on what product meets that need. Thus, while the iPhone lacks a lot of features other cellphones have, if the individual doesn't want those other features, but does want what the iPhone has, the iPhone is the perfect choice regardless of what it doesn't have.
For example, you list poor support for Outlook. True. Not much of a problem however for those who don't use Outlook, or have no need for the comparative sophistication of ActiveSync. You say it has no external memory option. True. Of course 8Gb is somewhat larger than the memory in most other cellphones, so external memory isn't much of a problem in that sense. No games... True. Not an issue to those who don't want to play games.
The point isn't that these lacking features aren't important, because to those who want these things they are important. However, to those who don't, they aren't.
When buying anything, the consumer invariably has to make compromises. It's a rare thing that any manufacturer makes a product that fits the exact need of the individual. So the buying process almost always involves the individual in making compromises about which features matter and which don't. In the cellphone market, there are any number of little devices offering tiny keyboards, cramped screens, poor interfaces, multitudinous features and levels of sophistication which, quite frankly not only would have seemed impossible just a few years ago, but which are often hard to use or place the device in a market segment which is increasingly narrowing to the technically minded consumer. Nothing wrong with that if that's what the consumers in that market want. However, what about the rest of us? Consumers who want something more flexible than a simple cellphone, more capable, but who don't want the complication of the typical UI such devices have, or the balance of the extended feature set they will never use?
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