iphone 3g s With Apple iPhone 3G S handsets making their way to customers who pre-ordered the units, the reviews have begun to trickle in across the web. Here’s a short list of reviews as well as their verdicts/opinions of the latest Apple device.

We’ll save the first spot for Mr. Apple fanboy himself, David Pogue. He’s got this to say about the new 3G S:

“All of these changes make it much harder to resist the iPhone on intellectual, feature-county grounds. The new iPhone doesn’t just catch up to its rivals — it vaults a year ahead of them. At this point, the usual list of 10 rational objections to the iPhone have been whittled down to about three: no physical keyboard, no way to swap the battery yourself and no way to avoid using AT&T as your cell company.”

Next up, Engadget’s Joshua Topolsky has his review of the 3G S here. Here’s what he has to say about the handset:

“So while it’s tough to argue with the package Apple has put together (a stellar device with just enough new to make it nearly perfect), we couldn’t help feeling a bit let down by the 3G S.”

We’ll head over now to the other major gadget blog out there – that would be of course the folks at Gizmodo which had this to say about the new 3G S:

“Like I said in the Palm Pre review, I’m a bit bored of the iPhone look and feel. If you’re looking for something new, something different and something you’re not quite familiar with, there’s the Pre or the MyTouch 3G. But as a whole, the iPhone 3GS is the best all-around smartphone available. If you’re looking for a refined, augmented version of what you already know, a phone that, not for nothing, runs all the tens of thousands of apps on the App Store, choose the iPhone 3GS.”

Here’s a review of the new iPhone 3.0 OS update from the folks at Macworld (it’s not a review of the new 3G S phone):

“Overall, iPhone 3.0 offers useful new features and refinements of existing features. It doesn’t necessarily tick every checkbox on our iPhone feature wishlist, but it’s a solid step in the right direction. And, after all, Apple has to leave something for iPhone 4.0.”

Finally, CNET has their look at the new iPhone 3G S handset here and says the following:

“The iPhone 3G S doesn’t make the same grand leap that the iPhone 3G made from the first-generation model, but the latest Apple handset is still a compelling upgrade for some users. The iPhone 3G S is faster and we appreciate the new features and extended battery life, but call quality and 3G reception still need improvement.”

Looks like the consensus is about the same across the board. Apple fixed what it needed to fix (for the most part) with the iPhone 3G S (and the 3.0 OS update) yet.. the iPhone 3G S isn’t the compelling upgrade that the 3G was. Yup.. you can be sure I’ll be holding out till the fourth generation iPhone now. No need for me to pick up the 3G S at the early iPhone upgrade fee of $399.

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