I’ve had my iPhone 3GS for about a week now and I feel like now I may comfortably reflect. Let me share some thoughts. Be it known that I am a new AT&T subscriber, coming from Verizon (Blackberry Curve) and I never owned an iPhone 3G. However, I do own an iPod Touch 16GB.

Speed: I am impressed with the processing speed and the increased RAM  going from 128MB to 256MB. It seems to give a significant boost in speed when running graphic intensive apps. Content loading in contact lists/music lists in super snappy vs. the 3G. It’s been noticed elsewhere that video game sequences progress much smoother with faster frame rates.

OS 3.0: I’d like to group OS 3.0 in with this post. I love Copy and Paste and the approach Apple took. It took a while, but they did it right. I really hope  that the landscape keyboard is part of the 3.0 SDK. I’d like to see more Apps take advantage of landscape mode, including keyboard. My favorite demo of 3.0 was of ESPN pushing game/score updates. I’m excited to see what apps will come out. For a list of some of the newest apps using push notifications, check out this link: http://www.appadvice.com/applists/show/definitive-list-of-push-capable-apps

Camera: The camera is very nice. I must admit, my eye is using to looking at DSLR level photos. But I am quite pleased with what was produced by my iPhone 3Gs. The video camera is quite nice. Here is a video I’ve posted. I’m impressed with the ability to keep focused and not get too shaky. Overall some nice improvements. Again, I didn’t play too much with the camera on the 3G, but I’ve seen the results. Much more contrast and finer photos. The auto-focus is nice but isn’t such a wow factor. I find myself having to reset the manual focus constantly to keep the subject sharp.

Overall, I’m really enjoying the iPhone 3GS. The AT&T is a departure from Verizon, for the worse unfortunately. When I have full service, it is excellent. However this isn’t the case in my home. Hopefully the ability for the new iPhone 3GS to take advantage of the higher power AT&T networks later this year pays dividends.