Instead of having to use a gross physical button to snap your shots, the iPhone continues to rely on its onscreen trigger, but cranks up the use of that big display by allowing you to focus in on subjects based on where you tap. In our experience, the parlor trick actually turned out to be quite useful, accurately zeroing in on what we wanted most of the time. Struggles to focus were minor at best, though you won't be able to do any heavy macro work here, and during video recording you're stuck with a constantly focusing lens -- no tapping allowed.

We do have some complaints about exposure, which seems to be permanently cranked to "blinding," and while the shutter speed is faster than on the 3G, it's still not quite snappy enough for our taste. Hey -- we guess we should just be glad they gave us an extra megapixel, right? Buyer's Guide. Log in. Sign up. The next Apple Watch may come in titanium and ceramic models.

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Also on the wish list: software-based image stabilization. I have often found that even images shot in daylight were not sharp at full resolution, especially images I tried to shoot one-handed.

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With its on-screen shutter button, the iPhone's camera just doesn't lend itself to one-handed photography. And while on the topic of what's missing, the Camera Roll app still lacks integration with Web services; sure, Flickr has its own app, but that's not the same as viewing a pic and deciding to post directly from the camera roll. The bigger news is the inclusion of video capture and editing.

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The iPhone 3GS camera app has a slider switch to activate the video camera, which records 30 frames per second video at by resolution. In video mode, the camera shutter turns into a red record button you press once to start recording, and again to end recording. Just select the service, and proceed from there; for YouTube, the iPhone 3GS will automatically compress the file in preparation for upload to your YouTube account. Want to trim your video before sending? No problem: The in-player iMovie -like frame editor makes snipping the beginning or end of a clip a breeze.

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The videos I captured looked better than many typical camera phone images at the same resolution, and I found the inclusion of a video camera handy in a pinch when I was caught off-guard with a video opportunity and had no other camera on hand. But the iPhone 3GS can't replace the video you can capture in p high-definition with many digital cameras and compact video recorders like the Flip Mino HD.

And like-resolution dedicated camera and camcorder devices generally have a few advantages, such as greater stability for hand-held shots, and a tripod shoe if you want to steady the image. The video feature has a few other rough spots. You can't easily find the videos you capture: They're lumped in with the rest of the images in your Camera Roll, with the video camera icon and length running along the bottom of the thumbnail. You also can't access your videos from within the iPod music and video player.

And, unfortunately, the much-ballyhooed editing feature is rather limited: Once you make an edit, it's done. You can't undo them, and you can't save a copy of the original video--annoying if you want to keep the longer video for yourself and send an excerpt to a friend, for example. One major gripe about both the images and videos: On a Windows XP-based netbook, Windows' camera import tool brought all pics and vids across to my netbook, but the order of the pics was completely jumbled compared with the order things were captured in my Camera Roll.

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I'm not sure where the communication failure is between the two devices, but it was very frustrating. Voice dialing is fairly common, and has been for years. This is a seemingly basic feature on which the iPhone 3GS is playing catch-up. But, at least it goes further by providing a range of voice controls for both dialing and music playback.

When it works, I found it a wonderfully handy feature when driving, or even when walking down a street. Hold the Home button for a count of three a count of two invariably took me one page to the left , and the Voice Control screen pops up. Your command options scroll across in a rush, prompting your memory of the available commands some imprecise mutations of the "accepted" options appeared to work : Play album, previous track, play songs by, dial, call, play, what song is playing, yes, no, cancel, shuffle, play more songs like this. I found this feature worked with varying degrees of success.

If I said to dial Rita and didn't specify the number, it asked me which number I wanted. But Voice Control stumbled on other names, either offering the wrong name or not recognizing anything. And it missed some voice commands when a TV blared nearby. Also odd: If I said Perenson and there were three Perensons in my Contacts, it just accessed the first one in the Contacts list, and didn't ask me which of the Perensons I wanted even though I've seen reports that say it should. One detail worth noting: Apple makes the iPhone 3GS more accessible to vision-impaired users through its new Voice Over feature.

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