New York resident, Luis Palacios quoted, "I got on line at 2 a.m. It was really early, but it was worth it for the video!"

It’s here at last! The third consecutive summer that an iPhone platorm has been released, exciting the public and especially US residents!

Apple are hoping that the iPhone 3G S will boost their profits and put them ahead in the technically advanced smartphone market.

Figures already show that the release of the iPhone 3G last year, shares went from 7% to just over 30%!

The highly anticipated smartphone has been so far released in eight countries, most notably the US.

Analysts have predicted that Apple will sell around 500,000 iPhones even though the queues have been shorter than those of the release of the Palm pre which only sold 50,000 in two days. However, the queues were still long enough for the services of metal barriers to be introduced at Apple and AT&T stores throughout the selected countries.

An Apple employee said that it would take over three hours just to sell iPhones to customers who had pre-ordered, before the shop officially was open.

San Francisco- Though the Apple store looks quiet from here, but this morning people, the place so swarming that some people couldn't even see the start of the queue!

iPhone 3G S – what’s so good?

Well, here are many of the features that makes the iPhone 3G S so much better than other phones and series:

• 3MP camera which was a huge problem before as well as video capturing and editing abilities.
• Built-in digital compass.
• Better battery life with 12 hrs talktime and 30 hours audio. A huge issue for previous iPhone platforms was the poor battery life.
• “Fingerprint resistant oleophobic coating” allowing the screen as glossy as it was when you took it out the pack!
• Gentler, lighter display.
• 7.2Mbps data speeds for uploading pics + videos and downloading apps.
• Functioning voice control option.

So, as you can see the new iPhone has a lot of new features to look forward to! As Chad Evans, an app designer for mlb.com stated,

“The new iPhone is redefining what people can do on a phone. We’re now able to live stream complete games on a handheld device.”

Pricing

Pricing will vary as usual depending on how much memory you are looking to have on your new iPhone but the general guidelines are:

1. 32GB iPhone 3G S – $299 (£181)
2. 16GB iPhone 3G S - $199 (£120)
3. (8GB iPhone 3GS – $99 (£60)) << Possibly.

For more info on the new iPhone 3.0 OS take a look at our review.

iPhone addicts feelings and thoughts

The Sherry brothers were at the unveiling and publically revealed that this was her first iPhone and that she was looking forward “pretty much everything about it. It’s also going to be better than my brother’s, so I’m happy about that,”

Scott Struber had different ideas about the iPhone, as his reservation was rejected when he got to the queue after a long wait,

“It’s a little glitch. I went online yesterday afternoon, made a reservation for the phone, it went through and completed it and sent me the e-mail saying that I was confirmed, but oddly never had me pick a store and showed Clarendon as the store I’d be working with. Apparently, their tool went down that let you pick a store, but that wasn’t apparent to the users. I was probably sixth in line but I’ll probably be 50th or 60th. But I’ll still get it.”

All in all, I feel it will be a success purely because of the amount of new and improved features Apple have introduced sensibly. What do you think of the iPhone 3GS? Will it become bigger than any previous handheld device? Please feel free to comment below!