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title: Is iPhone 3G "S" Slow or Small?
date: 2009-06-09T21:49:37+00:00
modified: 2009-06-09T21:49:37+00:00
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# Is iPhone 3G "S" Slow or Small?

Is Apple really going in the footsteps of Microsoft by creating more and more version of essentially the same product? When seeing [iPhone 3G S](http://www.apple.com/iphone/compare-iphones/ "iPhone comparison: iPhone 3G VS iPhone 3G S") for the first time I immediately associated “S” with *size Small*.

![iPhone S is Slow or Small?](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/iphone-slow-speed-out.png?strip=all&quality=90&resize=380,230 "iPhone S is Slow or Small?")

These days no one considers a phone “smart” if it’s slow or doesn’t have support for 3G. So what does Apple exactly mean by saying iPhone 3G *Speed*? Where the previous versions slow?

How about calling it iPhone 4, 5, 6, … n.