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Overseas iPhone 3G Review: Great But Not Perfect

For the past few weeks, PC World New Zealand has spent some serious quality time with the new iPhone 3G. Does it warrant the midnight queues at Apple stores around the globe?

Well, yes, mostly. If ever there was a geeky gadget that deserved to have the word "sexy" applied to it, certainly it's the iPhone 3G. And if we can separate the angst around the relatively high costs of owning and operating this device for a moment and look at the iPhone itself, we find an incredibly capable, highly desirable, yet far from perfect device.

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