I mentioned in my last post on the Juice Pack that the case noticeably adds weight, and that I suspected some, like myself, might even find the added heft helped the iPhone feel more secure in their grip. Another unexpected benefit (at least, I didn’t expect it) for those of us with hands that shake enough so as to make the iPhone 3G’s built-in camera virtually useless, is that the added weight makes it easier to hold the iPhone still when trying to take a picture. I’ve been able to take markedly sharper photos since putting the phone in the Juice Pack.
On the other hand, now that I’m no longer obsessing over the image destroying shake, I’m noticing just what a lousy, noisy sensor the iPhone 3G camera has. I’d never been able to use the thing properly before, so I never really paid any attention when everyone else across the internets slammed the camera, but yikes. It’s bad enough you can see the noise on the iPhone’s relatively tiny screen. No wonder everyone was so thrilled with the camera upgrade in the iPhone 3GS. Now that I’ve mostly solved my shake problem, I find myself increasingly lusting after a 3GS for its enhanced photo quality and video capabilities. But, at least until next July it’ll cost me $700+ dollars to upgrade my phone (!), so for the time being that lust is easily extinguished.
On the plus side, by the time I can afford a new iPhone, the iPhone 3GS II Turbo Extreme will surely be out, and everyone who bought a 3GS will be bemoaning their lack of upgrade eligibility while I will be rolling in the subsidies. And by “rolling in the subsidies,” I mean “forking over an obscene amount of money for a phone, as opposed to an an outrageously obscene amount.”
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