iPhone 3GS review

Assessing the 2007 and 2008 iPhone models was an excruciating experience. You were torn in half — between your heart and your head.

Your emotions were swept away by everything Apple does so well: beauty, polish, elegance, simplicity and the thrill of interaction. (Those were not, ahem, phrases typically used to describe existing cellphones.)

Meanwhile, your brain kept waving its little hand in the back of the classroom. “But the camera’s terrible!” it would say. “It can’t record video! There’s no voice dialing! No copy and paste! The iPhone can’t even send picture messages — even $20 starter phones can do that!”

But 21 million iPhone sales later, it’s become clear that the heart usually manages to shut the head up.

With the iPhone 3G S, in stores Friday, Apple is finally throwing your head a crumb. After two years, the iPhone’s designers have finally gotten over whatever weird objections they had to providing those basic functions.

Better yet, Apple intends to give many of those features, and dozens more, to everyone who has ever bought an iPhone.

Read the review here.