Alleged iPhone 3G hands-on from a Vodafone employee

An employee with Vodafone has provided iPhone Atlas with what is allegedly a hands-on report with the second-generation, 3G iPhone, yielding the following observations:

• The back is gloss black.
• The 4 models we have have a black skin wrapped around the back and glued into place. This is how they came from Apple.
• All are running v2.0 of the firmware.
• The bootloader hardware exploit is now fixed.
• The phone is running V 04.41.01 modem software.
• The phone is locked down like no phone has ever been. At this stage, you can't jailbreak it and you can't hardware unlock it.
• There is an added icon for contacts. This allows you to go straight to your contacts without having to hit the Phone icon first.
• The GPS works very well. It will attempt to obtain your position via WiFi first, cell tower second, then satellite third. The accuracy appears to be within 3 meters.
• We were getting a data transfer of 140kbps on average. It droped down to 70 kbps when we went inside.
• Apart from that, the "feel" is much the same. The phone is smaller (I would say 20 percent) and it is noticable when you pick the unit up.
•  

As with all iPhone 3G rumors, take this as you will.

Feedback? info@iphoneatlas.com.