@OGHowie: It's handled the same way. You have 30 days to return if you buy from an Apple Store, so if you go in for an exchange, they process it as a return (-$199) and separate purchase ($299).

I had a launch day 16GB that I replaced this very afternoon (7/13/10) with a 32GB. I can also see proximity sensor now, not that I really cared to look for it on the old phone. I can't tell if there are any other changes, but the phone looks the same to me. If you wanted to see if a new phone is different, I suspect…

Just tried it on the iPhone 4. The only big downside is that it uses a significant crop from the front-facing camera, which means you have to hold the phone pretty far from your face if you want more than half your head in the frame.

@Matt Abercrombie: But if you look at the quote, it also says: "The USB port in the phone was slightly melted..." implying that it's the dock port on the phone, not the computer's "USB port."

Just for the sake of clarification, the USB port, as in on the phone? On the computer? Or the Apple USB cable?

@Wade McGillis: A lot of people having the same viewpoint is fine, it's what happens when everyone is invited to participate in a comment system. But a single person repeating the same point, verbatim, over and over in the same thread isn't moving the conversation forward, regardless of which side of the debate they…

Gizmodo namecheck FTW. Although many of my Apple friends loathe Jason now :P

Awesome article! Truly gadget-worthy.

@Wade McGillis: And when science arrived at conclusions different from what Faith expected to find, it forbade, punished, ostracized or killed the scientists responsible.

@R.b.3: +1ttk2. That is not how GPS works. The satellites are TRANSMITTERS. Your GPS unit is a RECEIVER. There is no signal being sent to a GPS satellite from your your Garmin or iPhone every time you need directions, and there is no selective signal being targeted to that device from a GPS satellite.

@R.b.3: +1ttk2. That is not how GPS works. The satellites are TRANSMITTERS.

@MrVakarian: Well, your post pretty much claims outright that Apple Care protection takes the place of the case, so if we missed the boat, it's cause you provided a phony map.

@MrVakarian: I thought Applecare doesn't protect you from drops or water damage (which is what most people care about)?

I found that my Griffin Simplifi dock (or any Griffin dock that uses those removable inserts) works too, even with a bumper case. To use it with the bumper, just pull out whatever insert was in it.

" burying the Starbucks name two pilot stores in Seattle" Took me a couple of reads on that.

Hahaha, vuvuzelas and bunnies, absolutely perfect!

@DingoJunior: Yep, I'm aware that they're substantially the same. But with a hard Restore, iTunes 9.2 will automatically download the Release version even if you already have GM installed.

Strike what I last said. After the initial install, the "restore" portion took about 4 minutes. Of course, I'm using only about 2GB on my 8GB 3G so that could be it.

4.0GM took about an hour.

Sigh, Apple doesn't really make it easy to "update" from the 4.0GM to the release version (though it's likely they're the same). 4.0GM is pretty solid on my 3G, the stutters and pauses are the same as under 3.x.