[OSX-Users] Re: iPhone 3G with iOS4

[Chris Andrews]

To give the other side of the debate, I upgraded my 3G to OS4, and it 
has become almost unusably slow* - and that is before I saw what an 
iPhone 4 was like. At some point, I may try reinstalling it to see if 
that fixes the problem, or I may simply Jailbreak and downgrade to 3.1.3.

The small things are nice to have, but I would advise others to think 
carefully about upgrading, since downgrading is non-trivial.

It is possible that the iPhone was already this slow, as Tim says, but I 
have certainly noticed it more since installing OS4.

Chris

* By this I mean that once a text arrives and I swipe to view and reply, 
it takes around 10 seconds from swiping to unlock to the phone actually 
becoming responsive in the messaging app. Simple unlocks take around 5 
seconds, and the keyboard is regularly unresponsive.

On 30/06/2010 11:47, Tim Chown wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some people have given mixed reports about the pros/cons of upgrading a 3G.
>
> I would say the iPhone is about as fast (or slow!) as it was before.  Other have said it's much slower, but maybe they've seen the speed of an iPhone4.
>
> There's now big new 'wow' feature, but quite a few nice enhancements like mail threading.
>
> Worth doing in my view.
>
> Tim