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

[Hugh Glaser]

Well I'm going to stick with 4.0 on my 3G.
I've been through all the pre-releases, and while they were slow, they have
slowly got less slow.
But of course I would expect that betas, certainly, will have debug code in
them.
I agree that the final version is useable - in fact it was the 2.0 -> 3.0
that was the trouble, I suspect because of the addition of search.
I do notice that the first time an app is launched after a sync it takes
longer, but not so bad after that.
Having a combined Inbox on all my accounts is a real bonus compared with the
back-back-fowrard-forward that I used to have to do to switch inboxes
(really pissed me off).
And the threading works really well.
When a device is as small as this, small improvements to the interaction can
be so important.
And I guess email is my primary use for the thing, so I care about that bit.

On 30/06/2010 13:02, "Daniel Thorpe" <dt05r at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Downgrading isn't really non-trivial, but is quite straightforward nowadays.
> There are numerous tutorials on the internet on how to do it such as:
> http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com/2010/06/28/how-to-downgrade-your-iphone-from
> -ios-4-to-3-1-3/
> 
> I put the iOS 4 beta on my iPhone 3G, and pretty quickly downgraded it back.
> Other than Folders and Unified Inbox, it doesn't really get an new features.
> No background apps, not even homescreen wallpaper. It did seem to be even more
> sluggish launching apps, which was why I put 3.1.3 back.
> 
> On 30 Jun 2010, at 12:00, Chris Andrews wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> 
> 
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