iPhone OS 4.0

[Rys]

That lag isn't present on a 4, and to a lesser extent the 3GS. The lag is what bugs me most about Android superphones, and I struggle to tolerate it on the 3G now. For the 3G you can somewhat understand it, because of the hardware and the OS doing lots more, but I still don't enjoy it. Still a usable superphone, but much less so than the 4 and 3GS.

 

[darkblu]

That lag isn't present on a 4, and to a lesser extent the 3GS. The lag is what bugs me most about Android superphones, and I struggle to tolerate it on the 3G now. For the 3G you can somewhat understand it, because of the hardware and the OS doing lots more, but I still don't enjoy it. Still a usable superphone, but much less so than the 4 and 3GS.

Apple are masters of the phasing out of older models ; )

 

[wco81]

And a couple of years from now, the 4 will run sluggish on the latest OS revision released then.

But you don't have to upgrade, you can just ignore the notification of availability of the new OS.

 

[idsn6]

Apple's spent the last decade getting each release of OSX to run faster on the same hardware, and I've noticed no performance degradation upgrading my iPod touch. iOS4 on the 3G seems anomalous.

 

[wco81]

It's got to be the RAM though, when 3G has 1/4 of the RAM that the 4 has.

And I'm not sure new releases of OSX runs faster on same hardware. I have an old MacBook Pro with just 1 GB of RAM. About 3 years old so it probably came out with Tiger 10.4 or Panther 10.3.

Well with Leopard 10.5.x, Safari will chew up a lot of CPU. That's Safari 5, not whatever version of Safari it originally had.

 

[idsn6]

Safari (its core, at the least) actually has one of the clearest mandates in this regard: Never get slower.

Apple might do well to adopt that mantra more widely.

 

[Arwin]

That lag isn't present on a 4, and to a lesser extent the 3GS. The lag is what bugs me most about Android superphones, and I struggle to tolerate it on the 3G now. For the 3G you can somewhat understand it, because of the hardware and the OS doing lots more, but I still don't enjoy it. Still a usable superphone, but much less so than the 4 and 3GS.

For sure, no argument there. For the 3GS, I barely notice a change, and usability definitely increased for me overall with the fast app startup for more and more apps now, being able to stream Radio Paradise in the background (the first of my streaming audio apps that support it, no Pandora available here), my Tom Tom navigation software having become a lot more powerful by being able to keep running in the background and telling me where to go or hang on to its GPS position and route when I leave the application to do something else for a moment, and the folders are essential upgrades too, being able to open certain document types automatically in custom download apps (like DocsToGo), and so on (to name the most important upgrades for me I can think of right now).

I've yet to hold an iPhone 4 though, and I'm sure that once I've worked with one for a bit, the 3GS will feel slower. It's always like that I guess.