You can JB your phone to enable custom wallpapers and see it yourself. I did not notice any slow down from enabling multitasking yet, but custom wallpapers indeed make home screen very unresponsive, I had to redo jailbreak to remove custom wallpapers option.
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Steve Jobs on Lack of Custom Wallpapers in iOS 4 for iPhone 3G
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hard to believe
and probably another 15 or so guys are billionaire in the apple, but people act like apple really cares about us! we love their product we buy them, sometimes we are happy and sometimes we do not ...
it is hard to believe it is really technical limitation because we have seen so many up sell
combo drive to super drive
no graphics display in low end iMac - always
$ 100 difference between 3GS vs iP 4
$ 100 difference between 3G vs 3GS - 2008
and so on -
you can name so many things ...
if APPLE are always worried about up sell - it is tough to believe them any more when they say it is because of technical limitation ...
and probably another 15 or so guys are billionaire in the apple, but people act like apple really cares about us! we love their product we buy them, sometimes we are happy and sometimes we do not ...
it is hard to believe it is really technical limitation because we have seen so many up sell
combo drive to super drive
no graphics display in low end iMac - always
$ 100 difference between 3GS vs iP 4
$ 100 difference between 3G vs 3GS - 2008
and so on -
you can name so many things ...
if APPLE are always worried about up sell - it is tough to believe them any more when they say it is because of technical limitation ...
Hate to be Debbie Downer ...
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MacRumors really needs to invest in some people who know how to write. Some of these posts are so horribly written. After all, the first sentence in this story is a fragment.
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That's all.
As somebody who has jailbroken their iPhone 3G and played around with it with wallpapers disabled then enabled, I can confirm that the animation feels more sluggish with wallpapers enabled. He's not ********ting you.
Do you guys honestly believe this is a tactic to get people to upgrade? If you believe that you must believe that people are willing to shell out hundreds of pounds/dollars/whatever, just to get wallpapers that they never had before anyway.
I was about to say exactly the same thing. Although I use a 2G currently, the experience is somewhat similar. I have always disabled wallpapers very soon after enabling them since the home screen feels more sluggish.
Can't wait to get the sweet new 4!
Sorry for being naive, but how is a $100 difference between the 3GS and iP4 an upsell?
Are you using the same OS 4 I am? I can't tell much of a difference, and, if there is a difference, OS 4 seems quicker on my 3G.
Of course, it doesn't matter much to me, since I'll only be using OS 4 on 3G for two days...
Wall Paper and less...
I attempted to change my ‘wallpaper’ on my ‘3G’ and discovered that I can hardly use any photos at all. The 4.0 has made my iPhone soOoo unbelievably slow that I may be FORCED to buy the new model iPhone 4. BTW: My 16GB iPhone is ONLY 1/3rd full.
I attempted to change my ‘wallpaper’ on my ‘3G’ and discovered that I can hardly use any photos at all. The 4.0 has made my iPhone soOoo unbelievably slow that I may be FORCED to buy the new model iPhone 4. BTW: My 16GB iPhone is ONLY 1/3rd full.
ummm, you get a clue. the differences between the JB method and Apple's have already been clearly laid out
$499 - iPhone 3GS 8GB contract less price, $499 not enough to build iPhone 4 8GB?
On a sidenote, is anyone having any toruble with WiFi location on the new update?
On OS3, Skyhook (or whatever it uses now) identified me very precisely at home. On iOS4, everytime I try it says "Your location can not be determined."
Weird.
On OS3, Skyhook (or whatever it uses now) identified me very precisely at home. On iOS4, everytime I try it says "Your location can not be determined."
Weird.
Sorry? I don't get you. Are you saying that an iPhone 4 8GB could be built for $499?
You get a clue, it is more than throwing a wallpaper on there. It involves drop shadows and other effects. Read up on it a bit first.
They should have taken Safari and iBooks out of the update for iPhone 3G people too. Both of them are really slow on my 3G.
The way I see it, each model gets 2 full featured instalments of iOS and then one with less Features.
You can decide whether you want to upgrade the hardware or not.
iPhone: iOS 1, iOS 2 and iOS3 minus A2DP, MMS (even though jailbroken it could do MMS already) and GPS
iPhone 3G: iOS 2, iOS 3 (didn't have video) and iOS4 minus multitasking and background images (even though jailbroken it can do these in different ways)
iPhone 3GS: iOS 3, iOS 4 (without Facetime) and iOS 5 minus whatever apple chooses to put in as it's 'killer features'.
iPhone 4: iOS 4, iOS 5 and much less capable in iOS 6
This is much better than, say Samsung, who released the i7500 as a premium phone, not long after Android 2.0 came out and they never gave any customer care. Apple annoyed me with iOS 3 and the lack of A2DP on the iPhone which I thought was just a software limitation (and still do) but the bottom line is this:
You get a phone that does it's job really well with the first firmware. Brilliantly on the next (with a couple of forgivable limitations related to hardware) and well on the last update. Apple doesn't forget about you the second you walk out with one of their phones.
You can decide whether you want to upgrade the hardware or not.
iPhone: iOS 1, iOS 2 and iOS3 minus A2DP, MMS (even though jailbroken it could do MMS already) and GPS
iPhone 3G: iOS 2, iOS 3 (didn't have video) and iOS4 minus multitasking and background images (even though jailbroken it can do these in different ways)
iPhone 3GS: iOS 3, iOS 4 (without Facetime) and iOS 5 minus whatever apple chooses to put in as it's 'killer features'.
iPhone 4: iOS 4, iOS 5 and much less capable in iOS 6
This is much better than, say Samsung, who released the i7500 as a premium phone, not long after Android 2.0 came out and they never gave any customer care. Apple annoyed me with iOS 3 and the lack of A2DP on the iPhone which I thought was just a software limitation (and still do) but the bottom line is this:
You get a phone that does it's job really well with the first firmware. Brilliantly on the next (with a couple of forgivable limitations related to hardware) and well on the last update. Apple doesn't forget about you the second you walk out with one of their phones.
Could be. Today's (mobile) OS's use up so much RAM.
Too bad. A lot of people make much of using the GPU.
I'm starting to like the live wallpapers on the Sense UI. They're worth the occasional few milliseconds of stutter to me, but then I'm not OCD.
That should be up to me to decide. If I like it, I should be able to turn it on.
Since other devices have had backgrounds for far longer than that, it's a valid topic.
Probably about $300 I'd guess to manafacture. We'll need iFixit to give an accurate figure on that (excluding R&D as normal).
And your point is?
Yeah, turn off the new shading and shadows. Real hard. You telling me Apple couldn't have simply turned those off in the older versions of phones/Touches? Get a clue.