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Apple Adds Shared Photo Streams and VIP Mail to iPhone 3GS with iOS 6 Beta 3
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I was tempted to shoot my Gen 1 iPad to put it out of its misery yesterday.
As long as the battery still holds out, I might need to relegate it to Apple TV remote control duties, because it is barely able to handle surfing the net.
This is my experience too. Although it's noticeably less snappy than a 4S, there isn't that much difference in speed between a 3GS and a 4, depending on the app.
The 3GS has less RAM than the 4, but it also has a lot less pixels to push around. CPU speeds are almost the same.
Maybe you should read the OP before rolling out the same old FUD.
And people say that Apple fans can rationalize anything.
Right, forget the fact that the iPad 1 has the same RAM as the 3GS, but several times more pixels to push and more RAM hungry tablet apps to run. It's barely able to run iOS 5. It also already got 2 major updates, which doesn't really qualify as "piss poor support" in this market.
Then you're doing something wrong. My iPad 1st gen runs the latest iOS 5.x smoothly.
If they aren't the best, which major smartphone manufacturer is better? Apple isn't perfect. That doesn't mean they aren't the best.
Care to explain the difference between this:
3GS still is a moneymaker and 3GS is still being sold?!?
Siri isn't on the iPhone 4 because they lack a dedicated chip that processes background noise. Software wise it runs just fine.
It has nothing to do with Siri btw...why would it need that software layer of Siri for?
Absurd. iOS should run on all iPhones, iPodTouches and iPads. It should gracefully shed the features that can't be supported by the hardware but support should be continued for the older devices. It is wasteful of Apple to be marooning these older devices. Same goes for OSX with support for Rosetta and Classic on Macs. This sort of behavior by Apple is anti-green and should get them serious demerit points.
I still clearly remember that my iPhone 3GS actually felt zippier after upgrading from iOS 4.0 to iOS 5.0. You cannot compare two different generations of hardware but you can compare the same hardware running two different OSes to see if the OS had a role. I think iOS 5.0 did not put unusual burden on the iPhone 3GS.
Same tech as the 4.
They are cut from the exact same cloth.
Anything the 4 can do the 3GS can as well.
I agree. iOS should also be back-ported to the Newton. It's absurd that I can't run the latest apps on this device.
If they were still selling the iPad 1 then they would have made it compatible. The hardware is better than the iPhone 4 with nearly the same resolution on the screen. It's a shame that none of iOS 6 is coming to the first iPad.
Good for Apple making some new apps/features lightweight enough to run on older, less powerful devices. Certainly some 3rd party apps run great on my 4S and on my new iPad but very sluggishly on the older original iPad 1 and my wife's iPhone 3G.
But in general, app makers (including Apple) want to take advantage of the power of the new devices to provide more amazing features. A fact of life.
But in general, app makers (including Apple) want to take advantage of the power of the new devices to provide more amazing features. A fact of life.
The things that makes me really angry is that they are now adding basic functionality: the clock app or how about tethering...I will probably just jailbreak my iPad anyway...seems rather stupid from Apple to screw their customers...this is now way to gain a loyal customer base on premium products
What in the world?
Different processors, more RAM, retina display, better camera. What exactly are you talking about?
iOS 6 compatible with iPhone 3Gs.
iCloud incompatible with Snow Leopard.
Nothing to say.
Welcome to the post-PC era!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Are you being serious? If so, you need to be corrected. The iPhone 4 has 512MB of RAM (twice as much memory as the iPhone 3GS) and an A4 processor running at 800Mhz. Having a faster processor and twice as much memory (not to mention much-improved graphics) is hardly "the same cloth". The iPad 1 and iPhone 4 are pretty much the same internal parts, though the iPhone 4 had twice as much RAM as the iPad 1 as well, but the iPad 1 had the A4 clocked at a 1Ghz instead of 800Mhz -- faster processing, but less RAM for multi-tasking.
UPDATE: I am wrong. The iPhone 4 and 3GS essentially have the same CPU and GPU -- the A4 is basically a single SoC version of the CPU and GPU from the 3GS with more L2 Cache, higher clock speed, and faster memory bus. Any improved performance on the iPhone 4 is due to faster memory retrievals and improved clock speed, other than that its the same technology.
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Wait wha-? I don't mean this in an insulting way but those saying iOS6 (or 5) will run fine on the 3GS and the iPad 1's performance on iOS5 is great obviously has had not experienced any of the newer devices in both the iOS and Android camps.
My iPad 1 on iOS5 vs 4: Constant page refreshes between tabs, lots of browser crashes due to memory, having to constantly use the task switcher to kill off apps or large pages will not load completely, HTML5 videos causing the browser to crash, etc. Switching to the new iPad with its 512MB (or was it 1GB) RAM was a MASSIVE difference.
My 3GS on iOS5 vs 4: Lag when typing on the keyboard. Very slow responses from apps like Downcast. Lag when navigating menus unless I kill off apps manually. Extremely poor performance with the new Podcast app though I think this is more of an application issue than 3GS performance. Other apps responding slowly when the music player is playing.
My 2010 MBA (not really iOS but...): Lost its instant on capability after switching to OSX Lion. Well, from near 0s to ~5-7s startup :\
Sorry but I do not see how upgrading to iOS6 will help in any way and if there is one thing that I've learned from owning Apple products, it is never to upgrade the OS too much. Apple after all is a hardware company and it is in their best interest to make customers upgrade hence the planned obsolescence with their OS updates.
As for me, I am just waiting for the next best iPhone to come out in October or if it is not compelling enough, maybe the GNex with Jelly Bean. Now THAT is a sweet OS with Google Now and Maps.
My iPad 1 on iOS5 vs 4: Constant page refreshes between tabs, lots of browser crashes due to memory, having to constantly use the task switcher to kill off apps or large pages will not load completely, HTML5 videos causing the browser to crash, etc. Switching to the new iPad with its 512MB (or was it 1GB) RAM was a MASSIVE difference.
My 3GS on iOS5 vs 4: Lag when typing on the keyboard. Very slow responses from apps like Downcast. Lag when navigating menus unless I kill off apps manually. Extremely poor performance with the new Podcast app though I think this is more of an application issue than 3GS performance. Other apps responding slowly when the music player is playing.
My 2010 MBA (not really iOS but...): Lost its instant on capability after switching to OSX Lion. Well, from near 0s to ~5-7s startup :\
Sorry but I do not see how upgrading to iOS6 will help in any way and if there is one thing that I've learned from owning Apple products, it is never to upgrade the OS too much. Apple after all is a hardware company and it is in their best interest to make customers upgrade hence the planned obsolescence with their OS updates.
As for me, I am just waiting for the next best iPhone to come out in October or if it is not compelling enough, maybe the GNex with Jelly Bean. Now THAT is a sweet OS with Google Now and Maps.
iOS 6 compatible with iPhone 3Gs.
iCloud incompatible with Snow Leopard.
Nothing to say.
But Lion costs only $30. I still think that iCloud should work with Snow Leopard because there are people who don't want to upgrade to Lion, like me. No Rosetta, no way.