iOS4 on 3Gs iPhone: a good idea?

[Surely]

I'm the guy who tells you to stop talking rubbish.

ORLY?

When I first upgraded to iOS4, it seemed great. Faster, smoother... the way the iPhone was meant to work. After a few days, I started to develop the following:

• It was a little jumpy
• Camera took 5-7 seconds to open
• A 2-3 second delay in switching pages in Safari
• Animations during opening/closing apps weren't smooth
• A 1-2 second delay when replying to email, and when Mail auto-filled addresses in the To bar
• Battery life was reduced
• Because of the memory required for "multi-tasking", fewer pages would be remembered in Safari (used to be 4-5 pages, with iOS4 2-3 pages)

I did a restore, and even set my iPhone up as brand new, but the problems persisted. The list makes it seem a lot worse than it was. Don't get me wrong, it was still usable, but a little annoying.

 

[Eso]

Folders are often jerky when opening them, too.

 

[Surely]

Folders are often jerky when opening them, too.

Yep, I forgot about that one. That annoyed me.

 

[smashhell]

ORLY?

When I first upgraded to iOS4, it seemed great. Faster, smoother... the way the iPhone was meant to work. After a few days, I started to develop the following:

• It was a little jumpy
• Camera took 5-7 seconds to open
• A 2-3 second delay in switching pages in Safari
• Animations during opening/closing apps weren't smooth
• A 1-2 second delay when replying to email, and when Mail auto-filled addresses in the To bar
• Battery life was reduced
• Because of the memory required for "multi-tasking", fewer pages would be remembered in Safari (used to be 4-5 pages, with iOS4 2-3 pages)

I did a restore, and even set my iPhone up as brand new, but the problems persisted. The list makes it seem a lot worse than it was. Don't get me wrong, it was still usable, but a little annoying.

is it really that bad ?
anyone with a better experience ?

 

[Surely]

is it really that bad ?
anyone with a better experience ?

Please take the last line of my post into consideration:

The list makes it seem a lot worse than it was. Don't get me wrong, it was still usable, but a little annoying.

 

[mrboult]

Works fine on mine. Little bit slower than it used to be but fine fine fine.

Although one day (and only one day) it was being very very slow so I opened up the app switching / mutlitaking tray thing cancelled all the apps running and it worked at full speed again right away. I'm sure Steve Jobs said you could happily never use that function without problems but it seems you may occasionally need to close some apps if your speed slows?