iPhone 3G performance with iOS 4.2: much improved

By on Nov 8, 2010 at 10:20 PM
mobile November 8, 2010

iPhone 3G owners have had a rough time lately. First, they missed out on some of the best new features iOS 4 had to offer. Then, the watered down version of iOS 4 they finally got their hands on slowed performance to a near-crawl in most cases. But don’t worry, iPhone 3G owners, some long overdue good news is finally coming your way… iOS 4.2 will bring much needed performance improvements when it finally reaches consumers. Using the Gold Master build of the software, TiPb was nice enough to give us all an early taste of the new OS version on video. As you can see very clearly, the phone shows marked improvements compared to the latest public OS build. In fact, it’s almost on par with iOS 3 on the iPhone 3G. Hit the jump for the full video and if you’re an iPhone 3G owner, get ready to breathe a sigh of relief.

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  • http://twitter.com/Vision77 Vision77

    Although my main mobile OS is Android I definitely will welcome this on my iphone 3G…..Now just gotta wait for apple to officially release this and the the dev team to work a little magic ;)

  • Mgl323

    Wow, that’s pretty impressive. Nice job Apple.

  • Norm

    Not nearly as good as DROID OS. Way to go crApple, finally getting your phones caught up. You won’t see that with DROID.

    • Anonymous

      I like that you’re back glansburg, it just wasn’t the same without your iphone lovin ass.
      Also I’m glad to see that I made enough of an impression back 6 months ago when I used the handle norm, that you are still keeping it alive.
      keep up the good fight man!

    • http://twitter.com/stulaw11 Jon Klurfeld

      Funny you talk about catching up while cheerleading an OS still on 1.5/1.6 on some devices and won’t be capable of higher builds AT ALL.

      I at least give Apple props for supporting a 2 year old device. Android wont know what to do with a 2 year old device when it gets that far because theyll just EOL it and forget about it 150 handsets later.

  • Anonymous

    Notice how he takes a stab at android. My 4-year old daughter will love this update on her iphone3G (not activated)

    But.. its not android, nor Google.. its the damn manufactures!

  • Gr8Job!

    Cool! My 2 year old obsolete phone is uncrippled! It only took 30,000 employees and 2 years to fix!

  • Anonymous

    This is impressive, I know this phone was still being sold 5 months ago, but its 2 year old hardware. My 2 friends that still have one are pretty content, resolution be damned!

  • http://twitter.com/tarund TarunD

    Why did he sound like a freakin robot? But, that is very impressive what Apple has done with 4.2 on iPhone 3G.

  • sirpaul

    A wave of impatience came over me 2 days ago, and I went out and downloaded and installed iOS 4.2 GM on my 3GS. It works great! I even tried wireless printing with my HP shared printer and it worked very well. Search feature is also very well integrated into web pages (via Google search bar), a feature I’m sure many of us have been waiting for for ages! Other than that, nothing really changed. This update will be big mostly for the iPads. Oh ya, there’s no quick brightness control of the iPhone version of iOS, only the iPad. A real bummer if you ask me!

    • Anonymous

      No one asked you!

    • Anonymous

      It doesn’t slow down straight away, mine always took a few days before it became unbearable. I got to the point where I couldn’t have any additional apps on mine.

      • sirpaul

        Sorry to hear that. Have you tried a full reboot? You may have a memory leak that is causing the slowdown – I had the problem a lot in 3.0 (I had 3.0 till about 1.5 months ago lol). For me, battery life and performance is iproved. I left my phone off at 25% last night and woke up with 21%, when some (bad!!!) days I’d lose 40% overnight. Average of 10%.

  • offdayJB

    hmm..i just upgraded and jailbroke an iPhone3G today to iOS 4.1 and i didn’t really notice much lag, compared to the already horrible lag versus 2010 smartphones. i was only using it for about an hour though..

  • http://twitter.com/atldrew Andrew Nevelos

    Jailbroke and Unlocked the 4.0 version so I could run it on T-Mobile. Now that the PDF exploit has been patched can I still jailbreak & unlock the phone after updating to 4.2. The iPhone (in my opinion) is slower than my old G1.

  • Ikok1103

    does the speed bump also apply to iphone 3gs??

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