Is the iPhone 3G becoming extinct?
I happened to buy my iPhone 3G a couple of weeks before the 3GS was launched. Now, with the iPhone 4 on the market, and just a little after a year of buying it, my 3G is already two generations old. So embarrasing.
I upgraded my iOS to 4.0 for a couple of days, but that made my iPhone 3G frustratingly slow. So I moved back to 3.1.3. The feeling of being obsolete is quietly developing.
The newest release of Twitter for iPhone (the official app) doesn’t work on my iPhone anymore. What their site says about this situation is pretty much “we know it crashes, we are working on it”. But I really think that as soon as I close my browser, they laugh at us 3.1.3 users. Thank God we still have Osfoora. (Update: Twitter for iPhone 3.0.3 is out and fully working on 3.1.3… if only I had something interesting to tweet).
Qik, my first choice for videorecording, doesn’t work either. They throw an upfront “sorry, no Qik for you”. At least they don’t give us fake hopes.
How long do you think we can survive? Should we move on to 4.0? Is the 3G on its way to extinction?
I'm using mine on 4.0 and it freezes all the time but i can't bring myself to go back to 3 point whatever. It's clear that Apple are trying to make us upgrade because if they wanted to they could have either told us not to upgrade or made sure that 3Gs did work (in the same way they've decided we can't have wallpaper or multi-tasking).
Whilst I accept that it's only half as powerful a phone, it's really quite pathetic that apple is treating loyal customers this way, and along with their original arrogance over antennagate and ridiculous high pricing is making me question sticking with them as a long-term and loyal customer. My other concern is that the resale value of the iPhone 4 isn't likely to be too good given that future versions are unlikely to have the problematic antenna – so I am not going to upgrade until the next version comes out – or i may even go for an Android phone instead.
I suggest you wait for iphone 5 (rumours predict beginning 2011) to come, or you might have the same problem the next time
i bet they will call it the 4G (because that network will come up in 2012 as i heard)
hope i'm not dreaming
I too think the 3G is on it's way. After upgrading to iOs4 everything crashed and normal things took forever. After getting the iPhone4 just recently also made me love the phone all over again.. Those same apps that wouldn't work or took forever work perfectly.. But don't tell until I sell my 3G on eBay!!
I couldn't agree more with Milo. It wasn't nice from Apple to just forget about all 3G users. Our iPhones might not be as cool, but we still are iPhoners.
At least our antennas work U_U
My 3G has a very happy life now as my 3-year-old's "phone". All the kiddie games and educational stuff that he used to play on my 3GS work perfectly on the 3G and everyone's happy with the arrangement.
Well, I guess I’m unusual because my 3g still works great. I upgraded to iOS4 and did a quick visit to Jailbreakme.com and everything is back to normal. In fact, it almost seems FASTER than before.
I’m still going to upgrade to a larger device as the 3.5″ screen is too small for my fingers. Now that I’m old, I can’t read the screen very well either.
My 3G has found new life as my 16 yr olds new iPod. He has the camera he wanted in the Touch that my younger son ended up with. Wait till they see the next Touch though……