Comments on: Is the iPhone 3G becoming extinct?

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:13:01 +0000

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……

By: Timmy

Timmy — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:09:37 +0000

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.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:27:34 +0000

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.

By: gusomac

gusomac — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:40:26 +0000

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

By: Wuppypup

Wuppypup — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:12:35 +0000

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!!

By: 12act

12act — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:24:14 +0000

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 🙂

By: Milo

Milo — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:51:40 +0000

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.