Hutch

I did a hard reset on mine after updating and it runs fine. Will be getting the iPhone 4 at the end of the month when it's released and the missus will get my 3GS.

stevemich

I have a 3G and upgraded (!) to OS4 - I had to do a reset afterwards cause it was soooooo slow... (click the phone in iTunes and select Restore).
I did a complete restore (and so all my info was deleted - so make sure you back up everything you wanted) and it is working much better.
Still wish I could revert back to the old OS, but seems there is no way.

GarryP

If you jailbreak your iPhone you can enable multitasking and wallpaper with a simple hack:
http://pixelatedgeek.com/2010/06/ios...for-iphone-3g/

Of course, if you were wise and bought an Android based phone, you'd have real multitasking (and with it multi app notifications) by default....

Jen1977ni

My iphone is unlocked without jailbreaking and I'm happy to keep it that way lol

Jen1977ni

Seems I'm not the only one having issues with OS4...today a school called me and my phone wouldn't let me answer, had enough of the many probs myself and others are encountering, time to try and downgrade back to OS3...

http://discussions.apple.com/thread....t=255&tstart=1

bezzanbob

Seems to me not much different except for the multitasking which is useful.

Web pages do seem to load a tad slower and it refuses to allow me to swipe while waiting. Some apps are now closing of their own will in a way they didn't used to and mt CoPilot Live decided to give up the ghost last weekend.

Grrr

Hutch

Yea, but then you'd be stuck with an Android phone, so it's hardly a solution, is it?

Deancm_MKII

Better than being stuck with a phone that keeps dropping out or requires the use of tape to stop it dropping out.

Hutch

Even if the iPhone only worked with morse code it'd be a superior product.

Deancm_MKII

So a superior product is one that does not perform it's core function as a phone properly?

To be quite honest, I would be waiting for Apple to fix the iPhone 4 reception problems before outlaying any cash. Let's hope Apple have rectified this prior to the Aussie release date.

steve99

Am I missing something with this so called multitasking? all it seems to be is everytime you open anything on the phone, it now creates another link to it which you can access by double clicking on your home button, you eventually end up with everything you ever use down in that task bar type area, surely that cant be enhancing the phones performance??
I seem to be spending my whole type going in and closing things down to compensate.
Sure if you occasionally need to flick between things its a bit quicker but I dont see it really doing anything you couldnt do before.
It also seems to of quite heavily impacted the battery life.
Im not convinced by it...

Hutch

I'm inclined to agree with you. I haven't noticed any performance degradation, but the multi-tasking seems to be a bit pointless - but then I wasn't bothered by the way it worked before. I thought the multi-tasking was only going to apply to certain apps such as navigation software but as you point out, everything seems to end up in that little tray.

asprilla

I don't know anything about multitasking on the iphone as I've only briefly used my brother's iphone to have a play on the facebook app, maps, that kind of thing.

On a PC when I think of multitasking, I think of what I'm doing now... I have Chrome open with multiple tabs, sometimes some of those tabs take a while to load so I'll flick to another one (for example BE). Then itunes is open, playing music. There's also another couple of applications open doing their job too.

I imagine that on an iphone or other similar device, there isn't such a big need to multitask... particularly if you can open up a new application quickly and get it to do what you want, within a few seconds.

I would guess that people using android phones probably do very little multitasking. But the ability to multitask is probably "nice to have" nonetheless.

Deancm_MKII

Looks like Apple could be recalling the iPhone 4.

http://www.theage.com.au/digital-lif...ml?autostart=1

Jen1977ni

There's a virus warning when you click on that link, be careful people!