iOS 4 Update Now Avaliable
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And does anyone know of a site showing how to downgrade if I decide it is too slow and I want to revert back to iPhone OS 3.1.3?
(Sorry to ask, but I figured this crowd would know the answers to both of my questions off the bat.)
No need to upgrade.
Edit: apparently there are a couple differences. Game center isn't installed in the "retail" version, and there seems to be at least one fixed bug on non-3GS devices (see comment below). But the build is the same.
edit: Oops, easy to confirm via the URL. It is 8A293 indeed.
It's not nice when a hardware maker dictates I should buy a new gizmo to enjoy the features practically identical gizmos have access to.
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/06/17/iphone-4-confirmed-to-ha...
You're misinterpreting his statement. The original iPhone model had 128MB. The iPhone 3G has 128MB. The original model is not supported under 4.0 but the 3G is.
There may be a technical reason, but that isn't it.
Then again, I bought my 3G a month before the 3GS came out. Verizon screwed up their deployment of towers in my area, at a time when I was job hunting and needed to make/take cell phone calls. So I had to switch (before the 3GS was release). But again, I've had my phone for less than a year, and it would suck to have it be obsoleted/EOL'd by Apple.
They probably don't WANT to keep it around, but for customers like me, who want their device supported for more than 13 months, they kept it.
The only conceivable reason I find is the lack of bluetooth in the 1st-gen iPod. I can't believe this is a requirement.
OSX Snow Leopard only supports Intel processors (2006), Leopard only supports G4s @ > 867mhz (unless you hack around). I've installed Win7 on computers from 2001 with no hassle, and with improved performance over Windows XP (let alone Vista)
I really do like my iPhone, but it definitely feels like the software shortcomings have been forced by Apple - sort of like how my phone's hardware is perfectly capable of MMS, but official software won't allow it. My phone records video quite nicely with Cycorder, but I'd have to purchase a third party app that functions at a fraction of Cycorder's quality if I stuck with official updates. And now I don't even get to try the new OS unless I upgrade.
It's still a very capable device though, and I'm more than capable of deciding not to upgrade my phone hardware until my current phone hardware ceases to function as designed.
And keep in mind iPod users have always been forced to pay for the software "that costs money to develop".
There is no way to spin this in a nice way.
And, for the record, I would be perfectly fine to buy this upgrade.
No. I won't buy a new computer just because Steve thinks I should.
It's pure, unadulterated greed.
WWDC keynote, 1:41 "because the hardware just won't support it".
But don't late that get in the way of your put downs, eh.
If you really believe there is a solid technical reason for it, I have a nice bridge to sell you.
Given no evidence to support the contrary position, yes I find that plausible.
The only difference between a rev1 iPhone and a 3G iPhone is the cell radio.
And the GPS. And the compass. And the looks. And the standby battery life. And the requirement for a newer version of iTunes.[1] And the iPhone 2G came in a 4Gb version.
1) Just because the CPU is the same, doesn't mean the internals are the same through and through.
2) Just because the hardware appears identical at a component level does not mean there are no technical limitations. There could be arbitrary design limits in what they can upgrade (e.g. baseband firmware) or what they can reliably upgrade remotely.
"The appearance of the iPhone 3G is almost identical to that of the 2G model. However, its inside, including the parts layout, is totally different. We could see that assembly workability was improved and some measures were taken to reduce the mounting area as well as parts costs." - http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20090114/164030...
What's that? In the two years between the iPhone and the iPhone 3G they redesigned the insides? But but but if I believe the pictures I'm just buying into Apple's lies. This must be a fake!
But what's this? http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20090114/164030...
Some of the components are different part numbers or made by different companies entirely?
OK OK so they may have spent a year or so redesigning, made changes, layout changes, component changes, but they DIDN'T CHANGE THE CPU so IT MUST BE IDENTICAL because if it wasn't they wouldn't be able to run iOS 4 on it and they ... erm ... can because I say so.
They are different phones with different features designed at different times with different internal layouts and different components. We have the fact that they didn't release iOS 4 for it, and we have the official company words that they aren't supporting all features on iPhone 3G because the hardware isn't up to providing the multitasking experience they want to give, and that they aren't supporting iPod touch 1G because the hardware just isn't up to it.
If you want to claim the 2G is up to it, then the burden of proof is on you to offer some more compelling evidence than shrill cries of 'pure greed', assertions that the hardware is identical when it isn't, and personal insults calling people gullible.
Myself, I've worked with computers and software long enough to know that an arbitrary reason stopping me from doing something which seems possible at a glance is very common.
[1] http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/specials/en/2...
Killswitches are iOS 4-only apps, which (based on experience with iPod touch) will show up in AppStore, but you will not able to install them. Also, you cannot get previous versions (3.x-compatible) of applications from AppStore.
A kill switch would be something that makes your experience worse.
Mobile providers won't waste the time to OTA it, of course, and root+image isn't for many people (though things like ROM Manager are making these paths accessible to an awful lot more people than we tend to assume). But I'm not sure how it's 'not true at all'.
I will say it is crashing to a very nice looking home screen, in any case.
I dunno. Guess I'll find out tonight.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=5e07d...
Teaches me well to install software on release day, next time let others test it first...
A near-real-time twitter feed should appear if WebSockets are supported (tested w Safari5 Desktop, Chrome 6).
Please share your results. Thanks!
I did this with mine and my wife's N1, and neither one has an unlocked bootloader, and neither one has rooted firmware.
Easy enough, but this phone is an important communications device for me and I don't want to mess around with betas. It's just surprising that Google has mangled this release so badly.
The devices getting the Froyo update via OTA right now are a subset of the AWS-compatible phones that Google first released in January, and handed out to the press and Google employees. In other words, there's no Froyo update for the N1 made for the AT&T/Rogers bands because Google's not using them to dogfood the OS image right now.
edit: now if we get into how there are some apps you can't get on the Android Market because AT&T told Google you can't have them, that's something slimy that AT&T is doing. For example, if there's an AT&T SIM in your phone, the Market won't let you download PDANet. Pull the sim, though, and there it is...
I noticed that in 2.2 my color values were all over the place.
I found out that I then had to use BitmapFactory.options to disable automatic dithering and resizing which must have been defaults prior to the 2.2 upgrade.
I hate when default values for any functions are changed in updates, and this is the one I ran across in the 2.2 update.
Of course I can expect this to happen when hell freezes over I guess.
I would argue that a jailbroken iPhone is currently the best device available. You get Apple's slick UI and ease of use alongside Android's restriction-free environment.
Interesting anecdote: I actually turned off multitasking with my jailbroken iPhone. Except for some very specific cases I think most people are going to find multitasking not a big deal at all.