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From: Martin S Taylor on 16 Jul 2010 07:55 Sak Wathanasin wrote >> As to whether there's any difference in performance, I can't say I've >> noticed >> anything yet. > > Presumably the iPh4 is fast enough that you wouldn't have noticed any > performance problems anyway, but has it helped with the holding-the- > phone-kills-the-signal problem? It's made it a lot more obvious, I can say that! Before, the bars had a certain random fluctuation so it wasn't *totally* obvious that putting your finger on the black strip reduced the signal. Now it's very clear. Not only that, but putting your finger on the *other* black strip (the one at the top of the phone) noticeably reduces the wifi signal, too. (They've also re-designed the bars themselves on the phone. It's now much clearer to see the tiny first bar). MST
From: Martin S Taylor on 16 Jul 2010 07:59 Jochem Huhmann wrote > jim(a)magrathea.plus.com (Jim) writes: > >> And the best thing is, it's digital - signal bar indicators don't mean >> anything important. All the phones need to say is "You have service" or >> "No service". > > Well, a third state in between saying "the signal is just good enough to > have service but be very careful how you hold the thing now" would be > very useful, too. An indicator just showing green, yellow or red would > work nicely ;-) Except that 'yellow' covers too wide a margin. You could have 'greeny-yellow' to mean 'pretty good, but not optimal', yellow to mean 'be careful how you hold the thing' and orange to mean 'critical, in danger of going red'. But some of us are colour-blind, so it might be better to display a number of bars from one to five, with one bar meaning 'red', up to five bars meaning 'green'. MST
From: Mark on 16 Jul 2010 08:05 On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:03:59 +0100, Sak Wathanasin wrote (in article <ae4bfc2f-c06b-4f64-854d-9447449d5faa(a)y11g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>): > .. is here. Painless installation on my 3G (I was expecting the > worst). *Seems* a little faster: settings comes up in 3 secs, camera > in 4 (+/- 2 as I was using the wristwatch to time it). As to whether > it's done anything for the iPh-4, I'm sure one of you will let us > know. Just installed on my 3G (I previously had 3.1.2 jailbroken). Did a fresh "Restore" first as seemed to be advised for 3G owners (i.e. /not/ to just "Update"), then installed 4.0.1 and then restored my latest backup. 1st impression - it's at least as fast as it was before - if not faster (*but* I had some laggy behavior before here and there but just got used to it). 'Notes' has reappeared for the first time in 18 months after it inexplicably vanished (no number of restores/updates brought it back in the meantime). Timings seem to be the same as yours, although the iPod takes a couple of seconds longer. I still have full bars for reception at home (O2), and it seems to grab my wireless signal quicker than before. GoodReader has had an update (USB file transfer is back, although now you drag 'n' drop documents back and forth via iTunes). I have heard 4.0.1 has enabled bluetooth track-skip (although that might be in 4.1). Most of the stuff I'm discovering is probably 'standard' iOS4 stuff - I don't think there's that much new to 4.0.1 except the fixes. All in all a great improvement so far! Cheers ... Mark
From: JohnB on 16 Jul 2010 08:13 On 16/07/2010 09:03, Sak Wathanasin wrote: > .. is here. Painless installation on my 3G (I was expecting the > worst). *Seems* a little faster: settings comes up in 3 secs, camera > in 4 (+/- 2 as I was using the wristwatch to time it). As to whether > it's done anything for the iPh-4, I'm sure one of you will let us > know. Sak - I have a 3G too and am still on OS3 - I didnt upgrade because of all the complaints fron 3G users on performance etc. So the big question for the 3G is... Is OS4.0.1 "better" than OS3.1.3 ? Or is the performance compromised ? If you had 2 identical 3G's each running one or other of the OS's, which one would you pick up and take out with you ? Cheers -- JohnB
From: Mark on 16 Jul 2010 08:35
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:05:07 +0100, Mark wrote (in article <0001HW.C866098301472F5CB01AD9AF(a)eu.Usenet-News.net>): > On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:03:59 +0100, Sak Wathanasin wrote > (in article > <ae4bfc2f-c06b-4f64-854d-9447449d5faa(a)y11g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>): > >> .. is here. Painless installation on my 3G (I was expecting the >> worst). *Seems* a little faster: settings comes up in 3 secs, camera >> in 4 (+/- 2 as I was using the wristwatch to time it). As to whether >> it's done anything for the iPh-4, I'm sure one of you will let us >> know. > > Just installed on my 3G (I previously had 3.1.2 jailbroken). Did a fresh > "Restore" first as seemed to be advised for 3G owners (i.e. /not/ to just > "Update"), then installed 4.0.1 and then restored my latest backup. > > 1st impression - it's at least as fast as it was before - if not faster > (*but* I had some laggy behavior before here and there but just got used to > it). 'Notes' has reappeared for the first time in 18 months after it > inexplicably vanished (no number of restores/updates brought it back in the > meantime). Timings seem to be the same as yours, although the iPod takes a > couple of seconds longer. I still have full bars for reception at home (O2), > and it seems to grab my wireless signal quicker than before. > > GoodReader has had an update (USB file transfer is back, although now you > drag 'n' drop documents back and forth via iTunes). I have heard 4.0.1 has > enabled bluetooth track-skip (although that might be in 4.1). > > Most of the stuff I'm discovering is probably 'standard' iOS4 stuff - I don't > think there's that much new to 4.0.1 except the fixes. All in all a great > improvement so far! > > Cheers ... Mark > Hmmm.. one thing though is that the Photo icon has disappeared! I can take a picture and view the album that way, but otherwise it's not accessible. I had a quick look on the Apple forums & a couple of other people have the problem. Solved it by syncing a second album. Now Photos show up (with the original and the second album). Deselected the second album and synced again and all seems well. Mark |