From: Sak Wathanasin on 16 Jul 2010 08:57 On 16 July, 13:05, Mark <captain.bl...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > 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). Deleting videos is a lot faster in 4.x - I'm downloading the Tour de France highlights everyday to watch on the train home and have to delete the old one as I don't have enough space. It used to just sit there for ages (no progress bar :-().
From: Howard on 16 Jul 2010 09:02 JohnB <john.brennand(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: > 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 ? My 2 cents John is STAY on 3.1.3 !! I am finding 4.01 a 'little' faster than 4.0 but it could be temporary and if it is I have all the instructions ready and printed out now t try to roll back to 3.1.3 Best of luck Howard
From: Jochem Huhmann on 16 Jul 2010 09:17 Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> writes: >> 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'. OK, good idea! Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: Bella Jones on 16 Jul 2010 10:28 Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > > Sak Wathanasin <sw(a)nan.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > On 16 July, 11:09, j...(a)magrathea.plus.com (Jim) wrote: > > > > > > > The word on the web is "no, but it wasn't intended to". It was more to > > > > stop it misrepresenting the signal strength indicator bars. If you were > > > > getting dropped calls before, this won't have cured it. > > > > > > You can just see the "I used to get 5 bars, and now I only have 2" > > > grumbles coming, can't you? > > > > 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". > > Is that true? Quite often my wife calls me, and her voice is very > garbled, stop/start and sometimes vanishes. That has to be "poor signal" > surely? And I'm sure she's not drunk. How long will the new update take to intall onto 3GS, anyone know? -- bellajonez at yahoo dot co dot uk
From: David Empson on 16 Jul 2010 10:40
Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: > How long will the new update take to intall onto 3GS, anyone know? I told iTunes to download and install, went and did a few things to get ready for work and it was installed and wanting me to unlock my SIM by the time I got back, so less than 15 minutes. Assuming a reasonably fast Internet connection (the file downloaded is almost 400 MB). -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz |