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From: Stephen on 24 Jun 2010 10:18
On Jun 24, 1:20 pm, Chris Ridd <chrisr...(a)mac.com> wrote:
> On 2010-06-24 13:07:46 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh said:
>
>
>
> > On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:03:27 +0100, "El.Plates" <pi...(a)thebar.com>
> > wrote:
> >> "Jaimie Vandenbergh" <jai...(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote in message
> >>news:uuh6265vmb9ve3ftnrs32qt8qk1f9tir7p(a)4ax.com...
>
> >>> Also check into exacly which Touch you have - only the 3rd gen will
> >>> take the full benefits of iOS4.
>
> >> Cheers for that Jaimie, will get onto doing the update when I get home from
> >> work.
>
> > To expand upon that last bit - the iPhone 3G is slower under iOS4 than
> > 3 (and doesn't get the full feature set), while the iPhone 3GS is
> > faster under iOS4.
>
> > I suspect the Touch gen2 and gen3 would do the same, so updating a
> > gen2 might be a bad idea.
>
> My gen 2 iPod Touch feels about the same speed with iOS 4 as iOS 3.
>
> I thought gen 3 iPod Touches were equivalent in hardware spec to the
> iPhone 3GS, ie more memory, faster graphics?
>
> --
> Chris

My experience of updating my 2G iPod Touch to iOS 4 is that it feels
sluggish in some apps that were OK before. The odd thing is that the
affected apps aren't the ones I would have expected to suffer. Things
like Youtube and other media playback apps seem unaffected, probably
because they offload processing to dedicated chips, which of course
are not affected by a change in the operating system. Most of the
seemingly graphically intensive apps appear largely unaffected. The
oddities seem to be simpler apps, and example being Puzzlemaniak which
is horribly sluggish under iOS 4.

I am still not sure changing to iOS4 was a good idea, so much of the
niceties are missing on 2G iPod Touches and iPhone 3Gs. I do like the
way the new Mail app works, and the folders thing is useful too.

In the longer term I think I shall finally be opting to go for an
iPhone 4, when the initial rush has died down somewhat. What is
holding me back from making the leap is the fact that I can tether
wirelessly via my Nokia N95 using whatever device I please without
occuring any extra expense. It seems to me that connecting to the
internet using my MacBook whlst out and about would not be possible
with an iPhone 4, without extra expense.
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 24 Jun 2010 11:29
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:20:07 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com>
wrote:

>On 2010-06-24 13:07:46 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh said:
>
>> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:03:27 +0100, "El.Plates" <pints(a)thebar.com>
>> wrote:
>>> "Jaimie Vandenbergh" <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote in message
>>> news:uuh6265vmb9ve3ftnrs32qt8qk1f9tir7p(a)4ax.com...
>>>>
>>>> Also check into exacly which Touch you have - only the 3rd gen will
>>>> take the full benefits of iOS4.
>>>
>>> Cheers for that Jaimie, will get onto doing the update when I get home from
>>> work.
>>
>> To expand upon that last bit - the iPhone 3G is slower under iOS4 than
>> 3 (and doesn't get the full feature set), while the iPhone 3GS is
>> faster under iOS4.
>>
>> I suspect the Touch gen2 and gen3 would do the same, so updating a
>> gen2 might be a bad idea.
>
>My gen 2 iPod Touch feels about the same speed with iOS 4 as iOS 3.
>
>I thought gen 3 iPod Touches were equivalent in hardware spec to the
>iPhone 3GS, ie more memory, faster graphics?

That's what I meant: Touch 2G ~= iPhone 3G, so may be slower.
Touch 3G ~= iPhone 3GS, so should be fine or quicker.

Cheers - Jaimie
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From: zoara on 25 Jun 2010 08:34
Stephen <srmoll(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In the longer term I think I shall finally be opting to go for an
> iPhone 4, when the initial rush has died down somewhat. What is
> holding me back from making the leap is the fact that I can tether
> wirelessly via my Nokia N95 using whatever device I please without
> occuring any extra expense. It seems to me that connecting to the
> internet using my MacBook whlst out and about would not be possible
with an iPhone 4, without extra expense.

.... Or a jailbreak

-z-

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From: smurf on 25 Jun 2010 14:03
El.Plates wrote:
> There is an upgrade available for my iPod Touch to download and
> install iOS4, has anyone else here taken the "upgrade" ?
> My iPodTouch is working fine as it is and I'm unsure as to what the
> benefits are supposed to be with this upgrade.
> Does anyone have links or information about the upgrade ?
> TIA.

I can tell you the 3g iphone is terrible under the new OS, if your ipod
touch is of the same generation it probably will also suffer.


From: Ben Shimmin on 26 Jun 2010 19:33
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org>:

[...]

> To expand upon that last bit - the iPhone 3G is slower under iOS4 than
> 3 (and doesn't get the full feature set), while the iPhone 3GS is
> faster under iOS4.
>
> I suspect the Touch gen2 and gen3 would do the same, so updating a
> gen2 might be a bad idea.

My iPhone 3G feels really unpleasantly sluggish with iOS4. I very
much regret installing the update, which has given me folders (fine,
quite useful I guess), threading and a unified inbox in mail (not
terribly interesting to me), the usual minor things that illustrate
Apple's meticulous attention to detail but, in practice, make no real
difference to your life, and about a 25-50% decrease in speed (things
like opening the Settings app and sending an SMS are now very obviously
slow).

If Apple couldn't be bothered optimising iOS4 to work on the 3G at a
reasonable speed, they should have just restricted it to 3GS and above
hardware, if you ask me.

b.

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