iOS 4.2 improves iPhone 3G performance

Actually it's not too shabby. So stop saying non too shabby. -_-;

If anyone still has iOS3.x on their iPhone 3G, stay with it. I went to iOS4.0, which virtually bricked my iPhone 3G. Apple nearly drove me to buying another phone just to be usable. iOS4.1 is back to barely usable, but still crashing many aps, including Pandora, and keyboard still takes 3-5 seconds to allow typing, and lot's of text lag still. If there were ANY way possible to downgrade to iOS3.x without a jailbreak. I'd take it. Too bad they didn't compare 3.x with 4.2 side by side. That would be useful.

Oh also I had apps crashing like crazy on the 3G iOS 4.1.. Almost any app even messages n iPod n the original iPhone apps would constantly crash.. Not one app crash yet not even jailbreak apps on my 3GS running iOS 4.1.. Waiting for an unteathered iOS 4.2 jailbreak b4 upgrading..

I just recently had an iPhone 3G, running 3.1.3 for quite a while.. I figured it was slow but had nothing to compare it to.. Installed 4.1 a few weeks ago, noticed a small increase in speed.. Typing text anywhere would lag n it'd skip letters that I 100% know I pressed.. I'd have to retype n fix words constantly.. Well I got pushed in a pool with my slug of a 3G in my pocket.. Next day (bout 3 days ago) I got a brand new 3GS running the same 4.1.. Needless to say this phone is more than 20x faster on the same software version!! Apple f*cked up with the 3G.. No issues at all with the 3gs.. after jailbreaking it I still see no dif in speed than b4 jailbreaking.. I'm glad I got pushed in that pool.. I'd still b waiting for this page to load if I were still using that thing!! Ha.. Sucks I lost all my contacts with no way to recover them then got my # changed cuz xgf harassing me n now my old friends will never find me!!! :'( dry out n turn on 3G u piece of crap!!

There's lag on the pinch & zoom because the page isn't fully loaded, not a fair test.

I think the test was helpful. Anyone who has used an iPhone 3g, knows how the screen will lag and text entry will be slow. If my iPhone 3g performs as well as the one in the video, I be pleasantly surprised.

WTF bs is this. Watched half this (this guys voice and the things he said were extremely annoying) b4 realizing how idiotic and pointless it is. 4.1 is fine, nobody use 4.0 any more. And you've only got one phone? No side by side?

The only demonstration that would have been marginally useful would have been TWO phones, side by side, one with 4.1, and the other running 4.2 GM. Fail dude.

I cannot understand why this article still refers to ios4 when ios4.1 has been available for sometime now. I have installed ios4.1 on my iphone 3G and I was very happy for the significant improvement over 3.1.3. The best enhancements are the speed improvement in syncing and the ability to organize apps in folders.

The comparison would have been more valuable had it been to ios4.1.

I don't get it - the article says "Some pinch-and-zoom was a bit laggy, but definitely worlds better than iOS 4.0 on a 3G." - so is this an improvement over 4.0, or 4.1? I thought 4.1 fixed the slowdown issues, so it just makes sense that 4.2 would be worlds better than 4.0.

It also brought back the original wifi bug on iPad. Yay.