Users of the iPhone 3G who’ve updated to iOS4 haven’t been well impressed overall. In fact, it seems many would would likely take issue with my use of the word “updated”, as everywhere you look online there are complaints of slow-downs and crashes (check especially the comments on that link, for some major unhappiness), and general awfulness, as shown in a parody video – said to be a parody of the iPhone ads, but not really an exaggeration of the problem:
It appears I’ve really been rather fortunate (once I finally got the damn thing on my phone...). Text entry was laggy (was … I’ll come to that), but otherwise my 3G has been running pretty much as fine as it did before…. Well, most of the time. I do find myself using Memory Sweep more often, to free up memory. I find the system running out of memory and getting clunky more often now than with iPhone OS3 – but still not that often.
Ah now, text entry. Here is where to sort your iPhone out (particularly alongside installing a utility to free up memory). At the suggestion of Davmac I disabled autocorrect in the settings. No more laggy text input. Also no more having its “corrected” to it’s …. Also no more correct corrections, so I have to be a bit more careful, and correct mistakes myself – but then again, it often got it wrong anyway: if I typed of instead of if (or vice versa) it wouldn’t know to correct it; if I typed id instead of if it’d make it “I’d” … and so on. By the end of the first day without autocorrect I had got a lot more accurate as well, and generally I don’t miss it, as it really has dealt with the one significant bit of laggy yuckkiness on my iPhone. I would recommend it most highly to any iPhone 3G + iOS4 user.
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