Joel evans over at zdnet has confirmed a vast improvement in iphone 3g performance with the ios 4. Possible photos of 3g iphone with video ichat macrumors. On the upper menu bar, click messages and select preferences. Ill try this test again with the 3g on its own and when apple finally gets round to mailing me to say my iphone4 has arrived, ill test that at the same. San francisco june 8th, 2009 apple today introduced the new iphone 3gs, the fastest, most powerful iphone yet, packed with incredible new features including improved speed and performance up to twice as fast as iphone 3g with longer battery life, a highquality 3 megapixel autofocus camera, easy to use video recording and hands free voice control.
Keep reading for our impromptu, unscientific speed tests. Fortunately, the company is poised to release ios 4. The iphone 3gs originally styled iphone 3g s is a smartphone that was designed and marketed by apple inc. It was introduced on june 19, 2009, at the wwdc 2009 which took place at the moscone center, san francisco. Now that we know ios 8 cannot be installed on old iphones like iphone 3gs4, our next task is to wait for something magical to happen. If you do not care about your iphoneipod touch jailbreak or unlocking iphone and want to go for ios 4. The iphone 3gs, iphone 4, iphone 5, ipod touch 5th generation, ipad 4th generation and ipad mini 1st generation are the only ios devices to support 4 major versions of ios, while the iphone 4s, ipad 3rd generation has support to 5 major ios releases and the ipad 2 has up to 6 major ios releases. If you remember, ios 6 does not work on old iphone 3g2g and ipod touches. If youve got the screen at 100 percent, are downloading gigs in an area with poor.
Apple has launched its app store and theres a bunch of great iphone apps to download for your iphone. We also tested the speed of the original iphone on an edge network to see how it compared, as well as testing the iphone 3gs on 802. Sep 20, 2012 download apple ios 6 software update for iphone 3gs. If you like it just go for it i have iphone 3gs and 4 and their is not much difference, its that what i felt.
Jun 08, 2009 san francisco june 8th, 2009 apple today introduced the new iphone 3gs, the fastest, most powerful iphone yet, packed with incredible new features including improved speed and performance up to twice as fast as iphone 3g with longer battery life, a highquality 3 megapixel autofocus camera, easy to use video recording and hands free voice control. What is the fastest ios version for the iphone 3gs. This video shows you how the 3gs performs on ios 6, and should help clear up any doubts you have about upgrading. This is welcome news for iphone 3g owners, whose problems were overshadowed by reception issues on the iphone 4 antenna. The s is for speed the iphone 3gs, codenamed n88, and model number iphone 2,1, was the third iphone, but the second generation. Jun 21, 2010 if you do not care about your iphoneipod touch jailbreak or unlocking iphone and want to go for ios 4. An apple expert explains why your iphone says waiting for activation and. How to install viber on iphone 3gs for free how to download. Aug 18, 2011 downgrade your iphone 3g from ios 4 to ios 3. Sep 21, 20 download the free app from the app store. Syncing your imessages to icloud also allows you to download them to a new. May 16, 20 btw just realised that you are using iphone 3g for which the os can go upto as far as ios 4. Iphone 3gs is nice and it depends on you, do you like it or not. Musclenerd confirms that it is safe to update to ios 6.
The iphone 3gs is a smartphone that was designed and marketed by apple inc. As like my video showing ios4 running on the iphone3gs you will be pretty surprised that its. Feb 21, 2014 here are the direct download links for ios 6. But these apps on the iphone, as far as we know from announced stuff, will only allow one service at a time. The s in iphone 3gs stands for speed, but it could very well stand for slow if you look at the dated chip it uses for uploading data. While you should get better speeds with the iphone 6s, the reality is that there are many factors that can impact speed at.
Basically the download speeds will spike to 14 mbps for a minute or. How to access the download manager in safari for ios macrumors. A different name is not the only change apple made to its mobile operating system. The newest version of ios has a lot to offer, for example better facebook integration, a brand new map app with improved navigation features and an easier way to share your photos with your. However, it looks as if apple is going to resist this route and that the 3gs upgrade is purely for across the board speed increases rather than in making more powerful apps. My finger on the stopwatch of one iphone, mikes on the iphone 3g and 3gs. How to speedup your slow iphone 3g downgrade your os dum dum. It turns out that the newer operating system makes the iphone 3g utterly unusable, but its easy to fix this problem. Apple ios 6 software update for iphone 3gs driver techspot. I understand the 3gs is 2 years old, but just being able to type text messages fluidly is a super basic task that a 600mhz processor should handle just fine as it did on ios 4. Now i cant download any apps because all it say everytime i download in app store is that i must have ios 7. A tipster has broadcast claimed 3g iphone images to a number of rumor and tech sites in the hope of.
Nov 02, 2011 finally, at pier 39, the iphone 4s showed that it could really beat the iphone 4 with 4,290kbps download speed and 1,173kbps upload speed, compared with 2,653kbps download and 1,090kbps upload on. How to speedup your slow iphone 3g downgrade your os dum. In fact, he reports that some functions on the iphone 3g are faster with ios 4. It is the third generation iphone, successor to the iphone 3g. Can old iphones like iphone 43gs get ios 8 firmware. The iphone 3g s may be a faster device, but the upgrade process is slow. In this video i pit an iphone 3gs vs iphone 4 running ios5 to compare the performance difference. If youre interested in jailbreaking your iphone, ipad or ipod touch on ios 6. In this article, ill explain why imessage is waiting for activation and show you. Sep 19, 2012 apple released ios 6 for iphone 5, 4s, 4, 3gs, the new ipad ipad 3, ipad 2, ipod touch 4g5g. Heres a full tutorial from on how to do the downgrade. Hdr, hd videos, support for tv rental shows and game center are the new features.
No wonder steve jobs is staying away come on apple, boring. Btw just realised that you are using iphone 3g for which the os can go upto as far as ios 4. Sep 18, 2014 now that we know ios 8 cannot be installed on old iphones like iphone 3gs 4, our next task is to wait for something magical to happen. Download apple ios 6 software update for iphone 3gs. Heres a stepbystep instruction what should you do and what iterations you need to walkthrough in order.
Apple ios 6 has been under development for past 6 months, first announced at wwdc 2012, ios 6 got several beta and last gold master release for devs and todays final version of ios 6 is available for iphone 4s,4,3gs, ipod touch 4g and ipad 2, 3. Apple iphone 3gs offers speed boost, video capture, new os. Wait for the jailbreak teams to release a jailbreak tool for ios 6. Apple just released ios 5 for the iphone, ipad and ipod touch. Thanks to all our chicago readers who sent in their speed test data from their iphone 3g and 3gs. The iphone 3gs, in point of fact, runs the latest available version of ios 6. Users with older iphones can now download legacy versions of apps that no longer support their device. Encrypted itunes backups, iphone 3gs supports encryption, supports. Our tests used four sample web pages that varied in size and complexity, some short and imageheavy, others bigger and with lots of embedded code. Its easy to set up imessage on a mac to send and receive messages.
I understand the 3gs is 2 years old, but just being able to type text messages fluidly is a super basic task that a 600mhz processor should handle just fine as it. This iphone is named 3gs where s stood for speed phil schiller had mentioned it in the launch keynote. By default, files downloaded in safari are saved in the downloads section of the files app, but you can easily customize the storage location. While you should get better speeds with the iphone 6s, the reality is that there are many factors that can impact speed at any given point of time. Apple announces the new iphone 3gs the fastest, most. To use icloud, you need at least ios 5 on iphone 3gs, ipod touch 3rd. No wonder you must already be having that version of ios so the phone says it is up to date, however the apps are not downloading and installing as those particular apps requires minimum ios 5 as mentioned by you. Sep 22, 2012 on the fritz about upgrading your iphone 3gs to ios 6. Here are some real world tests that were done recently, comparing the iphone 5s on 802. Improved battery life up to 9 hours internet surfing, 10 hours of video, 30 hours of audio, 12 hours of 2g talktime and 5 hours of 3g talktime. As far as the iphone 3gs is quite old device and doesnt support new version of viber by default, you still may download and install the tool on this specific version of ios system. On the fritz about upgrading your iphone 3gs to ios 6. Meanwhile, the iphone 3gs model 5 feet away, also connected to 3g. Jun 19, 2009 apple s aapl claims the iphone 3g s is much faster than the iphone 3g, but is it.
Whats the fastest speed at which an iphone 6 can download. Actually, it was released in feb 2014, 3 months after varjacks post and almost a year after the thread started. Finally, at pier 39, the iphone 4s showed that it could really beat the iphone 4 with 4,290kbps download speed and 1,173kbps upload speed, compared with 2,653kbps download and 1,090kbps upload on. The ios 6 firmware comes with numerous improvements over the previous ios generations including a apples own 3d maps application, the passbook wallet app, siri for the ipad and much more. In this instance, the ipad was getting its internet data from a 3g connection furnished by a twoyearold white iphone3g. As announced at apples iphone 5 event, ios 6 is final is ready and available for download for all. Hmm so we have a bit faster iphone cpu, same for mba and the macbook gets firewire back plus an sd card reader and sl is still 3 months away. Oct, 2011 in this video i pit an iphone 3gs vs iphone 4 running ios5 to compare the performance difference. Heres a stepbystep instruction what should you do and what iterations you need to walkthrough in order to set up viber voipmessenger on iphone 3gs. Apple on monday unveiled a new version of the iphone. If you find the app doesnt begin installing immediately, forcepress an app icon that is downloading, and select pause download. Heres how to do it, and sync your messages with an iphone or ipad using icloud. How to set up and use imessage on a mac business insider.
When apple debuted the iphone 3gs at its june 2009 worldwide developer conference, it played up the third revision of the iphone as faster thanks to its new cortexa8 apl0298c05, which one might. If a new software update is available, tap download and install. Download ios 6 ipsw iphone 5, 4s, 4, 3gs, ipad, ipod touch. Hopefully we can see an adiumlike app, but that might be wishful thinking. Confusing, perhaps, especially since it sported an almost identical design to the previous years iphone 3g, but it turns out apple cares more about the guts than the skin. Recently, i decided to buy a second hand iphone 3gs because my friend sold it toe for a very cheap price and for me to try ios. The iphone 3gs has much better hardware and allows for much better graphics which means that theoretically we should get into a situation where apps are available only for 3gs. Download ios 6 final for iphone 4s,4,3gs, ipod touch 4g. Speedtest x measures download speed from an internet based server. As confirmed in a press release today, apple has just released ios 4. Dubbed the iphone 3gs, the latest version of apples popular smartphone promises to launch applications and run software faster than the previous model, as well as take advantage of faster cellular networks.
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