Hi Peter, after reading your email, I did some playing around with my
iphone with the 3.0 update, and notice that it is speedier, although I
don't play games on it, so didn't have that as a way of testing.
Launching applications and downloading web pages is definitely faster.
I downloaded a movie to the iphone, and it was faster than on my
laptop using the same wireless network. Here in China I listen to
audio books, and notice that I have extra control, a 30sec back flip
and the ability to play at different speeds, and there may be other
subtle improvements like this that other people notice with other apps.
I was just reading the Macworld review of the new iphone where it
mentions the speed increase, but it would be interesting if they
compared the iphone 3g running 2 and running 3 - perhaps the speed
increase is due to both the hardware and OS.
I haven't noticed a change in the battery life so far.
cheers, Susan.
On 22/06/2009, at 8:40 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:
Now hat I have been running iPhone 3.0 for a whole weekend, I have
to relate that it feels as though I have a new phone!
For one thing, battery life has been greatly extended. Although my
iPhone gets charged in my car while I'm driving, I am nevertheless
used to seeing more black than white in the battery status bar at
the end of the day. This weekend, the battery status bar has been
full or close to full since Friday. At one point I was suspecting an
aberration following the update, so I tested it by playing a few
games which I know chew though the battery in short order. This did
nothing more than shorten the white status bar by a very small
fraction.
Unprecedented!
Speaking of games, the ones I tested were ones which also take a
long time (30-60 seconds on iPhone 2). The longest of these took no
more than ten seconds to load with iPhone 3.0.
Running Speed Test (from Speedtest.net) showed download speeds of up
to 6.19 Megabits/sec. The best I could get under iPhone 2 was 2.03
Mb/s, and generally a lot slower than that (below 1.0 Mb/s)
Are others' experiences the same as mine, or has the download simply
cleared out some lurking bugs and I'm just catching up to everyone
else?
--
Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913
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