Missing Features from the iPhone 3G and iOS 4 Combo ☀

If you, like me, are still rocking an iPhone 3G and completed the upgrade to iOS 4 today then you are probably feeling slightly left out. A good portion of the major new features, such as fast app switching, are not available on the 3G due to memory limitations. Engadget was kind enough to put together a comprehensive list on what is missing for 3G owners:

While iOS 4 is delivering on every promise for the iPhone 3GS users out there, as we were all told up front, the iPhone 3G would be missing some of those touted new features. Granted, we knew such disparities would exist but were never given the finer details. Now that the final build is percolating through the internet, we decided to take a look at what features are and aren’t working on the earlier year’s model.

There are no real show stoppers. Of those missing features listed, most were already known; their lack of appearance should not be a surprise.

While multitasking, aka fast app switching, would be a godsend on the 3G the hardware will just not support the feature. If you think your 3G runs slow now, with its measly 128MB of RAM, imagine how much more sluggish it would perform and how much quicker battery drainage would be.

The iPhone 4, with its sexy Apple A4 chip and 512MB of RAM, cannot arrive fast enough.

  • http://www.parasight.de Jerry

    Actually, I consider the missing orientation lock to be a bit of a show stopper, because it makes iBooks useless where I read the most books: in bed. It's a shame because there is no way that feature can't be supported by the hardware. At least if iBooks had its own lock like most reading apps…