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I also plan to upgrade to iOS 6 so if u like I can keep u apprised. I don't know how at your country but here in Czech republic 3GS is considerably cheaper. Or you can get old and used, or damaged 3GS and ask Apple to change it for the new one.
I actually underwent this exchange and it works. Through a provider I sent my 3GS with damaged motherboard to Apple and in one month they sent me a new one they still have some in stock. It have cost me something around USD which for me would be less than half of buying completely new 3GS. Once more I have to stress that you ought to have an old malfuncioning 3GS.
Or any other iPhone for which you always get an equivalent device. Aug 24, AM. Aug 26, AM in response to ckuan In response to ckuan. I did not say I am the representative for them. Even if OS 4 has brought forth many options for developers to optimize their apps, this does not change the fact that the iPhone 3G is miserably slow, due to it's really aged processor, and more importantly, its low ram.
And bringing up Androids and their specs against the situation with the iPhone is just plain stupid. Sure the iPhone has immense software optimizations that allow for their phones to run smoothly, and I don't disagree with that.
The iPhone 4S, 4, and even 3GS are somewhat faster or at least smoother from the user experience than comparable Android devices. These newer iPhones run all on the same processor architecture ARM 7 , which is considered to be modern. At this point, specs are just enough as on the 3GS's mhz processor to be adequate if there is good software optimization. This leaves it unable to play mostly any games on the app store nowadays. Even basic apps like social networking apps use more than 35 mb's of ram.
This is why many developers have now made iOS 4. These specs are enough to work fine with software enhancements, which is what Apple has done.
But you can never expect an iPhone 3G to run any of these games. For starters, it doesn't even support the basic software elements of many intensive games, which is Open GL ES 2. It is too old and simply too weak. Even angry birds, a basic game, crashes many times on an iPhone 3G if it isn't rebooted before playing. Now, moving on to the debate between the 3GS and iPhone If you look closely at my statements from my response to the OP, I specifically commented on graphics performance on graphically intense games between the 3GS and iPhone 4.
Running games at native resolution on the iPhone 4 with exact same particle quality as the 3GS will reduce its performance in context of framerate.
The A4 chip once again, is the same Cortex A-8 processor with an SGX graphics card , repackaged together, and slightly overclocked to help overcome the higher resolution of the Retina Display. While this has resulted in a positive outcome CPU-wise hence the faster app loading times of the iPhone 4 , this wasn't enough to counteract the 4X increase in pixel density, thus games that are very graphically intense would need more horsepower.
Thus the iPhone 4S is a much needed update in this regard. Despite people dismissing the 4S as a minor upgrade, because of its body, it is actually a very big leap forward, with a dual core processor, and a drastically improved dual core graphics card. I am a game app developer, and most of my games, since , have excluded the 3G. I have managed to support the iPhone 3G for 3 years, until the iPhone 4 released. The day when I took of support for the 3G was the day when my games drastically increased in graphical complexity and intensity.
Since the price of the 3GS went down, the iPhone 3G userbase was already lowered, so I didn't lose any revenue, but instead, I gained more revenue. Aug 26, AM. Aug 26, AM in response to ondrashek In response to ondrashek.
Running iOS 5. Your 3GS has lots of life left in it. As always, it's not the outside that counts, but what's inside. Although the 3GS looks like the iPhone 3G, a phone that was released 4 years ago, it's internal processor architecture is nearly the same as the released iPhone 4. Aug 26, AM in response to tpulak In response to tpulak. Anyway, I leave you at that, over and out. I don't want to hijack the thread and this is not the right place for this debate.
You have a nice day and optimise your apps. Use a better game engine. I must apologize up front for my long response to this debate. I too feel like this is an excellent topic. I have some input regarding usage of the iPhone 3GS that's just as pertinent to consider. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy , which we encourage you to read. Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion.
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