You can't change your wallpaper on the 3G, sorry.
http://www.lockergnome.com/digged/2010/04/08/iphone-3g-4-0-screenshots/
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No Multitaksing on iPhone 3G/Touch 2G
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You can't change your wallpaper on the 3G, sorry.
http://www.lockergnome.com/digged/2010/04/08/iphone-3g-4-0-screenshots/
what the heck is Apple's explanation for that??? That was one of the features i was most excited about. Apple you keep failing me.
Ram can't deal with home screen wallpaper????
I understand the marketing strategies to make people buy new stuff, but this! This is too much. This is just dealing a customer like crap.
I have no doubt that Android does have issues... As does Apple.
How long did it take the iphone to get cut and paste? Are people in general willing to be as patient with Google as they have been forced to be with Apple? The way I look at it is every company has growing pains, the question I have to ask myself is which company is headed in a direction I want to invest in. When the time comes for me to upgrade that will be a very interesting question to ask myself.
That's because this "blogger" was trying to do it from within photos, you have to go into settings to set the wallpaper for your homescreen.
I wish it was, the button in photos that allows you to se wallpapers is disabled.
I just went through settings and tried it that way, didn't work. The only option was to set as wallpaper, it didn't even change that from the bubbles wallpaper.
Maybe Apple will unlock this feature later, but I can confirm it's working on the 3GS.
I don't have a 3G, just a 3GS, so I assumed the blogger was wrong since Apple didn't make mention of it. Strange indeed...
The only issue as I see it is that Apple are still selling the iPhone 3G ( and 8GB touch 2G) so whilst they're old tech, you could have signed up for a 2 year contract today and you're stuck with a crippled version of OS 4.0. If Apple had stopped selling the 3G when they released the 3GS then it would be slightly different, but they didn't...
Couldn't agree more.
I can understand why they are not making multi tasking work for 3G but i can't find a reason for the wallpaper fiasco. I think they could make multitasking possible for 3g too but they need to sell new stuff.
As long as the phone they sell you today continues to do everything it did when you bought it, then I'd say it's perfectly fine.
Buying devices on the hope or promise of some function that you may or may not get in the future is silly. Sure it's nice that you can upgrade (something most WinMo handsets don't get to do even for point-revisions) to a new OS, but expecting something more than you are paying for at the time is just asking for trouble.
You're not being promised multi-tasking for the 3G, nor was multi-tasking ever promised even to 3GS owners, so you're not losing something you had a reasonable indication to expect.
It doesn't affect me as I don't have a 3G (I bit the bullet and bought a 3GS). However, whilst what you say is true, Apple themselves have created the expectation of their devices being upgradeable when new versions of the OS come out, and it's a bit disingenuous of them to continue selling a device that is clearly out of date. The average "person in the street" isn't going to know that the 3G they've just bought is out of date - it's not beyond the realms of possibility that plenty of people will hear the hype without reading the details and then buy a 3G on a 2 year contract with the expectation of getting all the goodies that they've heard so much about in a couple of months time. Yes, they should do their research, but Apple aren't blameless either.
The Apple Store near me has always had a big sign up on the iPhone table that shows the 3G is already missing functions that the 3GS currently has. Anyone making even a casual purchase there should be able to figure out that the 3G is out of date, IMO.
I think it is unlikely that the average "person in the street" is going to buy a 3G today, when there is already a more capable 3GS sitting right next to it, simply based on some promised future feature.
It's possible, but I don't see it being very likely.
And if they're already indoctrinated by Apple's general tendency to make things upgradeable, this likely wouldn't be their first iPhone purchase anyway.
They might if cost is a factor. And whilst Apple store employees might explain the differences to them, there will be plenty of sales people in partner stores who won't tell them the whole story
Should isn't the same as will, unfortunately and there are plenty of technologically illiterate people in the world. At the end of the day, it won't matter whether Apple are 100% in the right and people shouldn't make ill-informed buying decisions if it creates a load of bad publicity for them. IMO, the mistake Apple made was to continue selling the 3G (and 2nd gen 8GB touch) when they were superseded.
Sad Limitation To 3g
I will update on summer no matter what. It would be either 3gs or 4g (depending on hardware difference). I was expecting 3g to have multitask as well for user to decide to turn on or off.
I will update on summer no matter what. It would be either 3gs or 4g (depending on hardware difference). I was expecting 3g to have multitask as well for user to decide to turn on or off.
If Apple actually release OS 4 with it set to disable homescreen wallpapers on the 3G, frankly, bollocks to it, I'll stick with OS 3.1.3. Every upgrade shortens battery life and slows the phone down, and frankly, they've shown nothing that I'm actually interested in today, other than finally letting us change our damn wallpapers.
As the OS keeps getting heavier, you're going to eventually need more power and more RAM.
If anyone remembers correctly, adding wallpapers with winterboard also slowed down the iPhone 3G.
I might get a new iPhone this summer but it's going to have to be way better than the ipad to make me switch.
Agreed. Your 2008 Ford (or whatever) doesn't get retrofitted with the latest 2010 add-ons...
Neither does your 1 year old Ford, but the 3GS is getting the full update. You have the right idea, just maybe the wrong analogy.
There will be features reserved for the 4th gen iPhone that the 3GS will not get. The same thing happened with the 3G -> 3GS.
So his/her point is dead accurate.
The new style dock looks horrid with a plain black background ... at least the current metal style dock offers some form of contrast to the black backing.
I don't think I'll upgrade to 4.0 if that's the case, although why let 3G users change their lock screen but not the hone screen?
Odd.
So we will be able to change the lock screen background but not the home screen background?
Surely an image as small in resolution as that doesn't take up that much memory to sit behind your apps? I was looking forward to using a version of the Snow Leopard wallpaper as my home screen as well.
It's being reported as a bug on 3G devices and other 3G users are claiming to have been successful at changing the homescreen. I doubt Apple will lock the 3G from changing the homescreen.