Comments on: Quick Review of iPhone 3.0 and the 3Gs

By: Mike Merideth

Mike Merideth — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:03:27 +0000

The iPhone actually does support multitasking (many of the built-in apps run in the background, as they have since 1.0). I believe Apple made the business decision not to allow this in third-party apps for performance reasons. The Palm Pre does allow this, and I think it will be interesting to see in the long-term whether the user experience suffers as a result (essentially they leave it up to the user to police CPU and memory utilization. Honest people can disagree about whether this is a good idea in a phone). I also suspect that push notification functionality may obviate background processing for many applications; we'll see as 3.0 updates for apps trickle out.

The no-clicky thing in the Calendar app is a mystery. I noticed they finally added the capability to create a meeting request from the phone (albeit with no view of the other participants' calendars), so hopefully this won't be too far behind. Overall a huge upgrade, and I'm glad I waited for the 3G S before upgrading my gen-1 iPhone.

By: Jason Mendelson

Jason Mendelson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:23:05 +0000

Agreed. I’m find out, too, that I love the video capability.

By: Jud Valeski

Jud Valeski — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:18:20 +0000

well said on all fronts. only additions I'd make are… app UI event speed is insanely improved IMO, and secondly having an actual camera (not amazing, but a massive improvement) have been a huge help.

By: charlieok

charlieok — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:01:46 +0000

To lows I would add "tethering". For me, that's the difference between using my computer only in places offering wifi, and using it practically anywhere. Really looking forward to that one.

Glad they got speed nailed. If you happened to try the early betas of OS 3.0, it was quite the opposite. Like "waiting seconds between keyboard presses" opposite.