It is already official, the iOS 4.3 betas did not support the iPhone 3G (or the iPod Touch 2G) but many of us expected that the final version would. Apple stops supporting iPhone 3G in iOS 4.3
So If you have an iPhone 3G, the latest firmware version to which you can update will be iOS 4.2.1
Bad news for the owners of this great device, who will not be able to access the improvements of the next firmwares. But hey, you have to think that after two and a half years, Apple has already done more for him than most mobile companies do for their devices.
Hopefully the guys at Whited00r will be able to include these improvements in their firmwares.
This policy of "leaving" obsolete (relatively, of course, the phone is operational) does not seem correct to me a product with that age, 2 and a half years ??.
I also do not agree with your comment comparing it with what others have done or do not do. Just think of the face of the buyer of a 3G knowing that you can not use 4.3, disappointing from my point of view.
I less and less like that "planned obsolescence" of Apple (in reference to the documentary.
my comment is that apple does it better than most companies.
The iPhone 3G is still valid, only it is not able to pull the improvements.
Don't get me wrong, it was not a criticism of your comment itself, it was only criticizing that uncritical line of thought (worth the redundancy) in which we "console ourselves" with the fact that others do worse.
I'm a total Apple funboy but sometimes… they slip on certain things. If they do something wrong, it's constructive to say so in case they fix it.
And my criticism was aimed at how little those little gadgets last us that we adore so much, without more.
You're right Miguel, I had misunderstood you.
And you are also right that we should not settle, but it is what makes us think Apple that after all what it wants is to sell ...
Imagine the obsolescence that the writers of this blog create for us, that so many news and rumors make us want the new every time!
Mikel, sorry.
No man, do not ask for forgiveness, this has been a dialogue, I appreciate it.
Those of us who have 2g ... apple forgot about us a long time ago, the latest version I have is 3.1.3, and I can't update iTunes ... so now 3g was dying ...
Well, I think it's good. The hardware of the 3G does not hold any more, and it is not precisely because of the optimization. Moreover, I am sure that if it were for Apple they would have left 3G with 3.1.3 because it was better than 4.0 and the others. I have 2 iphone 3G and one I have kept in 3.1.3 since the other with 4.2.1 is worse. But I imagine that they did it so as not to kill that public that still maintains 3G.
A telephone is not a refrigerator, a telephone, and more in these times, it becomes "obsolete", as far as hardware is concerned, after 6 months. On the other hand, a refrigerator perfectly lasts 5-10 years, and they are worth almost the same. I think after two and a half years, they have done enough for 3G.
I also support this constructive criticism, unfortunately for the consumer, but I also agree that the iPhone 3G has lasted its own time, and it will last because as a phone it is still good, the only thing that will have fewer and fewer compatible apps. Anyway, imagine also the face of the user with a brand new android phone and in a little over 6 months they begin to not support it ... that is cloth ...
Greetings.
Well, also very few things last as long as the iphone 3g did, I am the owner of one and the truth is that I want ios4.3 if the phone gets slow. I prefer that the phone is functional and without multitasking that for the normsl people it serves little or nothing. And apple has done a lot for this iphone, let's see Samsung that after 3 months it no longer gives updates so you can buy another basusamsung
Nowadays who owns an iphone 3g? If it is more than out of date… .it is normal that Apple will think for current devices a greeting 😉 and I'm going to get the ipad 2 😀 reserved this xD
I insist again, the time and prices in Argentina do not coincide with those of Apple, a 3G here is worth more than an iPhone 4 in the US, and that is because everything is late here.
Like Edgar, I have a 3G and I don't think it's bad that they stop updating it ...
The market evolves and I think they have to allocate the maximum resources to find new solutions. Apple is the only company that has been evolving a phone for almost 3 years ... The rest are not even done by them, but by Google. With what 3G offers me, it is enough for me. The day I want more I will buy a 4. But most likely I will wait for 5. For me the iPhone is above all a phone. And as such the 3G is perfect, either with 3.XX or 4.2.1. I do not need more. Greetings!
On the Apple Spain page, at the bottom, it also says 3G, but when you click on more information, the page that opens does not put it. Is it an error?
http://www.apple.com/es/iphone/ios4/
They leave it because they want to because in what is the apple dev lab for calling it in some way it is available.
Wow, I see that I have provoked opinion, that's good.
My reflection was aimed at the duration of things. Before a good product was the one that transcended in time. Today the time variable is becoming short, everything "deteriorates" before.
I remember Apple computers (from not long ago) that perfectly supported the different evolutions of the OS of the time, the same Apple computer, could last for years being fully functional !!! Do not argue that the evolution of technology is greater why friends, let's not fool ourselves, business is business.
Greetings to all
Well, I was not so surprised about the iPhone 3G but that in the line the iPhone4 comes out as "iPhone 4 GSM Model". And the Verizon CDMA? That seems more important to highlight.
What seems wrong to me is that they continue to offer and take out ads for the iPhone 3GS (the other day one from AT&T came out) and then leave it hanging. I do not give the 3GS until the end of the year with updates ... and imagine the face you have if you buy one now that they are still selling and promoting them ... And I say this having an iPhone 4, for the record.
It is good that there is no support anymore ..
your hardware is no longer enough with the new iOS ... even you say it yourself when you complained because your iphones were slow with the iOS 4
I bought my ipod a few months ago, before 4g (the 8gb version) came out, I really feel cheated, because I bought it on a macstation and they sold it to me as "3g" since the 8gb version has the same hardware that 2g ... and in less than a year it was obsolete in updates, apple is truly a shame ...
Hi, I don't know if you can help me, but my 3G with JB tethered stopped working when the battery ran out, now I can't turn it on, it appears to me as if it was charging but I try to turn it on and it won't let me, I press on and home , with iTunes, etc, as they say in the manuals and nothing, I want to recover it to leave it to my wife (I have the 3Gs), so I would greatly appreciate your help.
Connect it to another computer with itunes
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Those of us who have 2g… apple forgot about us a long time ago, the latest version I have is 3.1.3, and I can't update iTunes….
As you can not update iTunes .. I have the iPhone 2G with 3.1.3 Jailbreak and the latest version of iTunes, 10.2.
What you can not is update the iPhone, but if you restore it, that if to 3.1.3 only.
a lot harsh ... 3G is disgustingly obsolete ... if it was another company and not apple, it has stopped updating since the first year.
Luckily in a couple of weeks we will be able to use it on ios 4.3 on 3G thanks to Whited00r
How is that please explain to me, imro.o.re@gmail.com please explain to me so you save my life
I would like to know how you assess him for that, my friend! facil_12 @ hotmail, com is my email, leave me yours if you can thank you
please tell how
Unable to install iOS 4.3…. ._.
What can be done to use WhatsApp now? 🙁 Anyone know something?
It seems that installing whited00r can get something done. Whited00r is nothing more than the iOS 3 operating system disguised and personalized, the only thing is that this system does not support Push notifications. There is a fix for this that costs $ 1 whose link is indicated on the whited00r page. I plan to do this fix with my 3G, sell it and buy a Samsung S2 ...
What can i do with my iphone 3g?
hello I have an iPhone 3g and updated with ios 4.3 how can I do it for the jailbreak I am a beginner in all this (my iPhone has never jailbroken it) and I am urgent to know if I can get to unlock it I am desperate
Hello, good afternoon colleagues, I would like to ask a question and please I would like to have the best opinion of all of you who have been part of the iphone for a long time. Would I like to exchange my Blackberry Bold 9000 for an Iphone 3G? Well if I wanted to check what's up, I've never had one and pss a cousin is giving me the option to change, but ps I'd still like to know if it's a good idea or not, even if it's to get used to and relate to this cell phone, since I would like to soon get the most current that is in Mexico the iphone 4 ..
Thank you in advance for your suggestion!
men a question what is the last update of the iphone 3g
When a company releases a product, it has to be responsible for that product throughout its useful life, if they put aside their customers, that they do not expect us to buy the new apple phone because that is what they want to BUY - THROW and also We will do the same again within x time, For my apple has died.
how bad they really are 🙁
If you bought an application and now Apple removes it from your phone, what happens?
I must thank apple for having stopped updating the 3G thanks to this injustice I have switched to Samsung and they do not know what I regret not having done before, the improvements in every way are incredible, I am glad to have left all that paraphernalia that we all call iphone, that blind was.
At least the iPhone had a BLIND checker *
I agree with Debryan134 because I have made the same option to switch to Samsung for 2 years of course with my Samsung Galaxy S that I currently have and with the latest update just like the Samsung Galaxy S3, so for my Apple it is also totally dead ...
I have a 3gs phone and it won't let me download the Fasebook application that I have to do.
I have an iPhone 3G I restored it and apps that I had previously, now I can not install neither those nor many more because it tells me that it requires iOS 4.3 I think it's very bad. Now I have an outdated iPhone and I don't have the money to buy a better one
I have an IPFONE3G that I can't update, they don't give me any other option but to hack it.
Children of their mother, this is how the mother breaks many users, for now I will move to android
I have an IPHONE 3G but it had an error and they restored it, now I can't install anything because everything asks for IOS 4.3. What can I do about it? Thanks…
Hello, I also have an i fhone 3g and the same thing happened to me, I called everywhere nobody gave me any solution, they sent me to a local ifhone in supply in, 11 and I have no hope, what I have to do is to sue them publicly, That's right, I said. the one who wants to join, welcome is
how can i install face and applications on iphon 3g with 4.2
As they say: buy-throw-buy Mine has come out quite reliable (at the moment the only thing that does not work is the vibrator and I do not treat the mobile with much affection precisely) but this is another form of programmed obsolescence, a shame, now the nokia they paint better quality / PRICE
Well, I have no other option than to buy an Ipone 4 but of the SECOND HAND of course, to an individual, that many people sell them that they are as new, and for less than half of what they sell in stores and thus you do not buy to aple if not to the particular.
It is a pity because only a few months ago I bought my 3G secondhand of course, and it is like new, and now I have to sell it or play games and applications from the app store that do not have the 4.3, that is, older or use Wi-Fi in places that have it, well it helped me because the truth is aesthetically the Ipone 3 is more beautiful than the 4. the 4 the only thing it has is better definition in the photos.
When it comes to making money, Apple goes through customer loyalty lining. To those of us who have 3G, give us ...
But the anger that I have, what sons of bitches !!! and the one who can't buy the 4 what does he do It shits, why I am not going to buy the 3gs so that they also make it obsolete in a few months, damn they are a rubbish that rages
It seems that the Apple company has made a big mistake, what Apple wants is to make the iPhone 3g disappear but I will not buy another iPhone, I prefer another mobile that gives me more security.
What a bad detail from Apple, it seems to me that they leave us without a phone even in good condition. Many of my apps are already expiring and I can't update them 🙁
my 3G can no longer have whatsapp because it requires 4.3 ... it's a shame because that phone still seems wonderful to me ...
As the owner of a mini cell phone store in Caracas Venezuela, I am going to stop selling apple products since I have many clients who have 3G iphones and have no way to pay for another cell phone. I find it very negative and in very bad taste that this company stops supporting a phone that is not obsolete just to sell its products.
What a bad plan they left us without several applications that speaks very badly of Apple.
Let's not allow it, let's switch to Samsung
I want to have whataspp
the truth is that I do not understand mobile phones ... but if shapes ... I propose that this company, instead of apple shape, be shaped like CHORIZOS, or rotten apples .......
They are bastards, since you can't even play videos, a € 600 mobile and they leave you on the street. Can you report these guys? or stop buying these gadgets that in themselves are complex with the iTunes system, etc. and move all of us to the Samsung which is less "cool" but more bath and it bothers you less in the end.
I do not see normal that they leave aside the iphone 3g ... Now it is worth nothing! they don't even want it in the trash! What a great disappointment. At the time you spend about 300 euros so that later it is not worth anything to you! I would not buy another apple product again, not even in my dreams! for me you are scammers!
A company cannot abandon its customers just to satisfy themselves, too bad for apple.
THE COJONES !!!!! I'll explain to you the face that I was left with when just a year after buying the phone and paying for life the WhatsApp stopped working because it would not let me update and not use the previous version. FOR MY APPLE HE DIES OF HUNGER SINCE NEITHER I NOR MY FAMILY WILL EVER BUY THIS BRAND
DEATH TO APPLE! !!!!!!!!!!!
If you have the ipone3g, forget to buy another
I really liked apple phones but to be suffering with everything they do just to sell and taking into account the needs of the people who buy it I decided to use only samsumg I think and after checking the quality of both systematically and in if everything that develops around samsumg phones is the best