I didn’t upgrade my iPhone 3G last year because I didn’t want to extend my contract with 3 for an extra 24 months for an iPhone 3Gs. As expected, Apple is releasing the iPhone 4 this year. There’s a lot of enhancement with the new iPhone 4. And most importantly, is that there’s also an upgrade with the OS, iOS 4.

I wanted to try out some new features with my existing iPhone 3G so I upgraded it through iTunes. It was such a hassle getting it upgraded. The back up took forever! So I searched for it online, just to make sure I’m not alone. Turns out, a lot of iPhone 3G users are experiencing the same problem. The tip was to download the new OS via iTunes then instead of performing an upgrade, I should be doing a restore. It only took about 90 mins for the entire restoring process.

Immediately after the upgrade, I find that the new features are really good. For example the unified inbox in mail, folders for apps, spell check, so on. Soon, I come to realise that the phone is much slower in some aspects. Like texting for instance. It’s really slow! I’ve also come to notice that a lot of new apps just couldn’t run. Not that it would crash while using it, it won’t even launch.

I know that the iPhone 4 will be in stores in Hong Kong this month. So I guess I’ll just have to be patient for the time being. I should survive 30 days!

PK Lai