iPhone 3G Owners Experiencing Sluggish Behaviour With iOS4

Apple has been facing problems with its latest version of iOS on the iPhone 3G, namely that many users are reporting sluggish behaviour after upgrading. Now to be fair to Apple they did make it clear that iOS 4 wouldn't be bringing all its bells and whistles to the 3G e.g. no multi-tasking since the 3G's hardware simply can't support such features comfortably. However, Apple presumably didn't envisage the sort of problems people are now reporting and there is apparently an investigation underway on Apple's part into the issue. That might produce something in the long run, but in the here and now users are complaining and the whole process is looking rather annoying for those who own a 3G.

Indeed French network SFR are advertising the problems on their website for 3G owners thinking of taking the plunge. Whilst SFR warn that the upgrade process is 'irreversible' that isn't exactly true as a downgrade is possible, albeit not necessarily as easy as the upgrade. All in all it's another mess for Apple at a time when they could really be doing with some good publicity for a change.