[miffed]

( I should mention that I am right up to date with 2.0.1 )

What I absolutely loved about the iPhone , was the absolute slickness and speed of the OS
Since we have "up" graded to 3G , this has been comprimised to the point that I am not sure that I want the iPhone3G as my main device anymore

The most annoying thing is , the contacts menu - This is something that I cannot avoid using , day in , day out
It was great on the iphone2G , simply open the contacts , there they all are , moving in "realtime" when you flick them up and down
.... Now what do I get ? I get a few of my contacts on the screen , and they simply refuse to budge for 20 seconds or so :mad: What good is that to anyone ?
Hopefully this will be (yet another) software issue that can be fixed in due course . . but this (for me ) is a huge problem , a contacts list needs to be accessible !!
I am trying one last effort , which is turning off the "contacts" syncing on the iPhone (Pain in the backside ! ) If it doesn't work , I am going back to the 2G iPhone running 1.1.4 , which was simply a better class of phone :mad:

[Ben]

Hmm. Yes, I do still get some contacts lag... but it was maybe 2-3 seconds when I just called someone just then.

How about adding the contacts you use most to the Favourites screen and leaving that as the 'default' screen to make it quicker to call people?

I did used to have to wait ages for contacts to become functional but 2.0.1 greatly improved that for me.

[chagle]

I too suffer from this. But 2.0.1 actually sorted this.. and things were in real-time. But it's gone back to how it was.. about 5 seconds delay! Most annoying...!

[Hands0n]

@miffed - in your case I reckon you'd do well to go back to the 1.1.4 iPhone 2G and run with it until you get reports that the iPhone 3G issues are sorted out with 2.0.2 or whatever.

Apple know about the lagginess of the iPhone system, but whether or not they'll do something about it quickly remains to be seen. It is a shame really, the iPhone 3G held out a lot of promise - that is fading in some respects at the hands of these troublesome OS glitches and O2's notion of what a 3G network and coverage is. A notion that does not match any kind of reasonableness.

[miffed]

^^^^ This is probably what I'll do TBH

I think this is a very dangerous game Apple are playing here , the very reason I have been preaching "get an iPhone" to anyone who'll listen for the last six months , is because you simply pick it up and use it , you simply make a selection or flick a menu , and you get an instant , realtime result

That aspect is now null - using the iPhone on anything post 1.1.4 is just the same as any other phone , you press the button and wait

Not a huge deal , as some may point out - but it is one step close to being ordinary !

[miffed]

This is interesting too
Stress test on the Original iPhone

http://www.pcworld.com/video/id,545-page,1-bid,0/video.html#



And on the 3G Version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHR2XS0n27c


I am now convinced that where the Original iPhone was a quality device and the result of years of planning , the 3G has simply been thrown together on the cheap to answer the demands of the critics WRT the shortcomings of the former.

I suspect the 3rd incarnation of the iPhone will revert to the quality of the original , and that the iPhone3G is simply and interim device

Wish I had realised this before shelling out for one though :D

[gorilla]

I've noticed the contacts lag, more over the last couple of days. Could this be a memory issue as opposed to contacts contacting mobile me?

[Hands0n]

My take on this is as follows.
When you run up Contacts for the first time after booting up the iPhone it has a lag before anything is displayed, around 20 seconds.
The subsequent time/s you run up Contacts the initial page (starting at a) is displayed immediately, but you cannot scroll or search until around 20 seconds has elapsed.

What I believe is happening is that Apple's developers have performed a bit of a kludge with Contacts. That is, I believe that they are caching the initial page somewhere in memory for rapid retrieval in the hope that the user will not notice the subsequent lag while Contacts brings in the rest of the listing.

Nice try Apple, but no bag of peanuts this time!