iPhone 3G Lag is intolerable! Video examples included.

As an exclusive Blackberry user for years I ventured into the Iphone world with the new release of 3G in Canada. The combination of the massive wait times between apps loading and typing etc...as well as fetch email not working for me or working intermittenly at best, not being able to delete batches of emails at the same time but rather having to go through them 1 at a time, and a variety of other reasons has made me very eager for the release of the new Blackberry Bold due out this month. I have ordered a replacement iphone from my service provider which should arrive in time for me to give it one more try with the new phone and then I'm back to Blackberry.

Not sure how this will end up playing out but something tells me I should have never made the switch. If it aint broke...don't fix it and Blackerry definately aint broke.

I'm afraid the problem may be that the iPhone simply doesn't have the horsepower to reliably run the 2.0 firmware.

I experienced the lag often with my iphone on the old firmware when I had too many browser windows open.

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I too am having these lag problems. I bought my 3G phone with a few friends, a couple who have decided to return theirs as a result of the poor performance.

Would be nice if they saw this coming with all that beta testing. Guess not. We loose.

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Agree with you.

Blackberry is a really great email device with a handsfree, voice dialing phone (and multimedia added as an "extra").

The iPhone seems to be an iPod with a phone added.... and the latter bit is not up to scratch yet.

Wish I didnt have to carry two lumps in my trousers though & I do love the iPod part! Until then I am sticking to BB for business.

I'm getting lag too, 1st gen iPhone with 2.0 update. 8GB.

+I'm afraid the problem may be that the iPhone simply doesn't have the horsepower to reliably run the 2.0 firmware.+

Same things happen with the iPod touch I have... lag lag crash crash lag...

Also here.

1st Generation iPhone upgraded to 2.0 firmware.

It is VERY SLOW compared to 1.1.4 firmware. The lagtimes are killing me, so much that I am looking for ways to bring it back to 1.1.4.

I ordered my iPhone 3G today by phone with Fido... thinking about cancelling the order.

iPhone 3G original firmware version 2 (Build 5A345)

If you are experiencing lag issues, connect your iPhone to iTunes and choose restore. This installs version 2 (Build 5A347). Since doing this, I have experienced no significant lag

Marketing specifies capacities in Gigabytes while software usually specifies it in Gibibytes (although they still label it Gigabytes since most consumers have no idea between the difference between Giga and Gibi). A Gigabyte is 1000 MB and 1000 MB is 1000 * 1000 KB which is 1000 * 1000 * 1000 bytes. So your iPhone has 16000000000 bytes. But a Gibibyte is 1024 MB = 1024 * 1024 KB = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes = 1073741824 bytes. So let's divide the number of bytes the iPhone has (16000000000) by the number of bytes a Gibibyte is (1073741824) - we get 14.9 Gibibytes. Subtract the OS and misc files and you are left with 14.64 Gibibytes of free space.

I'm having the lag problem with my iPhone 2G upgraded to 2.0. Never noticed this problem with 1.1.4, but I can report the same issues as others have here. I added several apps, but can't remember if the problem occurred before or after the apps were installed. It's certainly occurring now. Hope Apple fixes this soon.

I also find that EDGE fails to connect when I check email after the iPhone was asleep. I sometimes find that I have to shut down the iPhone and restart it to get EDGE to work again.

I find that when it goes slow, if I go into Settings and Network and turn off 3G, or turn off wi-fi then it fixes it.
It seems like a random fix, but maybe when these settings are toggled it does a cleanup or something?

Keep this thread alive people. Apple responds only to pressure, they are worse than Microsoft in that regard(I know this is the ultimate insult, and I apologize for using it, but I mean business).

Apple does not read these forums - if you want to let them know about the problems, submit a bug report at http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Okay then, bombard them people!