1st gen iPhones officially obsolete?

You are out of luck being able to install iOS4. Your iPhone is officially obsolete in regards to being able to install iOS4 but still useable as it was if iOS4 had not been released.

Do what you think is best, but the most current firmware/OS update available for an Android in three years may be available for a 3 year old Android phone at that time either.

As an original iPhone owner, I'm more interested in if os4 will even apply to my phone. We're thinking of getting the new one, but keeping the old as a iPOD touch look alike.

LOL I was just wondering if anyone would still want/ own 1st generation iPhones... really?
The smithsonian called and wants their phones back 🙂


But no really... thanks for the laugh.

By now many of the Original iPhones are likely to have batteries needing replacing. Mine pretty much does not hold a charge anymore (use it as an iPod Touch).

Phil

Which is a great reason to upgrade. I really am having a hard time believing that people actually WANT to stay with their ancient phones (well, when speaking of apple products)... and then complain when the world doesn't cater to their phones.

I mean, do you also still own a VCR and a CD walkman??

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Seriously? Go find another phone that is 3 years old or older and see what type of updates are available for it. NONE. What do you expect from a three year old phone man? This isn't the 80's. I used to change out my 500$ video card every two years to keep up with the games. If you still have the original iphone then JB it and use it to its full potential. Or keep it as a JB iTouch and get the new motorola x-treme that will be debuted by verizon on the 23, the day before the iPhone. I think to switch a few people to verizon.

Seems there are a few arrogant people out there who think everyone is made of money and can afford to constantly upgrade. Sadly Apple seem to be one of them. Treating customers with such contempt is no way to build customer loyalty.

Sadly, this is how tech works. It is not just an Apple thing. They don't update old technology after so much time because of a few reasons, one being money, two being it's not efficient to do so after a few years as tech advances.

Phil Nolan wrote:
Yeah if this new job starts soon at this is just pushing me more towards an Android upgrade. After spending $450 on this phone it would be nice to have the latest updates since it's still perfectly cable of running them.

That's just the point - the original iPhone is not capable of running iOS 4 due to the many more processor-hungry features it contains.

You're free to keep using your current phone - if you like it today, you'll like it tomorrow. It doesn't turn into a brick just because you can't run the latest iOS on it.

They could of a given us a update like the folder, and my changeingthe wallpaper since I'm kind of getting tired of look at the black part behind my app icons