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“The iPhone 3G joins the first-generation iPhone and iPod touch models as the only iOS-based devices that cannot access Game Center,” Lane reports. “But there is key difference: the iPhone 3G can run iOS 4, while the first-generation iPhone and iPod touch are locked out of the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system.”
Lane reports, “Apple confirmed the compatibility of the new Game Center application on its website this week. The company also on Tuesday reset all Game Center accounts that had been registered by developers testing the golden master of Apple’s forthcoming iOS 4.1 update, expected to be released on Wednesday.”
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Makes sense i guess if it has anything to do with the processor since the iPod isnt downclocked like the iPhone 3g.
@ Swell
How is the iPhone 3G downclocked?
pastrychef: From article “The exclusion of the iPhone 3G, but not the second-generation iPod touch, is noteworthy because both devices run similar internal hardware, in terms of game playing abilities. Though the devices were both introduced in 2008, the second-generation iPod touch has a slightly faster processor (532MHz vs. 412MHz) than the iPhone 3G.”
This is yet another sleeper Trojan horse…
@ Amazin1
That just tells me that the iPhone 3G has a slower processor than the iPod Touch, not that it was downclocked.
I guess since the iPod touch doesn’t run the phone processes, it has a bit more free memory and processor cycles left for GameCenter to run.
Could be likely that the iPhone and iTouch both use the same processor, but since battery life is less of a concern on a device that doesn’t have a phone, that they could eke out more power from the iTouch.
@ @pastrychef
That sounds like a lot of speculation. Another guess is that they use different processors and the one in the iPhone 3G was never downclocked.
@pastrychef
That’s iPod touch (lower case “t”).
Yep.. Thus the “could be” part. I don’t know either way… just a guess.
I prefer to call it iTouch. I don’t care what Apple calls it. I also call generic facial tissue: Kleenex. Most people I know call it an iTouch and don’t care about capitalization. Generally, only marketing people really care.
Good. If GameCenter slows down my already slow iPhone 3G – keep it off. I am so sorry I “upgraded” my iPhone 3G to iOS 4. I learned my lesson Apple and will wait before downloading iTunes 10. Ping has zero interest to me and the UI appears to be a step backwards. I am still a big fan and you produce software that is second to none Apple. Let’s call iOS4 on a 3G and iTunes 10 a bad bushel. Looking forward to the next batch.
The iPhone 3G used the same CPU speed as the original iPhone. Faster CPU’s were not used till the 3Gs.
3G referred to the faster network, not the CPU.
@Lurker I TOTALLY AGREE. my 3G is basically unusable. iTunes 10 UI is awful. Why in the world would Apple move the street light nav buttons vertical? Still love ya Steve but things are moving in a strange direction to say the very least.
@pastrychef…. Google is your friend.
It took me less time to find the answers to the questions you’re asking than it did to type this response. It’s mind boggling you’ve posted over and over without looking it up yourself!
(And no, I’m not going to post a link. Get off ‘yer lazy bum)
@ Moo
Maybe Google is your friend, but it isn’t mine.
I don’t know what you found, I didn’t find anything.
I dont care so much about Gamecenter. More importantly: fix the lousy batterylife plz. I dont need a wifi thats on even though my iPod’s off so at least give me an option to turn this “function” off.
@ pastrychef … took me about 15 seconds to find this with google
Most smartphones and PDAs such as The Motorola Droid, Palm Pre, and Apple’s iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPhone 3GS use the “underclocking” of a more powerful processor, rather than the full clocking of a less powerful processor, to maximize battery life. The designers for such mobile devices often discover that a slower processor gives worse battery life than a more powerful processor at a lower clock rate. They select a processor on the basis of the performance per watt of the processor.[1]
Most CPUs in mobile electronics — PDAs, cell phones, laptops, wireless keyboards, MP3 players, etc. — are underclocked.
Why do people deliberately clock them at a rate far below their potential runtime performance? Because clocking them any faster squanders battery life.
Every clock tick to a particular CPU uses up (approximately) some fixed amount of energy. If it takes (hypothetically) 900,000 clock ticks on that CPU to decode one second worth of MP3, then we maximize battery life by clocking the CPU at 0.9 MHz while playing MP3s.
Say we have some other CPU that requires 4,000,000 clock ticks to decode one second worth of MP3. Which CPU should we use? The absolute fastest MIPS rating at the maximum speed is irrelevant. The “clock ticks required to decode one second worth of MP3” is irrelevant. The better CPU for a MP3 player is the one that gives the maximum battery life, assuming we are smart enough to underclock each CPU to give its maximum battery life. Or in other words (since the amount of “work” done decoding an MP3 is fixed, and the amount of energy stored in a battery is fixed), the better CPU is the one with more MIPS/mW.
From Wikipedia under the heading “Underclocking” and an external link.
^ “Microprocessor Design: Performance Metrics”
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underclocking#cite_note-0
I don’t understand some people… if your 3G is unusable… then revert back to 3.0 its not hard.. just download it and do a restore… done! and since its not overly old you could just pick a backup to restore from when you had 3.0 just make sure you sync your stuff first.
I’ve used 2 iphone 3G phones with 4.0 and they didnt seem unusable.. they werent as snappy but I could definitely use it. I told the people at work with them to upgrade if they hated it so bad.. or just go back to 3.0
I like my iphone 4.. got it on preorder and no antenna issues!