Todd Bernhard, one of my fellow bloggers here at iPhone Life magazine, recently posted an entry about upgrading the iPhone 3G to iOS 4 and some of the resulting issues. You can read that blog HERE. I just received an e-mail from one of our readers warning about upgrading the iPod touch to iOS 4 as well. He wrote:
"I recently updated an ipod touch 3g to Apple’s latest software revision for the iphone/ipod. What a mess- short battery life, difficult to sync with Outlook, applications not working, wifi weak if at all,…
You might want to take a look here http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=221"
Based on the number of people complaining on Apple's site, iPod touch owns might want to hold off upgrading to the new OS until things get worked out.
I want to thank Pete Whiting for alerting us to the issue. He wanted to make sure we passed on the information so everyone will be aware of the situation. That's a good guy!
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Thank you for your input on this. I currently own both 3G and 3GS iPhones,and still thinking about the new phone. As a long time PC person, I recall hanging onto an old desktop computer running Windows xp, and again with a laptop running XP Pro, because if it wasn't broke, I'm sure I won't going to spend money fixing it. Thanks again. I appreciate your insight and enjoy reading your comments.