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This is not true. The original iPhone and iPhone 3g only had 128mb of ram. The 3gs has 256mb. http://www.macrumors.com/2010/06/17/iphone-4-confirmed-to-have-

• jolan 16y ago
  > This is not true. The original iPhone and iPhone 3g only had 128mb of ram. The 3gs has 256mb. You're misinterpreting his statement. The original iPhone model had 128MB. The iPhone 3G has 128MB. The original model is not supported under 4.0 but the 3G is.
• xsmasher 16y ago
  He said 1st vs 2nd gen, not 3rd. The iPhone 3G gets this updates, and it has the same amount of ram as the first generation iPhone / iPod touch. Same CPU too. There may be a technical reason, but that isn't it.
  • redrobot5050 16y ago
    Maybe the lack of a GPS? Also, the 1st Gen iPhone has the lowest-rated battery life. Maybe those two factors led Apple to drop it. Maybe iOS 4.0 consumes more power, because of CPU utilization and the experience was unfavorable. Then again, I bought my 3G a month before the 3GS came out. Verizon screwed up their deployment of towers in my area, at a time when I was job hunting and needed to make/take cell phone calls. So I had to switch (before the 3GS was release). But again, I've had my phone for less than a year, and it would suck to have it be obsoleted/EOL'd by Apple. They probably don't WANT to keep it around, but for customers like me, who want their device supported for more than 13 months, they kept it.
    • rbanffy 16y ago
      The 2nd-gen iPod has no GPS either. That's no technical reason. The only conceivable reason I find is the lack of bluetooth in the 1st-gen iPod. I can't believe this is a requirement.