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by Osmium 4800 days ago
This is debatable of course. Even though the 3GS can technically run iOS 6 even, whether it runs it well enough to be usable is sadly another question entirely. I do know I struggle to use my 3GS these days, though I wonder if that's in part due to App developers assuming people are running newer hardware as much as the OS itself...

Either way, many people with older devices choose to keep them on older OS versions for precisely this reason, so it will be an issue for some.
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wwweston 4800 days ago
Anecdotal: I'm posting from a 3gs running iOS 6. I upgraded last year from 4.x, and performance has pretty much been a non-issue.
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Samuel_Michon 4800 days ago
iOS 5 works great on iPhone 3G S. If you’re having performance issues, you might want to free some space on your iPhone 3G S; that has been known to work miracles.
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Osmium 4800 days ago
Good to know. For some reason I didn't think iOS used the disk as a memory cache, so didn't think that would matter?
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ryanpetrich 4800 days ago
It doesn't use it to implement paging, but many things do use the disk as a cache (URL cache, keyboard cache, icon cache, Spotlight, app-specific caches, etc) and running low on disk space will cause the background cache cleaner daemon to run.
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