According to Eldar Murtazin of Russian blog Mobile-Review, iOS 5 that will be unveiled at next month’s WWDC 2011 won’t be compatible with iPhone 3GS, which means that it will be compatible with iPhone 4 and future iPhones.
Eldar Murtazin revealed this via the following tweet:
Just one comment. Apple iPhone 3Gs wont be upgradable to iOS 5.x. iPhone 4 will.
Murtazin hasn’t provided any details about the source of this information but apparently has a good track record when it comes to mobile phone rumors.
You may remember that iOS 4 that was launched in June last year was initially compatible with iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4, but some of the features were not available for iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G users. Earlier in the year, Apple decided to stop supporting iPhone 3G with the release of iOS 4.3.
It maybe too harsh to stop supporting iPhone 3GS with the release of iOS 5 as Apple continues to sell it along with iPhone 4. But we’ve seen Apple take such controversial decisions if it believes that it can’t offer a good user experience on older hardware, so we won’t be surprised if this rumor turns out to be true. It would also mean that iOS 5 won't be available for iPod Touch 3G users.
It also remains to seen if all the new iOS 5 features will be available to iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G and iPad 1 users.
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