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This subreddit on an iPhone 3G… (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by 93Volvo240@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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iPhone 3G, running iOS 4.2.1, with Opera Mini 7.0.5…

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[–] Piett_1313@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are you using Opera by preference or because Safari doesn’t work anymore? Genuinely curious

[–] typpo_in_my_name@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Back in the days I’ve used Opera over Safari on my 3GS because it was way faster and Safari was basically unusable, if you’re on EDGE (internet technology before 3g-networking)

[–] Alternative_Case_878@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

How do you milk sheep? Bring out a new iPhone and charge $1000 for it.

[–] 93Volvo240@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s because Safari really doesn’t work anymore unfortunately. Also, surprisingly, Opera Mini is EXPONENTIALLY faster than Safari. The few websites that work with Safari take much less time to load in Opera. Pretty much all websites work on Opera, but are broken to varying degrees. Amazon and eBay work, but have issues. YouTube won’t play videos, but it will load searches. Reddit loads, but old Reddit is much better. I can’t post things from it though. Wikipedia works pretty well. These are just a few examples. This phone is jailbroken, and I have installed AppSync For iOS 4 from Karen’s repo, (cydia.akemi.ai) and I got the IPA from the iOS Obscura Collection on Archive.org. I installed it using 3UTools. If there is a website you want me to test, let me know! Hope this helps!

[–] djfxonitg@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

From what I remember about Opera back in the day, they actually compress the website for you on their backend, and then deliver an optimized version to you. They’ve always been surprisingly effective. 👍🏽

[–] 93Volvo240@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I think it still does that, as it is ridiculously fast for a device with 128MB of RAM.

[–] Suspicious_County_24@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Opera browser??😂😂😂 dog you get like 5 minutes of battery life

[–] 93Volvo240@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it's pretty bad, even when the app isn't running. Before, I could go days without charging.

[–] 9-28-2023@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think it's time to upgrade, your phone must be infested with viruses

[–] ChronicMasterBlazer@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Unlikely as it’s a sandboxed iPhone lol

[–] iPhone_3GS@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I like what i see

[–] ericgames234@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Your older brother is still getting some love!

[–] 93Volvo240@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I take it with me almost everywhere. It just came back from Florida in fact.

[–] BaggySpandex@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Thank goodness for the retina displays of today lol. I can almost count the pixels. Wild to look back on.

[–] Vikiolino@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

You can also visit that page on an iPhone 2G also thanks to Opera Mini.

[–] Blu_the_Feral_Fox@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What's happening to the screen?

[–] 93Volvo240@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Bad things 😔 I think it's a common issue.

[–] er101plus@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Opera Mini😀

[–] somebody_3568@alien.top 0 points 11 months ago

Bro how'd you get that iPhone on wifi? My iPhone 3G had it's wifi disabled and idk why