One of the new features in iOS 4 is the ability to change your Home screen and lock screen backgrounds, unfortunately this feature is not available in iOS 4 on the iPhone 3G, only in the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4.
A Gizmodo reader called Erica, sent Steve Jobs an email, asking him why there were no backgrounds on the iPhone 3G in iOS 4 and got a reply, you can see the emails below.
Hey Steve! I just upgraded my iPhone 3G to iOS 4 and was really looking forward to setting a background on my home screen. Guess that’s not happening, but I’d like to know why.
See, I get why you don’t include multitasking. My iPhone gets pretty hot when certain apps run, couldn’t imagine how multitasking would fry my phone.
But the background thing, I don’t see how that would be memory intensive and/or battery draining. It doesn’t seem like that feature needs to be exclusive to the 3GS and 4G.
I hope this email finds you in good health.
Erica
And here is Steve Jobs’ reply
The icon animation with backgrounds didn’t perform well enough.
I guess that clears that up then, but if you Jailbreak your iPhone 3G with iOS 4 installed the feature will work, and there don’t seem to be any problems with it.
via Gizmodo
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