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iPhone 4 Turns 10: 'Stop Me If You've Already Seen This'
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You used 20% of a charge in 10 years? 😆
Eventually they will get to the point where the case can look like the iPhone 5c case…
And every single hole will have a different lens underneath
And yet the CPU/GPU were the same as in the 3GS - admittedly with a spec bump and new SOC design.
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The Gizmodo leak was actually not the first one. There was an iPhone 4 hiding in plain sight in the leak of the iPad published hours before the iPad announcement by Engadget. Everyone focussed on the tablet and no one realized about the phone until months later.
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I recall, and those steps did very little to bring back the “snappiness” I enjoyed before iOS6.
Edit: also wanted to mention that iOS 7 was released in September 2013, along side the iPhone 5S, three years after the iPhone 4 was released.
iOS 7.1 on the iPhone 4: As good as it’s going to get
You can’t patch out a slow processor, but Apple does its best.arstechnica.com
Thank you! I keep thinking it was ~June 2013. Maybe that was when the betas were first reaching the masses?
Such a shame they never open sourced FaceTime and iMessage, would have made the phone UX so much better!
I remember it took me 3 or 4 weeks to actually get one. They were sold out all the bloody time. This is one of the milestones for Apple in iPhone design. They took it so high up compared to competition, it had become a catch up game for the rest at least until 2015. Beautiful device, I had no issues with antenna, the screen was INCREDIBLE back then, just fantastic.
The iPhone 4 is the grandfather of modern phone design. Look at more recent updates like the iPhone X or the galaxy S8: same basic metal frame-glass front and back engineering.
I’ve one in a drawer as my backup phone and it still looks like a slice of the future a decade later
Trivia: it’s also the last iPhone to properly run loads of old 32bit apps thanks to iOS 7 still having legacy code within. Good luck getting ‘Me and my Katamari’ running on a 4S!
It also still pulls notes from the Apple servers that are unreadable on the modern notes app and it still let’s you upload photos to photo stream. In an era where Microsoft just turned off Windows Phone 8 and old Android phones melt under the current internet it is refreshing to find a company that still ‘supports’ such ancient hardware.
I’ve one in a drawer as my backup phone and it still looks like a slice of the future a decade later
Trivia: it’s also the last iPhone to properly run loads of old 32bit apps thanks to iOS 7 still having legacy code within. Good luck getting ‘Me and my Katamari’ running on a 4S!
It also still pulls notes from the Apple servers that are unreadable on the modern notes app and it still let’s you upload photos to photo stream. In an era where Microsoft just turned off Windows Phone 8 and old Android phones melt under the current internet it is refreshing to find a company that still ‘supports’ such ancient hardware.
They need to commemorate this with free cases for the iPhone 12.
I remember reading the leaks and watching the keynote here in Australia at 4am and laughing at the jab at the leaks.
The 4 looked stunning but I still preferred the gripability of my 3G. I remember being super excited about it though.
I miss Steve’s ability to make products exciting.
The 4 looked stunning but I still preferred the gripability of my 3G. I remember being super excited about it though.
I miss Steve’s ability to make products exciting.
For its time, I thought the iPhone 5/5s design was far superior to the 4/4s and was a more than worthy successor.
Same here! I still use my (now 10 year old!) iP4 for sports - it has my push-up app on it, and it GPS tracks my runs (its size fits perfectly in the side and back pockets of my running shorts and trousers).
It got one exchange battery from iFixit (with 104% original capacity) 5 years ago, and is still in almost daily use - though my main phone for the past 4 years has been a 1st gen iPSE.
Anyone else remember when they first picked up an iPhone 5? I do, and thought it was an empty dummy phone because it was so light
Only iPhone I ever jailbroke and it was so cool with neon-ish icons!
(screen capture is from Autumn 2010)
(screen capture is from Autumn 2010)
It was the Dreadnought of phones... overnight, it made every other phone obsolete. And still the most beautiful smartphone ever made.
Didn't know about the police raid. Ok then, probably not intentional.
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Complain endlessly about USB-C dongles and docking stations for the MBP like I do.
I've spent a ton of money (luckily not my own) on accessories, still doesn't really "just work" like the 2015 one. And yeah, Jobs was obsessed with removing ports, but he was even more obsessed with stuff just working.
Also would be pissed that they not only made a phone bigger than the 5 but stopped making ones the size of the 5. He always held out to keep the phone usable by a single human hand.
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I still have my 4S. It was a great phone. I'd still use it, if it were supported.