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Is the Iphone 4 8gb good enough for me in 2014?

I just use my iPhone 5 as a phone, music player and camera, all three it does great. I can't stand it for reading, movies or any email or work related task. Can't see how others do. Seriously, it's four inches.

But my Air handles those latter tasks very well. Between the two and a ps4 hooked up to a big tv playing metal gear, all bases covered.
 
I use a 16gb iPhone 4 and it is still a wonderful device for me even in 2014. Go ahead and enjoy using it! :)
 
You wont notice that an iPhone 4 is slow if you haven't tried an iPhone 5 or 5S. If you have no reference to baseline new expectations; you will be happy with what you have. I can speak from personal experience in having kept the original iPhone for 2 years and having just replaced a Core 2 Duo system.. But once you taste something new, you will find it hard to go back. :)
 
mtneer said:
You wont notice that an iPhone 4 is slow if you haven't tried an iPhone 5 or 5S. If you have no reference to baseline new expectations; you will be happy with what you have. I can speak from personal experience in having kept the original iPhone for 2 years and having just replaced a Core 2 Duo system.. But once you taste something new, you will find it hard to go back. :)
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You can definitely notice the iPhone 4 being slow with iOS 7.0. iOS 7.1 improved things, but things are still slower than they were with iOS 6 even, let alone 5.
 
I have an iPhone 4 16GB but even if I erased all data, you only get 13.7GB. If you get an 8GB model you may only get 5GB of data that you can use. And usually you need 3GB free just to update your phone. I wouldn't do it.

iPhone 4's with iOS 6 are still fast. Mine is. I would stay away from an iPhone 4 with iOS 7 though.

I don't have many apps on my 16GB model but I have 2,123 photos and 96 videos and only have 754MB left. Yep, less than 1GB.
 
C DM said:
You can definitely notice the iPhone 4 being slow with iOS 7.0. iOS 7.1 improved things, but things are still slower than they were with iOS 6 even, let alone 5.
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That is if you have a reference to how things were in iOS6. If the OP buys an iPhone 4 with iOS7 today - and does not try something else that is faster; he will not perceive that slowness.
 
mtneer said:
That is if you have a reference to how things were in iOS6. If the OP buys an iPhone 4 with iOS7 today - and does not try something else that is faster; he will not perceive that slowness.
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I think some people can still notice it perhaps compared to some other phones or something of that nature. But, yes, the slower part in that case is less noticeable. Still even in that case a lot of people could still benefit from and/or prefer something faster if they can have it.
 
I am using an iPhone 4 running ios6. It's barely usable. Hard to use gmail or type in URLs. I read that the ios7 experience is even worse. I am upgrading to a 4s this weekend.
 
jjfad said:
I am using an iPhone 4 running ios6. It's barely usable. Hard to use gmail or type in URLs. I read that the ios7 experience is even worse. I am upgrading to a 4s this weekend.
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While I do believe that older models can easily fulfill many people's needs, what's the point of upgrading from a 4 to a 4s if you feel that you've reached the limits of the former? Unless you want to upgrade again in a year you may as well take a bigger leap. I went from a 3Gs to a 5s. That was quite an improvement! I probably won't upgrade again until the 7.
 
jjfad said:
I am using an iPhone 4 running ios6. It's barely usable. Hard to use gmail or type in URLs. I read that the ios7 experience is even worse. I am upgrading to a 4s this weekend.
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Odd, iOS 6 is quite usable on iPhone 4. Perhaps not as "snappy" as iOS 5, but certainly more than decent.
 
I thought t was horrible in terms of lag. I swapped for a 4S which is quite usable.
 
iPhone 4 is too small, I think you should consider iPhone 5 as minimum
 
mtneer said:
That is if you have a reference to how things were in iOS6. If the OP buys an iPhone 4 with iOS7 today - and does not try something else that is faster; he will not perceive that slowness.
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He or she would just assume that iPhones are horribly slow pieces of junk then, and the slowest most frustrating phone they have ever used. An iPhone 4 running iOS7 offers a terrible 'yesteryear' experience.
 
Bacong said:
Also, big apps = new games. They frequently run over 1 GB. You won't need to worry about those, because the iPhone 4 won't play them very well :p
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Apps like Flipboard, Facebook, and Instagram are big apps. I've seen Facebook take up to 1 GB of cache, Instagram take up to 2 GB of cache, and Flipboard take up to 700 mb of cache. Apps that caches lots of data will take up a significant amount of space, though it seems that 8 GB for the OP is enough, would still recommend 16 Gb since a friend of mine thought 8 GB was enough.. only to regret it.
 
flipboard and Instagram take up a combined 500 MB on my phone, and they've been installed for months. I don't have Facebook on my phone because it sucks.
 
I think I have 8G on the iphone 4 I'm using, same as the OP. Did download the latest I0S 7 stuff.

New to iphone, so have no point of reference in regards to other iphones. The phone seems to work fine/fast for calls and texts, but is murderously slow with certain apps when I first open them up. Takes…. forever…..

Overall the phone is certainly usuable. But if and when I ever get a newer iphone, I'm hoping I will experience lightning fast response with various apps. I will, right???
 
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