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Why I got the iPhone 4 instead of the 4S.
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Ive had my iPhone 4 for almost a year and i have honestly yet to see any of those problems. Its not a fast phone but you're definitely WAY over exaggerating.
I'm really not. It's a common occurrence that I'll get a text, go to check it, and the text app will look like it's loading for ten seconds before I'm thrown back into the home screen. Most apps do this fairly often.
I'll be typing something in Safari, or an email, or a text, or in social networking apps, and the keyboard will be completely static and the phone will freeze while I'm typing and it'll take ten seconds to catch up, often getting a lot of words wrong when it does.
When I pull down the notifications thing down and go to update my status, it will just completely freeze up until I hold down power and the home button to restart... except, wait, no, because the home button is broken.
Those are just some examples off the top of my head, I have a lot of problems with this thing daily. And this isn't counting the mere fact it's a three year old phone, which means no HSPDA+, let alone LTE, and outdated hardware in general. Plus it will never get iOS 7 let's face it.
The iPhone 4 is an EOL product and I'm sorry to say it but I think OP was foolish to buy it.
I have an iphone 4 and it lags and is slow. The 4S and 5 are really smooth but the 4 is showing its age imo. My Nexus 4 with Sabermod rom makes iP5's feel slow 
Well, I don't know if any of that's true, but my friend whom I bought the 4 from had it for about 2 years and he says that it was never slow. Reason he sold it was he wanted to buy a PS3, so I guess it's a different case for everyone.
Just like how the 3GS wouldn't get iOS 6? Im sure a simple restore and a removal of unneeded apps will solve your issues.
I did a restore recently. It fixed the problems for all of one month.
The 3GS got iOS 6 because it was still being sold when iOS 6 came out. When iOS 7 is out it'll come out with the new iPhone and at that point Apple will drop the iPhone 4.
How exactly do you know iOS 7 will come out later than iOS 6? Pretty sure they will preview it in WWDC in June; be compatible with iPhone 4,4S,5 then be released with the 5S in September. They will also probably drop the 4 and 4S and replace it with the 'cheap' iPhone.
Then how come it still isn't slow now? Don't tell me that he might've done a restore or whatever, because he didn't. The "thing" was full of apps and other stuff when he sold it to me. The moment I received it, I checked it for 20 minutes before deciding to buy it. It wasn't slow then, and it wasn't slow now. I'm not even worried about the purported sluggishness of the 4 because by the end of September, I will have gotten an iPhone 5. Or 5S, whichever's more affordable.
Don't bother trying to convince someone about it, the point is that is the phone is fast enough for your needs and thats what is important. I feel the same way about the phone as well.
It will be slow after you switch between 2/3 apps quickly (e.g. typing a mail, getting a call, returning to the mail, doing quick reply on Facebook, returning to mail once again). Especially Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger can become painfully slow, like waiting 10 seconds for the conversation to load just to say 'ok', that's frustrating.
Still, it's a good phone and it's perfect for a lot of people. If the lag doesn't bother you, that's okay, both my parents have an iPhone 4 and it does not bother them at all. But for me the lag was so frustrating that I sold it and got an iPhone 5.
As you say, it'll be released with the 5S. When the 5S is out, Apple will cease to sell the iPhone 4 since it's the bottom of the line right now. Therefore, Apple will cease to provide updates for it. I'm only going by what Apple has done historically. Remember, they've been updating the thing for three years now. It's going to be dropped from updates on the next big iOS release for sure.
You think it's not been restored just because it came with apps? The guy probably restored it, synced it up with his iTunes a bit, then sold it to you. Come back in a month and tell me what the performance is like. Trust me, it will deteriorate dramatically, and the fact you're being so defensive about it tells me you are well aware of that too.
That said, if you're only keeping it for a few months, maybe it doesn't matter it's a crappy phone. In that case fair enough. But you can't argue the performance is good, because it just isn't.
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Had to check the date of the original post 3 times. Nope, it definitely says "yesterday" and not "2011".
I literally was about to post the same thing. I have noticed a lot of old threads being bumped by newbies lately and I was about to come in here and rant about bumping threads, but then I saw the original post date was yesterday and was like
I have a friend who is using a 3GS still and I honestly can't even remotely imagine forcing myself to use such old tech at this point. I understand budgets and I don't want people going into debt to have the latest and greatest, but there is no way I personally would be buying a 4 at this point in time.
@ the OP...
Man it's cool to see how excited you are about your new phone, for that congrats...Can't knock people for liking what they like.
However IMO I feel like the phones are night and day...I've had em all and just feel like the 4 is a compete slug compared to the 4S. Give it a few weeks and it will start to really slow down and just not be as snappy. It's not the phones fault, it's just an old phone in a fast paced world at the moment. I would have went with the 4S if I wasn't interested in a 5 at the moment. My brother refuses to give up his 4S and get a 5, he loves it.
I also feel that my nexus, the nexus 4 by the way... Is one of the fastest phones I've ever used. Can't really compare it to anything at the moment because when you factor price in its probably the best deal available today.
Man it's cool to see how excited you are about your new phone, for that congrats...Can't knock people for liking what they like.
However IMO I feel like the phones are night and day...I've had em all and just feel like the 4 is a compete slug compared to the 4S. Give it a few weeks and it will start to really slow down and just not be as snappy. It's not the phones fault, it's just an old phone in a fast paced world at the moment. I would have went with the 4S if I wasn't interested in a 5 at the moment. My brother refuses to give up his 4S and get a 5, he loves it.
I also feel that my nexus, the nexus 4 by the way... Is one of the fastest phones I've ever used. Can't really compare it to anything at the moment because when you factor price in its probably the best deal available today.
I know it is (almost) three years old, I have one myself. I don't feel that it's outdated, but then again, I don't play games with it either.
Based on what you wrote, the only reason you got the 4 is because it was cheaper than the 4S… which is a valid reason, just you wrote a lot justifying it some other way.
Sure it's fast enough for this, good enough for that, but as you telling me if you were offered an iPhone 4, 4S, or 5 at the same price, you would still get the iPhone 4?
Sure it's fast enough for this, good enough for that, but as you telling me if you were offered an iPhone 4, 4S, or 5 at the same price, you would still get the iPhone 4?